When CNS reporter Penny Starr isn’t writing biased articles about abortion and gays, she’s apparently wandering through museum exhibits in Washington ready to pounce on anything that’s not conservatively correct. In March, Starr was offended that a Smithsonian exhibit on human origins lacked “references to God, creationism, or pre-natal existence”; even worse, the exhibit “says fossils ‘provide evidence that modern humans evolved from earlier humans.'”
In a June 14 CNS article, Starr complains: “A new exhibit at the Library of Congress is dedicated to the memory of entertainer Bob Hope, but it focuses more on politics than it does on the legacy of a movie star who used his talents to support the U.S. military around the world.”
But reading further into Starr’s article, it’s clear that the exhibit, “Hope for America: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture,” is not solely about Hope but about the intersection of politics and entertainment. Starr can’t quite deny that Hope was one of the pioneers of topical humor that took jabs at politicians, yet she complains that “the overall theme of the exhibit highlights political protest and activism – something that, by all accounts, Hope avoided even as he became a regular at the White House over the course of 11 U.S. presidencies.”
Later in the article, Starr is forced to concede that Hope’s family approved of the exhibit and that it also includes conservatives such as Lee Greenwood, Pat Boone and Sonny Bono. Starr also conceded that Hope himself became actively political in the Vietnam years.
So, all in all, Starr’s attempt to invent a controversy has failed miserably. Then again, it does keep her from writing more hopelessly biased articles about abortion and gays.