Brian, in case you haven’t had the pleasure, works for the Media Research Center, and apparently volunteered to research the annual convention of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, since he sat through “speaker after speaker express[ing] hatred and contempt for political and religious conservatives while plotting how to advance the homosexual activist agenda through journalism.”
Since he’s not a journalist, Brian must have gone disguised as gay, at least judging by the photo that accompanied his piece, seen at left (I think he’s the shorter one, with the double butt vents). And his sacrifice is deserving of respect, because when it comes to investigative journalism, there’s no substitute for engineer boots on the ground, and because even without a shirt, walking around Washington, DC in a leather vest and cap in late August is going to cause prickly heat.
I’m left wondering whether Americans know the extent of the media’s bias on homosexual issues. Do they know that the news media have thrown themselves fully behind the gay rights movement?
Yeah, I mean, whatever happened to hiding behind a woman’s skirts?
NBC/National Journal reporter Matthew Berger said he experienced “reverse Stockholm syndrome” while on the campaign trail covering GOP religious conservative Mike Huckabee. “Stockholm syndrome” is what afflicts hostages who come to love their captors. If Berger’s feelings changed after traveling with the Huckabee campaign, they went in the opposite direction. He acknowledged how difficult it is for a journalist to do his job when you “hate” the people you’re covering. Berger said he was happy when he was transferred to the “gay-friendly” Rudolph Giuliani campaign.
So Berger preferred Rudy’s “9/11″ Tourette’s to listening day after day to Huckabee’s observations, such as gays live “‘an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle,’ and that gays with AIDS should be isolated,” and “Unless Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something different, we need to keep that understanding of marriage”? What a sissy. My old Little League coach would’ve just told him to stop sniveling and walk it off.
Sending an outspoken activist like Berger, the former president of NLGJA’s Washington D.C. chapter, to cover the Huckabee campaign is like sending a hard-right activist to cover the Obama campaign.
Ah, I see you’ve met Ron Fournier.
What was NBC thinking? Maybe they had no choice. Does NBC have anybody on staff who doesn’t hate religious conservatives?
To be fair, it’s possible he didn’t start out hating religious conservatives. Perhaps familiarity bred contempt. Or maybe the crappy music and incense-like clouds of brimstone just gave Berger a headache; I know that kind of thing can make me a bit testy. Or maybe NBC simply had a spot open on the Huckabee campaign and assigned Berger without first querying him about his queerness, because it would have been disrespectful, creepy, and illegal.
Discussing attitudes toward homosexuality, Los Angeles Times opinion pages editor Robin Rauzi revealed Big Media contempt for the rubes in Flyover Country: “We feel our readers are ahead of where they are in Kansas City.”
I suppose if the LA Times fashion editor said the same thing it would be equally true, but somehow less offensive?
During a sparsely attended (11 out of hundreds of conferees) session promoting objectivity in news coverage, a reporter from a Florida newspaper acknowledged his biases: the “public’s right to know,” and “equality.” By “equality,” he meant the homosexual activist political agenda.
This might sound like projection, but we should point out that during the conference Brian slipped in his bathroom at the Holiday Inn Express while blowdrying his hair and fell into the tub, electrocuting himself just like Mel Gibson did in What Women Want. When the paramedics restarted his heart, he realized that he now had the ability to read the minds of nearby homosexuals. And Brian really didn’t appreciate the paramedic’s disparaging thoughts about the leather vest-shaped rash on his torso.
He revealed the tension that ought to have bedeviled every journalist at the conference: how to avoid ideological bias while covering the news.
And by ‘bedeviled,” Brian means every gay journalist should literally have a tiny man sporting a crimson bodystocking and horns hopping up and down on his or her shoulder and jabbing a pitchfork into their neck until their carotid artery ruptures like a high pressure hydraulic hose.
On a partisan level, the conferees clearly leaned toward the Democrats. One speaker frankly admitted that the homosexual activist community generally expects most gays to be Democrats.
Except for the Congressmen and televangelists.
Help! Help! The liberal queer media is oppressing the conservative straight men!
Left by D. Sidhe on August 28th, 2008