Matt Schlapp was on the down low during what Mercedes Schlapp dubbed the “Schlapp saga,” which he bravely recounted at a CPAC conference last August. He went undercover at the May 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Washington, DC. He smelled drugs. It was dangerous. He was surrounded by “them,” but he wasn’t alone. He was with “one tough mother.”
Matt Schlapp had a secret. He couldn’t contain it. It just came out. He shared it with the CPAC audience when Mrs. Falwell asked him to give the audience a description of what he had witnessed.
Excuse me — I mixed up my political/religious grifter couples for a second.
It’s hard to tell the Osteens from the Falwells from the Schlapps at a distance when they are in disguise. That was the point of the story.
The secret was that the “tough mother” was Laura Ingraham, and they left McLean, Virginia, and headed into the heart of darkness. They crossed the Potomac — and like latter day confederate cavalry — they headed towards the White House on a scouting mission for that was where the “thems” were.
His olfactory acumen was positively canine. He wished he was a dog. It would have been a disguise better than what he had, and he could have smelled all of the drugs, not just marijuana, which freaked him out. He was worried. If people kept smoking weed, it might lead to an insurrection — or worse.
His tasseled loafers were conspicuous. He thought often of shoes. He believed that they said a lot about a man. If he was a dog, he wanted to be one with big teeth and a fierce snarl. General Flynn told him that “thems” didn’t like attack dogs.
Those “thems” “were starting fires”, according to undercover Schlapp, who was in disguise with Laura Ingraham by his side.
They dreamed of Budapest. It was nice there. Schlapp smiled. He remembered THAT there were no “thems” there. It was a “clean” country. According to Nicholas Riccardi and Justin Spike of the Associated Press, both Schlapp-friendly reporters who compared the fascist CPAC gathering to “Woodstock:”
“Schlapp scoffed at the notion that Hungary was undemocratic, noting that Orban’s party continues to win elections and reminiscing fondly about his trip to Budapest. He recounted how his group got lost in some alleys in the ancient Hungarian capital.
“If we were in Chicago or Los Angeles, I’d have been scared to death,” he said.
But not in Hungary: “It’s orderly, it works, it’s practical, it’s clean.”
Laura Ingraham loved Viktor Orban nearly as much. She hated sodomy. She loved Fidesz. He, and they, reminded her of college days when, like all good red-blooded American fascists, she outed as many gay students as she could:
“While there [Dartmouth], she secretly sent a reporter with a tape recorder to a campus gay students’ association meeting. She then outed the students in print and sent tapes of the meetings to the students' parents. In the magazine, she called association members “cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites.”
She loved how Orban handled the issue:
“Last year, Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party banned the depiction of homosexuality or sex reassignment in media targeting people under 18, a move critics said was an attack on LGBTQ people. Information on homosexuality also was forbidden in school sex education programs, or in films and advertisements accessible to minors.”
She grew misty — and not from the tear gas attack launched against peacefully protesting Americans so that Trump could go desecrate the Bible during the US government’s attack on St. John’s Church in Lafayette Square.
Laura Ingraham looked at Schlapp. She felt like pummelling him. She is “one tough mother,” after all.
Those were the good old days.
On a serious note, the leader of the largest fascist organization in the United States has been accused of sexual assault. He is employed at Fox News. Yet, Fox News seems to be immunized from being asked questions from other news organizations about that decision.
Here are my questions for the Warning community:
Why do you think that is?
Will Fox News fire Matt Schlapp?
Will any Washington, DC, access media ask Speaker In Name Only Kevin if he was happy about this?
I welcome your comments.
Undercover Schlapp
Steve--let me share my perspective which is shared by the majority of LGBT people--Log Cabin turncoats aside.
Matt Schlapp is most likely a closeted gay man. The closet is toxic. There is no other word.
He can’t live his truth because he is too busy perpetuating lies. Those lies turn into his friends legislating against us. This makes him the worst kind of gay. There have been so many in the GOP over the years that we’ve lost count.
I don’t fault him for marrying a woman. That has happened to countless LGBT folks. Until one can live his or her truth, life is a train wreck and others get taken down with the closeted person. But when you go out of your way to foster a climate of hate--then we consider you the lowest form of pond scum.
Ingraham is right there with him. Not because she’s closeted. It’s just as bad though. She has a gay brother and has gone out of her way to spread lies and hate.
I don’t know how they live with themselves but my community is more than happy to call them out at every turn.
I would be disheartened for the future of our country, but for the upcoming youth! My grandkids are thoughtful, interesting, intelligent and “liberal “ young adults. They believe in equal justice for all, LGBTQ rights, peoples right to choose, and let’s quit making the rich that much richer and the poor that much poorer and saving the disappearing middle class! This gives me great hope…they are also kind, loving and generous.