RW media watchdog outraged GLEE doesnt have friendly homophobic Characters

[romantico]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 3:14pm

L. Brent Bozell III, right-wing scion and president of the conservative “media watchdog” group the Media Research Center, wrote a column today in TownHall to express his absolute outrage at the television show “Glee” for promoting a “homosexual lifestyle.” Bozell, whose “think-tank” is funded by foundation money from David and Julie Koch of the oil conglomerate Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, among other corporate sources, denounced the show for portraying opponents of homosexuality as “vicious school bullies.” Bozell lamented the fact that that Glee’s homophobes were “two brutish football players” who “threatened to pummel the openly gay and riotously effeminate character Kurt for dressing up like a girl”:

“Bill O’Reilly recently hosted a “culture warriors” segment at Fox News where both “warriors” agreed that homosexuality is morally acceptable. That same no-debate mentality has been a regular drumbeat on the Fox television series “Glee,” a musical drama/comedy about a high school glee club in Lima, Ohio. [...] The only characters on the show disapproving of homosexuality are vicious school bullies. In the May 25 episode, two brutish football players threatened to pummel the openly gay and riotously effeminate character Kurt for dressing up like a girl. Everyone else in this series approves, endorses or participates in the homosexual lifestyle.“

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/04/bozell-friendly-homophobes/

Updated On: 6/4/10 at 03:14 PM

[Craww]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 3:38pm

Oxymoron.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 3:39pm

I passed this one on. Poor, poor friendly homophobes don't get enough representation in the media. =/

[strummergirl]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 3:50pm

I am usually not a betting woman but if those two football players do not turn out to be gay lovers then color me shocked.

Also, since when was Kurt cross-dressing? The most 'outrageous' piece of fashion he wore 10 inch heels while he wore altogether something as he described as 'if Louis XVI went to a Save The Whale disco party' with a wig.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 4:04pm

Wait. Brent Bozell was upset that the O'Reilly show was ALSO gay-friendly?

I wasnt't aware the O'Reilly show had gone gay.

Poor Brent must feel he has no channel to switch to.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 4:10pm

Weren't we promised a boyfriend for Kurt this season and they would be a power couple in school? Where did that go?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 4:10pm

We've got a friendly homophobe in the White House, isn't that enough?

[romantico]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 4:21pm

Oh Christ!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 4:33pm

Kurt having a boyfriend has always been a season 2 plan.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 6:34pm

There are plenty on the show.

They are the ones throwing slushies and wearing letterman jackets.

They just aren't given names.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/4/10 at 7:25pm

Is there such a thing as a friendly homophobe?

[Dre2387]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 11:21am

Finn was sort of one for part of an episode. the one where Kurt's dad goes at him and throws him out.

[chinto1984]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 3:11pm

We also need friendly racists, too. They have feelings just like those unheard friendly homophobes that aren't just being heard.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 5:58pm

if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck...it's a damn duck!

I don't think I've ever met a friendly homophobe...

[Weez]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 7:01pm

Oh, because hatred is SUCH friendly behaviour(!)

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 9:40pm

"I don't think I've ever met a friendly homophobe..."


That's what I was saying!