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Jim Quinn: "When you get AIDS, pal, the door opens up to you"

January 19, 2010 2:18 pm ET

From the January 14 edition of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn and Rose:

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    • Author by soze169880 (January 19, 2010 2:19 pm ET)
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      He should really stop leaving the mic on during his trysts.
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    • Author by ABBA|Proudly teaBAGGING Liberals (January 19, 2010 2:22 pm ET)
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      and exactly what did he say that ISN'T true????? hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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      • Author by The New Pilgrims (January 19, 2010 2:26 pm ET)
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        So you'd vote for a GOP candidate with AIDS? Mmmmh... mmmmh.... mmmmh...
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        • Author by christopher howard (January 19, 2010 4:28 pm ET)
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          For one, there's the obvious difference of communicability. AIDS is difficult to transmit, while someone with tuberculosis would be an imminent danger to others within the enclosed, recycled air of a plane.

          For another, Quinn is complaining that people with this disease get red carpet treatment, while at the same time exploding that some of them might actually be allowed to travel into the country.

          Three, not an error of fact, but it takes a very special kind of venal misanthrope like Quinn to target people with a fatal disease for hatred (or to agree with him).
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          • Author by Johaely (January 19, 2010 7:15 pm ET)
               
            Oh, but if you read any fundie tracts and maybe chick tracts you will know who are that agree with him.
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      • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 2:27 pm ET)
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        What door exactly opens? Are you saying that you get a great deal in life because someone gets HIV? I mean, seriously? I'm pretty sure a death sentence is NOT a good deal.
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        • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (January 19, 2010 3:01 pm ET)
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          These people think the poor have life by the short ones, so, yeah, AIDS is really like winning the lottery.

          If you're poor and get AIDS, whoa, the world is your oyster. You can just walk all over wealthy white Christian Republicans.
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      • Author by soze169880 (January 19, 2010 2:27 pm ET)
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        Poor dear. You know, they call it "the bad acid" for a reason.
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      • Author by soze169880 (January 19, 2010 2:29 pm ET)
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        and exactly what did he say that ISN'T true?

        He said "pal", implying he has any friends.
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      • Author by nerzog (January 19, 2010 2:32 pm ET)
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        How about "Aids is a civil right"? That is, frankly, bullsh*t... but you knew that, didn't you, Hummer?
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        • Author by The_Cat (January 19, 2010 2:52 pm ET)
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          Hummer is actually an honorary title applicable to any sufficently devout TeaBagger, nerzog. ;)
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      • Author by bintx (January 19, 2010 2:41 pm ET)
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        You are such a ridiculously ignorant tool if you can support what this horrible man who the overwhelming majority of this country has NEVER HEARD OF . . . wow, and I bet you call yourself a conservative "Christian." Unbelievable.

        Have you ever been around someone with AIDS? It's a horrible way to die. Our managing partner's wife died of it . . . she contracted it through tainted blood after surgery. My cousin died of it.

        Unbelievable STUPIDITY!
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      • Author by New Frontier (January 19, 2010 4:42 pm ET)
           
        and exactly what did he say that ISN'T true?????
        "Tuberculosis is a disease, AIDS is a civil right"? The inference that AIDS is as easily transmittable as tuberculosis? The crass comment that "This is a wonderful class of people to bring in"? "We've elected the enemy?"

        So WTF is your point, exactly?
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    • Author by The New Pilgrims (January 19, 2010 2:23 pm ET)
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      So this means the Republicans will be running an AIDS candidate in 2012?

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      • Author by mjh (January 19, 2010 2:38 pm ET)
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        "So this means the Republicans will be running an AIDS candidate in 2012?"



        If so, I guess that cuts out Sarah Palin.

        Or, maybe not . . .


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        • Author by princeofwheels (January 19, 2010 4:55 pm ET)
             
          But it does include Quinn or Rosie....

          Some people say that one fo those two is infected with AIDS...just saying what some people are saying. I think testing for each would be a reasonable request. Just letting the scared Repubs know that you can contact AIDS of the EAR by listening to this jagoff.
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    • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (January 19, 2010 2:26 pm ET)
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      WOW, AIDS as a civil right, that's a new one....
      Its pathological how he can link such a horrible deadly disease to civil rights and then an eventual vote for a democrat...WOW

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    • Author by phredicles (January 19, 2010 2:28 pm ET)
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      If having AIDS is such a great deal, why doesn't he go out and get infected?
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      • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 2:30 pm ET)
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        This has got to be a new twist on the old, "It's a great life living off of welfare." argument that these guys have been making for years on end.
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      • Author by The New Pilgrims (January 19, 2010 2:35 pm ET)
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        He tried. But it turns out his cousin has VD instead.
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    • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 2:29 pm ET)
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      This is off topic, but I would suggest that Mr./Mrs. Hmmmm try out this link right here on how to properly use ellipses in sentence structure.

      Because, you're not doing it right.
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      • Author by bintx (January 19, 2010 2:42 pm ET)
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        LOL!!!!
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (January 19, 2010 3:05 pm ET)
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        I don't think that's the worst of its problems, Mag. It may just be transcribing the humming sound and dead air that wingnuts hear in their heads in between the occasional thought.
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    • Author by Übermensch (January 19, 2010 2:37 pm ET)
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      Jim Quinn:

      Comparing AIDS to Tuberculosis since 2010
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    • Author by Byte Man (January 19, 2010 2:46 pm ET)
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      My god, this tool is just trying to out-Limbaugh Limbaugh. He has no argument of substance, so he maligns a whole group of people, whose disease is one of the most tragic in all of existance, just to try to take a shot at gay people.

      (Oh, and have you ever noticed that neocons can never say "gay people?" The reason is because saying "gay people" makes them sound human, something they cannot allow if their hateful point is to ever get past the hatemongers in this country.)

      I actually wish you'd get AIDS, Quinn. Then, maybe you'd change your tune, you slimy, worthless hack.
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    • Author by Samurai Cowboy (January 19, 2010 2:48 pm ET)
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      Jim Quinn has very few listeners because he is only syndicated on 12 stations and XM/Sirius. His home radio station is WPGB 104.7 News/Talk in Pittsburg.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (January 19, 2010 2:49 pm ET)
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      How vile! AIDS is a death sentence, but it is only spread through intimate contact with exchange of body fluids like blood and semen. TB can be caught by breathing the air where an infected person has coughed. An active TB patient on an airplane can infect everyone else on the flight, an AIDS patient can't do that. And if we allow someone to immigrate with AIDS, it is unlikely that they will be voting, since only citizens can vote. To give you an idea of how easy it is to spread TB, I lived in Seoul where TB is common, and was told that riding the subway in rush hour could expose you in three stops, it was 14 stops for the bus (above ground, exposed to light). I knew a teacher who turned up positive in just six months in country, he spent another six months taken antibiotics to cure it.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (January 19, 2010 3:12 pm ET)
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        Thanks, epk, glad I scrolled down to see if anybody else mentioned the fundamental problem with Quinn's rant.( Well, one of them).

        The difference between AIDS and TB in communicability are pretty profound, and should have told any adult to stop taking the guy seriously right there. Any adult with a passing knowledge of facts and science.

        Of course, Quinn's audience is made up of people like Hummer, who have to ask the adults what was wrong with his statements. There are people out there, probably registered voters, who can't find one thing untrue in this clip. Probably the same people who are frustrated by those "Find five differences in the two pictures" puzzles in the Sunday papers Kids' page.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (January 19, 2010 2:54 pm ET)
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      Sounds a lot the the "Welfare Queen" argument. Can't any of these right wing blowhards come up with something new? This argument has been around since Reagan.

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (January 19, 2010 3:14 pm ET)
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      I just googled up the story. It was on msnbc.com last July. If this was the end of western civilization, why did it take the cracker jack reporter Jim Quinn almost 7 months to tell the world.

      Maybe old Quinnie has been trolling the streets around Pittsburgh and he's getting worried.
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      • Author by princeofwheels (January 19, 2010 4:59 pm ET)
           
        He was quite fond of Rush 'back' in the old days in Pittsburgh
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    • Author by DAWUSS (January 19, 2010 3:20 pm ET)
         
      I thought the 1990s already came and went...
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    • Author by Publius39 (January 19, 2010 4:14 pm ET)
         
      How in the hell did this guy reach this conclusion? I was thinking something more simple, some idiotic Conservative meme, but this guy went way into left field. Oh my god, please don't tell me that people actually listen to this.
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      • Author by princeofwheels (January 19, 2010 5:00 pm ET)
           
        Those some people also say his own family doesn't listen to him.
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    • Author by shaggles (January 19, 2010 5:05 pm ET)
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      He probably thinks being handicapped is a boon because you get all the good parking spaces.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (January 19, 2010 6:59 pm ET)
         
      Jim Quinn: "When you get AIDS, pal, the door opens up to you"

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    • Author by tman418 (January 19, 2010 10:14 pm ET)
         
      Yeah. It really is awesome to have AIDS. All that medication you have to pay for, experiencing the side effects of the medication, becoming sick with everything.

      Totally awesome.
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