PASS THIS IMPORTANT BILL IMMEDIATELY: “Movie and TV productions with gay characters could be ineligible for a tax credit being considered in the [Florida] state House.” Good thing Miami Vice is over! [AP]
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Anyone in 2010 who supports such an idiotic, moronic, discriminatory, hate-filled, illegal, unethical, immoral and unprofessional bill should resign from office, effective immediately. That’s not a joke.
Tax credits are so gay.There were gay characters in Miami Vice???
ETA on “I was just giving him a 20 dollar tax credit not to rape me in the bathroom stall officer!”?
Crist, you know it ain’t easy. You know how hard it can be…
The Palinization of America continues.
What if teh gayz are evangelical Christians and all get run over by a truck at the movie’s end?
So I guess that Zorro remake won’t be happening in Pompano Beach.
Maybe if they don’t make movies or tv shows about them, gays will cease to exist…I guess that’s their twisted logic…
Don’t tell the Virginia General Assembly or Gov. Bob McDonnell about this one! It’ll be law overnight!
[re=526246]thefrontpage[/re]: I don’t care who you are, this is funny
And what about Vera Drake 2: Electric Boogaloo? What if she only aborts the gay babies? Does that count?
Well there goes that Charlie Crist biopic…
As Floridian, I apologize. Our state house has been overrun with douches who, unfortunately, didn’t use their wonderful hair to pursue careers as preachers.
I saw several of the (R) state boys at “Faces Miami” this past weekend. They were all there because of the food, they promise!!
So no Crist biopic then?
Would this affect shows with incidental, single-episode gay characters, or regulars only? If it’s only for regulars, than it’s a good thing for Florida that gays (along with anyone else who enjoys any non-missionary & marital sex) are only killers or victims in the world of David Caruso’s Bad Acting Sunglasses.
Dudes with ripped physiques and tastefully decorated apartments, women who drive Subarus with a golden retriever in the back seat will also be denied tax credits.
What fate shall befall Disney?
Honestly, what the heck is wrong with these people? Did their mothers drop them on their heads when they were infants?
And does this mean that Disneyworld will have to drop the Seven Dwarves, and all those Prince Charmings who chose the lead princesses to be their beards?
Florida wants to encourage productions “with no smoking, sex, nudity or profane language” or Gays. I guess that leaves us with Sesame Street.
Oops, forgot about Bert and Ernie.
They make movies in Florida?
That’s it, I’ve had it with this bullshit. I’m calling for a boycott of “The Family Channel.” I know you’ll miss your Gilmore Girls and America’s Funniest Home Videos reruns, but goddamit we’ll just have to survive on the lousy, crappy, subscription fare over on HBO and SHOWTIME until this is over.
Any of you fang bangers know when the new season of True Blood starts?
related: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=jnvgq8STMGM
Wait, aren’t most gay characters portrayed by straight actors, and most straight characters portrayed by Tom Cruise? Shouldn’t they be honest and call this a gay Scientology subsidy?
[re=526273]megs[/re]: No they don’t make movies in FL! But they do use stock shots for the titles for proto-gay teevee shows. It must stop!
[re=526272]mollymcguire[/re]: But gratuitous violence is fine, right?
State film tax credits are a giant waste of taxpayer money, anyway. Sorry, no snark.
I’m sure this will not have any bearing on where Hollywood movie and TV executives choose to film their projects.
[re=526263]mookworthjwilson[/re]: [re=526266]Gopherit[/re]: You two are sooooooo gehy.
Oh, by all means pass this bill and see how fast the entertainment industry pulls production out of your state. CSI: Miami will become CSI: Any City Not in the South or in a State Named Utah or Idaho.
Phew. It is 2010. Had to check the calendar on the quick, because it sounded like it was 1910.
[re=526283]bitchincamaro[/re]: [re=526263]mookworthjwilson[/re]: DAMN YOU, MOOKWORTH!! Well played.
Fine then. I’ll take my movie musical based on the life of Jesus to another state, and spend my tax rebate on a collection of really nice shoes.
I guess that the “Mitch McConnell Story” won’t by filmed in Florida.
[re=526281]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: Actually, film tax credits are quite effective. Films generate big bucks and have a huge ripple effect. When New York City stopped giving film tax credits lots of work quickly ended up in former industrial space in New Jersey.
But, more importantly, WTF have you done to me? Here is a thread about Republicans being douchey towards gay people and the best comment I can come up with relates to the merits of tax credits? I no longer deserve to be a Wonketeer!
But before I get rid of my internet connection, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our brave troops.
Ahem, Harrumph, Belch, Fart…Misser Speeker. I would like to amend the bill before the house to permit tax credits for productions protraying geh characters but only if they are portrayed as either child molesters or cannibals and that furthermore, no film shall be permitted it the ghehs therein protrayed are republican politicians or members of the clergy.
they should take the entertainment industry and tax credits parts out of this bill and just send everybody 50 bucks if they pinky swear that they don’t like it in the butt.
Let’s just have a rule that if Ted Haggard did it, it’s not a family value.
Out of sight, out of butt.
What if the whole movie is about a gay character, say, playing chess with Death? On a beach with a lot of seashells? And drinking really fresh-squeezed orange juice? Do gays play chess differently?
(thinking I’ll have to shoot those scenes somewhere else now)
OK. Seriously, what tax credits do you get? What taxes do you even pay? Film offices arrange to stop traffic for you and shit like that, but what taxes are paid, other than room tax for hotels for the crew and sales tax if they buy shit there? Income taxes, maybe? Help me out here.
(Slaps hand away from pants) I said help me out here as in “Help me understand this” not help me out of this outfit I’m wearing.
Rumor has it that Elvis sucked a mean dick.
Looks like Sara checks her Woot every morning. http://woot.com/
So this is the pay-back for all that gay money that went into fixing up Miami Beach? I hereby invite all moneyed gay Floridians to move to northern Virginia and fix up the Route 1 corridor in Lorton and Woodbridge. And please ignore that property assessor behind the curtain!
[re=526280]the problem child[/re]: Kyle’s Mom: Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don’t say any naughty words! That’s what this war is all about!
Does this mean “The Matt Drudge Story” won’t be shooting in Florida?
OK, now I hate everybody.
And I’ve said this before. Sodomy: it’s not just for teh gheys. Try it, you’ll like it.
Geez, if they only knew how many teevee and movie actors are gay… What will they do, retroactively tax Rock Hudson and Burt Lancaster movies?
Well I guess this cancels the premiere of “Massa of the Everglades,” huh?
I wish Bill Hicks were alive to take on this topic.
Variety: “Birdcage II to be Lensed in Myrtle Beach”
[re=526681]BlueStateLiberal[/re]: Geez, if they only knew how many teevee and movie actors are gay… What will they do, retroactively tax Rock Hudson and Burt Lancaster movies?
Burt Lancaster? OMG… you’re kidding, aren’t you? Yeah, next thing you’ll be telling me “Errol Flynn…”
Wow, that really IS the gayest picture that doesn’t have Charlie Crist in it.
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