Scary Juice Lady Anita Bryant: 'Memba Her?!

1. Bryant was really born a man. Remember a sparkling glass of Florida orange juice a day keeps the homosexual tendencies away!

Posted at 2:13PM on Nov 28th 2008 by The Shunnedshine State

2. A hate-filled bigot -- I remember joining in the orange juice boycott because of this so-called good Christian woman and her anti-gay propoganda.

Posted at 2:41PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Buddha Lady

3. I don't care what this bigot looks like now.

Posted at 2:53PM on Nov 28th 2008 by WHO CARES?

4. Forget that old bag! Everyone should go see "Milk." What a marvelous look back at the fledgling days of the US Gay Rights Movement. Sean Penn is phenomenal.

Posted at 3:12PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Sean

5. So I guess this goes to show that TMZ really DOES read the comments we leave. I said that the stewardess from "Airplane" had Anita Bryant's old 'do...how ironic that less than a week later, Bryant surfaces on TMZ.

Glad I could help. You're welcome.

Posted at 3:29PM on Nov 28th 2008 by shirley feeney

6. Oh, how well I remember that orange juice boycott. I was just growing out of my late teens and into manhood, and I was realized how much money and power the homosexual community has in this country. The boycott started in Florida by a club owner in my neighborhood... and it spreaded all across America. Soon Anita Bryant was pulled off the air and silenced. It taught me a lot, and I gained a lot of confidence... I continued on with my education and career as a productive citizen dispite this woman's hatredness. She was a completely nasty woman and I was so relieved when they pulled her off the air. She was one nasty Witch. I'm not interested in what she looks like now, for she tried to make many people's lives a living hell.

Posted at 3:36PM on Nov 28th 2008 by ROCKY MOUNTAIN

7. Yes, Miss Shirley Feeny, TMZ is a very wicked site. I try not to get too involved with it... and whatever I read on it I take with a boatload of salt.

Posted at 3:37PM on Nov 28th 2008 by ROCKY MOUNTAIN

8. I'm always curious how people can grow into such horrid creatures as terrorists and Anita Bryant. Heinous, awful, vile individual.

Posted at 3:57PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Ethel C

9. The Leftist media are the new McCarthyites...TMZ included

Posted at 4:12PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Juke

10. I wonder if she is still a mean, hateful rude BITCH?

Posted at 4:33PM on Nov 28th 2008 by TONYLOC

11. Oh, the glorious "tolerance" that shines from this site. Try to wrap your minds around this -- the *truly* tolerant would be tolerant of all, including the intolerant. In other words, the vaunted "tolerance" of the left is really self-invalidating.

(I'll translate -- the whole reason this story was posted at all is because those behind the levers of TMZ are themselves filled with hate and contempt for others. The more tolerant and gracious thing would have been to simply ignore Anita Bryant and allow her to fade further into obscurity. But that wasn't the intent ... the intent was to indulge in the very same hate and contempt they condemn in others. The key is the intended target of the contempt. You see, intolerance is perfectly acceptable as long as it is used against *some*, but not others.)

Posted at 5:52PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Arizona

12. TONYLOC wrote: "I wonder if she is still a mean, hateful rude BITCH?"

My point exactly. Tony is condemning Bryant for being mean, hateful and rude ... and he's using mean, hateful and rude language.

Brilliant.

Posted at 6:18PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Arizona

13. Times were different, she wasn't "full of hate". Lighten up.

Posted at 6:28PM on Nov 28th 2008 by rainbow68

14. Apparently Arizona thinks that when a group or person is demonized by another they should be "tolerant" and use nice language. WRONG. If you're going to get up on your high horse and dish out bigotry and intolerence, you'd better be prepared to get it in spades.
These right wingers condemn people who are not exactly like them and then suddenly become sensitive when it's their turn are laughable.
Grow a pair or shut the F up.

Posted at 7:42PM on Nov 28th 2008 by BobP

15. Apparently Arizona thinks that when a group or person is demonized by
another they should be "tolerant" and use nice language. WRONG. If
you're going to get up on your high horse and dish out bigotry and
intolerence, you'd better be prepared to get it back in spades.
These right wingers condemn people who are not exactly like them and
then suddenly become sensitive when it's their turn are laughable.
Grow a pair or shut the hell up.

Posted at 7:46PM on Nov 28th 2008 by BobP