Via FB:
As a lot of you know, I had an encounter in West Hollywood the other day with an unhinged guy who was yelling hateful things at me about my Mom. The press has only shown a part of the encounter, so many reporters have totally missed the point of my comments. Most people may have walked away rather than go up to some guy raging like that and try to find out what his problem is. But that’s not how I’m wired. I usually do walk away, but I’m very tired of hateful people lying about my Mom, my family, and myself. So, this time I tried to get to the bottom of it.
I asked the guy if the reason he was so angry at my Mom was because he was gay. I was NOT baiting him or mocking him or in any way being derogatory of gays. It was just the opposite! I know that some members of the gay community have completely false notions about my Mom. I wanted to clear this up with this guy, but he was so far gone in his crazy hatred that rational conversation was impossible.
I think so much of the hatred directed at my Mom is based on lies and misconceptions about her and our family. It’s gotten so out of control that a 40-something guy in West Hollywood started shrieking obscenities at the top of his lungs and wishing death on my Mom, just at the thought of her. She hasn’t done anything to warrant his hatred, and I wanted to address that.
As I said to that hate-filled guy in West Hollywood: Show me one thing my Mom has done that is so “evil” as to warrant the hatred and death wishes people heap on her and her kids.
The crazy guy had no answer because there is no answer. You can disagree with her politics without vilifying her or lying about us.
Isn’t it time for this crazy hatred to stop? That’s what I was trying to say to that guy.
- Bristol
I’m a little tired of all the stories making Bristol out to be the bad guy. She did not “hurl” the word “homosexual” at him like it was an insult. She asked him a question, there was no hurling. And he said, “Yeah, pretty much.” And quite frankly, I couldn’t care less if she had insulted him because (to revert to second grade for a moment) he started it!
The part of me that loves mischief wishes she’d hauled off and punched the guy. Now that would have made for great reality TV. And no, I don’t think this thing was staged given this guy’s history of hating the Palins.
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