This is -- my God this is wrong. Via Atrios:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Have you gone to see [Brokeback Mountain] yet? I’ve seen everything else but that. I just—
DON IMUS: No, I haven’t seen it. Why would I want to see that? [Because clearly straight people shouldn't see movies about gay people lest they turn gay themselves. -BC]
MATTHEWS: I don’t know. No opinion on that. I haven’t seen it either, so—
IMUS: So they were—it was out when I was in New Mexico and—it doesn’t resonate with real cowboys who I know.
MATTHEWS: Yeah—
IMUS: But then, maybe there’s stuff going on on the ranch that I don’t know about. Not on my ranch, but you know—
MATTHEWS: Well, the wonderful Michael Savage, who’s on 570 in DC, who shares a station with you at least, he calls it [laughter]—what’s he call it?—he calls it Bare-back Mount-ing. That’s his name for the movie.
IMUS: Of course, Bernard calls it Fudgepack Mountain...
You know... shit. 50 years ago, they would've said the same thing about a movie about an interracial couple. Grow up, America! Dammit. Historians of the future -- even though they haven't been born yet -- are already laughing at our knuckle-dragging bigotry. Wise up!