Great googly moogly! Have you seen that new Expedia commercial? You know, the one with Mr. Poofster who sashays through the office lisping together vacation and hotel packages to San Francisco, New York City or perhaps some foreign hellhole that caters to sensitive guys who say embarrassingly gay things such as “major wow factor?” This commercial is so gay I’m not sure if it even qualifies as male bashing. It’s so gay it might qualify as homosexual bashing!
Elton John has signed a petition saying this commercial is too gay. So did George Michael, Ricky Martin and the ghost of Liberace! The cat in this commercial is more feminine than Ru Paul!
Here’s the commercial. Warning! It hurts to watch this!
I bet the people that work with this cat want to strangle him as bad as AWD does! When he says “let’s see if we can stitch together a better deal,” the only thing I can think of is putting some stitches in Lance’s melon! And when he says, “”ooh,see what Anandra did?” Anandra? I knew he was in California!
I’ll tell you one damn thing. I’ve been all over and I’ve seen a lot of sh*t but I’ve never seen a grown man, straight or poofster, say “major wow factor!” Around these parts, that kind of talk is guaran-damn-teed to get one an ass whooping.
You know, I really don’t care too much who or what somebody sleeps with in the privacy of their own bedroom/boudoir. I’ve known a few homosexules (Carolina fans) where it took me a couple of weeks to figure out they had probably seen one or more up close. Usually, they let their guard down and slip up and talk about their cat or something like that. Or window treatments or moisturizing. But the point is they weren’t the sissified homo-sexules that stand out like Lance in the Expedia commercial. I think that is what makes most straight dudes uncomfortable with the whole homo thing. And talking with the lithp. Nothing says “sensitive guy” like a feminine guy with a lisp! I would recommend that Lance in the commercial get an injection of test-tos-torene but I’d be worried about the method of transferal!
Like I have said before, I don’t care if someone sleeps with snakes….none of my business as long as they don’t make it my business. This Expedia commercial is a little overt in showing that they are not interested in the bidness of a straight, real man like the AWD who happens to be in the market for a trip to Alaska. To hunt grizzly bears. With my bare hands. Blindfolded. With salmon strapped to my body.
Anyway, all this talk of homo-sexules reminded me of one of my fav-o-rite Unknown Hinson’s songs that is appropriate for this Expedia commercial. Here’s “Your Man Is Gay.” This is absolutely great!
Best line, “your man is gay, like donned apparel.”
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82 Responses to NEW EXPEDIA COMMERCIAL – MAJOR GAY FACTOR!
“What’s he that is not born of woman?”
The greatest knot upon the liberty of all European people is the praeterpolitical power of the churches to institute monogamy as an ecclesiastic rule of law, thereby enabling them to determine the legitimacy of the succession of the pagan kings and abrogate the natural rights to property and self-defense.
The government of men’s external actions by religion, pretending the change of nature in their consecrations cannot be esteemed a work extraordinary, it is no other than a conjuration or incantation, whereby they would have men to believe an alteration of nature that is contrary to the testimony of sight and of all the rest of the senses…
The idea “thou shalt marry and be given in marriage” is corrupt and degenerate, which is an impossible immortality of a kind (i.e., eternal love), but not of the persons of men.
Ecclesiastics would have men believe they will receive condign punishment and are not worthy to be counted amongst them that shall obtain the next world for their contumacy of monogamy, as opposed to the freedom of the polygamy found in nature, which is inherently pagan.
” quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.
Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed. Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.”
Biggie, not literally, but certainly figuratively blushing–as you perceptively noted, I’m not too good with compliments. To quote someone (supposedly Nietzsche, but in the monkey-see-monkey-do universe of the ‘net, I can find no proper citation with which to verify this putative attribution):
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”
In any event, thanks again–your kind words and generosity are always appreciated!
Red…you’ve got me smiling, love your response, btw..I’m no different than you kind sir…and you are WELCOME!
bigtimer
August 14, 2011 at 3:04 pm
lol AWD. Actually, it was the notion about the enforcement of monogamy as a means of ensuring a “royal bloodline” that piqued my interest for the sad fact that it was something new to my modest cognitive store.
My interest was further piqued by this seemingly related YouTube channel:
I’ve only taken a glance of it, but first blush is that it’s a rather disorganized hodgepodge of
brain flatulence–not unlike the incoherent ramblings of one Jared Loughner. But maybe there’s more to it than what initially met my eye…
So there is a huge number of people who wouldn’t expect him to be anything but ghey. He was major ghey on “project runway”….but you also got to see major babe Heidi Klum on that show so it was a decent trade off.
But I suppose it would be a shocker if you had never seen him and didn’t know who he was…..
EN, think we need an obesity AIDS quilt! That’ll straighten things out! (Wait–is that idiom homophobic?!?)
Hey, not sure if you saw an earlier comment of mine to you (I lose responses with all the activity around here), but saw you got a nice reference from Steve Sailer on your review of the latest “re-imagining” of Planet of the Apes. Not sure if that’s commonplace or not, but seemed like a nice bit of exposure if not–so congrats!
@RedStaerNYC: I DID see that and THANK YOU SO much! It really means alot- AWD is the only place that I regularly post/”chat” online – I appreciate your kind words.
It really was a BIG shock and a blessing.
I have read and admired Sailer for quite a while and to have a “shout out” from an intellectual heavyweight like Steve Sailer really,really meant so much to my humble efforts.
Awesome. Keep up the good work–maybe some of that success will bring some attention this way as well! (Although I perhaps should be careful what I wish for–though I do think AWD’s inestimable wit and writing style would be a boon to the overall conservative movement [and, following, to America in particular and to Western Civ in general], I do like the close-knit community here that has grown rather organically [as opposed to having grown "too big, too fast"]–a key factor, I believe, for its success.)
Well with the current recession (depression?) Expedia has cleverly shifted its marketing strategy to target the last segment of society that has extra disposable cash to spend on big gay boat rides.
Obama’s white house could change up their socialist mantra and add some “major wow factor” by morphing “Tax the Rich” into “Tax the Gays”
MrKnowItAll, it depends how you define success, doesn’t it? I’ll have grandchildren and my own children to visit me when I ‘m old. Who will you have visit you? A Chijuajua? As for financial success, you assume a lot, don’t you?
AWD,
It’s sad that you’re the author of this article and presumably moderator of the site, yet you don’t read all of the comments in a thread before responding. I didn’t assume anything, but rather ride on an assumption the person to whom I am replying made. He stated, since you seemingly missed it, “…the last segment of society to have disposable income…,” indicating that gays are the “only people” left in society with enough money to travel. I certainly know gay people who probably will never be successful and will readily admit it; however, PastaRasta is not making that admission but rather the opposite.
As to your horrifically ignorant statement about “Who will you have to visit you?”…WOW. I have multiple female friends who would bare a child for me, at no cost, right now. Not only do I have that, but have you ever heard of the term surrogacy? You know…where you pay? Like in baby momma?
You’re embarrassing yourself, so you should probably just stop.
Mr. Know it all, pay your surrogates, I’ll have my children to visit me. The ones I’ve create, raised and developed a bond their entire lives. Interesting how you define “success.” No, you’re embarrassing yourself trying to appear normal. Also, I have a web site that has over a million page views a month…how many does your page get? Lots more of us breeders than you “receivers.”
As for comments on this page, we get so many there is no way I can keep up with all of them. I will only defend what I write. Why not head over to http://www.majorwowfactor.com where you’ll find more whom agree with your definition of success?
Angry White Kraut
August 13, 2011 at 9:42 pm Reply
AWK, I’m guessing with a name like Angry White Kraut, you’re not going to pass for an Injun (of either the dot- or feather-head variety). But I’d say go fer it anyway!
Was it you, Swampy, who had some Cherokee in him too? (“Too” meaning I do…but it’s a very small slice and the genealogy has been buried in infamy, so I’ve never felt the need to invest the considerable energy that would be required to see if I qualify for being officially a member of the tribe).
In any event, my whole point is I love the name “Angry White Kraut” and would love to see some more posts from him if for nothing other than the joy I experience seeing that name in the comments section! lol
RedstateNYC. If you can prove one of your ancestors signed one of the two census in the 19 century you can place a claim and receive royalties from the Casinos, It’s very hard to trace Cherokee blood because they practiced polygamy, and the men could change their names several times, if you had a son and wanted to name him redstate you could give him your name but you would have to take another name, there would be no redstate sr and redstate jr or redstate 3rd, my last name is very prominent in early ga cherokee history 1785- 1830′s and I have ceased trying to sort it all out.
I know you were talking to Swamp…but I’ve mentioned here over time a couple of times I have Cherokee and Sioux in my blood from both sides of the family…among other mixes as well…Scottish, English and some German too…quite the history my ancestors have had part in..it’s been something else to know, and admire.
Dano, dittos to both points above. The fact that 50 years ago our what’s considered our current “political center” would back then be considered over the far-left edge of the political spectrum is a point completely lost on those who consider Tea Partiers “extremists”–whereas people of the same mind as today’s Tea Partiers would have, of course, constituted the political center 50 years ago.
And yeah, AWD’s writing is positively hilarious.
“With salmon strapped to my body.” HFH (that’s my own acronym for “holy effing hilarious”, as I find LMFAO to be childish–unlike my completely and totally mature acronym).
Ah for the good old days when we’d take a blatant knob-knosher like this and string him up from the nearest phone pole, or at least beat on him with clubs until he leaked turds.
That’s what I would have said many years ago. But….I aint like that no more. Now I’m sensitive and politically correct.
I need some whiskey.
U have the most absurd commercials ever, using that stupid looking queer, and not someone that can stand up and be a macho man!
I am sorry, but every single commercial he is in, makes me want to literally pukes my guts out.
What kind of people are you??? One minute, u have jumping around in an airplane seat with 2 kids, then u have him crossing his legs and somewhat a subliminal message about flying naked, What a shame being whispered.
I tell u, I know this country is coming for it, but EXPEDIA of all companies is trying to persuade it.
He is the funkiest acting guy I have ever sen. Surely not your normal acting man. I hate the one about skiing also. My husband HAD his account, but after seeing how you are, we have changed. I would not give one red cent to Expedia.
I have lots of friends who feel the same way. We will
Be posting on Facebook and wherever we can. Get a real man on their for God’s sake. If not, I pray the judgements of God put you out if business. U r messing kids.
WOW! I am so glad I am not the only SANE person left.
I wrote Expedia this:
You have the most absurd commercials ever, using that stupid looking queer, and not someone that can stand up and be a macho man!
I am sorry, but every single commercial he is in, makes me want to literally pukes my guts out.
What kind of people are you??? One minute, u have jumping around in an airplane seat with 2 kids, then u have him crossing his legs and somewhat a subliminal message about flying naked, What a shame being whispered.
I tell u, I know this country is coming for it, but EXPEDIA of all companies is trying to persuade it.
He is the funkiest acting guy I have ever sen. Surely not your normal acting man. I hate the one about skiing also. My husband HAD his account, but after seeing how you are, we have changed. I would not give one red cent to Expedia.
I have lots of friends who feel the same way. We will
Be posting on Facebook and wherever we can. Get a real man on their for God’s sake. If not, I pray the judgements of God put you out if business. U r messing kids.
Okay Tim Gunn is indeed gay as a March Hare but he’s an unbelievably classy guy. Seriously, if he wasn’t gay he’d come off as the knowledgeable grandfather who always has a smile on his face and good advice for all. This guy is a big part of the reason the wife and I like to watch new episodes of Project Runway. The fact that Heidi Klum is a pleasant eyefull doesn’t hurt either, at least for me.
Off topic, BUT… in the “Let Them Eat Cake” department:
Michelle Obama be lovin’ her some vacation time! Ms. Mooch has gone on vacation 42 days of the year so far – or put another way, one day out of every nine days – mostly funded by the US tax payer. Now, were the USA economy, which her husband has stuffed up so spectacularly, in better shape, then maybe people wouldn’t care so much. However, it’s kind of like rubbing salt in the wounds when more than 35 million people are sitting without jobs and 45 million are on food stamps and she gets to swan around on hard earned tax dollars.
But, that’s not the end of the party time for Mis Michelle… no sirree! She and her chi’rens be heading off for another 10-day family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard next week, whilst the USA stock markets crash and even more people lose their jobs. I guess Obongo needs a vacation after all the campaign-fund dinners he’s been holding, and all the rounds of golf he’s been playing. Deys sho gwine be missin’ dis lifestyle after dey kicked out on dey asses by de’ Whitey electorate.
Obama is a millionaire. he will continue the high life after he is out of office. And we will have to pay whatever ex presidents get for the rest of his life.
He will be looting us in a big way before he is gone.
Obama needs a vacation. It’s real hard work ruining a country. Maybe while he’s gone, things will run better.
Hey, isn’t he going to Marthas Vineyard? Home of Jaws…Is he going surfing? hehehe
Rick Perry opposed the 9/11 Mosque, calling it insensitive to the families of the victims, but he said the matter was ultimately up to the city and state of New York to decide and based his opinion on constitutional grounds (10th amendment).
The Muslim leader that he is friendly with is the head of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam, many fundamentalist Muslims consider them to be un-Islamic as they do not subscribe to a literal interpretation of the “faith”. Yes, they’re still Muslim and as such I wouldn’t trust one as far as I could throw him, but they’re not the worst of the lot by any means. Perry is NOT pro Sharia, he is pro religious tolerance. Yes it’s a deluded opinion where Islam is concerned but there’s no way in hell Perry would be supportive of Sharia as even a secondary legal system. He’s a Constitutionalist.
Is he perfect? Hell no. But he’s far from pro Sharia.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science – the science against which it had vainly struggled – the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome. From ‘comments’ at Moonbattery
No wonder Obama sent the bust of Churchill back to England.
If Obama is not a practicing Moslem, he is surely sympathetic to them.
Calling Washington “vile and corrupt,” Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Sunday she won’t compromise her “core principles” if elected president, but she would take steps to negotiate “advancements” in the right direction.
“The trajectory that the country is going right now is negative, everyone knows it. So we need to have a president that is as least going to get us on the trajectory of going in the right direction,” Bachmann told “Fox News Sunday.”
Bachmann is enjoying a victory lap after taking 28 percent of the nearly 17,000 votes cast in a Saturday poll of Iowa Republican voters weighing in on the crop of 2012 GOP presidential candidates. Bachmann said Iowa is a much better place to be than in Washington, in part because politicians in Washington refuse to live within their means.
If expedia wants to be intellectually honest about things they should just hang a sign on “major wow factor” labeled “I’m Gay” and be done with it.
Instead of the lisping, limp wristed, prancing and nelly behavior they could have dressed him in a pink suit and white penny loafers and let it go at that. I was beginning to think I was the only one who was annoyed by this “guy”.
This guy, I believe is the host of the hugely popular show which airs on lifetime, called “Project Runway”.
It is yet another attempt to diminish any kind of authority,or strength, exuded by men of the 21st century.
The writers for a number of commercials are no longer selling a product, they’re promoting an agenda, which they hope most consumers will eventually adopt!
Yeah, I saw this commercial. Gay people don’t necessarily offend me, generally. I’ve known a few, met a few while working in sales… didn’t have a problem with them. In fact, most of the gay men I have met seemed like pretty nice people. Nicer than most of the straight guys I know and most of the butch women I’ve met seemed pretty cool. However, something about the guy in the commercial is just off-putting.
As an advertizement, it sticks in your brain, and that makes it effective.
But I would NEVER use that Expedia thing, because of the way it’s presented!
The over-the top gayness outweighs any effectiveness of the advertizement.
The owner of the company should reconsider using that ad, unless they intend on catering to GAY people. That’s what they’ll get. Gay Patrons…..
The idiots that decide to put gays in commercials just don’t realize how many consumers they drive away, it’s hard enough to raise children these days with drugs, music that repeats “money, hoes, cars, rims, drugs, bling, sex, and tv like logo channel and now commercials forcing gays into the minds of our kids, I mean come on how can we expect to progress as a society or country with the media exposing our children to all this CRAP! and that’s exactly what it is CRAP, the men of tomorrow don’t stand a chance, no respect for women, visions of easy money, and thinking it’s ok to be gay, and it’s just not OK period!!
I see it on Hulu all the time and I wonder who would name their kid anondra? is there a benondra and a cenondra and a denondra out there too?
i see people spend an entire afternoon focus grouping themselves to death over a commercial like this which guarantees i will never use expedia. Anondra, good lord, if i met a woman named Anondra i’d laugh and say,”hey honey,can I call you something else?”
That commercial guarantees i would never use expedia out of principle and then that geico lizard is going into the woodchipper together.
Let’s get away from this “gay” terminology – it’s “queer” which means strange or odd. “Gay” doesn’t mean strange and a man wanting to stick his penis into another man’s butthole is “strange” or “queer”. Let’s call it what it is – c’mon man!!!
The gentlemen in the Expedia Commercial has a voice that is like nails on a chalkboard. This guy could fly he is so gay. I’m not anti gay but this guy makes my skin crawl. I usually change the station to avoid listening to that voice. Sorry for the negative comments but that’s how I really feel. I am not a homophobic.
Another offensive commercial is the singing “I need cash now”,Call JD Wenworth. It comes in a close second to Expedia.
Funny how I ended up here after googling “who is the gay b@stard on the Expedia commercial”. Happy to see I’m not the only non-homophobe (WTF does “homophobe” even mean? who’s AFRAID of teh gays?) All here need to do their civic duty and email Expedia to get this crap off my TV.
Gonna take a look around this site. Peace.
Anyone else notice this commercial has disappeared?? I emailed Expedia (and gave them the link to this page). I’m going to take credit unless someone can prove otherwise. Michael Ian Black is now the spokes”person”…not a paragon of male sexuality, but certainly more manly than Mr. Gunn. And no more Anondra. Thank God.
All of you are a bunch of idiots. Anyone that googles for a gay man is secretly hiding gay tendencies. I’m glad all of you can get together and bash on guys and then go jerk off to some gay porn.
That comment is plain stupid. We don’t go around looking for gay porn on google. Most of us are straight hetrosexual males that don’t like listening to this very very gay man. It’s kind of creepy listening to that girly voice.
“What’s he that is not born of woman?”
The greatest knot upon the liberty of all European people is the praeterpolitical power of the churches to institute monogamy as an ecclesiastic rule of law, thereby enabling them to determine the legitimacy of the succession of the pagan kings and abrogate the natural rights to property and self-defense.
The government of men’s external actions by religion, pretending the change of nature in their consecrations cannot be esteemed a work extraordinary, it is no other than a conjuration or incantation, whereby they would have men to believe an alteration of nature that is contrary to the testimony of sight and of all the rest of the senses…
The idea “thou shalt marry and be given in marriage” is corrupt and degenerate, which is an impossible immortality of a kind (i.e., eternal love), but not of the persons of men.
Ecclesiastics would have men believe they will receive condign punishment and are not worthy to be counted amongst them that shall obtain the next world for their contumacy of monogamy, as opposed to the freedom of the polygamy found in nature, which is inherently pagan.
Winston Blake
August 13, 2011 at 8:02 pm
I lack tha way yeew talwk!!! UUmhuh
Cold Soldier
August 13, 2011 at 8:23 pm
” quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.
Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed. Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.”
ELVISNIXON.COM
August 13, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Outstanding comment as usual by the great ElvisNixon.com !
MM from Georgia
August 14, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Me chinks dis comunt be spom…
http://bit.ly/rpClqR
RedStaterNYC
August 13, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Redstater, you know, I wondered. But since I didn’t understand anything he wrote, I thought I’d wait for your ruling!
awd
AWD
August 13, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Same here.
Guess time will tell.
Red, oops, just went to your link, definitely disgusting spam – thanks for the work ya did…excellent.
bigtimer
August 13, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Big, well, I better warm up the ban hammer!
AWD
August 13, 2011 at 9:58 pm
AWD…
Methinks so…was hoping you’d think that way, you sure don’t need that BS here.
Btw…I tried twice to read that stuff, just glazing over that was all I could do…how Red does what he does is amazing…thumbs-up.
bigtimer
August 13, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Don’t make me blush Biggie! Really nothing to it, but thanks all the same!
RedStaterNYC
August 13, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Red,
I’m sure I’m not making ya blush, but what you do the way you do is way above my catch…take a compliment when it’s due friend…and it’s due.
bigtimer
August 13, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Biggie, not literally, but certainly figuratively blushing–as you perceptively noted, I’m not too good with compliments. To quote someone (supposedly Nietzsche, but in the monkey-see-monkey-do universe of the ‘net, I can find no proper citation with which to verify this putative attribution):
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”
In any event, thanks again–your kind words and generosity are always appreciated!
RedStaterNYC
August 14, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Red…you’ve got me smiling, love your response, btw..I’m no different than you kind sir…and you are WELCOME!
bigtimer
August 14, 2011 at 3:04 pm
lol AWD. Actually, it was the notion about the enforcement of monogamy as a means of ensuring a “royal bloodline” that piqued my interest for the sad fact that it was something new to my modest cognitive store.
My interest was further piqued by this seemingly related YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SirWinstoneChurchill
I’ve only taken a glance of it, but first blush is that it’s a rather disorganized hodgepodge of
brain flatulence–not unlike the incoherent ramblings of one Jared Loughner. But maybe there’s more to it than what initially met my eye…
RedStaterNYC
August 13, 2011 at 10:37 pm
I have the seven year itch coming on again. It must be the animal in me taking charge.
lucky13
August 14, 2011 at 12:02 pm
That is Tim Gunn….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gunn
So there is a huge number of people who wouldn’t expect him to be anything but ghey. He was major ghey on “project runway”….but you also got to see major babe Heidi Klum on that show so it was a decent trade off.
But I suppose it would be a shocker if you had never seen him and didn’t know who he was…..
Sic
August 13, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Champion swimmer, why is it always the swim team?
Don’t answer that
PastaRasta
August 13, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Chlorine poisoning????
misterbill
August 14, 2011 at 12:07 am
Bachmann can certainly handle…a….
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/08/bachmann%20corndog.jpg
A submissive woman, damn!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/13/article-0-0D69157400000578-625_468x327.jpg
Jack
August 13, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Saying “major wow factor!” is one of those things that’ll get you laughed off the firing range.
SkySphere
August 13, 2011 at 8:41 pm
RIGHT ON AWD! SO TRUE. I am SO SICK of EVERY SINGLE show having AT LEAST one blatant homosexual as a JUDGE or HOST.
It is DISGUSTING and the SOURCE of HIV/AIDS AP report that fully 1 in every 5 homosexual men has HIV/AIDS
Liberals claim that it is “just as likely” to be spread by natural sexual relations.
Proof?
Evidence?
liberals seem to be making the Bobby Knight “lay back and enjoy it” argument regarding rape.
Is that not morally repugnant?
Our President does NOT have a duty to do EVERYTHING in his power to staunch the spread of a communicable disease?
Why not?
ELVISNIXON.COM
August 13, 2011 at 8:50 pm
EN, think we need an
obesityAIDS quilt! That’ll straighten things out! (Wait–is that idiom homophobic?!?)Hey, not sure if you saw an earlier comment of mine to you (I lose responses with all the activity around here), but saw you got a nice reference from Steve Sailer on your review of the latest “re-imagining” of Planet of the Apes. Not sure if that’s commonplace or not, but seemed like a nice bit of exposure if not–so congrats!
RedStaterNYC
August 13, 2011 at 10:43 pm
@RedStaerNYC: I DID see that and THANK YOU SO much! It really means alot- AWD is the only place that I regularly post/”chat” online – I appreciate your kind words.
It really was a BIG shock and a blessing.
I have read and admired Sailer for quite a while and to have a “shout out” from an intellectual heavyweight like Steve Sailer really,really meant so much to my humble efforts.
ELVISNIXON.COM
August 13, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Awesome. Keep up the good work–maybe some of that success will bring some attention this way as well! (Although I perhaps should be careful what I wish for–though I do think AWD’s inestimable wit and writing style would be a boon to the overall conservative movement [and, following, to America in particular and to Western Civ in general], I do like the close-knit community here that has grown rather organically [as opposed to having grown "too big, too fast"]–a key factor, I believe, for its success.)
RedStaterNYC
August 14, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Could not agree more.
Springer Rider
December 12, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Well with the current recession (depression?) Expedia has cleverly shifted its marketing strategy to target the last segment of society that has extra disposable cash to spend on big gay boat rides.
Obama’s white house could change up their socialist mantra and add some “major wow factor” by morphing “Tax the Rich” into “Tax the Gays”
PastaRasta
August 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm
+100!
Good one, Pasta.
Vixen
August 14, 2011 at 6:55 am
Sorry we’re more successful than you ever will be, buddy =)
MrKnowItAll
September 9, 2011 at 2:31 pm
MrKnowItAll, it depends how you define success, doesn’t it? I’ll have grandchildren and my own children to visit me when I ‘m old. Who will you have visit you? A Chijuajua? As for financial success, you assume a lot, don’t you?
awd
AWD
September 9, 2011 at 2:49 pm
AWD,
It’s sad that you’re the author of this article and presumably moderator of the site, yet you don’t read all of the comments in a thread before responding. I didn’t assume anything, but rather ride on an assumption the person to whom I am replying made. He stated, since you seemingly missed it, “…the last segment of society to have disposable income…,” indicating that gays are the “only people” left in society with enough money to travel. I certainly know gay people who probably will never be successful and will readily admit it; however, PastaRasta is not making that admission but rather the opposite.
As to your horrifically ignorant statement about “Who will you have to visit you?”…WOW. I have multiple female friends who would bare a child for me, at no cost, right now. Not only do I have that, but have you ever heard of the term surrogacy? You know…where you pay? Like in baby momma?
You’re embarrassing yourself, so you should probably just stop.
Love,
MrKnowItAll
MrKnowItAll
September 9, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Mr. Know it all, pay your surrogates, I’ll have my children to visit me. The ones I’ve create, raised and developed a bond their entire lives. Interesting how you define “success.” No, you’re embarrassing yourself trying to appear normal. Also, I have a web site that has over a million page views a month…how many does your page get? Lots more of us breeders than you “receivers.”
As for comments on this page, we get so many there is no way I can keep up with all of them. I will only defend what I write. Why not head over to http://www.majorwowfactor.com where you’ll find more whom agree with your definition of success?
awd
AWD
September 9, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Hispanic and Women Farmer Claims Process:
https://farmerclaims.gov/FarmerClaims/farmer.do?pageAction=home
The Native American Farmers Class Action Settlement:
https://www.indianfarmclass.com//
Do i look indian??
Angry White Kraut
August 13, 2011 at 9:42 pm
AWK, I’m guessing with a name like Angry White Kraut, you’re not going to pass for an Injun (of either the dot- or feather-head variety). But I’d say go fer it anyway!
RedStaterNYC
August 13, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Maybe I could get in on that.LOL
Swamp Music
August 13, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Was it you, Swampy, who had some Cherokee in him too? (“Too” meaning I do…but it’s a very small slice and the genealogy has been buried in infamy, so I’ve never felt the need to invest the considerable energy that would be required to see if I qualify for being officially a member of the tribe).
In any event, my whole point is I love the name “Angry White Kraut” and would love to see some more posts from him if for nothing other than the joy I experience seeing that name in the comments section! lol
RedStaterNYC
August 14, 2011 at 2:07 pm
RedstateNYC. If you can prove one of your ancestors signed one of the two census in the 19 century you can place a claim and receive royalties from the Casinos, It’s very hard to trace Cherokee blood because they practiced polygamy, and the men could change their names several times, if you had a son and wanted to name him redstate you could give him your name but you would have to take another name, there would be no redstate sr and redstate jr or redstate 3rd, my last name is very prominent in early ga cherokee history 1785- 1830′s and I have ceased trying to sort it all out.
ga steve
August 14, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Red…
I know you were talking to Swamp…but I’ve mentioned here over time a couple of times I have Cherokee and Sioux in my blood from both sides of the family…among other mixes as well…Scottish, English and some German too…quite the history my ancestors have had part in..it’s been something else to know, and admire.
bigtimer
August 14, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Big~
I have Cherokee, Scottish, English, and German ancestry as well. And since we’re both mega- conservative chicks? Hey, maybe we’re related??
Vixen
August 14, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Hey Vixen…
Ya never know!
One thing about it..we’re definitely Blood Sisters.
bigtimer
August 14, 2011 at 5:08 pm
little by little, as it fets shoved down our throats, it insideously becomes mainstream (accepted) its funny how that works.
ps:AWD, you write funnier than shit
dano1001
August 13, 2011 at 10:54 pm
little by little, as it gets shoved down our throats, it insideously becomes mainstream (accepted) its funny how that works.
ps:AWD, you write funnier than shit
dano1001
August 13, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Dano, dittos to both points above. The fact that 50 years ago our what’s considered our current “political center” would back then be considered over the far-left edge of the political spectrum is a point completely lost on those who consider Tea Partiers “extremists”–whereas people of the same mind as today’s Tea Partiers would have, of course, constituted the political center 50 years ago.
And yeah, AWD’s writing is positively hilarious.
“With salmon strapped to my body.” HFH (that’s my own acronym for “holy effing hilarious”, as I find LMFAO to be childish–unlike my completely and totally mature acronym).
RedStaterNYC
August 14, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Ah for the good old days when we’d take a blatant knob-knosher like this and string him up from the nearest phone pole, or at least beat on him with clubs until he leaked turds.
That’s what I would have said many years ago. But….I aint like that no more. Now I’m sensitive and politically correct.
I need some whiskey.
rinostat
August 13, 2011 at 11:13 pm
U have the most absurd commercials ever, using that stupid looking queer, and not someone that can stand up and be a macho man!
I am sorry, but every single commercial he is in, makes me want to literally pukes my guts out.
What kind of people are you??? One minute, u have jumping around in an airplane seat with 2 kids, then u have him crossing his legs and somewhat a subliminal message about flying naked, What a shame being whispered.
I tell u, I know this country is coming for it, but EXPEDIA of all companies is trying to persuade it.
He is the funkiest acting guy I have ever sen. Surely not your normal acting man. I hate the one about skiing also. My husband HAD his account, but after seeing how you are, we have changed. I would not give one red cent to Expedia.
I have lots of friends who feel the same way. We will
Be posting on Facebook and wherever we can. Get a real man on their for God’s sake. If not, I pray the judgements of God put you out if business. U r messing kids.
Miss Persnickity
March 20, 2012 at 3:56 am
I have to agree Expedia is very homo oriented. I don’t like any of the commercials.
Viperguy
March 20, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Hi, my name is Tim Gunn
I like bending over for fun
But the boys on the street
When they see my dead meat
Cover their eyes and they run
misterbill
August 14, 2011 at 12:05 am
Mr. Bill, as I’ve said before, you’re a poet–and you don’t even know it!
Anyway, on a serious note, best to you and your little filly. Praying for a speedy recovery.
RedStaterNYC
August 14, 2011 at 2:16 pm
WOW! I am so glad I am not the only SANE person left.
I wrote Expedia this:
You have the most absurd commercials ever, using that stupid looking queer, and not someone that can stand up and be a macho man!
I am sorry, but every single commercial he is in, makes me want to literally pukes my guts out.
What kind of people are you??? One minute, u have jumping around in an airplane seat with 2 kids, then u have him crossing his legs and somewhat a subliminal message about flying naked, What a shame being whispered.
I tell u, I know this country is coming for it, but EXPEDIA of all companies is trying to persuade it.
He is the funkiest acting guy I have ever sen. Surely not your normal acting man. I hate the one about skiing also. My husband HAD his account, but after seeing how you are, we have changed. I would not give one red cent to Expedia.
I have lots of friends who feel the same way. We will
Be posting on Facebook and wherever we can. Get a real man on their for God’s sake. If not, I pray the judgements of God put you out if business. U r messing kids.
Miss Persnickety MissPersnickety@gmail.com
Miss Persnickity
March 20, 2012 at 4:01 am
Okay Tim Gunn is indeed gay as a March Hare but he’s an unbelievably classy guy. Seriously, if he wasn’t gay he’d come off as the knowledgeable grandfather who always has a smile on his face and good advice for all. This guy is a big part of the reason the wife and I like to watch new episodes of Project Runway. The fact that Heidi Klum is a pleasant eyefull doesn’t hurt either, at least for me.
KafirCrusader
August 14, 2011 at 12:15 am
AWD….Great story! A real major wow factor! Errrr Opps Not in a ‘gay way’…Now a story about GAY SOLDIERS…
http://satireworld.com/us-news-headlines/201101121319/us-army%e2%80%99s-first-homosexual-division-%e2%80%98the-fighting-sodomites%e2%80%99-deploys-to-afghanistan/
Bargis Tryhol
August 14, 2011 at 7:44 am
May not be as satirical as one might think,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngBI4aABCJQ
PastaRasta
August 14, 2011 at 10:45 am
Off topic, BUT… in the “Let Them Eat Cake” department:
Michelle Obama be lovin’ her some vacation time! Ms. Mooch has gone on vacation 42 days of the year so far – or put another way, one day out of every nine days – mostly funded by the US tax payer. Now, were the USA economy, which her husband has stuffed up so spectacularly, in better shape, then maybe people wouldn’t care so much. However, it’s kind of like rubbing salt in the wounds when more than 35 million people are sitting without jobs and 45 million are on food stamps and she gets to swan around on hard earned tax dollars.
But, that’s not the end of the party time for Mis Michelle… no sirree! She and her chi’rens be heading off for another 10-day family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard next week, whilst the USA stock markets crash and even more people lose their jobs. I guess Obongo needs a vacation after all the campaign-fund dinners he’s been holding, and all the rounds of golf he’s been playing. Deys sho gwine be missin’ dis lifestyle after dey kicked out on dey asses by de’ Whitey electorate.
thunk
August 14, 2011 at 9:25 am
Obama is a millionaire. he will continue the high life after he is out of office. And we will have to pay whatever ex presidents get for the rest of his life.
He will be looting us in a big way before he is gone.
Swamp Music
August 14, 2011 at 9:57 am
Off topic.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/imposing_shariah_law_in_london.html
If you think this can’t happen here, you are wrong. This stuff worries me more than the economy.
Swamp Music
August 14, 2011 at 10:26 am
Obama needs a vacation. It’s real hard work ruining a country. Maybe while he’s gone, things will run better.
Hey, isn’t he going to Marthas Vineyard? Home of Jaws…Is he going surfing? hehehe
Bargis Tryhol
August 14, 2011 at 10:28 am
Obama is on vacation , or at least his brain is!!!
misterbill
August 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I am now firmly in opposition to Rick Perry. Read this from Bare Naked Islam.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/oh-no-will-governor-rick-perry-of-texas-be-the-pro-sharia-candidate/
Just another ass kissing Muslim appeaser.
Swamp Music
August 14, 2011 at 11:00 am
And then there is this.
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/13/live-stream-rick-perry/
I am confused.
WTF? Can’t we get a candidate who is one way or the other? I’m ready to just give up on the whole process.
Swamp Music
August 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Rick Perry opposed the 9/11 Mosque, calling it insensitive to the families of the victims, but he said the matter was ultimately up to the city and state of New York to decide and based his opinion on constitutional grounds (10th amendment).
The Muslim leader that he is friendly with is the head of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam, many fundamentalist Muslims consider them to be un-Islamic as they do not subscribe to a literal interpretation of the “faith”. Yes, they’re still Muslim and as such I wouldn’t trust one as far as I could throw him, but they’re not the worst of the lot by any means. Perry is NOT pro Sharia, he is pro religious tolerance. Yes it’s a deluded opinion where Islam is concerned but there’s no way in hell Perry would be supportive of Sharia as even a secondary legal system. He’s a Constitutionalist.
Is he perfect? Hell no. But he’s far from pro Sharia.
KafirCrusader
August 14, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Well, I’ll just have to listen closely to what he says. I must admit, his acceptance speech was somewhat encouraging.
But candidates speeches are supposed to be just that. I mean, everyone bought into the ‘hope and change’ thing too. Liberals I mean.LOL
I don’t want to end up like them. I voted for Bush, because I voted my party. Now I am an indepenedent, but I wouldn’t vote Democrat.
Time will tell.
Swamp Music
August 15, 2011 at 12:22 am
Winston Churchill On Islam / 1899
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science – the science against which it had vainly struggled – the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome. From ‘comments’ at Moonbattery
No wonder Obama sent the bust of Churchill back to England.
If Obama is not a practicing Moslem, he is surely sympathetic to them.
Swamp Music
August 14, 2011 at 11:12 am
DC IS Vile & Corrupt:
Calling Washington “vile and corrupt,” Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Sunday she won’t compromise her “core principles” if elected president, but she would take steps to negotiate “advancements” in the right direction.
“The trajectory that the country is going right now is negative, everyone knows it. So we need to have a president that is as least going to get us on the trajectory of going in the right direction,” Bachmann told “Fox News Sunday.”
Bachmann is enjoying a victory lap after taking 28 percent of the nearly 17,000 votes cast in a Saturday poll of Iowa Republican voters weighing in on the crop of 2012 GOP presidential candidates. Bachmann said Iowa is a much better place to be than in Washington, in part because politicians in Washington refuse to live within their means.
olds442
August 14, 2011 at 1:04 pm
If expedia wants to be intellectually honest about things they should just hang a sign on “major wow factor” labeled “I’m Gay” and be done with it.
Instead of the lisping, limp wristed, prancing and nelly behavior they could have dressed him in a pink suit and white penny loafers and let it go at that. I was beginning to think I was the only one who was annoyed by this “guy”.
rich b
August 14, 2011 at 1:30 pm
This guy, I believe is the host of the hugely popular show which airs on lifetime, called “Project Runway”.
It is yet another attempt to diminish any kind of authority,or strength, exuded by men of the 21st century.
The writers for a number of commercials are no longer selling a product, they’re promoting an agenda, which they hope most consumers will eventually adopt!
Renee
August 14, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Yeah, I saw this commercial. Gay people don’t necessarily offend me, generally. I’ve known a few, met a few while working in sales… didn’t have a problem with them. In fact, most of the gay men I have met seemed like pretty nice people. Nicer than most of the straight guys I know and most of the butch women I’ve met seemed pretty cool. However, something about the guy in the commercial is just off-putting.
Sean
August 28, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Major Kweeeeer factor
Tom
September 5, 2011 at 12:04 am
MrKnowItAll, what’s that creeping up behind you? Look out! It’s the ban hammer! I’ve got better things to do than argue with poofters.
awd
AWD
September 9, 2011 at 3:36 pm
You can’t blame this sick son of bia. You have to blame Expedia Management. One thing is for sure, this Gunn shoots blanks.
Frank
September 11, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Hey asshole – I’m a straight male and I have cats. Don’t be a prick or I’ll sic my cat on you and she will chew your balls off.
Seriously thats pretty ignorant – gay because someone has a cat!!! give me a break.
Ed hinson
September 26, 2011 at 6:25 pm
As an advertizement, it sticks in your brain, and that makes it effective.
But I would NEVER use that Expedia thing, because of the way it’s presented!
The over-the top gayness outweighs any effectiveness of the advertizement.
The owner of the company should reconsider using that ad, unless they intend on catering to GAY people. That’s what they’ll get. Gay Patrons…..
Bruce
October 21, 2011 at 4:33 pm
The idiots that decide to put gays in commercials just don’t realize how many consumers they drive away, it’s hard enough to raise children these days with drugs, music that repeats “money, hoes, cars, rims, drugs, bling, sex, and tv like logo channel and now commercials forcing gays into the minds of our kids, I mean come on how can we expect to progress as a society or country with the media exposing our children to all this CRAP! and that’s exactly what it is CRAP, the men of tomorrow don’t stand a chance, no respect for women, visions of easy money, and thinking it’s ok to be gay, and it’s just not OK period!!
LarryWayne
October 23, 2011 at 11:37 pm
GAY PEOPLE??? isn’t that what AIDS is for? LOL!!!!
LarryWayne
October 24, 2011 at 12:31 am
I see it on Hulu all the time and I wonder who would name their kid anondra? is there a benondra and a cenondra and a denondra out there too?
i see people spend an entire afternoon focus grouping themselves to death over a commercial like this which guarantees i will never use expedia. Anondra, good lord, if i met a woman named Anondra i’d laugh and say,”hey honey,can I call you something else?”
That commercial guarantees i would never use expedia out of principle and then that geico lizard is going into the woodchipper together.
And BTW, I think that geico lizard is gay too.
irck
October 29, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Let’s get away from this “gay” terminology – it’s “queer” which means strange or odd. “Gay” doesn’t mean strange and a man wanting to stick his penis into another man’s butthole is “strange” or “queer”. Let’s call it what it is – c’mon man!!!
Jeff Hilton
December 12, 2011 at 9:19 am
The gentlemen in the Expedia Commercial has a voice that is like nails on a chalkboard. This guy could fly he is so gay. I’m not anti gay but this guy makes my skin crawl. I usually change the station to avoid listening to that voice. Sorry for the negative comments but that’s how I really feel. I am not a homophobic.
Another offensive commercial is the singing “I need cash now”,Call JD Wenworth. It comes in a close second to Expedia.
Viper
December 13, 2011 at 7:36 am
viper
Sometimes losing 45% of my hearing has it’s good points.
ga steve
December 28, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Funny how I ended up here after googling “who is the gay b@stard on the Expedia commercial”. Happy to see I’m not the only non-homophobe (WTF does “homophobe” even mean? who’s AFRAID of teh gays?) All here need to do their civic duty and email Expedia to get this crap off my TV.
Gonna take a look around this site. Peace.
Sgt. Stryker
December 13, 2011 at 9:56 am
Anyone else notice this commercial has disappeared?? I emailed Expedia (and gave them the link to this page). I’m going to take credit unless someone can prove otherwise. Michael Ian Black is now the spokes”person”…not a paragon of male sexuality, but certainly more manly than Mr. Gunn. And no more Anondra. Thank God.
Sgt.Stryker
January 11, 2012 at 1:12 am
All of you are a bunch of idiots. Anyone that googles for a gay man is secretly hiding gay tendencies. I’m glad all of you can get together and bash on guys and then go jerk off to some gay porn.
Really?
December 28, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Really?
Voice of experience perhaps?
MTPatriot
December 28, 2011 at 9:05 pm
That comment is plain stupid. We don’t go around looking for gay porn on google. Most of us are straight hetrosexual males that don’t like listening to this very very gay man. It’s kind of creepy listening to that girly voice.
Viper
December 28, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Exspedia needs its little plane shot down
SPURWING PLOVER
May 13, 2012 at 6:48 pm