In an Oct. 21 NewsBusters post, Tim Graham has a fit over a Washington Post “puff piece” about Ellen DeGeneres winning the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Award. Why? Because it suggested that DeGeneres’ talk show doesn’t have a “gay agenda.” Graham ranted in response:
As usual, you have the distinct impression that liberals have a reaction for the social-conservative viewpoint: they want it punched in the face. The Post certainly won’t give it more than two words of insult. Their denial that there’s anything called a “gay agenda” is a denial of reality, and a denial of everything lobbies like GLAAD or the Human Rights Campaign are doing in America.
Needless to say, Graham never describes what this “gay agenda” is. The only example of how this supposed “gay agenda” can be found in DeGeneres’ talk show is an anecdote about how she” put on a couple of little red-headed boys, and one said he favored the president, because “Barack Obama said that men and men can marry each other and woman and woman can marry each other and I think that’s right.”
That’s it. One example out of 11 years of shows. But apparently, according to Graham, the mere fact that DeGeneres is gay is enough evidence of a sinister “gay agenda.”
UPDATE: Fixed name of newspaper.