The Media Research Center, it seems, can’t handle the truth.
A Jan. 19 MRC TimesWatch item by Clay Waters carries the headline “No Rest in Peace for Gay Rights: Times Mars Memory of Cracker Barrel Founder.” Waters complains that a New York Times obituary on Danny Evins, founder of the Cracker Barrel chain of restaurants, “heavily emphasized his 20-year-old position on openly gay employees,” dismissing this as “old news.”
Um, aren’t you supposed to recount the major events of one’s life in a obituary, no matter how old? And Cracker Barrel’s anti-gay discrimination, while not illegal at the time but characterized by what the Times called its “blatancy,” is certainly an event worth noting.
One gets the feeling that Waters wishes that Evins could still be getting away with doing that — which, of course, would make this an unsurprising part of the MRC’s anti-gay agenda.