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Title: Rachel Maddow goes soft on anti-gay Huckabee
Post by: Shana A on November 24, 2008, 01:54:53 PM
Post by: Shana A on November 24, 2008, 01:54:53 PM
Rachel Maddow goes soft on anti-gay Huckabee (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8380)
by: Pam Spaulding (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/userDiary.do?personId=2) Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM EST
I'm starting to think that Rachel Maddow has an issue or professional discomfort with taking on publicly anti-gay figures on her show. It's an oddity, given 1) she's out and has a high-profile; and 2) her fellow MSNBC host, Keith Olbermann, has been extremely forceful as an ally on the issue by comparison. She's spoken at length about the debacle of Prop 8, so one would assume that if given the opportunity, Maddow would address the issue with well-known homophobes. The reticence to take on agents of intolerance surfaced in a recent interview with former GOP clown car occupant, rapist/murderer-releasing Baptist minister-without-a-theology-degree Mike Huckabee. (Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/21/maddow-huckabee/)):Maddow was notably silent on the issue of gay rights when interviewing former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. On Tuesday, Huckabee had insisted that gay rights and civil rights were totally different (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/huckabee-gay-rights/) because gay rights activists' "skulls" weren't getting "cracked." On Wednesday morning, Huckabee claimed that Prop. 8 "did not prohibit (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/huckabee-prop-8-did-not-prohibit-same-sex-marriage/)" gay marriage; it "simply affirmed that which already has and forever has existed," he said.
by: Pam Spaulding (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/userDiary.do?personId=2) Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM EST
I'm starting to think that Rachel Maddow has an issue or professional discomfort with taking on publicly anti-gay figures on her show. It's an oddity, given 1) she's out and has a high-profile; and 2) her fellow MSNBC host, Keith Olbermann, has been extremely forceful as an ally on the issue by comparison. She's spoken at length about the debacle of Prop 8, so one would assume that if given the opportunity, Maddow would address the issue with well-known homophobes. The reticence to take on agents of intolerance surfaced in a recent interview with former GOP clown car occupant, rapist/murderer-releasing Baptist minister-without-a-theology-degree Mike Huckabee. (Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/21/maddow-huckabee/)):Maddow was notably silent on the issue of gay rights when interviewing former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. On Tuesday, Huckabee had insisted that gay rights and civil rights were totally different (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/huckabee-gay-rights/) because gay rights activists' "skulls" weren't getting "cracked." On Wednesday morning, Huckabee claimed that Prop. 8 "did not prohibit (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/huckabee-prop-8-did-not-prohibit-same-sex-marriage/)" gay marriage; it "simply affirmed that which already has and forever has existed," he said.
Title: Re: Rachel Maddow goes soft on anti-gay Huckabee
Post by: soldierjane on November 24, 2008, 02:47:45 PM
Post by: soldierjane on November 24, 2008, 02:47:45 PM
QuoteHUCKABEE: The very people who voted for Barack Obama in California...also voted to sustain traditional marriage. I refuse to use the term, "ban same-sex marriage." That's not what those efforts did. They affirmed what is. They did not prohibit something. They simply affirmed that which already has and forever has existed.
Hehehe... nice turn of phrase. I bet they could have said the same about anti-miscegenation laws and pretty much every social advancement in history.