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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGretchen Carlson mistakes atheists for Satanists
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson was raked over the online coals on Tuesday for apparently conflating atheism with Satanism, just before one of her guests did the same.
Tuesday morning, Carlson previewed a segment on the Satanist Temples proposed Oklahoma Statehouse statue by posting on Twitter, Atheists unveil Satan statue for OK capitol: smiling kids with goat-faced demon! She subsequently deleted the tweet, but not before Atheism Tweets captured it:
Later, Carlson refused to apologize for her mistake, writing, Stop the hate tweets. I made a simple mistake. Thx. [sic] Im not stupid or asking everyone to believe in my God. Thx.
In the ensuing discussion, American Atheists president David Silverman argued to Carlson that the Temple had the right to put up their display.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/gretchen-carlson-mistakes-atheists-for-satanists/
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Gretchen Carlson mistakes atheists for Satanists (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Jan 2014
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eShirl
(18,494 posts)1. She doth protest too much.
Later, Carlson refused to apologize for her mistake, writing, Stop the hate tweets. I made a simple mistake. Thx. Im not stupid or asking everyone to believe in my God. Thx.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)2. Is she afraid of losing the atheist
or the satanist viewers; or both?
Not stupid, yet works for Fox Noise.
Does she not see the irony?
Mariana
(14,857 posts)6. You don't have to be stupid to work for Fox News.
Just dishonest, unethical, rude, prejudiced, perhaps sociopathic, etc, etc...
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)4. Atheists, Satanists, Muslims, Pope-Francis-admirers... They all have the wrong religion.
That's why it's so easy to mix them up. If only everyone had the right religion: "the western interpretation of americano-presbyterianism"
ananda
(28,865 posts)5. She's stupid all right. And just so .. limited and narrowminded.
Ugly ugly ugly under a plastic cosmetic facade.
spanone
(135,841 posts)7. oh don't be so coy gretchen, you are stupid.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)8. Mistake, my Aunt Fanny.