The Media Research Center’s campaign of hate against drag queens continued apace as 2022 wound down. The MRC’s chief LGBTQ-basher, Tierin-Rose Mandelburg complained that right-wing hate for drag questions was called out, and she spent a Nov. 21 post trying to justify it:
Sometimes I wonder how many mental institutions have released their patients prematurely.
NBC News Reporter Brandy Zadrozny, joined MSNBC to speak about violence against LGBTQ people following the shooting at a gay bar in Colorado. Zadrozny claimed that “far-right conservatives” are the biggest threat to people like this … and to children.
I keep forgetting that if you don’t kiss the floor that the gays and their tribe walk on, then you’re a bigot.
[…]In truth, LGBTQ folk have no longer just decided to be gay for themselves and leave it at that. In recent years the left has been going after our kids to get them to be a part of their alphabet mafia and THAT’s why conservatives step in. THAT’s why conservatives are fighting like hell to protect the innocence that children should have. That goes for Critical Race Theory AND whatever else the progressive mob plans to indoctrinate kids with.
As if she’s not trying to indoctrinate people with irrational hatred of people different from her. She continued to spew the rage of people who claim moral duperiority over others:
What she’s actually saying is that the people who are against 1st graders to pole dance, against dressing kids up in drag, against biological men dressing as women and performing provocative dances for tips, and against all of the other extreme, radical ideologies of the LGBTQ mob are the ones who are threatening kids.
People who are against this kind of behavior, aka people with a functioning brain and a moral compass, are the threat? That makes no sense. This lady has got to be kidding.
It is highly inappropriate for children to be exposed to provocative drag queens and their explicit content. Not to mention, schools shouldn’t be facilitating conversations or providing material or curriculum that confuses kids about their gender or about anything related to their sexuality. That’s something that can be done based on a parent’s choice and at their own homes.
Yes, hate-based indoctrination is exactly what she wants to impose on the world.
After the killings of five people in a Colorado LGBT club — which the MRC first sought to deflect from, then cheer that the suspect proclaimed himself to be nonbinary despite his history of trolling people — Kevin Tober complained in a post the same day that homophobic rhetoric was being called out that may inspire violence:
In light of the reported shooting at an “LGBTQ” club in Colorado Springs, Colorado in which five people were killed and 17 were injured, Monday night’s The ReidOut on MSNBC sought to blame conservatives’ fight to protect children from sexually inappropriate drag shows and other forms of grooming for inspiring the attack that occurred at that club, despite there being no word from authorities on a motive.
To make matters worse, host Joy Reid attempted to normalize “drag queen story hour” for children in which a man in a dress reads to children. Reid even aired footage of one of these sexually inappropriate shows that reportedly occurred at a New York Public Library. Any normal viewer who saw the footage Reid aired would realize how horrifying it was that the left wants children exposed to these events.
“I have been to one with kids there, with like kids there,” Reid bragged referring to drag shows. “I want to show you guys what drag queen story hours look like because there was a drag show that was supposed to be at this club when this attack happened. I just want those who don’t know what they look like to see what one looks like,” Reid said before airing the clip of a man pretending to be a woman.
“It makes me sad,” Reid said after airing the footage, “that that scares right-wing people so much that they would try to ban it or your governor sued people over it. And then people act surprised when there’s violence against people who are trans and LGBTQ.”
[…] [Brandon Wolf of “radical LGBTQ activist group Equality Florida”] ended by accusing conservatives of causing the shooting at the nightclub by pushing back on the grooming of children: “these people should be absolutely ashamed of themselves that their rhetoric, that their vile language has turned into violence in a community that is now traumatized forever.”See how this works? They can put drag queens in your five-year-old’s classroom but if you object, you are to blame for mass shootings at gay nightclubs.
Note that Tober never denounced the shooting.
A Dec, 5 post by Matt Philbin mocked drag queens for wanting to be a part of a Christmas parade:
For centuries, nothing has said “traditional Christmas” like twerking drag queens and Pride parades. Think of all those Currier and Ives lithographs of horse-drawn sleighs driven by guys in leather speedos, the Rockwell paintings of Santa dancing suggestively in a low-cut cocktail dress. Not to mention “Don we now our gay apparel.”
But, according to The Washington Post, in one small Texas town, some killjoy conservative Christians suggested that the Christmas parade was no place for a Pride float with dancing drag queens, complaining about a tradition that stretches all the way back to 2021.
The upshot is that the town of Taylor decided to have two Christmas parades: one for the crazy Christians and one for people who appreciate the traditional bump n’ grind. Call it Doomers versus Groomers.
[…]The Post notes that “Instead of quelling debate, the dueling parades divided Taylor, sparking a war on words online that grew even more pointed in the aftermath of the November attack on an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs.”
Sensing a theme?
That’s the narrative from The Post: Conservatives “target,” and daring to say you’re not dreaming of a pink Christmas is hate, and the LGBTQ and sometimes Y crowd is always a social media post away from being killed by rednecks and shut up bigot!
Philbin also failed to criticize anti-LGBT violence. One has no choice to believe that Philbin approves of such violence-inducing rhetoric, which makes it odd that he’s so mad it’s being called out since that’s the result he wants.
Mandelburg used a Dec. 8 post to once again rant against Drag Queen Story Hour and help a right-wing actor play victim:
Each week another Drag Queen story hour is promoted in the media, when’s the last time you heard of a faith-based story hour?
Crickets.
Kirk Cameron, an actor and writer, has been denied by every single one of the 50 public libraries that he requested to read his faith-based book. Meanwhile, those same libraries not only promote Drag Queen story hour but celebrate LGBTQ centered books for children.
In an interview with Fox News, Cameron said that his new book celebrates faith, family and biblical wisdom. Unfortunately however, these values apparently are something that public libraries do not support.
[…]So yes, your government funded public library now cares more about the LGBTQ agenda than about actual morality.
This is the sad but true reality of the priorities of the left. They act as though they like our kids but in reality, they just like the opportunity that public schools and libraries have to brainwash their innocent little minds.
Yet Mandelburg, like her colleagues, won’t denounce anti-LGBT violence. What kind of message is taht sending to innocent children?
Mandelburg still had enough rage in reserve to lash out at another Drag Queen Story Hour event in a Dec. 15 post:
Some people set good goals and try to accomplish them. Those goals may include losing 10 pounds, maybe trying to secure a job, or working on their mental health.
Others set goals that are ridiculous. Like this one.
In St. Petersburg, Florida, a group of organizers set a goal to create the largest “drag queen story time” in hopes of earning a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Blaze reported that the event – still to be held – will be full of political discussion, activism and, of course, drag queens reading to kids.
If you live in the area, don’t go.
According to the Florida Standard, organizers deemed the event “a fabulous family-friendly celebration of literacy.”
My cringe alert is on full-blast.
As is her sense of hate-filled performative outrage.The hate continued:
The thing is, regardless of what organizers think, drag, in and of itself, is not “family-friendly.” There is absolutely no need for kids eyes to be assaulted by men in skirts, fake eyelashes and prosthetic boobs. If that sight is scarring for most adults, imagine the damage it does to the minds of kids who can’t fully understand the delusion they’re watching.
The event was canceled in 2021 due to COVID-19. Hopefully reality sets in and the event in ‘23 is canceled, too – or, at the very least, no kids will attend.
It’s not scarring, apparently, to teach children to hate people different from them, which is the world Mandelburg wants.
Philbin returned for a Dec. 16 post to unironically complain that there’s now a word to describe him and his fellow MRC drag-haters:
It can’t be easy being GLAAD these days. The groups and identities or sexualities or whatever they are this week that you claim to represent are anything but marginalized. They’re vastly over-represented in popular culture, coddled and celebrated by the media and one of the two major U.S. political parties, and the legal way has been made more than smooth for them.
So how do you make your coin? Pressuring movie studios to make sure that exactly 43.2% of characters are black lesbians in stable, loving relationships takes money. You have to be on the lookout for opportunities. Like “Dragphobia!”
Yes, dragphobia. Admittedly, it’s not terribly original, joining as it does homophobia and transphobia (I’m old enough to remember when a phobia was an irrational fear of something, not an aversion to sexual weirdness. But time marches on and the left degrades language.)
GLAAD is now sounding the dragphobia alarm because … well because this backward and hateful country has decided that it doesn’t like men in thongs shaking their asses at children, and some nut in North Carolina may or may not have shot up electrical substations to cut the power to an all-ages drag show.
Philbin went on to tacitly endorse anti-LGBT violence and the dragphobia he so vociferously spews:
Yep. GLAAD is having podcasts about it with actual drag queens and everything. “There is clear and present danger against our community and threats … we really haven’t seen it at this level in over a decade, if ever,” one of them said.
That’s probably because drag queens haven’t been as acutely focused on grooming children as they are now. It wasn’t long ago, librarians and school officials and civic authorities instinctively knew that perverts shouldn’t interact with children.
Unfortunately, many no longer understand this simple truth, so there’s going to be resistance from parents and regular folks. There should be resistance. GLAAD can call it phobia and do its best to make normal people into the villains, but when you mess with people’s kids, you shouldn’t be shocked when people get angry.
Ah, yes the “groomer” smear. The MRC loves to spread it around, so diluting it to the point where merely acknowledging that LGBT exist makes you one.
Philbin did finally issue a wishy-washy, generalized and conditional criticism of violence: “Violence and intimidation is always wrong, and people are free to do what they want in private. But there is no right to sexualize other people’s children.” He wouldn’t specifically criticize anti-LGBT violence.
There needed to be a word to describe Philbin, Mandelburg and their co-workers. Philbin is complaining he’s being accurately described — which is unintentionally hilarious on his part — while creepily insisting his hate is virtuous.