Tierin-Rose Mandelburg wasn’t the only Media Research Center writer having the usual corporate fit over Pride Month in June. Comedy cop Alex Christy spent a June 6 post complaining that Jimmy Kimmel called out homophobic haters complaining about a documentary showing non-heterosexual behavior in the animal kingdom, complete with a parody ad for “The Straight Zoo! Where every animal is a heterosexual, red-blooded breeder”:
As June rolls on, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel lamented on Wednesday that Pride Month gives conservatives an excuse to “spew poison.” Kimmel’s answer to this was to mock the conservative response to Peacock’s Queer Planet documentary with an ad for “The Straight Zoo,” complete with footage of gorilla and donkey sex.
Kimmel lamented, “Pride Month unfortunately is a great excuse for some of these right-wingers to spew poison. The new thing they’re pretending to be very outraged by is an animal documentary that premieres tomorrow on Peacock called Queer Planet.”
(The following video contains depictions of animal sexual activity that may be considered not safe for work. Viewer discretion is advised)
[…]Peacock’s intent was clear: they are trying to portray opponents of LGBTQism as out of touch with nature under the guise of a wildlife documentary, but penguins, lions, and clownfish are not humans, and Kimmel was simply upset people noticed.
Stephanie Hamill served up a rant about the “Queer Planet” documentary itself in a June 14 post in which she equated non-heterosexual behavior to eating your young:
Queer Planet’s spin on mother nature will most likely throw you for a loop after you realize everything you thought you knew about mother nature is wrong.
All living things are queer according to Queer Planet, which was released on NBC’s streaming platform Peacock on June 6, during “Pride Month.”
Yes, lions and penguins can have bromances. Shrubbery is not only queer, but also promiscuous. Some primates are pansexual, mushrooms are multi-gendered and there are fish that can change sex, according to the documentary.
Clownfish also are apparently transgender and incestuous, including the fictional character ‘Nemo’ from Finding Nemo.
[…]Never mind the fact that there are animals that eat their own, monkeys who throw poop when threatened and animals who clean themselves through licking, among many other intriguing behaviors.
Like Christy, Hamill also tried to argue that animals aren’t human and so we shouldn’t care about their sex lives: “No matter what some animals and plants may be up to on this planet, it’s a huge stretch to equate these examples to human life. We are much more complicated and complex, as humans are made in the image of God.”
Michael Wnek spent a June 20 post trying to play whataboutism over the pride flag:
The hosts over at CBS Mornings couldn’t seem to decide how they felt about political flags. During the second hour of Thursday morning’s episode, they devoted a segment to an interview with Lynn Segerblom, one of the original creators of the rainbow Pride flag. However, only a few weeks prior, they denounced the Appeal to Heaven flag that flew outside of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s New Jersey home.
In a dutiful demonstration of their alliance with the LGBTQ+ movement, co-host Gayle King introduced the interview with an apologetic admittance of the fact that no one in the studio was aware of the rainbow flag’s origin:
[…]Yet, the juxtaposition of this episode and the one concerning Alito a few weeks ago was clear. Both covered the topic of flags but the one that represented perversion was celebrated while the other was decried as an insurrectionist symbol of Christian nationalism.
Well, yes, it is unseemly that a Supreme Court justice has been flying a flag that has become associated with insurrectionists, since it raises legitimate questions about whether he can truly be an impartial justice. But Wnek is also being hypocritical because it has cheered the censorship of the pride flag on public property:
- In February, Christy complained that Stephen Colbert called out Florida for banning the pride flag in school classrooms, insisting that “schools do not exist to promote sexual liberalism.”
- In a March post, Mandelburg cheered the “positive” development that Huntington Beach, Calif., effectively banned displays of the pride flag on city property, declaring the flag is “politically divisive” and concluding by childishly sneering, “get wrecked nerds.”
Wnek made sure to smear LGBT people as well:
CBS correspondent Elise Preston interviewed Segerblom who described the process of creating the flag and explained her reason for specifically choosing the rainbow which she said was “a beautiful phenomenon of light and color and nature? It’s all the colors. It’s the full spectrum.”
Yes, that phenomenon was a gift from God to humanity that had been subverted by a movement that promotes pedophilia and perverted indoctrination of children.
Wnek didn’t explain how it’s “indoctrination” to teach children not to hate others.
Tim Graham gushed over Ben Carson trying to change the subject to pride flags in an interview in a June 22 post:
Dr. Ben Carson appeared on CNN’s Late Night with Abby Philip to discuss Louisiana putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms, which CNN thinks is wildly controversial and objectionable. Phillip eventually asked Carson why Trump favors this policy when “he doesn’t even try to follow” the commandments. Carson turned to the promotion of Pride Month in schools. Phillip wanted to avoid that topic entirely.
Phillip wanted to stick to putting Carson on the defensive, insisting many people object to any government putting a “thumb on the scale” for Christianity, asking Carson if they should post the Five Pillars of Islam in schools. (She never mentioned Judaism and Moses.)
Late in the interview, Phillip asked if the Ten Commandments were posted at any of Donald Trump’s properties. Carson said he didn’t know, and Phillip challenged him: “Shouldn’t they be?”
So it was amusing to see Phillip seek to avoid any changing of the subject to Pride promotion in public schools, insisting no state is imposing that (some red states like Tennessee are trying to prevent Pride flags in schools).
Graham didn’t explore why Carson tried to change the subject to a hot-button issue rather than answer the question he was asked.