“Questions From Real Viewers”
10th February 2012
Jonah Goldberg, in discussing Diane Sawyer and the pseudo-debates:
The point here isn’t simply to highlight for the millionth time the reality of media bias. It’s to note how issues like homosexuality now only have one purpose when it comes to political reporting: Make conservatives look weird. In all of these debates gay marriage and similar issues are not brought out to elicit a serious argument or elucidate a meaningful principle. The whole point is to get Republicans to look sex obsessed, “homophobic,” or mean.
If the substance of the issue mattered, you’d think Diane Sawyer would ask the one guy running for president with any control over the issue to explain himself. Heck, you’d think she’d ask the one guy whose position on these matters is an incoherent mess to clarify his views. But no. Asking Obama about these things would only hurt Obama. And that’s not why she’s in this business.
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February 10th, 2012 at 16:25
There can be no ‘serious’ arguement about gay marriage.
There are those who support it on the basis of civil rights, and those who oppose it on the basis of religion. Though both sides generally accept the validity of both bases, for each side one principle trumps the other.