Haters come to defense of homophobic NY cab driver

Right wing blogs and the tabloid press have come to the defense of Medhat Mohamed, the homophobic New York cab driver who threw a gay couple out of his cab for hugging.

Mohamed lost his job and faces losing his cab driver license after he became enraged at the sight of his male passengers embracing in the backseat of his cab.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg was quotd as saying, “I thought the taxi driver’s behavior — if it is as reported — was a disgrace.”

Today, a columnist for the New York Post came to Mohamed’s defense and accused one of the victims of being “media savvy” in an opinion editorial that features a photo of Mohamed looking very sad (above). Since she works for Rupert Murdoch’s sleezy tabloid newspaper, columnist, Andrea Peyser could also be condemned for media savvy. Using her logic, she simply can’t be trusted because her experience in the news business automatically makes her suspect.

THIS man does not deserve to be treated like a criminal.

Cabby Medhat Mohamed is the new poster boy for sexual intolerance in this libertine city. He’s been branded by Council Speaker Christine Quinn as potentially the biggest bigot ever to scar the populace. Mayor Bloomberg labeled the distressed driver a “disgrace.”

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But Medhat Mohamed is no bigot, and he’s not a disgrace.

He’s also not a prude, a gay basher, a homophobe or the more colorful invective that’s been lobbed in his direction by a chorus of yuppies with a large bone to pick.

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Judge Judy has a saying, “If something doesn’t make sense, it isn’t true.”

It simply doesn’t make sense that two men would single this cab driver out and make up a lie about him. What would motivate them to do such a thing? There are plenty of corporations with deep pockets to go after if this were a scam.