Joel Berry of The Babylon Bee tried to smear Dem VP nominee Tim Walz but instead embarrassed himself. |
This is Joel Berry. He's the managing editor of the far-right trash publication The Babylon Bee. He's also the latest conservative trying desperately to smear Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz. Unable to mount a suitable attack on Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Republicans have turned their guns of slander and smear against Walz. They've run the gambit from attempting to smear Walz as a disgraced military veteran to lying that he put tampons in the boys' restrooms of Minnesota schools.
Berry, however, is using the traditional right-wing smear of implying that Walz sexually groomed boys because he served as a faculty advisor of high school GSA (Gay/Straight Alliance) when he was a Minnesota teacher.
It hasn't gone well for Berry. First the Community Notes on Twitter called him out:
In 1999, history teacher Tim Walz recruited young boys into a gay club at school. America's dad, indeed. pic.twitter.com/idaG3vp957
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) August 12, 2024
Jacob Reitan, now an LGBTQ activist and lawyer, was a founding member of the GSA at Mankato West High School in Mankato, Minnesota, about 80 miles southwest of Minneapolis. He said Walz and his wife, also a teacher at the school, provided vital support during Reitan’s formative years. “Both Tim and Gwen were incredibly supportive of their gay students, and they modeled values of inclusivity and respect,”Reitan, 42, told MSNBC this week. “I was bullied in high school. [Their values] helped not just me, but it also, I think, helped the bully. It showed the bully a better path forward, and I can think of no one better than Tim Walz to show that better path forward for America.”Fellow GSA member Seth Elliot Meyer attended Mankato West from 2000-2004 and had Walz for 11th grade history. Meyer, 38, said he initially expected to hate Walz, because he was a football coach and a hunter. “I was a leftist punk rock, anti-everything kind of kid,” Meyer said. “In the year that I had him, what I learned is that he really cared about everyone and wanted everyone to be seen.”
This post makes you seem stupid and evil.
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) August 12, 2024
Tim Walz ran a Gay-Straight Alliance and was beloved by its members.
— SDL (@SocDoneLeft) August 13, 2024
You are a weird freak who can't think of young gay people without sexualizing them.
they literally recruited HIM, you numpty pic.twitter.com/wMh5lucIVx
— shauna (@goldengateblond) August 13, 2024
Yes, we know Tim worked very hard to ensure gay kids were accepted and had a safe space at school free from bullying and discrimination. Why’s that an issue?
— The Political HQ (@ThePoliticalHQ) August 13, 2024
Walz thought it’d be important for the GSA club to be lead by a football coach to show acceptance knows no bounds.
As a…
What really bothers you is that @GovTimWalz was the ranking member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee from 2017 to 2019: it bothers you that he wanted to make an alliance that included all students because in your weird world there are no LGBTQ+ students … Wow ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ️๐
— ๐Honey Badger Democrat ๐ (@BadgerLiberal) August 12, 2024
And because I love a good Twitter dragging (especially when it's a conservative getting called out for spewing anti-LGBTQ lies,) I added my two cents:Gay/straight alliances piss bigoted bullies like Joel Berry off. It's not the reason for them, but it's a nice side effect.
— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2024
In MY GSA, we recited lines from the 1939 movie 'The Women' and took sides. The Joan Crawford faction and the Norma Shearer faction HATED each other. https://t.co/Nk1fPqjv2W
— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) August 13, 2024
1 comment:
The only thing that exists between the queer community and the right wing is hatred. No matter what the quislings in the LCR say.
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