Is there a bigger fool than Liz Smith these days?
This is the woman who insists that all of Bully Boy Bush's torture and spying should be forgotten and the country should 'move on': "I'm more worried about the Democrats and their mumbling about taking members of the Bush administration -- perhaps even the ex-president himself -- to legal task for eight years of ineptitude and possibly worse. Please! Nancy Pelosi, buy a clue. When your president talks about turning the page, he doesn't mean to have the country and media embroiled and obsessed with Bush and company for ages ahead."
Shortly after, Tina Fey's publicist fed Liz the lie that Sarah Palin and Tina were close, close, close. Liz had barely printed the item before Palin was in the news cycle noting how offended she was by Fey. Liz did not take kindly to having egg on her face and she quickly had a tantrum in column form as she trashed Sarah Palin and insisted we'd all be better off if we never mentioned her. Of course, Liz was the one who had mentioned her. Both times.
Liz Smith hates Palin. HATES.
And so, like too many others, she refuses to call out Levi Johnston. A man who got a woman pregnant and then went around trashing the woman and her family (on Tyra Banks' show among other outlets). He insisted that Sarah Palin knew that he and Bristol Palin were sleeping together and instead of calling him out as bore and a braggart with a questionable relationship to the truth, people like Liz Smith let their Palin hatred allow them to run with any morsel Johnston tossed out.
Liz was praising trashy Johnston again at the end of last month in "Studly Bear Hunter Levi Johnston Done Wrong?" where Liz prattles on about a GQ article on Johnston and how "your sympathy shifts to Levi and his mom."
Does it?
Does your sympathy shift?
Our sympathy doesn't shift.
We're not sympathetic to homophobes so reading the GQ article about how any gay person who didn't stay in a closet or any man who did something that could be misread as gay would be beaten up by Levi Johnston means we have no sympathy for him.
It also means we're appalled by Liz Smith.
These days it's so hard to tell as everyone pulls a Bowie -- "I'm gay! Wait, no, I'm not!" But we're pretty sure Liz Smith did come out of the closet. And stayed out. If she didn't, we just outed her.
And good for us because there is something really disgusting about any lesbian or gay man who refuses to call out homophobia and bends over backwards to write nice things about homophobes.
Liz Smith has no self-respect obviously. But readers of wowOwow should be asking themselves if the GQ article had Levi Johnston beating up any guy who was African-American would they have found it charming? Doubtful. So why the hell do you accept it when the target of his hatred is gay men or men who are suspected of being gay?
Liz Smith needs to get her act together. And we all need to start treating homophobia as the very real outrage it is.