Why am I political? Because society’s consistent and constant disregard and lack of respect for minorities, even the title ‘minority,’ when in many areas of the country we are in fact the majority, is too much to bear silently. Their insistence at our invisibility, whether it is as subtle as non-inclusion, or as loud as violent hate crimes, is contagious, and can make me hide from myself.

I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the political landscape of current foreign policy. I have not been able to make myself think or talk about the situation in North Korea. My avoidance stems from fear that my American-ness, hard won and fought for on a daily basis, might somehow be diminished because of my ethnic association with the perceived ‘enemy’. My family is Korean, and we are defensive about this allegiance. There is great suspicion when referring to North Koreans, as if we must distance ourselves from them as much as possible so as not to disrupt democracy.

Going out of my way to prove that I am an American does not support the idea of being American. I should not have to lessen my interest in what might transpire between North Korea and the US in order to re-establish the image that I have created for myself as a patriot. Also, I want to refute the assumption that being of Korean descent might lend me a particular expertise when expounding upon the political climate there. It is a childish denial, where I stamp my feet and claim ignorance, only because the color of my skin says I am supposed to know. Trying to banish my ties with North Korea doesn’t reinforce stereotypes that I currently do my best to fight, rather it creates new ones. I become the “One who refuses to see the self.” I add to the culture of invisibility by becoming complicit with it.

I am diminished by not seeming to notice that North Korea is there even though my family is from there, even though many of my family still live there, even though my ancestors were literally torn apart by civil war that divided the country while the people were still one. My association is painfully close and avoidance is the only way I know how to retain my American identity. It is ridiculous and embarrassing. I hate feeling this way, because it forces me to see how far racism has affected me. It has gotten into the way that I think, the way I live, the way I feel about myself, the way that I fear that I am being perceived. Not only that, it has gone entirely unnoticed, until the moment that I step outside myself and acknowledge the truth. I am a racist, but it has gone deep underground and warped itself and returned to me utterly unrecognizable.

Prejudice and bigotry rot me from within, and the strains of these viruses are hearty and hard to kill. When I was younger, I would rudely ignore the bright eyed Asian American kids who would stand in the courtyard and hand out sunny yellow flyers, advertising afterschool meetings for the new Asian Student Union. It bothered me that the paper that they used was so undeniably yellow, and that they would single me out of a crowd to give me one, as if the yellowness of my skin was a secret homing device for the flyer. It felt like they were targeting me, because if anyone needed it, I did. I could have used Asian unity more than the other Asian kids who rushed through the same courtyard with me. I think they sensed that, and tried harder to push the paper into my hand. Fortunately, my racist tendencies did not keep me from having great relationships with other Asian kids in my class. We just didn’t have a ‘union.’ There was no need to speak of politics or any desire to change the status quo. If we did, it was entirely unintentional, and part of the daily ritual of being a teen.

My insistence at being ‘apolitical’, as if that were a possibility, did not end when I was young, and could blame it on youthful ignorance. About a decade ago, I was asked to appear on a comedy special which featured political comedians. I declined, stating quite plainly that I was not a political comedian, therefore I didn’t belong on the lineup. I was replaced, and I was relieved. I look back and I think about how wrong I was in my own self assessment. Even though I may not have deft impressions of befuddled politicians in my retinue, that did not make me an ‘apolitical’ entertainer. My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and homosexuality was a political statement. I had long regarded the world of political humor as the province of white men that I immediately disqualified myself. I know better now, and it is immensely pleasing when I am referred to as a political comedian, because it feels true. It feels strong.

However, I belie my own strength when I act like North Korea isn’t there, that it doesn’t affect me, that I am exempt from having to comment on it. The problem is that the conflict with North Korea unearths an unbearable conflict within myself. It brings to the forefront my own self hatred, supported by a lifetime of suppression by the world in which I live. Self hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of its presence.

I try everyday to challenge myself further and I believe in doing this, I slay the monster bit by bit. This is why being political is an essential part of my life. In the end, it is all that I have.

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Dear Senator Kerry,

I am very grateful for your victories and am praying for your swift and graceful transformation from Senator to President of the United States. I heard you speak in San Francisco last year, when you were embarking on your campaign trail. I found you to be an eloquent and sincere man. We spoke briefly at the reception about your support and dedication to the HRC. You were received with much applause and relief. I especially appreciate the valiant efforts you made to assure blue collar workers and unions that under your administration, their rights would be upheld.

My grandfather was a labor union leader. He experienced great persecution during his life, much of which was spent in exile. Workers’ rights were not popular with the governing party at the time. Fortunately for South Koreans, the times changed dramatically, and my beloved grandfather went from the caves of the mountainous regions of my parent’s homeland to an office in the cabinet of the newly elected President of Korea, where he spent the rest of his life fighting to keep improving conditions for the working class in a country that was experiencing change too quickly. He struggled to stay alive in order to see my face when I was born. When he did, he was overjoyed, and died happily, somehow knowing that his message would be carried on, perhaps not in his country, but possibly throughout the world. My memories of him are blurry at best, but his legacy lives on, and I see him in you.

I could have sworn that you said that if elected, you were going to make same sex marriage a reality. Since then, there has been somewhat of a change in the direction of your attitude toward this incredibly important issue. Perhaps I heard you wrong. I was also trying to listen with an optimism that sometimes lends itself to a kind of selective understanding. Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. I am aware of your support of civil unions, but you also know, this is a compromise. It doesn’t give equal rights, nor is it enough to placate the GLBT community any longer. Even in your home state, the courts are challenging the ban on same sex marriage, and they were the first to do so. Although Gavin Newsom beat everyone to the punch, Massachusetts had a huge impact on the issue. They started the fight. Bostonians are rebels by nature, as evidenced by that old tea party.

I support your candidacy. I want to see you in the Oval Office. I think that Teresa Heinz Kerry would be a fantastic First Lady. She is charismatic, eloquent and fiery. I believe you would get this country out of the spider hole we have been stuck in for the last four years. However, I plead you reconsider your stance on same-sex marriage. I know that for political reasons, you will continue to smoothly change the subject, one talent that you are particularly masterful at, as evidenced by watching the democratic debates these past several weeks. You don’t wish to alienate - or rather inflame the inherent bigotry and prejudice held by the other underdogs, the workers, the voters who don’t live in the big cities, the people who distrust the current administration, but whose personal values unfortunately include homophobic tendencies. My take on it is that they would rather see a president who will ensure their financial future and create jobs than escalate wars with money earmarked for social programs and affordable health care.

Your newly won constituency, former republicans and Bush supporters, are so desperate for change, that they just might step up their tolerance. Ignorance is the only thing that stands between us and them. If we abolish stupidity, we are left as simply, we. We the people. Even the Terminator has changed his mind, or at least softened his stance on same sex marriage, saying that if the courts and the lawmakers decide that the ban should be lifted, that it would be fine with him.

Senator Kerry, you were the lone voice against the Defense of Marriage Act, which was brave. Your courage is renown, not only as a decorated war hero, but also as a war protestor. Will you be our hero? You even got Coldplay name checking you!

Best of everything,
Margaret Cho

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I just saw “The Passion of the Christ,” and it was a lovely film. I know how it ends, so it wasn’t really suspenseful, but the way that it completely bowls you over is pretty scary. Being raised as a born again Christian and Buddhist, the story of the crucifixion was always somewhat glossed over. We knew all the details, but Mel Gibson’s film brings the whole Jesus experience to new heights. I think that by far this is the most gory cinematic representation of death to date, and I have spent most of my life trying to shut my eyes through horror films.

I like scary movies, but I don’t like to watch them. Does that make sense? The ugliness of the violence is that it is inescapable. The sound comes flooding into the senses, so if you cannot see it, you are still seeing it with your ears. The cast was remarkable, the costuming lavish and brilliant, the scenery super dusty, the script entirely in Aramaic and Latin adding a totally different feel than your usual Easter Passion Play, or old favorites like “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Godspell.” An unflinchingly steady camera - where the thriller element of turning a shot around just before the moment of impact is turned on its head, and you get the whole of it - complete and bloody.

After having witnessed the full Catholicism of Gibson’s retelling, I never want to see it again. This is one DVD that I will not be purchasing, for I do not wish to see the director’s cut, nor omitted scenes, nor any extras. I especially do not wish to see any off-screen antics and bloopers. You know that would just fuck it up.

Catholics are mysterious and exotic to me, never having been to Mass, nor knowing much about it except what I gleaned from Madonna videos. They seem to like to dwell on the suffering, and what Jesus endured physically, which is so unlike what I always was fed from my Sunday school teachers. My education was filled with acoustic guitar toting priests with short sleeved shirts who went on and on about how He loved the little children. In the Good News Protestant 70s, we got the sing-song fables from the Bible, not the bone-crushing, thorny, nails in the hands and feet, splintered wood aspect of the Son of God.

The film includes all the stations of the cross, which are blown up in flashback sequences to the younger, pre-persecution days, where Jesus gives all His advice and tells stories. It is interesting to learn about what different ways God is worshipped, and how even within Christianity, there are many interpretations of what actually happened, and those stories change in detail even within the books of the Bible, depending on who is telling them.

What I really found compelling in the film is that women are depicted as being closer to God, in very good and gentle relationship with Jesus. He is kind of like a rock star, because he has a hot girlfriend, my very favorite Bible character, Mary Magdelene, and lots of groupies wearing black. He is also a mama’s boy. The kind of sweetness that women rarely get treated with in your average Hollywood film is nice to see, even when it is as graphic and tortured as this, with the poor guy always falling down right on the crown of thorns on his head. What is really great is that Jesus doesn’t ever say that anything is wrong, and he is forever forgiving everyone for everything.

After having been in the midst of all this fighting about how same-sex marriage defies the teachings of the Bible, not once did I think that Jesus was being judgmental. Jesus is really all about how we need to love each other, and He says it a bunch of times, not only when He’s doing the sermon on the mount, but just in general. He does get mad at the weird Satan character, who is very beautiful but hairless, a sexy but sexless creature, but only one time, and that is in the very beginning.

I love it when Jesus gets mad in the Bible, when He is all hollering at people to get out of His father’s house, and then when that fruit tree won’t bear fruit. Also there is that time when He yells at the disciples for getting all up in Mary’s business when she is trying to put that ointment on His feet. He likes a pedicure, our Lord. So the message of the Messiah, of God, and of this film..love everyone, forgive everyone because they don’t know what they are doing and keep your feet soft.

I bet that He is ecstatic about Rosie O’Donnell getting married, because He likes her comedy and admires her parenting skills, but mostly because He loves it when we are loving and happy. To think, He went through all that trouble, just so that we could love each other. This is why I am a Christian, and a devout one. God and love cannot be separated, because they are one and the same. The love between my husband and I is what I see as a shining aspect of God, just as the love between the gays and lesbians getting married in San Francisco is God as well. I was stopped at a rally by a man who had been married only two days to his longtime partner. He said, “There really is something about wedded bliss.” He didn’t finish his sentence, and tears came to his eyes, and then to mine, because his message was very clear. They only had glimpsed the very beginnings of married life, and the taste of it was so deliciously sweet, and there can be no wrong here, the way we love can no longer be considered perverse.

Hatred is perverse. Bigotry is perverse. Prejudice is perverse. Those abominations will not be tolerated. Love wins all wars, love is all the ammunition you need to fight your holy war. Learning to love my enemies, which are many, is easy when I realize that when I love them, the war is won.

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What do we do if we don’t get the democratic candidate to support same sex marriage? We don’t think about that until we have to think about it. I never have a back up plan. I just assume that when I step up, there are going to be stairs there. Perhaps it’s foolish, but fools rush in, where angels fear to tread. I am no angel. I am the former, but that hasn’t done me any harm so far.

If there is no going back from here, if we are to hold fast to our beliefs, if we continue to display these acts of civil ‘disobedience,’ what else can we do but create new standards for our elected officials?

If gay and lesbian couples continue to line up at city halls all over the nation demanding marriage licenses, if one by one, the mayors decide to let the people have what rightly belongs to them, if the media sees these families, solid and loving, so many already in place for years and years, yet without acknowledgment from government agencies and society at large, if they are unable to ignore the numbers of us willing to fight for what we believe in, if we can become an army of lovers, how can we lose this war? Would they bring out the riot police? Throw tear gas instead of bridal bouquets into the waiting bridesmaids hands? Hose the newlyweds off the street? “The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all.”

We have no idea how powerful we actually are. So many of us have not voted or even registered to vote. Understandably so, for we were never considered part of the general, ‘respectable’ population. Why vote in a country that cares so little about who we are? “This land is your land, but this land isn’t my land” - that is what so many of us have thought. This second class citizenship has sunk in so deeply that we have barely any awareness of it. We had no idea that this is the enemy we are truly fighting. “The enemy is within, don’t confuse me with him.” That quote is from an Elliott Smith song and feels overwhelmingly appropriate.

That silent complicity with the status quo, even with the great strides in GLBT activism and the burgeoning mainstream gay icons of “Will & Grace” and “Queer Eye For the Straight Guy,” has kept the true face of who we are quietly hidden. We have no knowledge of how far our reach is. We don’t know our own strength. We don’t know that we are warriors. The time has come for us to know. Even if you are still in the closet, the voting booth is a private place to fight. No one has to know which side you are on but you, and know that when you are ready, you will be welcomed with open arms into your true family, the tribe you were born to.

If you are not gay, it is still your issue, because if we are to lose this battle, who will be there to defend your rights? If the government is allowed to take freedoms away from a certain group of people, then how much longer will it be until they come for you? We are a much more formidable opponent than anyone would have known. We’ve never had a chance to grab the brass wedding ring, the symbol of equality, the real civil union - not between us in place of marriage - but the union we have with the rest of the citizens of this nation. How strong is your grip?

In the immortal words of Bette Davis, as Margo in “All About Eve” - “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”

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My response to Bush’s statement on same-sex Marriage

“Good morning.”

“Eight years ago, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage for purposes of federal law as the legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”

Which was a big mistake when he did it, and we should have fought tooth and nail then.

“The act passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 342-67 and the Senate by a vote of 85-14.”

It shows how much our elected officials really care about equality for all Americans.

“Those congressional votes, and the passage of similar defense of marriage laws in 38 states, express an overwhelming consensus in our country for protecting the institution of marriage.”

As well as an overwhelming ignorance that prevails within our nation and the denial of human rights in favor of prejudice.

“In recent months, however, some activist judges and local officials have made an aggressive attempt to redefine marriage. In Massachusetts, four judges on the highest court have indicated they will order the issuance of marriage licenses to applicants of the same gender in May of this year.”

Finally, a step in the right direction. Tolerance, acceptance, equality. We do not seek to redefine marriage. We are seeking to be recognized as Americans, with all our rights intact and not hindered or reduced because of who we are.

“In San Francisco, city officials have issued thousands of marriage licenses to people of the same gender, contrary to the California Family Code. That code, which clearly defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, was approved overwhelmingly by the voters of California.”

San Francisco has decided to take a stand against hatred, homophobia, legislated morality and truly support and uphold our nation’s most important value, freedom.

“A county in New Mexico has also issued marriage licenses to applicants of the same gender.”

Let freedom reign. Let love rule.

“And unless action is taken, we can expect more arbitrary court decisions, more litigation, more defiance of the law by local officials, all of which adds to uncertainty.”

These decisions are neither arbitrary, nor are they defiant of the basic American ideal of equal rights for all citizens. What is uncertain is why our government so actively seeks to limit our freedoms as well as invade our privacy, as well as escalate war against countries for no reason.

“After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization.”

After two centuries of prejudice and non-inclusive laws, and the millennia of human experience, which has had its share of genocide, slavery, calamity, destruction and death, not to mention your term in office, finally some brave souls are willing to take a stand for the true meaning of equality and justice, not to mention love.

“Their actions have created confusion on an issue that requires clarity. On a matter of such importance, the voice of the people must be heard. Activist courts have left the people with one recourse.”

Their actions have illuminated the dark, prejudiced side of American politics, and ‘outed’ the ignorance and hatred that exists in our nation.

“If we’re to prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever, our nation must enact a constitutional amendment to protect marriage in America.”

If we believe that opting to lift the ban on same sex marriage would change the meaning of marriage, then the constitution needs to be amended to protect the rights of Americans, not the institution of marriage. Marriage is safe, no matter what. Americans, under this administration, are not.

“Decisive and democratic action is needed because attempts to redefine marriage in a single state or city could have serious consequences throughout the country.”

The attempts to define who is truly deserving of equality in any state or city would have serious consequences throughout the country.

“The Constitution says that ‘full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts and records and judicial proceedings of every other state.”

“Those who want to change the meaning of marriage will claim that this provision requires all states and cities to recognize same-sex marriages performed anywhere in America.”

We don’t wish to change the meaning of marriage, but the meaning of what it is to be an American, with all the freedoms that are the right of all who live here.

“Congress attempted to address this problem in the Defense of Marriage Act by declaring that no state must accept another state’s definition of marriage. My administration will vigorously defend this act of Congress.”

Your administration would have all Americans limit their rights to freedom, equality, choice, privacy and the truth. Your administration has done nothing but put our children in jeopardy, fighting wars based upon lies you have told us, made the rest of the world hate us, skyrocketed unemployment, given unnecessary face time to the theocrats and recklessly driven us onto the road to ruin.

We must vigorously defend ourselves against your administration.

“Yet there is no assurance that the Defense of Marriage Act will not itself be struck down by activist courts. In that event, every state would be forced to recognize any relationship that judges in Boston or officials in San Francisco choose to call a marriage.”

If justice were to be served, if this were really the America we are to aspire to being, then the Defense of Marriage Act will be struck down. Every state should be forced to recognize that humanity cannot be judged by one code of ethics.

“Furthermore, even if the Defense of Marriage Act is upheld, the law does not protect marriage within any state or city.”

Furthermore, marriage needs no protection. Americans do. In every state and city.

“For all these reasons, the defense of marriage requires a constitutional amendment.”

For all these reasons, the defense of our country requires the Bush administration to end its reign of error.

“An amendment to the Constitution is never to be undertaken lightly.”

Nor shall it be used to buy more time in office.

“The amendment process has addressed many serious matters of national concern, and the preservation of marriage rises to this level of national importance.”

The preservation of freedom is far more important.

“The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith. Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.”

Same sex marriage will promote the welfare of children, providing them with more two parent households, as well as promote the stability of society by expanding the range of what the American family is allowed to be.

“Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.”

Marriage does not seek to be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots. It seeks to be available to all Americans. Hatred and homophobia are the elements that weaken the good influence of society.

“Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all.”

Government, by recognizing and protecting Americans, serves the interests of all.

“Today, I call upon the Congress to promptly pass and to send to the states for ratification an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife.”

Today, I call upon all Americans who love their freedom, to uphold the rights of others who are denied it.

“The amendment should fully protect marriage, while leaving the state legislatures free to make their own choices in defining legal arrangements other than marriage.”

The amendment would leave Americans with an open door for the government to limit our freedom, equality and rights in everything outside of marriage.

“America’s a free society which limits the role of government in the lives of our citizens. This commitment of freedom, however, does not require the redefinition of one of our most basic social institutions.”

America’s freedom relies upon the ability of our elected officials to uphold it. This commitment of freedom, however, does not require the redefinition of freedom, our most basic social institution.

“Our government should respect every person and protect the institution of marriage. There is no contradiction between these responsibilities.”

Our government should respect every person and protect the institution of freedom. There is no contradiction between these responsibilities.

“We should also conduct this difficult debate in a matter worthy of our country, without bitterness or anger.”

“In all that lies ahead, let us match strong convictions with kindness and good will and decency.”

This is what I would have said too.

“Thank you very much.”

No thank you. Very much.

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An open letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger:

Hello there Governor,
I am responding to your comments on the recent “Meet the Press” where you said if they did not put a stop to same sex marriage in San Francisco something to the effect of - “the next thing you know there will be riots and injured and dead people in the streets.” I don’t believe these were your exact words, but that is good enough. Is this a threat? Are you going to go down there yourself and turn that red light on in your eye and use all your Terminating morphing mercury ways to stop it? Have you come back from the future to stop same sex marriage?

Why do you believe that this will have to turn violent? What is so wrong that you actually believe that there will be blood in the streets if Mayor Newsom doesn’t stop issuing marriage licenses? Are all the roles you have played on screen starting to become indistinguishable from real life? Have you played politician before? This isn’t the movies. This is real life and there is no stunt double and no script and no director and you are not acting. This is love. This is happening. And you cannot stop people from loving each other. What is going on is beautiful. Don’t you think that it will be peaceful and joyous if you just let it be? What are you protecting us from? Heterosexuality? Homosexuality? Bigotry? Prejudice? Homophobia? Heterophobia? Flying bouquets of flowers? Rice thrown about willy nilly? The song “Here Comes the Bride” changing to “Here Comes Gay Pride?” What affect does this have on you, other than that it inflames your own prejudice and beliefs that gays and lesbians should not have the same rights as all other Americans?

So far, your decisions as governor have not made a good impression. I wrote you an impassioned letter about Kevin Cooper’s imminent and wrongful execution, pleading that you not kill an innocent man, and I received a form letter telling me to read some tourist book about our great state. Cooper was given a last minute reprieve, and his case was re-opened, but that was not your doing. I understand. You were probably busy working out. How much do you bench press these days? I bet a lot. Yet the weight of the state just kind of rolls off your big shoulders, because I haven’t seen you do anything except agree with the right wing conservatives who have nothing to gain in the war for same sex marriage except the satisfaction of knowing that they can control the citizens of our nation and impede their freedom.

Is it that immoral to you that there is love between consenting adults which has nothing to do with bigamy, bestiality, incest or any of the other perversions the theocrats love to fantasize about - that will defy the status quo? Are you really afraid that this will open the floodgates of faggotry in the USA? Suddenly, the state will start to resemble Berlin in the early ’30s? It will be the Weimar Republic all over again, and we might - God forbid - experience a renaissance of art and culture and tolerance. Can I play Sally Bowles? Perhaps the idyll didn’t last for them, but it wasn’t because there was a ‘religious right’ there to stop the ‘madness’ of freedom and acceptance, it was Hitler. But I don’t have to tell you about that, do I? You know a lot about him. A little more than most people do, I would say. But I am not here to judge your role models. It just concerns me when you try to emulate them. He really hated homosexuals.

Don’t pretend like you aren’t good friends with lots of gay people. If you are an actor in Hollywood, there is no way to avoid it. All the hours you have clocked in makeup trailers in the last several years and you still think there is something wrong with homosexuality? Wow, did you have to grit your teeth every time a brush crossed your cheek? You must have TMJ.

I don’t think that you hate gays. If you did, you would have looked really bad on screen. What are you trying to appear like now? Is this image upgrade going to help the Planet Hollywood chain from dying out completely? Who came up with that horrible Captain Crunch chicken dish? In real life, are you the hero or the bad guy?

I actually think the Terminator films are cool. But are you?

Best,
Margaret “Sarah Connor” Cho

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Dear Rev. Jackson,

I have been a fan of yours for many years. We once shared the stage in San Francisco at Davies Symphony Hall. Your message of equal rights and peace has always resonated with me. Through all the different political and social upheavals over the past decades you have been a strident voice in our society. I especially appreciate all the work you did to unite the African American and Korean communities during and after the L.A. Riots. Your faith was much needed during that very difficult time. Thank you for your activism and your commitment to making our America a better place.

I have spent many years as an activist. I learned from you that people can be encouraged to create change, just by listening to someone speaking the truth with love and compassion. Since to me you have always been this kind of truth-teller, I am shocked by your comments to the Harvard Law School last Monday concerning gay marriage.

This is the first time in my life I believe I have ever disagreed with your views. I was not present, so perhaps your words were taken out of context, but the sentiments were very clear, and as loud as bombs. I don’t wish to repeat your sentiments, they frankly are too upsetting for me and coming from you makes them doubly hard to hear. Your stance against gay marriage is both troubling and startling and in sharp contrast to everything you have done to raise minority status as well as consciousness in our nation.

I ask you to look back at the many gay and lesbian politicians and activists you have known in your long career. I am sure that many of them might be your friends, or at the very least, have won your respect as men and women devoted to making this country better for all the people who live within its borders and beyond. Would you say that they were less than human? Would you consider them deserving of fewer rights than other Americans? Do you believe that gay and lesbian Americans are unworthy of love?

If gay marriage is unacceptable in the culture you were born and raised in, does that make all cultural mandates worthy of law? If so, then my marriage is invalid because the person to whom I am married is not Korean and interracial marriage is not accepted in Korean culture. Should we really receive less than other couples who have married within their race? Aren’t I obligated to take a stand against my culture in order to uphold not only justice and equality, but what my heart would ask me to do? Is it morally wrong to love one another because we do not look like the other married couples we might see on television?

Should we be corrected by society at large and punished by our government by receiving less than fair treatment because we are not white? How is this different if my spouse and I were the same gender? If being gay were a choice, would people actively choose to have less acceptance and more prejudice heaped upon them by society? If race were a choice, wouldn’t I choose to be white?

I ask you to review your position on same sex marriage. If we were a truly free nation, this would be above argument or opposition. As a civil rights leader, shouldn’t you choose equality for all Americans?

Respectfully,
Margaret Cho

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Bush is “troubled” by gay marriage in San Francisco.

(sung to the tune of “Trouble” by Cat Stevens)
Trouble
Oh trouble set me free
I have seen the gays
And it’s too much too much for me

Trouble
Or trouble can’t you see
To be married and be gay
You’re taking my laws away
And there is nothing much left of me

I’ve made us war for a time
All the world could be mine
So won’t you be fair
Not that I will play fair

I don’t want to more of you
So won’t you stop the GLBT
San Francisco or anywhere
Don’t make me go there

Trouble
Oh trouble I hate gays
I have seen men in drag
And it’s too much for me today

Trouble
Oh trouble can’t you see
Same sex marriage is bad for me
I might even lose my presidency

I’ve seen those guys
Lesbians locking eyes
Happy and free
Happy and free

I’m beat, I’m scorned
Unflattered ignored and warned
Too shocking to see
Oh Daddy why me?

Trouble
Oh trouble move from me
I’ve raised the national debt
Let me lead the nation into misery

Trouble
Oh trouble please be kind
I don’t want no fight
And I haven’t got a lot of time

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Step up your game. No matter who you are or what you feel about homosexuality. If you are gay, lesbian, transgendered, bisexual, bi-curious, metrosexual, heterosexual, celibate, hermaphrodite, a satyr, a succubus, a fucking human being - and especially if you are a fucking human being, and really want to live in a country where all people are equal - not separate, not ‘civil-unionized,’ not lied to about your rights - realize that same sex marriage will not harm you. It will not make gay people more ‘gay.’ It will not make you gay unless you already are. It will not make your children gay, unless they are anyway. It will not change your life in the least, unless you are gay and want to marry your partner. Then it will transform your life, because it will change your status from second class citizen to first, where we should be.

If we are not absolutely strident, insistent, unflinching about lifting the ban on same sex marriage, if we settle on our presidential hopefuls fence sitting position of ‘civil union,’ then we might as well forfeit the Constitution, cross out all the Amendments, knock down the Statue of Liberty (it was a gift from France anyway - those peace lovers - who needs ‘em?), reverse Roe vs. Wade, pretend Stonewall never happened, reinstate Prohibition, not let women vote, derail the Underground Railroad, bring back slavery, take out all the tea bags from the Boston harbors, give Patrick Henry death instead of liberty, because he’s fucking dead now anyway, knock Paul Revere off the horse, realize that George Washington lied, albeit posthumously, besides, all those dudes had slaves anyway, get back on the Mayflower and go back to England. The only problem would be trying to bring the native Americans back to life and restore their nations that we so cavalierly destroyed in our own pursuit of religious ‘freedom.’

Without the reality of same sex marriage, there is no freedom. This is not an argument about homosexuality, God, what is in the Bible, what is in your moral value system or what you feel is ethical. It is a no-argument zone. No spins here, not in the least. It is about upholding the idea that we are the representation of freedom in the world. That to be an American is to be free. Unless we have same sex marriage legalized and recognized by every state, then we are not free. We are hypocrites, for we are allowing a certain group of our population freedoms while denying others those same rights. It is discrimination and that is that. If the theocrats successfully ban same sex marriage, then what is next? What rights go up in front of the unjust jury then?

Shout out to the NASCAR dads: If maintaining the ’sanctity of marriage’ is what is going to keep you in support of George W. Bush, remember that your little boys and girls sitting next to you now at the races will be old enough in the next four years and going off to fight another needless war to lose their lives for a country that you falsely believe is free. A vote for Bush is a bullet in your kid’s head. I know it is harsh, but it is true. I am trying to help you out. Think before you vote. Now more than ever. It is life or death. Literally.

To all the Democratic candidates: Take a look at Gavin Newsom and what is happening in San Francisco. Have the brass balls to truly be an American. Marriage is a right not a privilege. It is time to see who really qualifies to run “The Home of the Brave.”

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San Francisco fucking rules. I am so proud of my home town for legalizing gay marriage, sending gays and lesbians down to the city by the Bay that was built on rock and roll to tie the knot. Who don’t like that?

Well, the bullshit “Family Values” groups don’t think it is right. One dude even said that the new mayor, Gavin Newsom, who lifted the ban on same sex marriage outright talking about how “separate but equal” don’t play no more, was a dictator because he was changing the laws without any adherence to the status quo and the laws currently in effect in other cities and states. I think the dictator is the one who would keep telling consenting adults what to do with their lives. The one goosestepping is the one who would dictate who you should love and who you shouldn’t. When you point your finger at me you got three pointing back at you - see?

The first couple to be wed were quietly exchanging vows in a city supervisor’s office in a lovely ceremony. These two women, who had been together for over fifty years and had never expected to see same sex marriage legalized in their lifetimes, are spending this weekend on their honeymoon.

I am of the opinion that this only enforces and grounds the idea of family values. By allowing and legitimizing different types of families, we make them relevant, attainable and honorable, therefore strengthening the moral fabric of the nation and making the ideal American family available to all who wish to be a part of one. We will never have a shortage of parents, like we do now. We will have a surplus of love and caring, which we do not have now. “Separate but equal” doesn’t mean anything when we do not have equal rights. As soon as we do, the world will start to feel like a better place to live because freedom will begin its reign.

What role should gender play in legalized marriage? None. We hold the keys to gender in our minds and hearts, not in or on our bodies. How does gender identification involve or diffuse or somehow detract from one’s partnering or parenting skills? It doesn’t affect it.

People should not attach morality to this issue. Morality is an individualized set of ethics and should bot be legislated. If we were to push our morality on the present State of the Union, it would be an outrage. Go ahead, try and establish a dress code at a monster truck pull. You might get burned at the stake like a witch. But then the family councils and the moral police are allowed to enforce their code of ethics upon our families, or erstwhile families. The fact that this is even on the table, that we are in open discussion about the right to marry someone of the same sex, to me is an outrage and such a grievous display of prejudice, homophobia and the power of the church reaching out of bounds, way above the state. If we were truly following the mandates of the bible, then there would be laws against same sex marriage, but not against polygamy or slavery. In addition to this, there would be no mixed fabrics (not such a bad thing for we can all live without a cotton/polyester blend), no theory of evolution, and constant burning bushes and human sacrifice.

The laws and mandates of a nation made up of many different types of people who worship in innumerable ways should not be based on Biblical text. That we are “one nation under god” is a fallacious statement that is interpreted too literally and is conveniently pointed to as the be all end all answer to all of this. We are many nations under many gods and sometimes we don’t even have a god, but that doesn’t exclude us from being part of the melting pot.

So to all the couples celebrating their nuptials this weekend in my lovely San Francisco, Mazeltov. Blessings to all of you. I believe in love. I believe in you. It is not an act of civil disobedience. It is an act of love.

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Margaret received these letters immediately following this post and this post from the right wing website, Free Republic. We originally posted the emails with all the names and return addresses intact, but eventually had to remove them because we became aware they were being contacted by many of Margaret’s outraged fans.

Free Republic, which a Klan/Neo-Nazi site called “packed full of our target audience,” counts among its posters, Jerry Corsi (co-author of Unfit For Command) and Harry W. MacDougald, aka Buckhead (the first person to “notice” that the CBS documents obtained by Dan Rather may have been forged). These people are organized racist, misogynist, homophobic bigots, and as they begin to get acknowledged by the mainstream press for defending this administration, they are becoming even more empowered.

Here’s another fun story about how one of these “freepers” tried to get Margaret fired.

Here are the letters:

—– Original Message —–
From: Nero
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:56 AM
Subject: Your cool

GOOK CUNT, You fat ass slant eyed WHORE. YOU SUCK LIBERAL COCK

—– Original Message —–
From: M346r4
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:17 AM
Subject: Hi

Dear Margaret,
I just wanted to let you know how much I admire you! For someone with your background to achieve the level of success you have is incredible. It seems like only yesterday that Chinese scientists successfully cross-breeded a pot-belly pig and a Chink whore. 9 months later you were born!
Your’e disgustingly fat pig face with the yellow skin and and slant eyes has been with us ever since! And not to mention your horrid attempt at humor. Wow!! What a gift you’ve been to humanity!

Keep up the terrible work!

Long-time Fan

—– Original Message —–
From: “mikey cobain”
To: Subject: YOU

It's really pathetic when a disgusting cunt like you
tries to be funny. YOU are NOT funny. Maybe to some
mentally disturbed serial killer you are funny, but
that's about it. I have a great idea, why don't you
move to china and try your comedy there. Maybe they
will appreciate it more. If not, maybe they will cut
your fucking head off. We can only hope.

----- Original Message -----
From: john zaroian
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:11 PM
Subject: Moby

Hey dig this BUSH WILL WIN....Whatsammatter fat ass, cant take the heat. Eat some dog like your freinds back home. Its what you look like anyway you scumbag Chowface..

----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Pearlstone
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: You disgusting "pseudo-American"

Shut your disgusting face, you loser. You have some nerve coming to America, denouncing us, and making your fortune.

Go home you freakin Asian scum.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank
To: Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: Your recent anti american diatribe

Never heard of you before seeing the item on the
Drudge Report. Where did you learn such foul
language. Went to your website and soon discovered
that you are queer, too. Get a life, will you.

Concerned Citizen

----- Original Message -----
From: Tina
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:32 PM
Subject: I support you!

I find you to be a disgusting, misguided PIG! You need to seek medical help because you have what the psychiatric profession calls a MENTAL DISORDER! You hate filled moron! You must have had some sweet childhood to act out of so much HATE and INTOLERANCE! How do you sleep at night filled with such ire and hatred? I feel sorry for your ignorance, you poor thing. Do us Americans and favour and check your sad self into a mental hospital! And take homoby with you!

----- Original Message -----
From: Danlor
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: fat bitch

right wingers unite to fight liberal fat bitches like you!!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:28 PM

Ms. Cho,

I will make you a deal, if you book a flight to North Korea, stand on the Tarmac of the airport and say the same things about North Korea's president that you said about Mr. Bush, and live to make the return trip back to the back to the U.S., not only will I pay your plane ticket both ways, I will also buy every CD/DVD that you have ever released and any that you release in the future. I will also become one of your biggest fans.

Why would I make such an offer? Because you are all mouth and you know that you could never get away with what you are able to get away with in the U.S., thanks to the rights that even ungracious overweight pigs like you enjoy here in the U.S., rights and freedoms that came at the hands of early Americans who fought and died to that end.

If Korea was such a great place, why didn't your parents or great grandparents stay there instead of immigrating to the U.S.?

You probably think of yourself as some talented entertainer but doesn't it bother you to think that the only reason you have gained a measurable amount of celebrity status is because you attract only left-wing thinking liberals who are anti-American, anti-family, porno-producing perverts? It takes a lot of talent to use the "f" word as creatively as you do.

Here is a suggestion for your "show," wear a tent shaped piece of Plexiglas on your head and bill yourself as the "BIG FAT ASSED HUMAN CHINESE BUFFET."

Your fellow American,

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Questions 3

Was it after the TV show got cancelled and you couldn't afford to
finish the liposuction?
Sleeping with Michael Moore's wife?
Or shall we just blame your Mom as that seems an easy out for you?

What pushed you over the edge?

ND

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wingates"
To: Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:52 AM
Subject: not at all hate mail

...and your routine at the HateFest was not at all funny. It was offensive.
Radical Liberals are such a minority in this country; why don't you switch
sides? You'd make more money.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd "
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: Open your eyes

It never fails to amaze me that the very people who should appreciate an American government who has given them the opportunities they have are the first ones to try tearing it down. You don't deserve to live in the USA you ungrateful fat pig. You belong in NORTH Korea. They are real hungry there and that wonderful Korean government would most likely feed an oinker like you to a family of 10 for about 6 months.

You are not good enough to be the puss in a boil on George Bush's ass, you scabbed up scumbag. Go back to Korea! Decent people don't want you here any more. I used to think you were funny. After you bashed MY president I see you as just another left-wing puke. I wanna vomit every time I see your fat putrid ugly face on TV. And just for the record, I was not influenced by the Drudge Report. I was influenced by seeing and hearing your degrading performance at your last "bash Bush" gathering with all your left-wing commie brethren. I wish you all the worst luck in the world. You don't deserve success in America, you're too busy tearing it down.

Why don't you move to mainland China? Try bashing their premier and see how much longer you breath. You ungrateful hog.
Your truly,
Paul
New Mexico

----- Original Message -----
From: MarchRain
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: you

Get out of my country. Evil comes in many forms, to make us laugh, to play funny good guy, to have us join the group mind. You are doomed. No peace will come to you in this lifetime.

----- Original Message -----
From: Zibrasit
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:54 PM
Subject: If you are funny, I am Queen Elizabeth

Using the f--- word every second does not make you funny or humorous; it makes you pathetic. Had you been funny your TV show would not have been canceled in a minute.
Shut up, lose weight and take a bath.

Michelle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert "
To: Subject: Heil Cho

Congratulations to Drudge for bringing your delightful remarks to us
all. Kim Jong Il loves you, babe! Isn't it funny all those starving
Koreans in the North? No, not just funny but f**king funny?
Drudge had the perfect picture of your grinning fat face. Do you eat
tree bark like your countrymen? I remember you once made some cheap
joke about Pearl Harbor and I thought then that you, while not an idiot,
could become one if you f**king tried. I see, you'reeeeeee back.
Speaking of humor, "Up the chimney" as 'ol Hitler used to say about
another funny episode in history. Hitler once commented to Moby, "who
loves you, baby! Come visit one of my camps and take a shower." Tee
hee, tee hee. Donchajustluvit seeing all those starving Koreans and
Jews? Their expressions are sooooo funny. Just like deers caught in the
headlights. Truly a Kodak moment.
It's funny how some fat round faces don't know the difference between
evil and a democratically elected head-of- state, head-of-government,
head of party and decent all American like Bush. It's even more funny
how some admire those pulled out of spider holes and those who feed tree
bark to their people. All the best in your funny career and in your
trivializing of evil. As you can see from my love letter to you, I,
too, love trivializing evil. You are sooooooo funny or as 'ol Hitler
liked to say: Vu R soooooo f**king Vunny. Regards to Moby whoever
he/she/it is. Drudge is the man!!! And, yes, it's true after seeing
your picture: s**t happens.
So long, I've got to MoveOn.org. Heil Cho, Heil Soros, Heil all you
naughtly little vermin out there in left field especially, you, Margie,
with the little fat round face and the swatiska on your butte. And
remember if you want to repent, vote Republican and vote often.
Chop/chop bambino.

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron J
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:56 AM
Subject: Gleetings Ms. Cho

You glate woman comeedian to expoze imperialist Bush as capitalist warmonga! Wud like velly mush to vite you to tanksagibing dinna my house nex ya. I hav plan buttaball Doberman…..wit hushapuppy (reel puppy)…...velly tasty….you like! You come, OK?

Kim Jong Il

----- Original Message -----
From: Harry
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:31 PM
Subject: WHY

WHY ARE YOU SO UGLY?

----- Original Message -----
From: peter
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: I think your great

I find it hilarious that you get so offended when someone attacks you. You liberals are so hypocritical, you use f-work laced rant when talking about George Bush and you cry like the fat pig you are when someone does the same to you. I wish nothing but the worse for you and will be praying that you develop cancer or AIDS.

God Bless

----- Original Message -----
From: charles
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: hey

GO BACK TO ASIA CUNT.

WE DON'T NEED TO LISTEN TO YOUR SLANTTY RANTS.

FUCKING CUNTS LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK

GO FUCK YOURSELF.

----- Original Message -----
From:
To:

YOU FAT CHINK BITCH!! HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THIS PRESIDENT. YOU AND YOUR SEXUALLY DEVIATE FRIENDS COULDN'T CLEAN HIS SHOES. I ESPECIALLY LIKE YOUR WELL INFORMED ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT'S POLICIES, YEA, "BUSH SUCKS" IS A REAL ARGUMENT WINNER. YOUR IGNORANCE AND VULGARITY ARE ALMOST COMPATIBLE TO YOUR LAME ACTING ABILITIES. YOU AND MOBY DESERVE ONE ANOTHER.

----- Original Message -----
From: SirRosis
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:59 AM
Subject: Stop whining

1/23/04

I'm not offended by your comments about Bush.The man has been a dreadful failure and this is coming from a conservative.That said,YOU insult anybody that doesn't agree with your agenda and then when you get "insulting" e-mails you cry about it.Grow up,you brought this on yourself.This may shock you,but you are a NOBODY.You're an obese,Oriental(I know you must hate that term) lesbian-THAT is your claim to fame.A hack "comedianne" is what you are and you are not funny.I could care less if you're a muff-diving,Sapphic sister -you're a dyke-and in your milieu that's accepted and lauded,but the rest of us find you noisome and rebarbative.300LBS,Oriental and lesbian-a great combination for San Fran,NYC,Boston and L.A. ,but the rest of the country are repulsed by you.

Sir Rosis
P.S. ARE MY SHIRTS READY? and I have the number 22 with chow mein.Thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: CUVELLO
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:39 AM
Subject: funny

YOU UGLY PIECE OF SHIT!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave"
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: Blow me!

Fat Cunt Chinese women. Bush is the best!

----- Original Message -----
From: "titus
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:44 PM
Subject: You're Pathetic!

You fat filthy pig! You think because you "call yourself" a comedian,
you can spew hate against others, yet call them haters when they return fire. You're pathetic, no wonder you tried to kill yourself!

Yes, I'm a conservative and I don't mind stepping down into the filthy
gutter where you and your ilk (i.e., pervert liberals) reside, if that's where I have to go to communicate with you idiots.

Please, by all means, you and your friends keep talking, so everybody on the other side politically and in the middle who lean right when they hear you speak, will know what you're all about.

To be honest, I was shocked to hear you're actually earning a living, even if it only keeps you housed in a van down by the river. I actually
thought you had off'ed yourself by now, after having to listen to your own dribble!

Copy this to Moby. I want to hear and see more of him too. You both are great for the cause.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed "
To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:08 AM
Subject: Kudos

Way to go you fat slope whore. Go back to Korea you obese pig.

----- Original Message -----
From: LAUPE
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:58 AM
Subject: Yobo seo

Since you have so many vulgar things to say about America, I suggest you move to North Korea from whence your ancestors come, you filthy, ugly person. You wouldn't be shooting your ugly mouth off over there would you carpet muncher.

----- Original Message -----
From: daniel
To: karen
Cc: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:43 AM
Subject: wang chung

Please forward to Margaret

Dear chung lee,
Please go back where you came from. We don't need anymore people like you in this country. I hope you have aids and pass it to all your liberal commie homo friends. Your a slut and a lard ass. Please take Rosie O'donnel back home with u, I'm sure yall will have a lot of fun together eating sushi and having dildo fights. Stupid ninja

Aids Cures Gays

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:09 AM
Subject: bush bashing

margaret cho is a slanted eye bitch...i dont buy her stuff...i dont watch her on tv...if she doesnt like america and our president then tell her to go the hell back to asia...she doesnt have problem with taking money from america...so margaret....go back to asia you slanted eye slut....

----- Original Message -----
From: dagoofyfoot
To: margaret
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:49 AM
Subject: Damn You're Ugly!

If you're as funny as you are ugly you could be headed for a great career. I suggest you lay off the Chow Mien for a while, you're starting to look like 200 lbs of crap in a 100 lb. sack.

As you probably know now, I read that crap you spew out of your pie-hole on the Drudge Report, and then went to your web site. It's good that you're a comedienne, cause you sure couldn't make it with those looks as an actress.

If you don't make it, you would probably do pretty good at haunting houses for a living. With a face like that you'd be sure to drive the spooks right out! It's clear that you're just as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside...

by the way, what you said, is it supposed to be funny?.......you suck!

Not a fan
Tony C.

----- Original Message -----
From: MMARCUS
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:29 AM
Subject: email

go home u slant fat bitch

----- Original Message -----
From: Pablo
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:37 AM

You are a disgusting fat gook. Go back to China where you belong.

----- Original Message -----
From: Exmutt
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:21 AM
Subject: (no subject)

I"d like 2 eggrolls, a small hot & sour, and some pork fried rice...THEN, get the fuck out of my country and take that little faggot moby with you...

try that little bullshit gag of yours in north korea..they'll be searching for your remains...

----- Original Message -----
From: chris
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: hi

Fuck you you oriental cunt. you are not even an american. You are soooo stupid. Go fuck yourself and go back to Asia you slanted eye whore.

----- Original Message -----
From: chris
To: margaret
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: Sorry

I'm sorry Margaret. Please accept my apology. I was wrong. We differ on opinion when it comes to politics. What I e-mailed you was wrong. It was hate filled and that is not the kind of person I am. Please forgive me.
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:19 PM
Subject: Comments about Bush

Given your recent comments about President Bush at the MoveOn.org awards, you obviously have no problems with personal attacks.
Therefore I thought I'd take a moment to let you know that most people think you are a no talent, fat, washed up a-hole.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom"
To: Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:33 PM

which way does your pussy slant, baby? this is important, since you are
certainly quite unfunny.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:30 AM
Subject: your parents must be proud

of what?

who knows.

their daughter is an insecure, arrogant, butt-ugly, obnoxious, potty-mouthed, uneducated, fat liberal who makes fun of God and christians all the time.

(funny how that works, ...God has the power to simply SPEAK the entire world into existence, and idiots all over his creation make fun of him, regardless of what he has in store for those who choose NOT to believe.)

Put the cheeseburger down, pull Clinton's dick out of your mouth, and wise up. Because the people who adore you have AIDS for a REASON.

----- Original Message -----
From: petey
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: President Bush

Hey Margaret,
Don't say anything bad about my president, you fat piece of Mongolian dogshit. Go back to your own Country if you don't it here. And as a comedian, you are a sad joke.

----- Original Message -----
From: fansong77
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:50 PM
Subject: First Amendment

I must say, I am a huge proponent of the 1st Amendment. Having spent 23 yrs in the military, I was willing to sacrifice my life so you could speak freely in our society. And as such, I will now speak mine.

I saw on the internet your "comic" review and subsequent defense by Moby (whoever the fuck that is) of President Bush. I realize it was all in joking, so as a free speaking (let's save the whole fucking world with kindness) liberal, I'm sure you won't mind me speaking mine. I also realize you don't have the balls (what cunt does?) to reply to this, but here goes anyway.

Q: Did you hear that Margaret Cho's real last name is Chocking?
A: She had so much cock down her throat she couldn't get all the syllables out?

Q: Did you notice how much weight Margaret has lost lately?
A: Naturally, one tends to loose weight sucking cock all night!

Q: What do Eva Braun and Margaret Cho have in common?
A: They both think Hitler fucked them up the ass!

Q: What does Hitler and Margaret Cho have in common?
A: Both now realize the United States can kick anyone's ass!

I have one last thing to say. (Don't you just love free speech?) If you don't like the country in which you live, I will pay for you to leave, as long as you never return. I have no problem with you disagreeing with the President. I do however find it disgusting in which the way you do it. I didn't hear you ranting and raving about Slick Dick Willy getting a blowjob from Monica. Where the fuck were you then? I know...I know, he didn't inhale so it was ok. At least President Bush stands up for what is right, and is someone you can count on not to hid when the shit hits the fan. You and the rest of the moveon.org shitbags can go fuck themselves, but that is just my humble opinion. Us military veterans tend to express ourselves in no uncertain terms, so if you are upset and offended by my words, well hell, I guess I just won't know if I will be able to sleep tonight or not. But hey, what the fuck, you don't know me and I don't know you. This is just my "comic" review! Get a life, a real life and join the rest of the human race.

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----- Original Message -----
From: sjoyce
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:40 AM
Subject: Move on.org comments

Just a quick note to let you know that after reading your comments from the move on . org awards I was disgusted. Your comments were totally uncalled for. Why don't you you take your fat slant eyed head and go back to China.

F__k You

----- Original Message -----
From: lloyd
To: margaret
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:48 AM

Just another stupid lesbo chink

----- Original Message -----
From: lloyd early
To: karen
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re:

I have class. Something you clitoris suckers know nothing about.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve C
To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:43 AM
Subject: Fuck You Wang Chung

You are a no talent hack ! Go back to whatever third world country your
family hails from. Isn't it great that we live in a country where I can
tell you to go fuck yourself ? The only thing funny about you is when
you pour your fat ass into the tight leather outfits. Start shopping at
Lane Bryant !!

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave & Debra
To: margaret
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:08 PM

On you comments about Republicans. After reading you gibberish, You have proved to the world what a true fucking idiot you really are. By the way, after you receive enough money from the dumb shit libs that buy your trash, you might consider buying a new face. Your about the ugliest fucking cunt I've seen plastered in public for sometime. Hell, If I shaved my dogs ass and made him walk backwards he'd look better than you Cho.

----- Original Message -----
From: bbarras
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: Homeland

Time to head home Kiddo.

You have proven yourself to be one who has no right to live in America.

Your family should go too. If they approve of your behavior, that is.

Go back home.Stay there. America is not your home, it's mine.

Being born here is just not enough, in your case. You deserve Korea at it's worst. Trash America? Then why haven't you left here? DUH?? Lemme guess...

You'll be a big star there. Lotsa drugs, no morals or IQ required. Just your cup of tea. You can stay the slut 24/7. Not sure how your language will help you in the marriage market, but then again, if you don't marry, you won't breed.

Works for me!

You know what? All your feelings of inferitority were right.

You are pure garbage.

---- Original Message -----
From: bass
To: margaret
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:49 AM
Subject: Don't Worry

I know they said: Fuck You you oriental bitch . You are not even an american. You are soooo stupid. Go fuck yourself with that nigger rapper D and go back to Asia you slanted eye whore.
and I know they said:Why don't take your slant-eyed ass back to the orient if you don't like it here, you worthless troll.

and I know they said:most people think you are a no talent, fat, washed up a-hole

and I know they said you are a butt-ugly, obnoxious, potty-mouthed, uneducated, fat liberal who makes fun of God and christians all the time.
and I know they said: Why don't you you take your fat slant eyed head and go back to China

and I know they said: I am hoping you develop breast cancer or contract a flesh-eating disease and pass it on to your whole f'n family... you bitch.
and I know they said:You sure are UG-LY.
and I know they said :in this country, you can look like a stuck pig (see http://www.drudgereport.com) You must admit you are one ugly bitch in this picture. and spout inane, vulgar, untruths....that are bought only in your adopted home town.

and then they said: b!tch I am from the south and proud of it...at least I can't be blindfolded with dental floss. And I saw your picture from the other night and it looks like you have more chins under your mouth than you had at your family reunion

and then they said:

Harro ms cho

light ring rut here. we grive u new klorian name, u = wan fat ho u arsso Femernazi too. and big blitch

If you cant trake humor...dont dish it out...al lite?? slant eye

hoo coome uo face soo flat like pamkake

last kreston jokie for you! Wat you crall 2 Klorians with headcold ??? answer..".gook, gook atchew.."

I know that this is what they said, but most just want you dead. A disease to this nation. A cancer upon our country. I can only pray that you will be defeated and destroyed for the good of all......

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: Abolish/Boycott (Closet) Racism & Stereotyping

Karen,

Thanks for bringing the e-mail to Margaret's attention. Please let Margaret know that I am a comedian also, I will soon go into a studio to record my material and send it to her for production. My routine is like hers--sick, vulgar, profane, and so left-wing. Here is some of it.

"I was hangin out the other day and looked back into the dressing room of the moveon.org show I was attendin. I saw Margaet Cho sucking pimple juice off Chuck D's dick! Ha ha. After Chuck D dropped his load on Margaret, I saw her bend over for Al Franken, Ha ha. Well Al, the big fat liar was too puny and soft for Margaret so she got his left wing nut in her mouth and bit it, ha ha. Then Margaret started telling Julia Stiles how much she loved blondes and that all Koreans wanted to suck a white blonde leftist pussy, ha ha. So Julia bares her left-wing free speech clitois for Margaret, who looked at it and said, "Wow, just like the American Constitution, I love free speech and pussy at the same time. Can I talk dirty to it Julia?" Ha ha."

Well Karen, that is all the material I have at this time. I know it is not quite up to the left wing hate mongering of Margaret but I'll work on it.

Have a big left wing laugh there. I love Margaret's free speech models.

----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: Bush Bashing

You are a f'n loser... I am hoping you develop breast cancer or contract a flesh-eating disease and pass it on to your whole f'n family... you bitch.

It is liberal democrats that are f'n up the world. Women have had over 40,000,000 abortions in 30 years, that more lives killed then men in this country have killed in all the wars we have fought in combined. At least men can claim they did it in the name of LIBERTY and FREEDOM, women claim they kill in the name of CHOICE?

----- Original Message -----
From: Wes
To: margaret
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: I wish for unlimited abortions

That way your mother could still abort you. You are about as funny as you are good looking. By the way, thanks for convincing my family to vote for George W. Bush.

----- Original Message -----

From: Sped
To: karen
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:24 AM
Subject: BOYCOTT CHO.COM

IT AINT FUNNY TO DISS HALF THE US POPULATION!!!!
SUGGEST THIS PUPPY GET A CIVICS EXAM OR ELSE TURN IN HER GREEN CARD !!!
WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION WHO LET HER KIN IN TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE
GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR GET OUT

----- Original Message -----
From: Sped
To: margaret
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: Appalling Emails

Harro ms cho

light ring rut here. we griv