They've faced down humans time and time again, but Fred Phelps and his minions from the Westboro Baptist Church were not ready for the cosplay action that awaited them today at Comic-Con. After all, who can win against a counter protest that includes robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and...kittens?
Being something of a cynic, I wonder how much the local media has to pay to get a genuine Fred Phelps dilemma in their market? For an org that doesn't live in this world, they seem to have mastered our legal industry. Since they picketed a military funeral, Fox has gone south on them. People's discovery of humor has sent MSNBC the same way and all that remains is a local Lucy Luscious to do a minute's color commentary running up to the advertisments. Poor Fred's Q ratings have gone way down. I imagine him as a coot in a rocking chair muttering about his headline draw, "in the old days."
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