The stylist who keeps Ann Coulter’s hair follicles from revolting against their host is probably a gay. And there’s a least one homo camera guy helping The O’Reilly Factor go live every evening. Hell, even Bill Donohue has gotten a shoe shine from one of us before. Yes, the gays are involved in propping up the lives of those who hate us. But there are perhaps fewer homos directly involving in giving bigots a platform, and a serious cash windfall, than the editors behind their best-selling books.
Like Mitchell Ivers, the gay editor at Simon & Schuster, who helped guide Young America’s Foundation chief Jason Mattera’s book from outline to bookstore. Yes, that’s the same Mattera that said this crap at CPAC:
So how do these gay folks sleep at night knowing they’re helping anti-gay rhetoric flourish in America? With cash, of course. Gay City News‘ Duncan Osbourne delves into this ethics quandary.
Some of these authors, such as Mattera, Levin, and Beck, do not dwell on anti-gay themes in their books, but Henry E. Scott, a media consultant and former president of Out, a gay magazine, said these editors are advancing the careers of conservatives who have a generally odious message. “If I were a book publisher, I would feel a sort of moral obligation to publish reasoned arguments from all comers,” Scott said. “I wouldn’t feel any obligation to publish political screeds.” Scott brought this story to Gay City News in a 2009 email in which he called Ivers and Spain “the Roy Cohns of gay life.” Cohn, an attorney and closeted gay man, aided Republican Joseph McCarthy, a US senator from Wisconsin, in his 1950s witch-hunts of communists and homosexuals in the federal government.
[…] These editors are in it for the cash, he argued. “It’s a buck, it’s all about making money,” Scott said. “One has a right to make money, but one also has to accept being called a hypocrite.”
Karl Frisch, a contributor at Media Matters for America, a left-leaning media watchdog group, agreed. “It seems that some people, whether it’s LGBT employees at Fox News or other News Corp. outlets or people at other publishing outlets, value their paychecks more than they value being treated with simple human dignity,” Frisch said.
We have a feeling how this conversation is going to go, but let’s do it: Do gays have some moral responsibility not to earn a living by trafficking in hatred? Or are they just doing their jobs? The old adage that gays (and Jews) run the media isn’t without merit. And as such, aren’t we in a position to squelch some of this crap?
How about we take this to the next level?
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Of course. But that would get in the way of paying for our fabulous new sub-zero fridge and stainless steel appliances. Oh, did you see our new wine cellar?!
ggreen
You might want to also mention the gay “media” companies that exploit gays for fun and profit. Constantly recruiting young and naive gays and spitting out drug addicted messes. Titan, Falcon, Hot House et al. They owners of those outfits have plenty of stainless steel appliances too.
Bill
I LOVE my stainless steel appliances.
Will people be voting to take those away from me, too???
No marriage AND no stainless steel????
Life’s not worth living, I might as well die.
Jones
Gays are our own worst enemy. We are the gay agents, producers, director and executives that keep the closet alive in Hollywood. In TV. In books, magazines, etc.
We are doing such a good job at digging our own graves.
ousslander
He’s an editor not the owner. SO don’t do the job get fired.
The Artist
These people are stupid. PEACELUVNBWILD!
tjr101
Is that what they call a young crowd? No wonder the conservative movement’s in trouble. Not much of a diverse crowd either. I look forward to a challenge because I’m certain I hate conservatism more than they do liberalism.
Andrea Hendricks
It’s called freedom of speech… to be a good editor, you allow all authors the right to write what they want. We wouldn’t want to be silenced by conservatives working in a publishing house so how can we silence them?
Nick Whipple
The vast majority of the American public are hetero’s who buy into the crap that is making these people money. Though I do not know who, I do know that some serious money has come into our campaigns from rich gays who are likely doing these jobs.
Don’t look at it as if they are ‘selling us out”. Look at it this way: They are using these loony conservatives who pour their money into these entities to make an unholy amount of money to funnel right back into funding our gay-rights movements.
AND many of them are in the perfect position to advocate from the inside. For example, what changed Fallwell’s mind about church/society segregation was his shoe-shiner of many years – an old black man. That man was always praising the Rev on his preaching heard via local radio. One day he says, “One thing I’d like to do before I die, Rev, is hear your preachin’ from a pew.” (something along those lines, not a direct quote).
The vanity behind the decision is so painfully obvious yet it ushered in a drastic turn for the better on African American rights. A hair dresser may someday say something equally mind-changing to one of these pundits like Dr. Laura or Coulter. Who knows? But traitors? Na. The traitors are the people up there activly promoting anti-gay agenda’s because they are really closeted gay self-haters. Like the ex-gays and half the Republican party.
Personally, may gaydar goes off with Anne Coulter. As a male-spirited butch lesbian, I bet one put-down from a boi like me would do her a world of good…I have an uncanny sense for these so-called straight girls that are really wanting a Bodache…they just don’t know it yet…not too many of us around anymore. Too many are changing their bodies to match their souls. I am an FtoM Bodache warrior and damn proud of it! You can take my breasts if they get cancer, other than that leave me be! lol! (Though periods suck A**!!!)
Edfu
And then there’s the case of gay Jonathan Burnham–transplanted Brit and paramour of gossipist and former editor-in-chief of “Star,” Joe Dolce–who is senior vice president and publisher of HarperCollins. Burnham not only acquired, in a multi-million-dollar contract, Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue,” but he then also hired fanatical homophobe Lynn Vincent to ghost-write it. He has now also acquired a second book from Palin, on “American virtues and strengths,” ghost-writer not yet revealed.
Andre
It could be that Jonathan Burnham is desperate. As the New York Observer reported, his “record as publisher of HarperCollins’ flagship imprint has been marked by a number of expensive acquisitions that did not meet expectations.”