Countdown's Worst Person segment for April 29, 2009 with winners Michelle Bachmann, Rupert Murdoch and Virginia Foxx. From AmericaBlog on Foxx: The
April 29, 2009

Countdown's Worst Person segment for April 29, 2009 with winners Michelle Bachmann, Rupert Murdoch and Virginia Foxx.

From AmericaBlog on Foxx:

The House Republican chosen to lead the charge against including women, people with disabilities, and gays in America's already-existing hate crimes law - existing law already counts violent crime based on the race, religion or national origin of the victim as a "hate crime" - just referred on the US House floor to Matthew Shepard's murder as "a hoax."

You will recall that Matthew Shepard was the young gay man in Laramie, Wyoming who, a decade ago, was tied to a fence, Jesus-like, pistol whipped in the head some 50 times, then left for dead in the cold fall night, only to be found a day later clinging to life. Shepard died five days later. Even though Shepard's murderers admitted that they killed him because he was gay, the far-right bigots who control the Republican party couldn't resist the opportunity to gay-bash Shepard one last time. Now by referring to his brutal murder as a hoax.

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Watch the video for yourself. Then feel free to call this sorry excuse for a human being and tell her what you think of her bigotry.

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