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“I bet you'd get entirely different sorts of stories — more nuanced, more immediate, more reflective of the rank and file — if journalists could embed in more places than just Fallujah.”
— John Kelly for the Washington Post,
Feb. 24, 2006.”
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I bet Mr. Kelly is right. I bet, too, that's why I'm not making pancakes for Christiane Amanpour every morning.
As Jack Nicholson once said to the man who has cried, “I'm not gay, no way, nuh-uh!” more times than anyone else, “You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!”
But who's guiltier of neglecting the truth when it comes to gay and lesbian issues, the mainstream media or the public it serves?
Imagine for a moment that the public's appetite for truth equals its appetite for sensationalism. Envision that the public is just as concerned with current threats to its civil liberties as it is with missing white women. And let's pretend that the media answers the public's demands for authenticity on every matter, including the battle for gay and lesbian equality.
Imagine what it might look like if Mr. and Mrs. America were presented with a “fair and balanced” record of a day in the life of an average American lesbian — my life, for example — by Sean Hannity.
Sean Hannity: Good morning. Today we at Fox News begin a series where we take you into the trenches of the battle between good and evil. We're live in California, embedded at the home of Kim Ficera, a lesbian writer fighting for equal rights in a country she says she loves. But is it possible for an evil lesbian to love America? Is it even possible for a lesbian to love?
Kim and lesbians and gays like her a cross our great, great country have come under fire by some conservative Christians who believe homosexuals are evil scum, unworthy of equality. They are convinced that gays and lesbians are out to recruit children and destroy traditional marriage and traditional family values.
Gays and lesbians want special rights, many conservatives say, including rights that will criminalize any public criticism of homosexuality. But Ficera says that she's just trying to live her life on equal footing, and that she's not that different from you and me.
A likely story.
Ficera has been called an enemy of God, a twisted deviant, and a liberal. And that's just by me. How does this evil lesbian live with herself? What drives her to make immoral choices day in and day out? How many have been lured into the dangerous and evil homosexual lifestyle by her? Does anyone on television say the word “evil” more than
I do?
To answer those questions and more, I will eat, drink and sleep with this wicked, despicable lesbian. Her routine will be come my own. When she sins, my cameras will capture it. But be warned! You will be shocked and horrified by what you see and what you hear.
You are about to enter a world unknown to many, a world some have only read about — the unedited world of an evil lesbian with an even eviler agenda. I bring you now this groundbreaking report — a report I'm proud to call The Absolutely True Homosexual Agenda of an Extremely Evil Lesbian.
(Village People music; gay pride parade footage from the 70s.)
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