Good As You: Matt Barber Roundup
03/05/2010
Audio: Admiral Barber lays out Operation: Paint Gays as Diseased Perverts
Matt "the pro-family community's biggest liability" Barber has built his hyperbolic career around stigmatizing the LGBT community as sick, immoral, perverts. So even though Matt "I've never met a thesaurus that I wouldn't overuse for the purposes of ad hominem...
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02/12/2010
Audio: Oh shoot, we just so happened to lose the caller. What are the odds?
In conservative talk radio, there exists an interesting phenomenon. One could simply call it "the quick cutoff." But a more honest person could call it the "deliberate miscarriage of a revelatory call so as to mask the deliberate miscarriages of...
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02/11/2010
Wow, shocker: Matt 'hyperbole' Barber takes witch hunt to new lows
And now comes the point where the far-right uses conjecture about a judge's sexual orientation to witch-hunt him off of a case. Take it away, Matt "one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it...
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01/04/2010
Dance with ones who brung'ya (*just not during campaign season)
Ir's simply fascinating to watch the fair weather allegiances within the anti-gay side. During campaigns like Maine's recent "yes on 1" effort, the "mainstream" groups like Focus on the Family and the National Organization For Marriage deliberately (and wisely, for...
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12/29/2009
Audio: When a Barber works in the Knight, someone's gonna get cut
Because when it comes to objective legal analysis and unbiased assessments of congressional budgeting, one really should rely on the joint expertise of Matt "one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love’” Barber...
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12/21/2009
Matt Barber: The diarrhea mouth-afflicted man who's winning us this 'culture war'
We've repeatedly referred to Matt Barber as the anti-gay movement's biggest liability. That's because his work, whether it be with his former bosses at CWA, his current work with Liberty Counsel, or his own independent writing for outlets like Townhall,...
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12/16/2009
CPAC attack: Gay + Antigay Sponsors = Barber/LaBarbera barbs
We were pretty disgusted when we saw that the gay Republican group GOProud had signed on as a sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, alongside such overheated anti-gay groups as the National Organization For Marriage, the Alliance Defense Fund,...
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12/03/2009
Matt's reliably low road runs over Chai
In the Jewish faith, "chai" holds great meaning. As a term, it means "living." It is the root of its verbal cousin, "l'chaim," which is the celebratory toast at some of life's most important functions. Chai (along with variations like...
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08/15/2009
Video: Bargain basement Barack bashing
You know Peter and Matt are serious when they call President Obama "radically [fill in the blank]," because they italicized that particular word on their hastily hung banner: It seriously looks like the sort of meeting where the speaker will...
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08/06/2009
Matt's anti-Obama T-party: Will his own pals even show up?
Matt Barber's attempts to kill the Obama health plan via transphobia has already earned him an uncredited mention on Maddow: 8/4/2009 [Maddow] But Matt won't be happy until the hyperbolic attacks that have defined his professionally anti-LGBT life manage to...
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07/29/2009
Well we have seen Barber go to many Lowes
Matt Barber has a new American company in his homo-hostile sites. The business: Home Depot The "issue": The company's support for pro-gay events. The condemnation: "Out of some kind of notion of political correctness and being tolerant, Home Depot is...
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06/09/2009
Matt, Tony: To be a 'victory', you two would've actually had to win something/done something to earn it
It is hysterical hearing the far-right attempt to spin the Supreme Court’s Denial of Cert into a victory for upholding Don't Ask Don't Tell. The reliably jovial Matt Barber weighed in with the following: “This is a military victory of...
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05/07/2009
Matt, we've addressed your fallacies countless times. Now we're gonna a-dress ya, buddy.
Senate sponsors and liberal activist proponents of the federal “hate crimes” bill, S. 909, have been caught in a series of bald-faced lies. So confident am I of this, that if they can prove me wrong (for real I mean...
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05/06/2009
Audio: High Crimes and Mis(representative)demeanors(that shun progressives)
We think even the vast majority of conservative talk show hosts would shoot down a callr who suggested impeaching President Obama. But Matt Barber and Mat Staver are no ordinary rightie talkers: *Audio Source: Liberty Live, 5/5/09 [AFR] Wow, and...
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05/05/2009
Audio: Taking liberties. Live.
Constant claims that pedophilia is one of "over 30 sexual orientations," which they repeatedly say will be protected by inclusive hate crimes legislation. Conveyance of the idea that the Democrats rejected the offensive suggestion to include pedophilia in the bill's...
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04/30/2009
Everyone say 'Hi, Matt'
We've always suspected that Matt Barber reads us. But now one of Matt's Facebook friends -- someone who is, in actuality, stealthily sensitive to our cause -- has pretty much confirmed our suspicions. Check this out. Matt has apparently posted...
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04/29/2009
Audio: Carrie moves further right, further wrong
- Yet another comparison to Queen Esther - Matt Barber saying that 70% of Americans are opposed to marriage equality, even though a new CBS/NY Times poll shows 42% in SUPPORT of the concept (with another 25% in support of...
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04/22/2009
Audio: Wherein Matt Barber seeks a more internal rights rollback
Ladies and gents, hold onto your hates, because we are about to give Matt Barber a genuine compliment. That's because we actually applaud him for, in the first half of the following clip, admitting for the first time (to our...
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04/21/2009
We don't wanna jail your preachers, Matt. Your straw men are another story
Deceive. Deceive. Deceive. Deceive. Deceive. Sorry. Go read this little quip that Matt Barber has written, and then we'll get back to you: In short, this bill places newfangled "gay rights" in direct conflict with our enumerated constitutional rights. It...
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04/13/2009
Founding Father falter: Barber's Patrick Henry cut is complete B.S.
At two different points during today's edition of the "Liberty Live" radio show, militant gay rights foe Matt Barber cited a certain quote to lend credence to the idea that the Founding Fathers meant for America to be a Christian-only...
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04/07/2009
That's Mr. Purveyor of Evil to you, Matthew
The line between Westboro Baptist Church and J. Matt Barber is getting ever more fine: Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs for Liberty Counsel, poses this question: "How long can a nation founded on the laws of nature and nature's...
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03/04/2009
Audio: Going to the Mat/Matt for Prop 8
Matt Barber and Mat "lesbian parents will raise violent kids" Staver: Liberty Live Radio 3/4 [LC] :12 -- No, the issue will be about whether a bare majority can amend it in this way for this purpose. Big difference. :28...
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02/27/2009
Barber throws American majority in frying pan with Buttars
In recent comments, Utah state senator Chris Buttars (R-Obviously) essentially made gays out to be ticking time bombs who are waiting to destroy this nation. With a brush broad enough to coat all of Delaware with one stroke, he made...
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02/25/2009
If you stick it to my Buttars it will make my Barber bitter
Matt Barber agrees that the current incarnation of the GOP is in danger of heading towards irrelevancy. He also agrees that one can look to certain members of the Utah legislature for reasons why. It's the most we've ever agreed...
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02/19/2009
Audio: Two grown het-identified Christians share their gay commonality
Matt Barber & Pete Labarbera spent the afternoon chatting about the evil gays and their pesky agenda. Here is the "Liberty Live" show, in four parts: **ALSO: Here's the transcript from the live chat that accompanied the show:
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02/13/2009
Audio: Matt's inconvenient truth
Matt Barber dedicates his days to demonizing gays. He abhors marriage equality for gays and lesbians, fighting any progress he sees in that regards. Among the stats we've heard him quote to back up his objections is the supposedly heightened...
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02/04/2009
Matt Barber: The conservative movement's liability-in-waiting
Hey, social conservatives: Want to completely destroy the remaining sway that your movement holds within American politics? Well then by all means, you should start following your side's most unhinged, voice to emerge in the Bush era: Unabashed gay bully...
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01/21/2009
Audio: We'll compare you to anything we want. And if you call us out on it, we'll compare you to 'spinners'
If someone mentions marriage equality for same-sex couples in the same sentence as bestiality and incest, is it really "spin" to say that said person is unfairly affixing the three concepts to one another? Well listen to this clip from...
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Barack's first accomplishment: He pissed off Matt Barber
In response to the The Obama administration publishing a list of LGBT goals on the official White House website, thesaurus owner Matt Barber unleashed his latest move in the ongoing "smear the queer" match that is his professional life: “Well,...
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01/20/2009
Matt Barber: U.S. Global Stigmatization Coordinator
Of all the nasty things that Matt Barber has said about us over the years, the comments that seem to give him the biggest "pro-family" hard-on are the ones that paint gays as diseased. We saw this is full effect...
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01/19/2009
When it comes to biased personalities, AFA rolls out the mat/t
Mat Staver (pic.) is an omnipresent anti-gay lawyer who has gone to court against our rights more times than we care to count. The Liberty Counsel head also has a penchant for fibbery, like that time last summer when he...
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01/14/2009
Praying vs. preying: The difference between encouraging respect and fostering its antonym
We were mad about the Rick Warren thing. Still are, in fact. We're not sure how, exactly, we'll react when we see his prominent inaugural platform. But despite our frustrations with the man, and our staunch condemnation of the egregious...
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12/19/2008
Audio: Buying into bias, ignoring the human cost
The Christian right, with their anti-gay and "war on Christmas" agenda, have for decades turned company threats and boycotts into a "pro-family" past time. But when gay people decide to stop spending dollars at companies that make life harder for...
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11/14/2008
Matt Barber: It's time for ALL sides to denounce his extreme vitriol!
Here at G-A-Y, we prefer to focus on the messaging, not the messenger, and are very reluctant to place definitive labels on individual members of our opposition. We also abstain from using words like "hater" and "bigot," because we see...
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11/06/2008
Surprise -- Matt's rage is once again misplaced
Aggressive gay foe Matt Barber is trying to make a big stink out of some aggressive comments that have been written on some gay blogs, with Matt acting as if isolated hyperbolic comments are (a) indicative of the gay community...
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10/22/2008
Matt's flowery prose again rears its acrimonious head
"No, I don't mean he'll personally decorate the West Wing, open a bathhouse in the Rose Garden or take up with Barney Frank. I mean he'll be the most radically pro-homosexual, anti-family president in history." "homofascist fan club" *** "ideological...
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10/02/2008
Audio: The devil's (literally) in Matt's details
Today Matt Barber ventured back to his old stomping grounds, the Concerned Women For America, to decry Google and other companies who are rightfully taking a stand against the cruel, discriminatory, intellectually bankrupt, un-American measure known as Proposition 8. And...
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07/29/2008
Big Matt attack
While employed at the Concerned Women For America, Matt Barber was best known for writing commentaries so linguistically exaggerated, they made Aesop's fables seem like court transcripts in comparison. So when he fled to pastures more Liberty Counsel-ier, we were...
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07/21/2008
Apparent army threats: Gunfire, land mines, and 'Pelosi-type-liberals'
Matt Barber may have taken his "concerns" elsewhere. However, his flair for hyperbole and his tactic of using San Francisco politicians and values to serve as code-wording for "evil" still seem to be permeating the halls of the Concerned Women...
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07/15/2008
So many McMuffins for extremists to decry, so little time
Adding more fattening, empty caloried, likely-to-cause-a-stomach-ache grease to the McDonald's boycott fryer, the Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber and Mat Staver have contributed the following pair of quotes: BARBER: "Unfortunately, McDonalds has chosen to side with militant homosexual activists over people...
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07/07/2008
Matt Barber: Are you (a) anti-all adoptions or (b) a major hypocrite?
Writing for his former employer, the Concerned Women For America, Matt Barber has the following to say about one specific custody case that's playing out in Virgina. However, he is really speaking generally about children who are raised by same-sex...
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06/04/2008
There's hyperbole and then there's Barber
Liability-in-waiting Matt Barber has again put pen to paper, as he continues his job of destroying the last remaining shreds of credibility enjoyed by the Concerned Women for America. Some choice quotes from Matt's latest anti-marriage equality missive: "If marriage...
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05/28/2008
And for her honeymoon, Matt suggests an 'ex-gay' conference
Speaking about John McCain's recent appearance on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and the tenuous well-wishes that that the senator wished the soon-to-be-wed talk show host, the Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber says the following to One News Now: "I...
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05/15/2008
You're not gonna cut us today, Barber!
To the surprise of no one, "Concerned Woman" Matt Barber is already weighing in on today's amazing, fantastic, historic, world-changing ruling in California. But we're gonna give you the option: If you wanna read the ridiculous huffing and puffing, check...
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05/02/2008
From 'The Hills' to wounds that won't heal: Barber predicts teen trends
Since the social conservatives' own "Day of Truth" seems to be an utter failure, they are trying desperately to reframe the anti-bullying, pro-acceptance Day of Silence so that it fits their twisted agenda. Here is what omnipresent 'mo foe Matt...
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04/24/2008
'It's time for androgyny. Here comes Matt!'
Since there are only so many times one can uses phrases like "San Francisco values" and "radical, militant, activists" without them growing stale, it's always exciting when Matt Barber inscribes a new phrase into his book of reliable code-wording. However,...
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Audio: Hutch unhitched
Over the past few days, we told you about both Matt Barber's raging disdain for the upcoming Day of Silence and Pastor Ken Hutcherson's plans to protest the same. Now in this new audio from the Concerned Women For America,...
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04/22/2008
People. Glass houses. Stones. Silence.
We know that the folks on the far-right are opposed to the pro-gay, pro-acceptance Day of Silence because they detest homosexuality and are thoroughly intimidated by the growing tolerance and respect of young people. We get that. However, the hypocrisy...
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04/14/2008
But hey, it's only our mortality he's trivializing
In a new piece wherein he literally compares the promotion of gay acceptance to advocacy on the subject of smoking crack, the United States' most proudly brutish gay right foes, Matt Barber, has the following to say about an 11-year-old...
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03/26/2008
Barber out for gay blood
Whenever Matt Barber writes an anti-gay commentary, picking the most offensive part becomes about as difficult as picking your nose in the minutes following a quadruple amputation surgery (when you've already had a complete rhinoplasty a day earlier). But from...
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