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J$P Video! It's a free-for-all as Julie Banderas loses her cool with Shirley Phelps-Roper.

From The Big Story Primetime, June 10 2006:

Shirley Phelps-Roper, of the Westboro Church, conducts anti-gay protests at the funerals of fallen servicemen. She was more than Julie Banderas could take [QuickTime video]:


posted: Sat - June 10, 2006 at 10:58 PM       j$p  send 

nivekabsurdo
This is a funny link to a video I produced on these zealots!
June 12, 2006, 12:28:34 PM EDT – Like – Reply

nivekabsurdo
http://birdshot.cf.huffingtonpost.com
 
Link to this video for a comic take!
June 12, 2006, 12:31:31 PM EDT – Like – Reply

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June 12, 2006, 1:03:26 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Hit_escape
If she had 100,000 followers, Fox would be wooing her big time.
June 12, 2006, 1:27:36 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Tony Baloney
Fox should remember another biblical quote: “…whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7).
 
They brought these hateful cretins out of the woodwork and now they're shocked, SHOCKED to find that they're serious about their beliefs!
June 12, 2006, 1:30:20 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Brent
Fox gets what it deserves by giving nuts like this airtime in the first place.
June 12, 2006, 1:32:55 PM EDT – Like – Reply

utopiate
I love it when they eat their own.
 
I'll bet that if Ann Coulter was the one saying this on camera, Julia would be kissing her ass.
June 12, 2006, 1:34:54 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Sr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection
Um, correction: the Phelps folks call their church the Westboro Baptist Church. I'm sure the Southern Baptist Convention hates to be affiliated with these nutjobs, but they need to be reminded that they do share homophobia and bigotry with these creepazoids.
June 12, 2006, 1:43:09 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Sr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection
Fox gets what it deserves by giving nuts like this airtime in the first place.
 
Yup. They shouldn't be dignifying these worms with the air time and national exposure. Proves what I've always said about Fox, their only concern is for ratings and money.
June 12, 2006, 1:44:21 PM EDT – Like – Reply

whit
Was Julie Banderas able to keep her job after shouting down a guest on her show? 
 
That witch Shirley Phelps-Roper obvioulsy spouts the views of many FoxNews viewers.
June 12, 2006, 1:56:54 PM EDT – Like – Reply

bimplebean
I never thought I'd compliment anyone/anything connected to Fox News, but kudos at least to Julie Banderas for standing up to this hater and calling her what she is.
 
Of course, boos to Fox for putting the nutjob hater on the air in the first place.
June 12, 2006, 2:02:14 PM EDT – Like – Reply

sunrunner
Wow. They really are all cracking up. I mean who would've ever thunk it, two fundamentalist wing nuts shouting "scripteere" at each other on national teevee?!?!
June 12, 2006, 2:02:35 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Big E
well...seems to me she is
just another
version of Ann Coulter
June 12, 2006, 2:05:31 PM EDT – Like – Reply

rmpo063052
i haven't laughed so hard in a long time
 
i hesitate to thank anyone for that
 
shall we say, "oh my GOD!"
 
thanks for taking any "scariness" out of the Christian RIGHT. Boy are they adled.
June 12, 2006, 2:11:17 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Stash
This video just shows Ann Coulter, the Slobber Goddess in about 7 years. Both Ann and this Westboro cretin have been "ridden hard and put away wet".
June 12, 2006, 2:12:33 PM EDT – Like – Reply

DragonFly
"They shouldn't be dignifying these worms with the air time and national exposure."
 
I think you owe worms worldwide an apology for such a slanderous remark.
June 12, 2006, 2:12:42 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Zig
This is your brain on hate.
June 12, 2006, 2:16:30 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Jl
Go to this link and read all about Fred Phelps family-it's a real tragedy:
 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/michael_haggerty/expose3.htm
 
4 kids managed to escape him.
June 12, 2006, 2:16:32 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Guest
"ONLY I KNOW THE TRUE WILL OF GOD"
 
"NOW YOU LISTEN HERE MISSY, IT IS I, NOT YOU, WHO KNOWS THE WILL OF GOD"
 
bla bla bla... two people who believe strongly in pushing religion further into our polity and laws. Watching them blather in anger while using the lords name, says it all.
June 12, 2006, 2:18:29 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Duchess of Bilgewater
Just goes to show ... hate make you ugly.
June 12, 2006, 2:19:03 PM EDT – Like – Reply

doug
i thik it is wrong to assume the info-babe julie is a conservative just because she works at fox news. my bet is she is not. many of the folks running around that place are not conservatives. fox news is made of two media types. conservative commentators and tabloid commentators. banderas falls in the latter camp.
 
i think it is also wrong to lump conservatives in with the views of this wack job. just like I would not lump every democrat in with the views of daily kos or randy rhodes on air america, i think it is unwise to link conservatives to this woman.
 
i think it is funny that this wackjob was able to get under banderas' skin. they should have known she was a wack when they booked her.
June 12, 2006, 2:20:52 PM EDT – Like – Reply

PC
Oh my god! Oh my god!
 
bwahahahahahaha!
June 12, 2006, 2:22:18 PM EDT – Like – Reply

PC
Ann Coulter, is that you?
June 12, 2006, 2:23:43 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Dale
One freak-show bible thumper vs. an even freakier bible thumper. things like this make me proud to be athiest.
June 12, 2006, 2:28:35 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Josh Davis
This is exactly why I don't watch Fox News.
 
This isn't news; it's in no way informative; these WBC people have been doing this stuff for years; and I could care less what the opinion of some woman hosting a show that doesn't bother to explain whether it's opinion or fact.
 
It really bothers me that ignorant people watch this.
June 12, 2006, 2:36:15 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Josh Davis
How could you compare this woman to Randi Rhodes? That's silly.
June 12, 2006, 2:37:27 PM EDT – Like – Reply

danieljsf
Fox news only had a problem with the Phelps nuts once they started picketing military funerals.
 
Fox couldn't care less when they were picket the funerals of gays (or their family or friends).
 
Fox is rightwing trash programming meant to exploit, divide, and propagandize.
June 12, 2006, 2:39:42 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Josh Davis
The MOM of the conservative movement is still today what it has been for the last two hundred or so years - the idea that anyone who lives different from me isn't worthy of my status, regardless of whether their actions have any effect on me or not. 
 
Why do you think the conservative movement makes enemies so easily - they CRAVE for their to be someone to hate. 
 
OK, I'm done, before thy start calling me a troll. Sorry, I'm new here.
June 12, 2006, 2:40:33 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Koshchei
Shirley Phelps-Roper claims to have 8 children.
Through artificial insemination would be my guess.
June 12, 2006, 2:42:17 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Eric Paulsen
That must have been rough for the Fox reporter. I mean if the Westboro nutball were just on a tear against gays or minorities then THAT would have been fine but attacking the troops and America...
 
That might offend their demographic of faux patriotic nationalists.
June 12, 2006, 2:44:30 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Josh Davis
I think it's funny - ten years ago you couldn't have found a conservative netwrok defending hate spoeech against gays.
 
Just shows you the advancements the left is making toward education, tolerance, and peace.
June 12, 2006, 2:47:00 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Ane Qui Rit
Julie Banderas sounded so shrill and angry!
 
Why didn't she just throw a pail of water on Shirley instead?
 
Always wanted to see a wacko fundie meltdown on Fox News.
June 12, 2006, 3:10:39 PM EDT – Like – Reply

unpoetaloco
WOW! That woman looks like an extra from the movie Deliverance.
June 12, 2006, 3:30:30 PM EDT – Like – Reply

JFB
Wow. Anne Coulter has really let herself go.
June 12, 2006, 3:36:50 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Batocchio
Good for Banderas. It's a bit surprising to see someone at Fox News stand up to hate speech. 
 
Maybe Fox will think twice before putting on wingnuts like that. 
 
Actually, I'm sure they'll continue to book wingnuts, but let's hope they at least don't book anyone from that organization again.
June 12, 2006, 4:04:10 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Merrygay McMackin
Way to go Julie! I'm a professional soldier's daughter and the ex-wife of former marine. I cannot imagine the weird thoughts of anyone who would descrate (for lack of a better word) a funeral of someone who has died in combat. Do they do this at firemen and policemen funerals? Makes even a non-violent person have violent thoughts! Illinois finally passed legislation forbidding these yahoos' from protesting within 200 yards of a funeral or they go to jail. I'm sure the court is happy to wait the maximum 72 hours to have an arraignnment.
June 12, 2006, 4:11:38 PM EDT – Like – Reply

utopiate
She's a man baby!
June 12, 2006, 4:12:37 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Maddog
I am glad to see that Ann Coulter's mom getting some air time.
June 12, 2006, 4:21:40 PM EDT – Like – Reply

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monkeyhawk
The only difference between George WMD Bush and the "Rev." Fred Phelps is Phelps attends military funerals.
June 12, 2006, 4:31:05 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Loonie
Another hateful, sanctimonious big-mouth thinks she speaks the opinion of God. What a truly pitiful and wretched human being.
June 12, 2006, 4:36:18 PM EDT – Like – Reply

DragonFlyEye
I'm sure they're going to find some way to blame Liberals, they always do. Perhaps if only the Liberal Media could be more objective, the Fair and Balanced crowd wouldn't have to take such risks.
 
But for myself, I wonder if it's just because I'm a Liberal that I am so completely unsettled by watching a presumed journalist and one of her guests shouting at each other, quoting scripture? I wonder if its only because I'm a Liberal that I think this is why my parents told me religion doesn't belong in polite public discussion. It seems to my eyes as though the theocracy is upon us, and the only thing left to argue over is who is the more pious.
June 12, 2006, 4:42:46 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Lori
She is the personification of evil. I've never seen anyone so ugly, rabid and scary in my entire life. I think I will have nightmares tonight. I'll bet people are complaining to Fox if their kids happened to be watching when she (it) came on.
June 12, 2006, 4:47:31 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Anthony
You are missing the point entirely here. Doesn't anyone find it curious as to why Fox would have this woman on in the first place other than to be able to claim that Fox News does not support hate speech towards gays or anyone else by having their anchor blast the "extremist". It can then continue to claim to be a "reasonable, fair and balanced" network. Such a nutcase also makes Anne Coulter seem mild by comparison. All this while Bill O'Reilly has come out in support of Coulter. Interesting timing. This is so transparent I could spit.
June 12, 2006, 4:58:44 PM EDT – Like – Reply

chisholm
Pure Jerry Springer! How totally awesome. 
 
I can't believe that cave-dwelling sea hag Shirley Phelps-Roper has a hyphenated last name--isn't that the type of thing lefty (ie, went to college, can read) women do?
June 12, 2006, 5:03:50 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Guest
Fox deserves it
June 12, 2006, 5:18:29 PM EDT – Like – Reply

R.Y.A.
THATS A WOMAN? The Phelps family member. JESUS, I THOUGHT IT WAS A MAN WITH LONG HAIR.
I STILL DON'T GET WHY they picket funerals of servicemen killed in war unless they hate America, or are insane, or both. I knew this war made no sense from Day One, but what does anyone's opinion about anything have to do with not treating someone killed in the war with the dignity they deserve? And what do gay people have to do with the military men and women killed in Iraq? Where's the connection? 
Good for the FoxNews woman. Hit 'er with her own fire and brimstone.
June 12, 2006, 5:34:37 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Gatorboy
I'm not buying it. If Phelps wasn't protesting military funerals Fox would be giving them a free pass on his hate speech. 
How long has he been doing this and suddenly the Fox crowd is SHOCKED? 
 
Ya right....
June 12, 2006, 5:36:19 PM EDT – Like – Reply

steve hayner
Julie Banderas you have balls sister,I commend you on taking that hate monger and kickin her to the curb. I belong to the patriot guard riders who were formed after these scumbags started protesting soldiers funerals, we do not confront them but protect the rights of the family to honor and respect of there loved ones at very hard times. If Fox news doesnt give you a raise they are fools.
One side note I honestly believe if we gave these hate mongers not one more minute of press be it newspaper radio of television I think there little disgusting cult would dry up an die, or atleast thats my hope....
 
Julie keep up the fight and the great job your doing your always welcome in austin anytime you get this way 
this has been an honor to write 
steve hayner
bikers against child abuse 
patriot guard riders
6307 wild st
austin tx 78757
June 12, 2006, 5:38:37 PM EDT – Like – Reply

R.Y.A.
Yeah, it would be nice if Fox or NBC denounced other America-haters like Ann Coulter, who says the 9/11 widows are "witches" who have no right to talk about 9/11 or make recommendations about America's security, because they are "millionaires" and "victims." Of course Ann Coulter is also a millionaire, and the most dangerous thing she has done is visit a college campus, but somehow SHE has the right to talk about 9/11. 
But the Fox lady was STILL RIGHT to denounce Phelps.
June 12, 2006, 5:41:37 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Sundog
And yet NOT ONE CHRISTIAN in this country will see the obvious reductio ad absurdum and realize that their vision of Christianity is equally baseless.
 
Christinas simply can't think.
June 12, 2006, 5:46:27 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Sundog
Neither can Christians.  
 
And apparently atheists can't type.
June 12, 2006, 5:47:25 PM EDT – Like – Reply

sarah
are all of you stupid or are you trying to be funny beside doug every other person has sounded like a complete idiot if any of you ever watch foxnews you would see how stupid you all appear at the moment iam sorry if iam getting the wrong impression but jez some crazy gets air time and you start comparing her to ann coulter have any of you actually listen or read anything by her she at least operates in something close reason instead of just calling every one on foxnews anti gay marriage bush supporters try watching the network most are but not all of them
June 12, 2006, 6:10:17 PM EDT – Like – Reply

rationalist
Sarah,
 
would you like to buy a punctuation mark?
June 12, 2006, 6:23:07 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Michael Desantis
sorry about the last commet I post, here's the clean one, Fox news veres the phelps who do you cheer for in that.
June 12, 2006, 6:25:29 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Monday
Julie Banderas is awesome for telling that imbecile off!! I think I've seen that stupid Shirley bitch on Howard Stern a while back with her son and daughter. How any human being can be so hateful and disgusting is amazing. What pride is there in hating people who don't believe in the same horseshit you do?? 'The word of God' my ass! This pathetic bitch and her church need to disappear off the face of the earth, because not every single person in the United States of America will have the same twisted belief system as these fools.
June 12, 2006, 7:23:21 PM EDT – Like – Reply

alcarcalimo
For once I have to applaud Fox, or at least Julie Banderas, for attacking a group who is so far out of the American mainstream. Regardless of one's beliefs, the Westboro Baptist Church is probably one that nobody outside of the church supports.
June 12, 2006, 8:00:18 PM EDT – Like – Reply

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Carol DelGrosso
FOX hosted Phelps-Roper at least twice, another time on Hannity & Comlbs. Why do they give her a national platform? They obviously think that hate makes for good ratings. I'm sure she and her followers love FOX.
June 12, 2006, 8:28:15 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Mr. Heartbreak
Sorry to tell ya this kids, but the old bag is right... God hates everything but obedient males. It's in the book. Now I know most folks who call themselves Xtians prefer the cute and cuddly jesus half, but the hate stuff is in that contrived, confusing, contradicting, sloppy narrative as well. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the god-myth creature didn't (supposedly) say it. You can be loving your neighbor on one page, and killing him (with the god-myth's complete approval! how convenient!) on another. I suggest you Xtians hire better writers next time... I laugh at all of you!
June 12, 2006, 8:28:16 PM EDT – Like – Reply

ronin
I heard that the Westboro freaks are all inbred. Is that why they look so alike?
June 12, 2006, 8:38:02 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Becky
I think Shirley and Ann Coulter are lesbian lovers.
June 12, 2006, 8:54:08 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Marc
Man, these people are both a little nutty in the rafters.
June 12, 2006, 9:01:56 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Paul
Talk about the Ho of Babylon. They had to put Shirley on so that they could redeem Ann Coulter.
June 12, 2006, 9:09:45 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Peter
bimbo.
June 12, 2006, 9:38:31 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Clevelandchick
It would appear that Anne 'Phelps' Coulter's mom is in sore need of a good lay as well. What's with these skinny nasty lanky haired bitches anyway? Note to trAnne & Ms. Phelps; it's called shampoo & conditioner - it's your friend, use it.
June 12, 2006, 10:08:25 PM EDT – Like – Reply

BobSF_94117@yahoo.com
Well, it's nice to see someone dumping on the Phelps klan (no, I don't mean clan), but I gotta say, it's not long overdue. If they weren't carrying their absurd argument to military funerals, hardly anyone would be speaking out against them. 
 
You realize, I hope, that they've been doing this crap to gay people for over two decades.
June 12, 2006, 10:42:53 PM EDT – Like – Reply

BobSF_94117@yahoo.com
oooops... it IS long overdue
June 12, 2006, 10:43:31 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Rudy Chavez
I bet Ann Coulter is going to have Shirley Phelps-Roper write the introduction to her next book.
June 12, 2006, 10:51:41 PM EDT – Like – Reply

illotus
Maybe a little off the subject but I note that Hannity in his previous interview asked this...um...thing what her sins were and she look sideways at the camera for about two seconds before resuming her spiel -- ignoring the question. 
 
It was as if a little door back in there somewhere, with someone listening behind it, clicked all the way shut.
 
Just a wild guess but I suspect this woman knows a thing or two about child abuse -- of the sexual kind -- both on the receiving and giving ends. Little else would explain such tribal insanity.
June 12, 2006, 10:52:27 PM EDT – Like – Reply

msirt
Julie failed. She got emotional rather than question the premeses, like: "How do you know what the word of God is?"
June 12, 2006, 11:31:02 PM EDT – Like – Reply

RAY
Funny....two whack jobs going at each other.
June 12, 2006, 11:53:02 PM EDT – Like – Reply

dango
Ted Nugent has really let himself go.
June 13, 2006, 12:25:23 AM EDT – Like – Reply

ed-o
it's like the pot having a screaming match with the kettle about who's blacker
June 13, 2006, 12:31:57 AM EDT – Like – Reply

Stentor
Hey Johnny,
Could we get a transcript of that conversation/catfight?
June 13, 2006, 1:18:07 AM EDT – Like – Reply

Franc
this is hard to dispute either one. i'm a fag and hate both of these women. and maybe fags themselves.
ff.
June 13, 2006, 4:21:06 AM EDT – Like – Reply

Toes
Phelps-Roper?
 
A right-wing female religious nut with a last name with a hyphen?
 
To most right wingers, a female with a last name with a hyphen is the living example of Godless feminism.
 
Excommunication from Westboro is too good for her. Burning at the stake?
June 13, 2006, 8:43:16 AM EDT – Like – Reply

J
from a previous comment:
 
Just a wild guess but I suspect this woman knows a thing or two about child abuse -- of the sexual kind -- both on the receiving and giving ends. Little else would explain such tribal insanity.
 
Go to the link posted earlier and you will find that:
Fred Phelps abused alcohol and drugs
beat his wife and his kids while they were growing up (didn't say anything about sexual abuse but I wouldn't be surprised that it would have happened)
Some have left and came back but 4 children have managed to escape the church 2 of them live in Orange County Calif. No wonder the remaining family are the way they are.
June 13, 2006, 4:30:31 PM EDT – Like – Reply

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Jisang Kim
Julie Banderas is a HOT latina! Muy sexio!
June 14, 2006, 10:45:47 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Leo A
Check out this little parody i did of this nut job: http://www.myspace.com/shirleyphelps
June 17, 2006, 1:22:30 AM EDT – Like – Reply

Jake
Shirley farted.
June 18, 2006, 4:10:30 AM EDT – Like – Reply

BOBBY HILL
This women is crazy! but fox i believe is just doing this for the ratings. shes been on the show twice now actually. go to youtube.com and search for her name and you'll find the other one. you can also see a video of a protest where they are getting attacked at a protest as Cops escort them to safety and one man screams "OK WE GOT A BROKEN WINDOW" in a girls voice, as people pelt the car with rocks. ( THOSE ARE MY HEROES)
June 24, 2006, 6:40:39 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Esly
GOD doesn't rejoice in the wicked dying. (Ezekial 18:23)
 
Did this lady (Shriley) forget the 1st Commandment of the law???
"LOVE God above all things AND LOVE YOUR BROTHER AS YOURSELF." ???
 
(1 Corinthians 13:2)
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I am nothing.
 
Is this lady protraying LOVE????
October 6, 2007, 12:05:54 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Joe Friday
That Julie is one hot info-babe!
December 5, 2008, 2:46:16 PM EST – Like – Reply

Cecelia
Has there been a glitch in the Force, Johnny? 
 
There seems to be an entire thread here for Dark Side cretins.
December 5, 2008, 5:24:04 PM EST – Like – Reply

Cecelia
What I don't understand is that by these comments (and by their god Olbermann's "Special Education Komments"....) you'd think the new Administration (let alone John Kerry's... or HRC's) had endorsed gay marriage like it was whole milk.... But of course, it and none of them did...and they're just fine by that ...as long as they think their candidates are lying...
 
So when you read these passionate declaratons on gay rights....take them with a grain of salt. As we know from Olbermann... they can work up feigned tears over this... and over presidential candidates who do the populist..thing...
December 5, 2008, 11:39:08 PM EST – Like – Reply

Cecelia
Oh, hell, I meant "popular" not "populist". Should have said "but none over their presidential candidates who do the EXPEDIENT thing"
 
(I'm blaming the sharaz...)
December 6, 2008, 11:28:08 AM EST – Like – Reply

Michael
The comments here are almost as stupid as Ms. Phlelps. There is nothing conservative about Phlps church. The hate you spew for good neighbors you disagree with sounds just like her.
July 11, 2009, 4:46:36 PM EDT – Like – Reply

cee
So true Cecelia. At least individuals like Phelps are perfectly clear where they stand as they garner about 1% support, mostly from the apocolyptic crowd.
 
Other individuals are more suited to speak out of both sides of their mouths in order to preserve their personal political capital....even over "human rights," issues. Equal indignation over such behavior seems lacking as the practical results of the squishy pols are basically the same.
 
The reaction on this thread of some with another agenda here is a whole other (sad) subect. Like it was described, the "dark side." The broad brushes of prejudice and intolerance were out in force.
July 12, 2009, 8:30:04 AM EDT – Like – Reply