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Related: About this forumFox News host Gretchen Carlson mistakes atheists for Satanists
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/gretchen-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.
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)going to Hell.
Those are the only categories she really recognizes.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)I may have missed the explanation, so please forgive me . . . but I have to ask:
Does Fox clone their newsreaders? They all look the same. Vapid and slightly constipated.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)So I have had the opportunity to watch some of it lately.
And, yes, they do look like clones - particularly the women.
It's a look that apparently appeals to their audience.
okasha
(11,573 posts)about a year and a half ago, Fox was the only national English-speaking channel available, so I managed to sit--or lie--through a couple 30-minute sections. I remember this particular airhead making particularly ignorant statements. After that it was the Monterrey channel till I got liberated.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I can't watch it at all.
Thank goodness for Sirius radio.
underpants
(182,802 posts)She made the mistake of tweeting without having a TelePrompTer telling her what to say.
Anyway she probably just thinks they are really just factions of the same group - people who live in Athens that like the feel of satin. I mean who doesn't like satin, am I right?
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Maybe she was talking about athletic satinists?
underpants
(182,802 posts)(Waits for affirmation from cohosts... crickets ...realizes she got booted off the morning couch for a newer blonde ... She's alone now .... So so very alone)
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Maybe that's what got her confused?
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,451 posts)Are they like the satinistas in el Salvador
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Are they bandit santas?
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)I suspect that atheists or agnostics who practice Satanism as a lifestyle choice significantly outnumber people who actually believe in the Devil and worship him.