Asshole of the Day, December 20, 2013: Ian Bayne

Asshole Of The Day

Asshole of the Day, December 20, 2013: Ian Bayne
When I heard that someone had compared yesterday’s Asshole of the Day Phil Robertson to Rosa Parks, I thought it was a joke. Turns out I was wrong:

In a fundraising email to supporters, Ian Bayne, who is running in the Republican primary to challenge Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) in the 11th District, compared Robertson to Rosa Parks. The fundraising email began: “Today, Ian Bayne called Phil Robertson, star of the A&E series “Duck Dynasty,” the ‘Rosa Parks’ of our generation.”
"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians," Bayne wrote in the email. "What Parks did was courageous."
Bayne added in the email that “what Robertson did was courageous too.”

And despite the outcry over how ridiculously wrong and possibly racist this is, he’s bragging about it on his website.
Look, asshole, Rosa Parks was someone who acted to help her oppressed people. Phil Robertson is a multimillionaire who is whining that not enough people are being oppressed, including black people like Rosa Parks. Yes, that’s right— Phil Roberts said black people were happier and better off under Jim Crow, the very oppressive laws Rosa Parks was fighting! So comparing them is the most ridiculous thing in the world, and makes anyone who tries the Asshole of the Day.
It is Ian Bayne’s first time as Asshole of the Day. And of course here is Blabberazzi.com's writeup of Phil Robertson as Asshole of the Day from yesterday.
Full story: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-congressional-candidate-compares-duck-dynasty-star-to-rosa-parks