CBN's Brody tells us what we already know about the right's anti-gay smears of O

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CBN's Brody tells us what we already know about the right's anti-gay smears of Obama nominees

January 05, 2010 12:03 pm ET by Dianna Parker

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001050021

For months, the right-wing media has launched obsessive, anti-gay attacks on President Obama's gay and lesbian appointees. The attacks are ugly, gay-baiting smears (trust us, they're ugly), and have had little, if anything, to do with the appointees' qualifications to do their jobs. But many on the right would be loathe to openly admit that they oppose an appointment because of that person's sexual orientation or gender-identity. 

Enter the Christian Broadcasting Network's [CBN] David Brody (you know, the one who used to regularly appear on NBC's Meet the Press as a credible roundtable guest). He plainly suggested yesterday in a blog post on CBN's website that Obama should not have nominated Amanda Simpson to be the Senior Technical Adviser to the Commerce Department because she is a transgender woman.

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As opposed to all the other Obama nominees that they have highly praised, like, ummm, ahh, well, there has to be one.  God knows how much they loved the idea of Hilary being SoS.