Given the Media Research Center’s anti-gay agenda, you’d think it wouldn’t be bothered by gay slurs. And you’d be right — except when conservatives are the alleged target.
Thus, we have the spectacle of Matt Philbin whining in an Aug. 16 MRC Culture & Media Institute article that “liberals” are being mean to Michele Bachmann’s husband by suggesting that he’s gay. The headline on Philbin’s article: “Lefty Hypocrites Level Gay Slurs.”
That hypocrisy, of course, pales against the MRC’s record of gay-bashing bigotry, which results in howls of outrage anytime a homosexual appears on TV without being denounced for being all gay and stuff.
We suspect Philbin cares only because Bachmann is currently a leading Republican presidential candidate. No mention at all of an actual gay Republican presidential candidate, Fred Karger. No, the MRC is too busy bashing him for getting any media coverage at all.
Meanwhile, as Philbin was trying to generate a controversy that really didn’t exist, he was ignoring actual gay slurs.
Rush Limbaugh said on his Aug. 16 radio show that a person who asked a favorable question of President Obama during his bus tour was a “classic butt boy,” adding that there are “Obama butt boys all over the place.” “Butt boy,” of course, is a fairly prominent anti-gay slur.
Will Philbin, with his newfound sensitivity toward gay issues, hold Limbaugh accountable for his gay slur? Or will he follow MRC policy by ignoring Limbaugh’s strange obsession with anal sex?