http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/04/06/left_claims_o_connor_family_set_up_liberal_reporter_who_set_them_up_as_memories_pizza_raises_842_592Left Claims O'Connor Family Set Up Liberal Reporter Who Set Them Up as Memories Pizza Raises $842,592
April 06, 2015
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RUSH: Did you see, $842,000 raised for Memories Pizza at GoFundMe.com. Have you heard, have you heard, honestly, it's not a joke. The left is actually claiming now that the O'Connor family set this up, that this was a scam from the get-go. That they were about to go out of business. It's a little pizza joint in a small town, and they arranged for this whole episode to take place hoping to entice somebody from the media to come in and do a story ripping them to shreds as racists, bigots, and homophobes so that they could then raise $842,000 via the Internet. Honestly.
There are serious leftists, and by serious, I mean, they're all kooks and crackpots, but, I mean, these are named, byline-type people who are making this allegation that the whole thing was a scam. See, it cannot be legitimate. And then there are others on the left who are saying that the very idea that a bunch of Christians banded together to donate $842,000 is all the proof you need that there is racism and bigotry and homophobia, and they were circling the wagons to protect one another. But nevertheless, 842 grand there.
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RUSH: Back to this $842,000 raised for the family of Memories Pizza that came under fire, under assault after the infobabe reporterette from Channel 57, ABC Eyewitness News 57 South Bend, Indiana, went bigot shopping and found one inside the store.
I'm not kidding, by the way, the left has people out there claiming this whole thing was a hoax, the whole thing was a setup from the get-go by trickery oriented right wingers who knew exactly what to do here, go out and fake the whole circumstance. You know, get a reporter, somehow arrange for a reporter to come into the pizzeria and arrange for the reporter to ask if you would cater a gay wedding and then predetermine your answer is, "No, no way." Controversy born. Because your business is about to go under you need money fast, the best way to do it, make it look like you're under siege by the American left and people will rally to you.
They think this was a whole concocted event. The media is not even curious about this. They're reporting it, but that's about it. They report it in two or three paragraphs, and they move on. Now, if the circumstances were reversed, if, for example, this pizzeria happened to be owned by a bunch of leftists, a bunch of liberals and Democrats, and if something had happened that threatened the livelihood of the business and the owners, and if a bunch of leftist donors came to the rescue and in a matter of two days raised over $840,000, do you know what the media would be doing?
They'd be trying to find as many of these donors as possible to do profiles of them, what great people they are, who are these people, who are these invisible Americans who came to the rescue when an innocent little mom-and-pop Democrat business came under siege by vicious right wingers. They'd be out there doing stories. The Democrats on Capitol Hill would bring these people up to congressional hearings and make stars out of them, great Americans who gave everything they could, in some cases only a dollar, but they gave it to the cause to save the left-wing business, and they would all be heroes and everybody would know. And Obama would invite a couple of 'em to the next State of the Union show.
But since it's in reverse, the media is doing its best to cover it perfunctorily in a couple or three paragraphs and then moving on and letting it go. But they are privately fuming. They are seething over this because once again, the evidence, the facts which often elude them, have come to demonstrate that they have a long way to go to be able to put the population of this country under their boot. People responded, 26 or 27,000 people, an average donation of just under $30 that got it to the $842,000 limit.
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RUSH: It's not just Memories Pizza, there's another GoFundMe.com beneficiary that you may not have heard about. If this kind of thing fascinates you, you may have. The Seattle Times reporting on April 4th, they were not happy. "Amid Indiana Controversy, Donations Soar for Washington Florist Who Refused Gay Wedding."
Now, this is different. In the Memories Pizza case we had a hypothetical. We had an infobabe that was going door-to-door shopping for bigotry. She left her home base at Channel 57 in South Bend -- Channel 57, I cannot believe that we still have Channel 57s. Anyway, she leaves, she goes 20 miles south of South Bend, knocking on doors looking for a bigot, anywhere, just give me a bigot for the nightly news, she says. She can't find any. She's in Indiana.
She finally walks into Memories Pizza. "Would you serve a gay wedding?"
"No, we would not, our religion says --" All right. And the infobabe had her story and there's bigotry at Memories Pizza. It's a hypothetical. In the state of Washington, this is a Richland florist who actually refused to provide flowers to a gay couple for their wedding, and this florist has so far received $80,000 from an online crowdfunding page dedicated to protect her and her livelihood.
"A GoFundMe page set up for Baronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene’s Flowers, had raised $80,225 from 1,884 donors by 7:30 p.m. Saturday." The page was set up in February, long time ago. Well, couple months ago. Set up in February and "nearly half the money has been donated in the past 24 hours. Supporters likened the benefit page to one set up for Memories Pizza."
But the difference is that Stutzman actually refused an actual request to provide arrangements for an actual gay wedding. "Stutzman was fined $1,000, plus $1 for court costs and fees in late March for refusing to serve a gay couple when they tried to buy wedding flowers in 2013. Stutzman, 70, said that though one of the men who wanted the flowers was her friend and she would continue to provide flowers for other occasions, providing flowers for his marriage went against her beliefs as a Southern Baptist."
So there's all kinds of these things out there. There was one for a woman whose shop was burned down in the rioting in Ferguson, and the same kind of thing happened. Americans rallied to her cause. She had nothing to do with the protests. She was just an innocent victim. It was the store of her dreams. She'd scrimped and saved everything, this little arts and crafts store, burned down in the riots, been rebuilt or in the process of it, thanks to donations from people they never even knew, never even met, never thought she would ever come into contact with.
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