Why are some gays fed up with the media?

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Maybe this exchange will tell you why.

This is from the Jan 11, 2004 MTP.

MR. BRODER: I saw the same kind of contrast when I was out there earlier this week. Gephardt gave a pep talk to about 175 union business agents and staff people who’d come in from around the country. I’d say it was about 98 percent male and the median size of these guys, about 6’3”, 250 pounds. Then I went over to...

MR. RUSSERT: My kind of guy.

MR. BRODER: Then I went over to the Dean headquarters, they’re young, they’re female, they’re gay, and they’re small. And I thought to myself, I hope those Gephardt guys don’t run into the Dean people. You know it would be a bad scene.

MR. TODD: You know, it’ll be interesting at the caucuses, on caucus night, if there is some physical intimidation, or not, I mean...

MR. RUSSERT: Punch everybody out.

Mr. TODD: Yeah.

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3916793/

The exchange was punctuated by laughter. The 'dean' of the Washington press corps made light of gays, women, and small men being bashed by labor 'goons'. This is nothing short of dispicable. My letters to the Washington Post went unanswered. Because it was about Dean virtually no one cared when I posted it here in real time. This should have been considered beyond the pale no matter the candidate we choose to support. This is bigotry, plain and simple. Yet not one word has been said to Broder about this behavior. Not one word to Russert either. People should know better too bad they don't.

[joeybee12]

1. Liberal media my ass--replace a few of those words with "black" and

see if those guys still have jobs. Bigotry against gays is very accepted in society,as well as in the media.

Kind of like Andy Rooney--homphobe and very vocal about it--kept his job.

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2. Very true

I was outraged when I saw it. I was so stunned I didn't post here until I saw a transcript to be sure I had heard correctly. And here I have one response go figure.

[blm]

3. He sounded like a buffoon when he said it.

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4. we can see a dramatic representation of what they found so funny

on Hack 9pm.

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5. kick

[tishaLA]

6. I hate to say it, but I think the lack of responses is because

we actually have come to expect Potato Head and Broder to behave like this. It's like getting aggravated by Tweety's homophobia and/or misogyny--you know it will happen and at a certain point you just know that disillusionment is right around the corner. Yes, Russert and Tweety will rub their thick, pink thighs while they insult women and gays, and Broder will pretend real men come with large frames and impending violence. They are whores. Their positions are fait accompli.

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7. I have never seen anything like this

It is one thing to have differing political opinions but to have jokes about violence is beyond the pale.

[tishaLA]

8. It's part of the old boy's club

Potato Head believes in his good Catholic values. Broder is a fossil. They like the status quo. Dean's supporters posed a threat--a large concentration of "marginals" all in one place. It was the Sunday morning version of bashing queers with ties and ill-fitting sport coats.

[maddezmom]

9. sucks

but Dean isn't the only one taliking about civil rights for all.