If you are a member of the Republican National Committee who is currently under intense pressure to resign due to your long history of making bigoted anti-gay and anti-Muslim comments, perhaps it is not the best course of action to go on a radio program hosted an equally bigoted Religious Right host with an even longer record of making outrageous statements in an effort to defend yourself.
But that is exactly what Dave Agema did today when he showed up on Bryan Fischer’s show in order to play the victim and comparing himself to Phil Robertson and Evander Holyfield and others who have supposedly been persecuted for simply telling the truth. For his part, Agema vowed to stand on principle and never to resign from the RNC rather than become a victim of “political correctness.”
“Political correctness is taking the place of freedom of speech,” Agema told Fischer. “And if you look at what’s happened just here in the news media and particularly in Hollywood in the Grammys, they are just shoving this stuff down our throats and very few people are speaking up. And if you do speak up, you can expect to be slammed, and that’s exactly what they call it, slamming and jamming, what they’re doing to me right now”:
Agema, like so many anti-gay right-wing martyrs before him, seems to be operating under the delusion that “freedom of speech” mean that they are entitled to say anything they want without receiving any criticism or suffering any consequence whatsoever.
