The Media Research Center’s Matt Hadro has long been obsessed with the supposed problem of gays appearing on CNN. He keeps up the freakout in an August 1 NewsBusters post, in which he declares CNN “the network that encourages gay activists and promotes the gay agenda.” Hadro doesn’t explain what “gay agenda” he’s referring to.
Ironically, Hadro uses this post to attack CNN anchor Kyra Phillips for not talking about gay marriage — and, more to the point, rehashing right-wing talking points that gay marriage isn’t important during an interview with an anti-gay minister. Hadro also noted a post by Tim Graham earlier in the day that had attacked CNN for having as a guest a 10-year-old “who’s the toast of New York liberals and The New York Times (pardon the redundancy) for wanting to give a speech in his class in favor of ‘marriage equality.’”
Hadro then laid out his anti-gay list of particulars:
Gay activists fighting the Boy Scouts’ ban on openly-gay scouts and den leaders received encouragement and downright sappy interviews from CNN.
CNN hailed openly-gay Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) as a gay “pioneer” while badgering social conservative Tony Perkins over why homosexuals “bother” him “so much.”
CNN compared nominating a gay activist to a state’s judiciary with desegregation.
CNN has boosted gay rights activists in their fight to win public favor on “marriage equality.”
Anchor Don Lemon compared Mitt Romney defending traditional marriage to former Governor George Wallace pushing for segregation.
Shortly after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, CNN’s guests favoring gay marriage outnumbered those opposed five to one. The network continued its brazenly pro-gay coverage into the evening.
Allowing “pro-gay” points of view on a news network does not necessarily make CNN “pro-gay.” Complaining about it, though, certainly makes Hadro anti-gay.