Chick-Fil-A founder and Christianist bigot Dan Cathy’s monetary support for anti-gay-marriage initiatives may have cost him (or, rather, his unfortunate franchisees) business with everyone from the Jim Henson Company to Boston’s Mayor Tom Menino. But the most prominent spokesmodels for the Republican Party – Talibangelical Division have stepped forward to put their elevated cholesterol profiles where their hearts are, per Wonkette:
… This infuriates former/current fat person Mike Huckabee so deeply that he is now calling for the creation of Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, on Facebook.
Via Buzzfeed, here’s Huckabee’s Facebook salvo calling for an “Appreciation Day” of a homophobic fast food company that gives everyone heart attacks and diabetes while making billions of dollars per year. If any corporation ever needed a bold defender in these dark times, it is this fatty chicken company, for its adherence to such “Biblical principles” as gluttony and greed on a mass scale…
Not to be outdone by “Mr. GOP-Godspeak Presidential Candidate 2008”, this year’s contender for the coveted Opus Dei endorsement jumps in with a Twitter-storm upping the ante:
Rick Santorum & fam marched straight to the front lines of the War on Chick-fil-A today, to stand arms-linked with the fast food chicken diabetes company that hates gay people. But Rick Santorum, you ask, Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day isn’t until August 1! You say so yourself! Well, that’s no matter. Everyday is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day in the Santorum household. Except Sundays! That’s Jesus Time…
Thank you, Jim Newell, for linking “Chick-fil-A special sauce” and “santorum” in our minds. That’s gotta give even the most boldly contrarian hipster-Glibertarian pause in their slacktivist search for a new way to annoy the rest of us that doesn’t involve anything more rigorous than stuffing their faces at the mall…
eataTREE
The banner ad running under this piece on the main page was for Liberty University.
Now it’s one for Chick-Fil-A.
The irony, it burns.
PeakVT
Kim Jong Un got married. Should be good fodder for the KimJongNumberUn twitter feed.
Crusty Dem
There is no “Chick-Fil-A Special Sauce”. Nobody tell the dumb motherfucker that he’s at McDonald’s, ok?
The Dangerman
The santorum sauce is at Guy-Fil-A.
scav
Can the Black Velvet Last Supper at Chick-F-Lie painting with Velociraptor and Peach Shake served in the Holy Grail be far behind?
jwb
@Crusty Dem: Actually, it’s a little known fact that you can find Chick-Fil-A Special Sauce at the Applebee’s salad bar
Alison
Anyone catch the USWNT opening Olympics game? Went down 2-0 early on to France, wasn’t looking good…then they came back and scored four unanswered goals :) Fuck yeah. The thing I LOVE about our women’s team is they are so good at buckling down like that and not getting too deflated.
TEH GOLD WILL BE OURS RAWR. :)
Comrade Mary
There are some places children should never put their fingers in.
NotMax
Maybe they can ink a deal to offer tiny action figures from the Atlas Shrugged part deux movie.
“I’ll trade you a Wyatt and a Taggart for your Galt.”
kindness
They don’t have Chick-Fil-A’s out here in N Cal. I boycott the bums every day.
hep kitty
FU, I went to Chik-Fil-a for breakfast this morning. SOB.
But you can get condiments and plasticware out the ass, I’m just saying.
PeakVT
Rut-roh. While I 100% agree with what Obama said, I hope his (damn good) political instincts are working at full capacity. We’re in the heart of silly season (much of which will be occupied with the Olympics, fortunately).
Brian S
Wonder if Huckabee and Santorum will hang around for National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chik-Fil-A on August 3? https://www.facebook.com/events/444598242237116/
I’m not gay and I might show up to kiss a dude.
Spaghetti Lee
If you libruls keep making fun of Chick-fil-A, they’ll go Galt and take their business elsewhere! Boy will you be screwed then! I mean, where else can you get fried chicken in this country?
Amanda in the South Bay
@kindness:
They are working on it. There are plans (I saw in the Mercury News) to put on in on El Camino in Mountain View.
Spaghetti Lee
Maybe I should go to Chick-fil-A and ask if they serve rainbow oreos for dessert.
jwb
@Crusty Dem: I’ve been told on the Tweet machine that there is in fact a Chick-Fil-A sauce. It’s not special, however.
beltane
Say what you will about Santorum but at least he has the courage of his shitty convictions. Mitt Romney is every bit as hateful but he partially cloaks his hatefulness with dog whistles and corporate double talk.
mumbly_joe
So, they got rid of all of the the Muppets except for Sam the Eagle?
(c’mon, look at the two of them side-by-side, and listen to each of them speak, and tell me you don’t see the resemblance)
fraught
Mind reeling reading these comments…How about casting the third and final Atlas Shrugged movie with muppets?
Piggy =Dagney=Oscar
I could direct.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
VividBlueDotty
@Crusty Dem: That was the first thing I thought. Their sandwiches are served dry on the bun. With a pickle.
But apparently one of the available dipping sauces for nuggets and strips IS called Chik-Fil-A sauce. I don’t feel the need to try it, although I’ll admit peach shake season is going to be hard on me.
Roger Moore
@The Dangerman:
ITYM “Fil-A-Guy”.
NonyNony
@NotMax:
Yeah – the day that Chick-fil-a has anything publicly to do with an atheist like Rand is probably the day that they’ve decided this whole “more Christian than Jesus” marketing schtick has worn thin and it’s time to move onto something else.
Chick-fil-a was doing a pretty good job of gaining tribal loyalty from conservatives while not overtly pissing off people who aren’t conservative Christians. So they just shit in that bed – if I were a franchisee in a major metro area I’d be pissed (though I suppose that people who buy into a Chick-fil-a franchise probably already drink the Kool-aid or else they would have opened a Subway or something instead).
Mr Stagger Lee
@Alison: The British pulled off their version of the Marines flying the Canadian flag upside down at the 1992 World series, by pulling this gaffe! I guess those Asians look alike to those Anglo-Saxons.
NonyNony
@mumbly_joe:
Go listen to one of Sam the Eagle’s outraged conservative schticks. Despite being designed to be a parody of conservatives, Sam the Eagle is less of a parody of conservatism than Rick Santorum is these days.
jwb
The Kathleen Parkeresque wingnut version of the incident. Warning, lots of delicate fee-fees being hurt.
muddy
They are against kale also too
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/06/143195033/chicken-vs-kale-vt-artist-fights-chick-fil-a-suit
erops
I’m stunned. I’m a dual citizen & haven’t lived in the US in years, but I did grow up in chicken-eating Virginia. But Chick-Fil-A? Someone actually named a restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A?
Alison
@Mr Stagger Lee: I saw that. Major facepalm moment.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@kindness: I’m afraid you’re wrong about that, there’s one in Fairfield, and I believe they’re looking to open one in Mountain View as well.
Anya
I thought the passing of the Tax-Cut Extension For Middle Class was huge, so how come it’s not frontpaged. I think this is huge because it means the Senate Democrats didn’t wimp out.
Yutsano
@NonyNony: Franchisees for Chik-Fil-A are rigouroussly screened to ensure they comply with the founder’s Christian values. So you pretty much have to be a Christianist to even buy into them.
El Cid
This is like some sort of Southern white conservative fantasy: “How can I possibly combine my love of deep fried chicken slathered with mayonnaise served with fries and hating the queers?”
The Dangerman
@Roger Moore:
Better.
Perhaps it should be “Unfill-A-Guy”?
Amir Khalid
Chick-Fil-A has not come to Malaysia, which is something to be grateful for. White Castle was here in the early 1990s, but left when they realized we hate their soggy little sliders. Arby’s also folded its tent and left. On the other hand Carl’s Jr. is (I think) still here; while Burger King has made a comeback, and Wendy’s is attempting one. Subway is doing well. Domino’s is battling Pizza Hut for the delivered pizza market in urban Malaysia. Needless to say, we have not escaped the global infestation of Mickey D and KFC. (Nor of Starbucks, alas, or Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.) These have only all-halal offerings here.
Fortunately, out here they tend not to bring their (often righty) politics with them.
danielx
@El Cid:
Thank you so much; the images that brought to mind will require me to take strong measures to sleep tonight.
Note to self: Don’t enter any restaurant favored by Rick Santorum.
Ever.
Passing thought – does Chick-Fil-A offer discounts if you walk in wearing two wetsuits? Inquiring minds want to know…
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: Not enough right-wing Christians in Malaysia. Or much of Asia for that matter. Hell I’d be amazed if they could even make inroads into Canada with that extreme faith requirement.
suzanne
Currently watching Rmoney be a slippery douchecanoe on The Last Word. They point out that he was straight-up asked, “Was there a year in which you paid no taxes?” and he did not say no.
Though I still think that his tax returns would also show that he played enough games with his taxes that he didn’t come even close to tithing for at least one year. And THAT would piss off the religionists like nothing else so far.
PeakVT
@Amir Khalid: Can you send us an Indonesian fast food chain in return?
ETA: Apologies for mis-remembering where you live. Malay would be better! I had a lot of good Malay food when I went to Singapore years ago.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
I was very surprised to see all the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf shops in Singapore. I think they must be more popular there than they are in LA, which is where they’re based. It’s especially weird because you can get fantastic coffee for less at every Kopitiam in the city.
Yutsano
@PeakVT: I am all about good Satay!!
(PS: he’s Malay. He might not have much pull in Indonesia.)
Roger Moore
@PeakVT:
ITYM Malaysian. And I’d love to see a chain that specializes in nasi lemak; it would be a completely new way of getting excessive fat and carbs.
Hill Dweller
@suzanne: Did LOD show Willard’s word salad when trying to differentiate his economic policies from Bush?
scav
On the whole Low Vegetable Sighting, Fried Chocolate front Scotland might have seemed a natural new market for their hopes of global dominion but, um, ooops, maybe not now.
Cassidy
If only we could find a way to spike the special sauce with something like Ecstasy or Ebola on 01 Aug.
gbear
@Crusty Dem:
Silly, it’s at the salad bar!
Excuse me, I gotta run…..
The Other Chuck
@beltane:
Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
Librarian
What Huckabee and Santorum are doing reminds me of when Jerry Falwell urged people to buy krugerrands.
Violet
I don’t want any part of any sauce that Santorum recommends.
Yutsano
@Violet: Somewhere in Seattle Dan Savage is evilly snickering.
gbear
@jwb: Damn, I was only 42 minutes late with my salad bar reference.
cxs
This is what I’m amazed by, but not a lot of notice yet.
Obama takes on gun violence in New Orleans speech
scav
It’s not easy being mean
It seems you rage about so many ordinary things
Brachiator
@Anya:
Unfortunately, this is just political theater. The Senate bill will never win approval in the House. The Senate Republicans also proposed a bill, which was defeated. At best, the Democratic Party bill will give President Obama something that he can use to rally some voters by showing them what he wants to do for them.
It is unlikely that anything real will happen until after the November election. More reason for anyone with a brain to vote for Obama.
Amir Khalid
@PeakVT:
Tsk, tsk. Didn’t I just say I’m in Malaysia? I can’t say much about what the Indons have, but over here we have The Chicken Rice Shop. We also have Secret Recipe, which is a cake shop/restaurant combo one step above fast food; but I’m kinda bummed about Secret Recipe, because they took Assam Chicken Rice (my favorite item, dadgummit) off the menu this year.
Jay in Oregon
@fraught:
I am going to pretend that you did not smear the Muppets by attempting to link them to Ayn Rand’s claptrap.
At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
slag
@suzanne:
Ooooh…where’s your “skin in the game” now, Mr. Rmoney? Or, is it only poor people who shouldn’t be allowed to keep their skin?
malraux
My offensive chicken joint of choice is Nandos, but its a bit hard to find. But seriously Check out this ad
AA+ Bonds
I didn’t follow this, who got to be the Champion of Hating Faggots The Most On Twitter
AA+ Bonds
Was it Rick, because I bet Mike’s family can eat a lot, seriously, Google that Image Search
beltane
@The Other Chuck: A national socialist appearing on MTP in a brown shirt and swastika armband scare me a lot less than a smooth talking national socialist PR guy in an expensive suit. It’s the enemies who look like normal people who are the most dangerous.
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
Once I saw a recipe for nasi lemak in Salon, of all places. Oddly enough, it was just for the rice part. No mention of the sambal belachan, which is nasi lemak’s sine qua non.
PurpleGirl
@Amir Khalid: Chicken Rice Shop and Secret Recipe both look delicious and scrumptious. I want branches in NYC…
ETA: Ate at a Malay restaurant in Flushing once years ago. A friend and I were looking for Chinese food and saw this other place and the menu look real good, so we went in there. The food was good.
karen marie
@jwb: OMFG. It is truly an alternate universe.
Amir Khalid
Off the subject of food, this may be worth a spot on the front page.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid: I do not think that I have seen a Malaysian restaurant in the Los Angeles area, or read a review of one. I am going to have to look further into this, and see if any offer the dishes you describe.
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
A couple of years ago, I saw a (favorable) review of a Malaysian restaurant at the LA Times website. Don’t remember the name, but you could look for that review.
Amir Khalid
@Yutsano: The only Christian-majority country in Asia is the Philippines, which is of course Catholic. I suspect the boss at Chick-Fil-A doesn’t consider Catholics to be his kind of Christian
Mino
Would it be wrong for me to hope that all Republican males will eat at Chick-Fil-A four times a week until they drop?
Mino
@Anya: I agree. They should be commended at showing solidarity. It’s rare enough.
NotMax
@Mino
Just the males?
Palin, Bachmann, Schlafly, etc. get off scot-free?
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid: According to Yelp, the restaurant noted by the LA Times, Manja, is closed. However, some of the reviews provide some alternatives. And apparently there is a “Little Malaysia” in El Monte. I have recently been on a search for good Peruvian food in the area. I need something else to add to the mix.
No, if only I could find a truly great Cuban Chinese eatery….
JGabriel
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Anne Laurie @ Top:
Assuming the tweets you posted above really are from Santorum, then, to be fair, I think we have to concede that Rick Santorum linked them his own damn self.
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Petorado
I guess the meme has been altered. He’s now Rick “man- on-chicken'” Santorum.
PeakVT
@Amir Khalid: I don’t know what I was thinking.
I’m trying to find the outdoor food court/hawker center I stopped at when I was in Singapore for two weeks, but I never quite got oriented when I was there, so I’m flailing. It might have been the one at Newton Circus, as my hotel was on Scott Road and my company’s office was on Thompson Road. Anyway, it was all new to me and pretty good. My Chinese co-workers there took me out to lunch the first day I was there, and they ordered shark-fin soup, and I ate it (to my eternal shame, though I was ignorant of the issue at the time). It was awful.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
Unless you count the Asian parts of Russia and/or count the Caucuses as being part of Asia. Also, too, South Korea has enough Christians- and enough wingnut Christians- that they could probably support Chick-Fil-A.
Mino
@NotMax: That particular diet is more deadly to guys.
BBA
@Yutsano: How the hell did NYU get a Chick-fil-A in a dorm dining hall then, being the wretched hive of leftism and secularism that it is?
Mino
@Amir Khalid: I wonder if Americans having an adrenalin high over the idea of forcing those weddings into the church will be disappointed when it is never attempted.
And if they wiil be defending the “freedoms” of the churches that actually wish to perform those weddings.
Origuy
@malraux: Nando’s is awesome. I ate there last year in Carlisle, England and my mouth still waters at the memory. Apparently there are some in the DC area. For those unfamiliar, they serve peri-peri chicken, originally a dish from Mozambique.
I haven’t found peri-peri chicken, or even the sauce, despite there being a Portuguese community down the road from me.
Mino
Oops. Bain Capital has been making the patented moves on Clear Channel. Rush may be required to defend the capitalism that eats his employer.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/25/1113395/-Rush-Limbaugh-s-downward-spiral-promises-to-accelerate
Yutsano
@BBA: Depends on how the franchisee sold it.
Mnemosyne
@BBA:
Counts as missionary work, is my guess.
karen marie
@Mino: Don’t you have to be Catholic to be married in a Catholic church?
If they can exclude atheists, Muslims and Jews from being married in their church, what makes them think they would be forced to allow gay people to be married there?
Marriage authority lies with the State, not with any religious organization. So who the State allows to marry is really none of their business.
asiangrrlMN
More Chick-fil-A stupidity. You know what that means! CHICKEN CHOW DOWN!
@Yutsano: Hi, hon! ::waves in a westward direction::
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Hi hon. I r pooped. Tomorrow hopefully I shall be less so since I don’t have to get up ungodly early.
Donald G
@karen marie:
Only one of the parties to the marriage (either the wife or the husband) has to be Catholic. Beforehand, the couple talks to the priest, and the non-Catholic party agrees to raise any children which may issue from the marriage as Catholic (or at least to not stand in the way of the children exploring Catholicism), then the priest sends them to attend a Catholic Marriage Encounter weekend, where one hears a lot of claptrap about caring and sharing and communicating and having a relationship with God in a Catholic way.
(While the priest originally running my Catholic Marriage Encounter weekend made a good faith effort to be ecumenical and respectful of other faith traditions, unfortunately, he was called away early to tend to a dying practitioner and a Pat Buchanan/Rick Santorum-Catholic layleader took over the running of the weekend. It was after dealing with this bozo that I decided it didn’t matter what promises I had made to the priest regarding the children, God (if he exists) knows what’s in my heart and soul and no way in Hell would I raise them within the institution of the Roman Catholic Church.)
So, my wife and I were married in a Catholic ceremony, the marriage license was signed (so our marriage is legal in the eyes of the State), and unless my wife (who has sense also chosen to leave the Church) decides to pursue an annulment, we’re still married in the eyes of the Church after more than 20 years, despite my reneging on my promise to raise the children as Catholic or to at least not stand in the way of their being raised as such.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Sleep well, hon! ::hugs and kisses::
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Not crashing yet. Did a spate of housework. Now I’m eating a brownie. :D
Bago
@asiangrrlMN: I think you mean “Chow chicken down down!”. Alternately the phrase “Keep f–rying that chicken!”.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Mmmmm, brownies.
@Bago: Yes! That’s moar better.
Patricia Kayden
Between the kiss in and the appreciation day, Chick-fil-A has certainly put itself in the headlines. Never eaten their food. Wonder if Cathy will eventually apologize. This cannot be good for business.
Señor Sluggo
Chick-fil-A Hates Fags
Mino
@karen marie: I think the right has become rage-o-holics. If Dems don’t supply them, they just make it up.
Bob2
Chik Fil-A Bowl
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
Um, the caucuses of what legislative body?
maya
I thought Sundays were Walmart shopping time.
one two seven
Can’t I just eat a chicken sandwich without it being a political statement?
LanceThruster
All claims of family “values” aside, I’ll take one Dr. Sally Ride over ten Dan Cathy’s any day.