[U]nder duress, I idiotically called a group of people standing in the cold “idiots.” While my statement was wrong and I immediately apologized publicly via my column in the Falls Church News-Press, it didn’t stop the people who’d already turned on me from recruiting new people to turn on me. All of a sudden I became a Russian spy--a traitor to America, gay people as a whole, and possibly Britney Spears. 
---fcnp.com, "Johnny’s World: A Year in Review," January 2, 2014  
(about the aftermath of his speech at Barnard College on December 1, 2013, which ended with a Q and A in which he called people protesting his speech because he opposes a boycott of a Sochi Olympics, "idiots.")