Father of filmmaker behind ACORN videos has backlog of controversial remarks
The Washington Post recently reported that according to Young America's Foundation director Ron Robinson, Hannah Giles, who helped create the controversial ACORN videos, "may have been inspired to some extent" by the work of her father, Townhall.com columnist Doug Giles -- who has frequently uttered extremist, radical, or ridiculous remarks while attacking the Obama administration and progressives. Notably, Giles stated with regard to health care reform that "thinking, unbeholden people aren't buying Barack's crack," suggested President Obama is "treat[ing] us like Ike Turner did Tina," and called Obama's outreach to Christians a "booty call."
Wash. Post reports on some of Giles' comments
Wash. Post: Giles reportedly "proclaimed that liberals 'spit on the Word of God.' " In a September 17 article, the Post reported: "[Hannah] Giles is a journalism novice who has written two columns for the conservative Web site Townhall.com. Her father, Doug Giles, serves as minister of the ultra-conservative ClashChurch near Miami, where he proclaimed that liberals 'spit on the Word of God,' according to a report by the Miami New Times."
Wash. Post: Giles "complained of what he called the evils of the Obama administration and its alliance with ACORN." From a September 18 Post article:
[Hannah] Giles did not respond to phone calls and requests through Townhall.com editor Jonathan Garthwaite for an interview. Her father, Doug Giles of the radical Clash Church in Miami, had complained of what he called the evils of the Obama administration and its alliance with ACORN.
In an online opinion piece last month, titled "What Obama's Town Hall Charade and Pam Anderson's Breasts Have in Common," Doug Giles complained of Obama's "rent-a-mobs" at a health care town hall in New Hampshire. He claimed Obama could "summon a cabal at the drop of a red fez," including "ACORN lug nuts ready to register Mickey Mouse" to vote.
Ron Robinson, director of Young America's Foundation, where Hannah Giles spent the summer learning about how to be a journalist from conservative media experts, said Doug Giles has reason to be proud of how he has raised his daughter.
"She deserves all the credit here," Robinson said. "Certainly, she may have been inspired to some extent by her father, but this was her doing."
Giles' Townhall.com columns include controversial remarks about race, gender, and sexuality
Giles said Obama, other "TOP LEADERS on the Left" are peddling "crack," "Obama Oganja." In his September 5 column, Giles declared: "Yep, America, you may now add that derogatory label ["A**hole"] to the litany of other slurs the TOP LEADERS on the Left have been leveling at constituents who do not smoke their political crack." In an August 8 column, Giles similarly wrote: "As you know by now, the Obamanoid's town hall sale of Obamacare ain't going that well for Dems because thinking, unbeholden people aren't buying Barack's crack." Additionally, in his October 25, 2008, column, Giles wrote that Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) "besmirched Pennsylvanian voters this past week calling them 'racists' and 'rednecks' because they're refusing to smoke the Obama Oganja."
Giles described Obama's outreach to Christians as a "booty call." Giles' August 22 column was titled "Obama Makes a Political Booty Call to the Church." Giles explained:
Barack's call to believers this past week is the political equivalent of the phenomenon randy kiddos in our culture refer to as a "booty call."
For those not familiar with the term "booty call," it's the anxious, last minute, late in the game, last ditch, frantic and insincere BS-laden personal gratification phone call made by a manipulative, narcissistic man to a gullible and needy girl who has been, heretofore, summarily blown off by said guy for other girls.
Yep, in his pursuit of "better things," the dude, unsuccessful in his new venture, will once again return to the girl he knows is easy and still hopeful that the load of crap he's about to spew, in his desperate call to gratify his lusts, will finally come true. Fueled on false hope and therefore open to lies, the gullible girl easily caves to the caller's wishes -- only to be left in the dust after the guy gets what he wants, leaving the booty callee feeling very used and deceived. This is exactly what Obama be doin'. True dat.
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Church, understand this: What Obama did this past week in giving us a buzz was a booty call. Nothing more and nothing less than a call for relief from someone who is not getting what he wants to those he thinks are stupid and thus easy.
Giles referred to Gates as "Henry 'Yo Mama' Gates." Discussing Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates in his August 1 column, Giles stated:
If Rodney King's dream of us "all just gettin' along" is going to come to pass then Obama and Henry "Yo Mama" Gates, Jr. had better dial down on the insults, faux remorse and racial rhetoric aimed at us white devils.
Yep, the generational wounds of discrimination will not heal with Obama calling one of our nation's best and brightest fair-skinned cops "stupid."
FYI to BHO: That kind of talk, thoughtlessly slurring one of our finer whiteys' intelligence, will leave a negative mark on our Caucasian consciousness. You can say we can't jump, or we can't dance, but you cannot call one of our tribe stupid when, in reality, the guy was just doing his job in an excellent manner while apprehending one of your belligerent, bigoted buddies.
Giles suggests Obama "treat[ing] us like Ike Turner did Tina." Addressing Obama, Giles asserted in his September 5 column: "You can't treat us like Ike Turner did Tina and expect us to sing, make you some curly fries, get all giddy about voting for you, or take a shining to you addressing our kids in their classrooms."
Giles says White House calling Glenn Beck to complain "sounds, pretty gay to me. No offense to gay people, of course." From Giles' August 29 column:
Glenn said this past week that Barack's minions were actually calling his show while he was on air because he was being a meany. When I heard this I was sitting there eating pretzels and drinking a martini thinking: Are you kidding me? Is Perez Hilton running the White House? The White House is actually calling Beck during his program in an attempt to get him to cease and desist his digs? Wow ... sounds, pretty gay to me. No offense to gay people, of course.
Giles called Americans United for Separation of Church and State's Barry Lynn a "little Nancy Boy" and "gutless girlfriend." Discussing Obama's outreach to Christians in his August 22 column, Giles stated:
Are these Christians the very ones whom the darling liberal organization, the ACLU, regularly threatens to sue when they pray over a meal at school or say something remotely conservative from the pulpit, or on TV, or on the radio? Shouldn't Barry Lynn be on TV right now moaning and groaning about the separation of church and state? Where are you Barry, you little Nancy boy? C'mon Lynn, condemn the president, you gutless girlfriend. Sorry, I got in the flesh there. Let me resume my query.
Giles: "I don't mind fake when it comes to breasts," but I hate Obama's "artificially stacked" town hall. Giles' August 16 column was about "What Obama's Town Hall Charade and Pam Anderson's Breasts Have in Common." Giles concluded:
The only problem with the Portsmouth town hall is that it was more artificially stacked with Obama lap dogs than Pam Anderson's ta-tas are with boat caulk. Of course the meeting was upbeat and thumping ... it was contrived. A Cyclops could see that. Look, as a knuckle-dragging heterosexual who lives in a God-blessed testosterone fog, I don't mind fake when it comes to breasts. But when it comes to being conned by a Boob and his stacked crowd, well ... I gotta admit ... that makes me want to spit.
Giles complained about "pursed-lip chick" in Obama health care video. In his August 8 column, Giles stated: "[T]he White House, in the spirit of tolerance, hope and change officially dispatched some pursed-lip chick to video warn the serfs of Obamaland that if we disagree with His Highness' health scare bill in a 'fishy' email or casual conversation then the White House wants to know about it -- and we could very well be deep weeds."
Giles called Van Jones a "Muslim terrorist sympathizer" and Pelosi "bat crap crazy." In Giles' September 5 Townhall column, "Hey A**holes! Obama Wants to Talk to Your Kids":
First off, I'm not calling you, my patriotic readers, aholios; that dishonor goes to Van Jones, Obama's self-avowed communist Green Czar, Barack's sweetheart, 9/11 Truther, and Muslim terrorist sympathizer.
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If you [Obama] want us to buy your socialistic propaganda, you must reel in the commie czars, the unhinged liberal congressmen and women, and the bat crap crazy madam Speaker's insulting invectives aimed at the actual people you are trying to hoodwink into okaying your America-unraveling desires.
Giles: Either Pelosi is lying about CIA, "or one of the side effects of a high dollar Botox habit includes severe short-term memory loss." As a May 18 Salon.com article noted, Giles declared in his May 17 column: "Either Nancy Pelosi is lying her backside off regarding her knowledge of the CIA's irrigation for information techniques, or one of the side effects of a high dollar Botox habit includes severe short-term memory loss."
Giles: Obama is the"Socialist-in-Chief." In his August 8 column, Giles said of Obama, "Yep, ever since the Socialist-in-Chief floated his government-bloating, freedom-strangulating 1,100 page unread health care stool I have been smacking it like Rosie would a piñata full of Twinkies."
Giles: Obama supports "granny-slaying." In his August 16 column on Obama's Portsmouth town hall, Giles declared: "Now, thanks to Obama's Rent-a-Mob, thoughtless people watching this past week's Clown Hall were left thinking after Tuesday's tête-à-tête that everyone is cool with his granny-slaying, obfuscated to the hundredth power, 1,100 page bill."
Giles suggests "there's nothing about San Francisco that a rise in the ocean level could not cure." In his October 25, 2008, column, Giles stated: "Look, if not buying Barack's gobbledygook makes one a redneck then all I have to say is ... Yee-frickin'-haw!" He then provided a guide to figuring out whether you're a "redneck," which included the following: "If you think there's nothing about San Francisco that a rise in the ocean level could not cure, then you might be a redneck."
Miami Herald, Miami New Times, and News Hounds also compiled some of Giles' remarks
Miami Herald: Giles' columns "tear into liberals, feminists, [and] President Barack Obama." In a September 17 article, the Miami Herald reported that Giles, a minister, is "hardly a conventional preacher":
Pictured in hip sunglasses and a GQ haircut, he hosts ClashChurch.com, where he sneers at insufficiently masculine Christian "wussies," and exhorts the faithful to dress well and "put on a little cologne."
Decrying gays and pornography, the Texas Tech graduate once told a Christian publication that "the church has to get up off its wrinkly glutes and preach the truth about God's Word. If we don't, it'll only be another 10 years before America is Amsterdam."
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Giles writes for the conservative website Townhall.com. His columns tear into liberals, feminists, President Barack Obama, in broadsides like "Hey A**holes, Obama Wants to Talk to Your Kids."
Miami New Times: Doug Giles "Is a Bit of an Anti-Obama Nut." In a September 18 blog post, the Miami New Times' Kyle Munzenrieder wrote:
[T]he rumpus has introduced us to [Hannah] Giles's father, Doug Giles. He's the senior pastor of Clash Church in Aventura, which "is working at the heart of Miami." From an initial glance of his website, you might get the idea that the church is one of those hip, young, cool churches that strives to be inclusive and leaves politics off the pulpit.
Well, a trip to its online store would prove you wrong. There you can buy Doug Giles-penned books such as, Raising Boys Feminists Will Hate (summary: If metrosexual pop culture, feminized public schools, and the effeminate branches of evanjellycalism lay their sissy hands on him, you can kiss his masculinity goodbye -- because they will morph him into a dandy) or A Time to Clash, a culture warmongering tome that promises Doug's take on everything from "radical homosexuals" and "stupid sluts" to "sexless wives" and "Rosie O'Donnell."
Then you might want to check out his TownHall.com column. In "WWJT: Who Would Jesus Torture?" he comes out full force for waterboarding: "Jesus and the balance of Scripture seem to be okay with dunking Achmed if said butt munch has the 411 regarding the 10/20 of the next mass slaughter of innocent Americans."
In "America's Not a Christian Nation -- and I'm a Fat Black Lesbian Who Hates Hunting," Giles tries to prove that, contrary to Obama, America is indeed a Christian nation by quoting Presidents John Adams and John Q. Adams. Hate to break it to him, but Adams and son were Unitarians who rejected the divinity of Christ, and certainly the kind of religious dogma Giles espouses. Theirs was the "sissy" type of Christianity he dogs in many of his other columns.
News Hounds: "Giles is a manly man who ... is fighting that evil gay agenda." In a September 14 post, News Hounds documented several of Giles' more controversial statements:
Giles is a man's man who fights the manly fight against teh [sic] gay -- a fight which includes Obama's "gay agenda." In a Town Hall article in which he castigates evangelicals who voted for Obama and demonstrated that he knows at least one word in a foreign language he said this: "In less than a week after Obama's swearing in, our nuevo POTUS unfurled his radically liberal abortion and family plans together with his juicy pro-homosexual agenda." (Juicy?? Hmmm...) His next sentence was quite amusing seeing how his chaste daughter is playing a prostitute: "Good job, all evangelicals who voted for Obama, as these aforementioned ditties -- from a biblical perspective -- are about as sanctified as the Antichrist French kissing a crack whore in Bret Michaels' hot tub." (WTF?? And ditties???)
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Giles is a manly man who, as noted above, is fighting that evil gay agenda. He touts the fact that one of his favorite "whipping posts" is the "metrosexual male." (Hmm, whipping post, hmmm).
In other words, exactly the type of article Wesley swallows hook, line, and sinker.
You have a real problem with reading comprehension, don't you?
The Washington Post recently reported that according to Young America's Foundation director Ron Robinson, Hannah Giles, who helped create the controversial ACORN videos, "may have been inspired to some extent" by the work of her father, Townhall.com columnist Doug Giles.
Almost.
Very simply vhw. The brother of one of acorns founders embezzled a million dollars from acorn. Are you going to hold the entire group responsible because the founders brother stole money? If not, how do you blame this woman, for things her father has written??
It has been proven!!
vhw is a troll--literally. He/she posts that same message after every post, whether left or right. Just flag them for MMFA. I don't know why MMFA hasn't booted this poster off yet.
Guilt by association doesn't hold much sway with me. Never did. I was against it when the conservatives brought it up ala Obama and Ayers, and Wright, and ACORN, and so on, and I'm equally against tarring Ms. Giles with her father's lunacy. As I mentioned, she has done that to herself with her own set of lunatic assertions.
There is evidence that this woman was influenced by her Dad's political philosophy. That's why it's not a smear, because someone said that she likely was influenced by her Dad, and so they are examining the Dad's track record. Associating Obama with someone he was only briefly associated with like Ayers is a smear, because you can't see evidence in Obama's behavior of that influence.
Now, if MMFA had made something up about the Giles' (father and or daughter), then I would definitely call it a smear. I guess that's my more narrowed down version of "smear".
I agree, Magnolialover. Anybody who's not wearing Fox "News" blinders can see what Giles & O'Keefe are about. This isn't necessary, it's only an item of interest.
It's even possible that MMFA is just having a little fun here with the "guilt by association" theme. Notice the same people who have spent the past couple of years buying it whole-hog with anybody connected to Obama are suddenly disgusted with the idea of bringing this up?
I'll wait for the angry crowds demanding that Pops Giles be relieved of his duties at Clownhall, and his daughter be fired from... uhh, whatever it is that she does.Are we supposed to believe that she sat in his P.U. for 20 years and doesn't hold the same views??
Of course, right up until some of their own were tarred with the same brush. I think that MMFA might be trafficing in irony in this case.
That's why I like this site and its liberal policy of allowing different points of view. It's almost like a lab where we can observe the wingnut mind in its natural habitat.
The entire presidential campaign (and Obama's presidency) has been full of the guilt-by-association stuff, even when the only "guilt" was based on editing remarks, misunderstanding words, or playing to prejudices.
Remember "You're judged by the company you keep."?
Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, college friends, anybody Obama knew or briefly crossed paths with over his lifetime was investigated for the occasional nugget that strayed from the flag-waving zombie phony patriot manual.
These were featured in the media at the expense of things that actually mattered.
Attempts to get back on topic, to some substance, were dismissed as trying to hide these damning ( to those looking to damn)connections.
Obama's life was pretty public,as opposed to the propaganda filmmakers Giles and O'Keefe, who it seems are being kept under wraps aside from appearances on Fox( with whom they are in no way connected - wink)
So, this website, one lowly media watchdog website posts one item about Giles father and his anti-Obama works. Does it say anything about his daughter? Not really, it's obvious that she's followed in his footsteps, but it's not really important where she learned to be sleazy.
There's not much judgment or spin here, the word "controversial" is about as far as this item goes to opinion. There's no suggestion that the daughter be held responsible for her Dad's words.Her own actions show what she's about.
And to those who were all aboard the GBA bandwagon with Obama, this invalidates any criticism of the GBA tactics used freely over the past couple of years, while simultaneously invalidating itself by dabbling in Guilt by association.
I do wonder, though, about the tax exempt status of his church.
That said, this 'research' into the mindset of the girl's father is ineffective and offensive. Those desperate to find something to discredit the girl.. i.e. the KOS group.. perhaps would try to stick it to the wall.. but moderate people (the vast majority of your readers) I would imagine are reacting much like I am..negatively.
Media Matters? Not in this case.
Won't be long before she starts making the outrageous claims Glenn Beck makes...
LOL...!