You know Dan Gainor as the Media Research Center apparatchik (and T. Boone Pickens Fellow) who loyally spouts right-wing talking points. It’s probably not a surprise that he would parrot the MRC’s anti-gay agenda as well.
After it came out that Mitt Romney had hired as his national security spokesman Richard Grenell, Gainor managed to find something wrong with that: Grennell is gay. So he decided to tap into his inner Bryan Fischer and and pick Twitter fights with anyone who disagreed with him by ranting about how it wasn’t “conservative” for Romney to do such a thing, as Slate’s David Weigel documents.
Never mind, of course, that not even Gainor appears to be disputing Grenell’s qualifications on national security — heck, he’s certainly right-wing enough, as demonstrated by Newsmax’s crush on him. Grenell’s sexual orientation is simply irrelevant to the job in question, but Gainor has decided to portray his hiring as a “move to the left.” And as the Twitter chain demonstrates, Gainor refuses to address the logical conclusion drawn from his tweets: that conservatives should discriminate against gays in job preferences.
Curiously, Gainor has yet to bring any of this up at the MRC website. Is that because he knows that such blatant attacks on the presumptive Republican candidate are a big no-no at this point? Or is it because that such naked gay-bashing may not fly with even the MRC’s conservative base?