December 15th 2008
Sloppy AP Reporting Targets Gays For Church Fire
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et’s put the shoe - OMG! What a cute, cute shoe! - on the other foot, shall we? If Rev. Wright’s church was burned in a probable arson and AP arbitrarily jammed in a paragraph about some conference held there that was particularly irritating to white conservatives, implying we were the fire-setters, wouldn’t we holler?
So there’s no reason to be surprised when the gay community took offense at this passage in the AP coverage of the disastrous fire at Sarah Palin’s former church in Wasilla:
The 1,000-member evangelical church was the subject of intense scrutiny after Palin was named John McCain’s running mate. Early in Palin’s campaign, the church was criticized for promoting in a Sunday bulletin a Focus on the Family “Love Won Out Conference” in Anchorage. The conference promised to “help men and women dissatisfied with living homosexually understand that same-sex attractions can be overcome.”
Why indeed should AP tag gays, lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals, bisexuals, trisexuals, gender-confused, queens, trixes and any others I apologize to for leaving out for the fire? It’s just as likely to have been a riled up abortion hawk, a violent pacifist, a coven of witches, a wardrobe-jealous recessionista, William Ayres or any number of people far more off the deep end than your run-of-the-mill gay.
Heck, maybe Karl Rove set it just to get people mad at the far left kooks - did you think about that, AP?

SCRATCH John Edwards off the list of potential vice-presidential candidates. The former White House contender, who had been hoping to get the nod from Barack Obama, is in the midst of a full-blown sex scandal.
Take the $3.3 billion grant program to upgrade the nation’s electricity network. Please. When it was announced in April by Joe “Oh, It’s Just A Little Lie” Biden, he had a pretty simple - if grammatically challenged - explanation for the grant’s intent: “This is jobs - jobs.”