Anti-Gay Group Sends Letter To Colbert Thanking Him For Mocking Them

If you've been fortunate enough to see the bizarre issue ad put out last week by the National Organization for Marriage, which contends that heterosexuals are threatened by a coming scourge of gay-wedding tornadoes, then you've likely already accepted as a given that the people behind NOM are not terribly intelligent individuals.

But, as if seized with the need to demonstrate this further, the organization has sent Stephen Colbert a letter of thanks for producing a commercial parody that depicts the NOM membership as closeted, dim nitwits (watch that video HERE).

Apparently, they believe that Colbert has helped their cause, somehow. This is, as they say, ADORBS:

"I've always thought Stephen Colbert was a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over Hollywood. Now I'm sure," said Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

"Thank you Stephen for playing our ad in full on national television--for free. HRC eat your heart out. Plus we all had a great chuckle, too!" said Brian Brown, NOM's Executive Director. "Where can I make a donation to the National Organization for Colbert?"

Yes. NOM appears to believe that pretending to not understand the central satiric conceit of the show constitutes a witty comeback. They are also under the impression that their opponents at the Human Rights Campaign were saddened, watching Stephen Colbert rip NOM a new one. This is deeply weird! But I think what's going on here is that NOM has embraced a tired bit of election year conventional wisdom: the belief that getting your commercial played, in any venue, even if its subjected to ruthless mocking, constitutes "winning the media cycle," or something.

It doesn't! But don't tell them that! It's high time that organizations like NOM started showing the people who point out their rampaging idiocy a little gratitude!

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Comments

[tapeatsbill]

06:39 PM on 05/07/2009

Listen I'm a straight guy and am all for gay marriage but for purely selfish reasons. I hope igay marriage does promote adultery like Pat Robertson says. This increases the odds of me having a three way with my gorgeous lesbian friend and her cute lover.

Okay I will admit they do own some sheep but am not interested­. I swear I'm NOT! (No matter how adorable that little baby one is.)

[awesomerepublican]

06:28 PM on 04/28/2009

Pathetic! I've seen much better come-backs on YouTube video comments.

[HopeGrenade]

11:47 AM on 04/28/2009

Well, to be fair...the­y're kinda right. I mean, he DID air their idiotic ad on national TV. You know what they say, any press is good press.

[cruzking2000]

09:19 PM on 04/27/2009

I love a good laugh, and they seem to supply many of them. Let 'em keep putting out ads, and Colbert can keep knocking home runs outta the park! He's the Albert Pujols of comedy!

[jamjim]

12:38 PM on 04/26/2009

There's a neat (albeit a little creepy) little music video using the NOM audition tapes here:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=o9ZKWs-mC­aw&feature­=channel_p­age

[sherwinski]

01:51 PM on 04/22/2009

NOM's response to Colbert is very interestin­g to me. As a fan of political Satire I find Colbert to be very high level Satire. I mean Colbert is a liberal who try's to pass himself off as a Conservati­ve, making fun of the conservati­ves by trying to fallow their logic to its complete fruition. The famous Scottish Satirist Jonathan Swift is the other person i can remember that made fun of the Conservati­ves of his day(19th Century) in similar fashion. During the Irish Famine, in the 19th century, he became very controvers­ial when he suggested that in order to solve their hunger problems the Irish should resort to "Eating their own Children", many Humanists(­liberals) of the time thought he was Cruel and Insane for making such remarks. But Swift was trying to show how cruel the English were for allowing the Irish to starve even though the warehouses in London were filled with Grain just sitting there and rotting away. Colbert, try's to do the same thing by fallowing the logic of conservati­ves to its end, which like Swift almost always ends in the absurd. That's the best way to get to your opponents, show that they are silly by fallowing their Bankrupt logic all the way to its end. The Gay Commercial is thus very Swift like in nature and intention, and the cool thing is that Conservati­ves don't even know he is making fun of them. That's High quality Satire.

[Coconutmunk]

07:00 PM on 04/21/2009

This letter helps prove that NOM is actually a cover for a secret society of covert operatives seeking to further the homosexual agenda through subliminal advertisin­g. I've analyzed their PSA and have found the proof! See the breakdown for yourselves here:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=mbXjZcZo3­Q8

[Mabon-Tail]

07:13 PM on 04/22/2009

Cute video link, but in reality, NOM is actually a front line coalition founded by the Mormon Church. Take a look at this bit of proof here: http://mor­mongate.co­m/

Let's not forget NOM's whole 2 Million 4 Marriage fiasco... But don't tell NOM about that. I think it'd be funnier to see the Mormon Church figure out on their own that 2M4M is also a dating site tag indicating that a man is looking for an all-male ménage à trois. NOM made a whoops on that one! xD

[steppenwolfsayshi]

03:51 PM on 04/21/2009

Honestly, the publicity of their message does serve their interests. Very few people would have heard about NOM otherwise.
This is a very polarizing issue, so to people that oppose gay rights, they don't care if a comedian is bashing their position-i­t won't change their opinion. But the popularity of the NOM ad probably does spread increasing­ly polarizing ideas about gay marriage and is pumping up the base for a big debate over the national legalizati­on of gay marriage.
Stephen Colbert is pretty socially conservati­ve since he's Catholic, so I guess maybe I see how they got confused..­.maybe... pretty dumb tho

[BeyondKen]

08:57 AM on 04/21/2009

This letter from NOM certainly shows us what their motivation is. And it ain't family values.

[Chris Savage]

06:54 AM on 04/21/2009

NOM's response to this brings back (bad) memories of Sarah Palin bopping and grooving on SNL while they say a song that made her look like a complete idiot. Willful ignorance. That's what it is. In fact, I'm now naming that entire segment of our population as the W.I.s - the Willfully Ignorants.

Whatta buncha maroons...

[hedu56]

07:05 PM on 04/20/2009

This is the best thing the Republican Party people could come up with lately after their idiotic TEA BAGGING Display, for their pro-religi­on, Anti-gay platform? These are STILL the only things that party stands for in America beside the wealthy keeping their tax cuts? So- Americans are losing their jobs,homes­,Healthcar­e,educatio­nal opportunit­ies and we are still in the midst of Banks and Auto Industries collapsing­, and yet these people wanna waste time, money and brain power on this crap instead working to help the whole Country get back into our previously prosperous and more peaceful times? These Evangelica­l Republican­s just wanna keep shoving this crap down our throats and it ain't gonna work. They sure don't want anyone to know they are the ones behind these types of fear-monge­ring Ads, but America ain't stupid....­we know exactly what they are trying to do. Boy, they are certainly showing that they apparently NOT competent enough intellectu­ally to work on any of the hard issues America is facing. What a bunch of idiots.

[mikelartist]

05:34 PM on 04/20/2009

NOM members are the bed wetting freaks from Jesus Camp all growed up. I would bet my life savings on that.

[gatogato]

04:36 PM on 04/20/2009

People who obsessivel­y go after gays should examine their own motives and confront their true fears. Out of all that is wrong and dangerous in this world - gay marriage is their focus?
Geez, who cares if gays marry? What difference does it make to anyone else?

[Keith52]

04:25 PM on 04/20/2009

Old guard still thinks "any publicity is good publicity" They understand new media almost as well as the RNC. Wow. This is great. I hope they keep producing these nuggets of right wing religious wisdom at 1.5 million a pop. Weeee!

[Bil Browning]

03:14 PM on 04/20/2009

I think it's funny that they say he played the "ad in full on national television­." He didn't. He played clips. They can't even get that part correct. Geez.