Comments on: Maggie Gallagher Gives False Information About El Coyote Owner

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:34:50 +0000

Regan– give him the links to the lengthy discussions on el coyote at this very blog.

Then ignore him.

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:08:46 +0000

I have called back a few times, and tried to make contact, but Marj was pretty much not available.

Business fell off for a bit, and there hasn’t been a measurable way to blame a boycott so much as the overall downturn of less people eating out for any troubles the El Coyote might be undergoing.
The business hasn’t closed, nor have any lay offs been announced. I’m sure if any could be directly attributed to a gay walkout, we’d hear about it.

But Marj should have understood the lesson in betraying a customer base you depend on so much.

BTW, a man named anderson659 over at TownHall is on the march and has taken a strange obsession to me. This is fairly new and I’m not sure about what to do, but we’ll see.

It’s new to me to be accused of something and claims made as if I’ve committed a crime from a website blog thread.

He’s convinced I harassed a waitress and got her fired because of Prop. 8 simply because I mentioned attending the meeting and in the rally that passed by the restaurant. And he seems to think I should pay for it, or at least he won’t let it go.

What seems to be happening is if you’re honest about something it’s twisted into a Christian persecution mob. Indeed, he’s convinced of anti Christian persecution from more than a few people.

Anyway, this thing is virulent like the Ms. CA situation is.

I’m glad you caught what Gallagher said Tim. I was wondering if someone would report on it on our end.

We were there at El Coyote, but people like Gallagher and anderson659 don’t want to believe what we have to say about what really happened.

If anyone has any advice about what to do with this guy, it would be welcome.
As I said, this is a new one on me and I’m not sure how to respond.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:06:55 +0000

Maggie Gallagher is a professional propagandist. She wouldn’t know how to tell the truth if her life depended on it.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:56:37 +0000

This semester of college I took my senior seminar on the topic of propaganda. We have to write a massive final paper that I’m working on right now. I chose to write about NOM’s propaganda campaign of the last two months. Poor Maggie Gallagher, I already have so much material to work with that I can’t actually find room to discuss her blatant lies in that interview.

By: BPL

BPL — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:26:52 +0000

Yeah, I caught that, too — “waitress” is quite a stretch, and Ms. Gallagher is probably fully aware that it’s a stretch, yet chose that word for its effect, regardless of its accuracy.

Ms. Gallagher seems to rely on:
(1) anecdotes
(2) that aren’t presented quite accurately; and are
(3) couched in an atmosphere of unnamed, diffuse, while very dark fears (“a storm is coming” and all that).

By contrast, we have truth and empiricism (e.g., the sky hasn’t fallen in Massachusetts) on our side. The only negative that has happened in places where SSM has become legal is basically that “some people don’t like the concept of it.”

As Wanda Sykes said, if you don’t like same-sex marriage, don’t get married to someone of the same sex.

By: RU486

RU486 — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:47:09 +0000

The best part of that show was seeing Stephen Baldwin with a pout on his fat face, complaining that he’s being persecuted(!) If only.

By: homer

homer — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:26:53 +0000

Since when has Maggie Gallagher been interested in telling the truth?

By: Johnson

Johnson — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:02:10 +0000

Thanks for bring that story up, I have wondered what has become of the El Coyote and Margie. Do you have an update for us?