The "yellow journalists" at Faux always omit the good things about
gays, Progressives, and Democrats, and focus only on the bad and
negative, even when it is Faux lies and smear from the pundits,
cynics, and fear mongers on the Reich.
You do that as well.
On 1/11/11, Travis <baconlard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why? It has nothing to do with what he did. I have seen his story in the
> good news channes, FOX NEWS, and not once was either his sexuality or
> ethnicity mentioned. But I would bet that the loonies on the left would
> point it out at every chance. If either had any relevance to what he did I
> am sure it would have been a part of the story and he himslef would have
> mantioned it, if not shouted it to the whole world.
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And there you go, being diismissive, negative, and cynical yet again.
>>
>> You are dead wrong, they matter very much.
>>
>> On 1/11/11, Travis <baconlard@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > His sexuality and his ethnicity matter almost as much as his shoe size.
>> And
>> > you are a damn fool if you think otherwise.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The Giffords shooting's gay, Hispanic hero
>> >> Daniel Hernandez helped save the congresswoman's life -- and yes, his
>> >> sexuality and ethnicity matter
>> >>
>> >> The Giffords shooting's gay, Hispanic hero
>> >> Daniel Hernandez helped save the congresswoman's life -- and yes, his
>> >> sexuality and ethnicity matter
>> >> By Mary Elizabeth Williams
>> >>
>> >> AP
>> >> Daniel Hernandez, an intern with U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,
>> >> D-Ariz., walks across the lawn outside University Hospital Sunday,
>> >> Jan. 9, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz.It didn't take long after 20-year-old
>> >> political intern Daniel Hernandez emerged as the hero of Saturday's
>> >> mass shooting in Arizona for the cynics to figure out the angle. As a
>> >> poster on Free Republic remarked, "Look shortly for the leftist media
>> >> to push the 'Gay, Hispanic-American Intern saving the Liberal
>> >> Congresswoman's life from the Tea Party' angle." Well, Freepers, here
>> >> it is!
>> >>
>> >> It's not quite that simple, of course. However we try to understand
>> >> the causes of the tragedy in Arizona and the political rhetoric of
>> >> violence, it seems clear that there's considerably more to the
>> >> disturbing story of shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner than can be
>> >> explained by pointing to a few wry Sarah Palin quips. And if simply
>> >> being gay and Latino were grounds for heroism, Ricky Martin's face
>> >> would be on the $10 bill.
>> >>
>> >> Daniel Hernandez is, by any measure, an extraordinary young man. He
>> >> had been interning in Gabrielle Giffords' office only five days when
>> >> an event at a local Safeway thrust him into the international
>> >> spotlight for his quick thinking, bravery and competence in the wake
>> >> of unimaginable violence. On the "Today" show Monday, Matt Lauer
>> >> explained how Hernandez drew upon his high school training as a
>> >> certified nursing assistant to check on the pulses of other shooting
>> >> victims before noticing the severity of Giffords' wounds and, as he
>> >> puts it, prioritizing her. He put her upright and held her in his lap
>> >> as he applied pressure to staunch the blood. "I could tell she had a
>> >> severe gunshot," he said. "I just tried to do my best until emergency
>> >> medical services could arrive. My focus was on making sure I was doing
>> >> everything I could to take care of her." Even when the ambulance
>> >> arrived, he stayed with her, because "I saw my job then as not taking
>> >> care of her medical needs but taking care of her emotional needs. I
>> >> tried to comfort her and make sure she knew she wasn't alone. I let
>> >> her know I was going to try to contact her parents and her husband."
>> >>
>> >> In the two days since the shooting, Hernandez has emerged in
>> >> interviews as a graceful presence with a no doubt promising future,
>> >> with considerably much more going for him than his status as a
>> >> minority. So why should the sexual orientation of this eminently
>> >> competent, compassionate person keep coming up in this tale? Why is
>> >> his ethnicity, and the fact that he grew up speaking Spanish and
>> >> attending dual language schools, of any consequence? Hernandez never
>> >> asked to be the face of a movement. He doesn't represent any one group
>> >> any more than Jared Lee Loughner is your typical white guy. And that's
>> >> exactly why it matters.
>> >>
>> >> It matters because guys like Arizona Sen. John McCain, who described
>> >> the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" as "a very sad day," still think
>> >> that orientation has an effect on whether or not a person can ably
>> >> serve in the military. It matters because the notion that two people
>> >> of the same sex can love each other and build a life together is still
>> >> considered in many parts of the country, including Arizona, a threat
>> >> to what is laughably referred to as "traditional marriage" -- as if
>> >> heterosexuals have really mopped up the floor with this whole
>> >> commitment thing. It matters because last week, when Arizona banned a
>> >> Tucson district's Mexican-American studies program, state's Attorney
>> >> General Tom Horne referred to it as "propagandizing and brainwashing."
>> >> It matters because just last year Arizona enacted a law that would not
>> >> merely allow but require immigration officials to determine the
>> >> immigration status of anyone "where reasonable suspicion exists" that
>> >> the person might be in the country illegally. And "reasonable
>> >> suspicion," as many civil libertarians pointed out, might just boil
>> >> down to having a darker shade of skin or speaking Spanish.
>> >>
>> >> That's just Hernandez's home of Arizona. And though Pima County
>> >> Sheriff Clarence Dupnik scathingly referred to his state as "a mecca
>> >> for racism and bigotry," violence, racism and bigotry aren't confined
>> >> to any one ZIP code -- they exist all over this great land of ours.
>> >> They exist just as surely as Hernandez shows that kindness and bravery
>> >> are alive and well in Arizona.
>> >>
>> >> It's still far too easy for a small-minded yahoo to champion
>> >> discrimination based on orientation and race, and it's just as easy
>> >> for another small-minded yahoo somewhere else to believe the red
>> >> states are indeed "meccas of racism and bigotry." If any good can come
>> >> out of something as unfathomably horrible as Saturday's mass shooting,
>> >> let it be that it shakes up a few preconceptions. That it shows the
>> >> world that a hero can be gay or straight, can speak English or Spanish
>> >> or both, and that stupid laws can exist in places full of good people.
>> >> And anyone who has any doubt of what kind of person deserves to serve
>> >> next to him in battle, or stand before their community and declare
>> >> their love, or go to school, or walk down the street without being
>> >> asked for paperwork needs to hear that and remember that, again and
>> >> again until it sinks in. Yes, the "gay Hispanic American" saved a life
>> >> on Saturday, and yes, it does matter.
>> >>
>> >> Mary Elizabeth Williams is a staff writer for Salon and the author of
>> >> "Gimme Shelter: My Three Years Searching for the American Dream."
>> >> Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/embeedub More: Mary
>> >> Elizabeth Williams
>> >>
>> >> More:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/01/10/daneil_hernandez_gay_latino_hero/index.html
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Have a great day,
>> >> Tommy
>> >>
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