On Friday, Alan Colmes interviewed David and Jason Benham about the on-going controversy over the cancellation of their HGTV program due to their anti-gay, anti-choice, and anti-Islam activism.
For the last two weeks, the Benham brothers have been complaining that they were the victims of a “smear campaign” build on “complete lies” and when Colmes finally asked David to explain just how they had been lied about, David asserted that “Right Wing Watch published the fact that we said ‘God hates Muslims,’ that is a complete and total lie.”
Ironically, the only lie here is from David, as we never asserted that he or Jason said that “God hates Muslims.” What we did explain in our post was that their father, Flip, had organized protests outside of mosques where protesters screamed “Jesus hates Muslims.”
Later in the interview, Colmes pointed out to David that we were talking about the protests organized by his father and never attributed that statement to him or to Jason, but David still asserted that it was untrue because “my dad would never say ‘God hates Muslims'”:
We find that a little hard to believe since Flip Benham is notorious for his anti-Islam protests, such as this one where he stood outside of a mosque with a PA system in order to inform the Muslims in attendance that he had come “not to dialogue with you [but] to slay your false god”:
Perhaps it was from watching their father express his “love” for Muslims that David and Jason learned how to express their “love” for gays.
