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This just came into my e-mail from Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Evidently this nationally syndicated jerk-off thinks having HIV is a dandy -do walk on a sunny beach with luxury for all. (Audio thanks to mediamatters.org)

The transcript of Quinn’s stupidity:

“Oh, and by the way, last night — was it Savage last night talking about how the – yeah-how the Obama administration is looking toward allowing AIDS patients to come to America. Now, there was a big flap a couple days ago about a US Air flight where a guy got on the flight with tuberculosis – he was on the uh no-fly list because he had tuberculosis – after all, we don’t want an epidemic of tuberculosis. So everybody was going nuts-o over that, and in the meantime you want to bring in AIDS patients. Do you know why? Here I’ll tell you why — because tuberculosis is a disease, AIDS is a civil right. Thanks to the homosexual AIDS lobby, AIDS is a civil right. When you get AIDS, pal, the door opens up to you. You have got all kinds of government goodies, including a maid to clean your house, transportation – I mean it’s – there’s just a wealth of wonders that come. And of course, the more AIDS patients we have in America, why the more dependent people we have and, of course, isn’t that the goal of government, everybody depend on them? So this is a wonderful class of people to bring in because they’ll be dependent on the government. And, by the way, as an added bonus they’ll vote democrat every time. We’ve elected the enemy.”

Um.. wow. Where to start?

First, TB is spread through casual contact– particularly through the closed ventilation system of an aircraft. Thus a person with active TB infection should not be flying because they will actually be exposing hundreds of people to the disease. On the other hand, sharing a plane ride with a person with HIV is not going to expose you to the virus (unless you decide to join the Mile High Club with the HIV-positive person), and even then the risk is based on viral load and what activity you get into while locked in the two foot square closet that passes as a bathroom on commercial airliners.

Secondly, a maid? Seriously? Where the hell is MY maid? I have been HIV positive since 2007 and I don’t have a maid. The government doesn’t pay for my car (a 1991 Geo Metro convertible I have dubbed Betsy). So what exactly is this scuzz ball talking about?

Take a minute to let Clear Channel know this scuzzball needs to find a new job by responding to this GLAAD action alert.

Or, better yet, contact officials from Clear Channel all by yourself:

Lisa Dollinger
Chief Communications Officer
Clear Channel Communications
(210) 822-2828
lisacdollinger@clearchannel.com

Rod Phillips
Programming Senior Vice President
(210) 822-2828
rodphillips@clearchannel.com

Robert H. Walls, Jr.
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
(210) 822-2828
robert.walls@clearchannel.com