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Kirby Dick and Mike Rogers talk about “Outrage” with the ladies of “The View”
Glad to see that Outrage, the controversial documentary from Kirby Dick, was the topic of discussion recently on The View and here are some excerpts from the transcripts and the video is above.
JOY BEHAR: How did you know that Larry Craig was gay?
MICHAEL ROGERS: I’m a reporter. Just like any other story I seek for my website, I do research, I meet with sources, I talk to individuals, I look at evidence, I hear corroborating stories from people across the country and then report on them.
ELIZABETH HASSELBECK: Those are still allegations at best. He has, and many of the people in the film have denied being gay. Do you worry about them coming back and trying to sue you for outing them?
MICHAEL ROGERS: I do not.
BEHAR: Why not?
HASSELBECK: What protects you then?
ROGERS: The best defense for a lawsuit like that is the truth, so that’s not a worry at all. I have a 100% record. Any journalistic outfit is set up to potentially be in that position. I have to be triple, 100, 250% sure and that’s what helps me maintain my 100% record over five years.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: By outing someone…it could be a personal struggle for them. You could possibly be wrecking somebody’s life. How do you defend that?
ROGERS: I defend it as in, for example, in the case of Larry Craig, he voted consistently to discharge lesbian and gay members from the military. If he can do that as a veteran of the military, that’s not living under the laws you want to legislate. That’s called tyranny [applause] where the people who set the rules don’t have to follow them. That’s just unacceptable. The film shows the difference. It shows the exact cases of how are people being hypocrites.
HASSELBECK: In some ways, it is a form of bullying people to have them match their personal lives with what they think is best for the country and I think that is going down a dangerous path. We would have a very different legal system if that were the case across the board.
Rogers later reflected on the appearance on his BlogActive site:
I really had a wonderful time at The View. … The discussion was thoughtful and respectful Kirby and I got the major points out there. On TV time flies… Seven minutes feels like two.
A full transcript can be found at BlogActive.
Comments
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Jeff Atwood says:
Elizabeth Hasselbeck said, “By outing someone…it could be a personal struggle for them. You could possibly be wrecking somebody’s life. How do you defend that?”
I don’t see her defending personal attacks on anyone else, for example a politician who is an adulterer. Monogamy may be a personal struggle for that person, but she isn’t defending their right to privacy. She is cloaking her homophobia in a sympathetic guise, like so many others.
Jeff Atwood says:
Actually, it was Sherri Shepherd who said that, but she is cloaking her homophobia (she’s against gay marriage based on religious principles) in apparent concern for the outed “victim”.
Frank says:
thanks for posting this. The women were all self righteous. Joy tried but got interrupted too much. Whoopi was pompous. When are we not going to start saying that there is not a “balanced” opinion that doesn’t support gay rights. It is homophobia vs. human rights. I have decided to stop watching The View this segment was offensive.