The right wing has found its next target: breakfast.
Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield declared war on cereal Tuesday night in an unhinged rant about breakfast cereals.
Stinchfield used the attack on cereal as a proxy to attack the queer community over the production of a special edition cereal by Kellogg’s called Together with Pride. The cereal–a mix of rainbow cereal bites and glitter, will hit stores in June as a commemoration of pride month. The Kellogg’s mascot characters, including Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam, also pose on the front cover.
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“Kellogg’s Cereal has come out with a ‘woke’ cereal,” Stinchfield seethed. “The cereal is Rainbow hearts, covered in edible glitter. How nice. Give me a break. Here’s the worst part, the cereal slogan, ‘too amazing to put into a box,’ and then lists a space for kids to write in their own pronouns. Seriously. Whatever happened to box tops on cereal boxes? Now you have pronoun spaces?”
"I think General Mills has a gay leprechaun, right?…He wears high heels shoes, prances around in tights – leads me to believe, probably, that little Lucky Charm leprechaun might be gay" pic.twitter.com/THaBfIWtZ3
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) May 26, 2021
From there, Stinchfield proceeded to attack another longtime breakfast icon: Lucky the Leprechaun.
“Anyway, isn’t Kellogg’s a little late to this woke game by the way?” he went on. “General Mills has, I think General Mills has a gay leprechaun, right? Well, my producer Carly asked me, ‘is that leprechaun really gay?’ I said I don’t know, maybe: he wears high-heeled shoes, prances around in tights, leads me to believe, probably, that little Lucky Charm leprechaun might be gay.”
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“But here’s the thing,” he continued. “For those of you that want to vilify me for those comments right, right there, aren’t you just as offended by the flamboyant rainbow hearts and glitter as a symbol of gayness? See, there are two standards here. Nothing like forcing our kids to be confused about their gender first thing in the morning with their breakfast.”
“Switch your kids to granola,” Stinchfield concluded. “It’s healthier anyway. You cut the sugar, okay, and then you don’t have to buy products from woke companies.”
While we’ll not comment on the sexuality of Lucky the Leprechaun–and we would be happy to have him on our team–and while we do confess that granola is quite healthy, we have to wonder why he’s singled the Lucky Charms stalwart out. Does he have something against the Irish?
Newsmax, of course, has a long history of pushing verifiably false news stories, including conspiracy theories around the 2020 Election and COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, the outlet also railed against Marvel Comics for introducing a gay Captain America, but not one based on Donald Trump.
Forget sugary breakfast cereals: Newsmax is bad for your health.
lykeitiz
“Nothing like forcing our kids to be confused about their gender first thing in the morning with their breakfast.”
Gotta admit, that one made me laugh. Someone should clue him in on the origin of “Right in front of my salad.”
Liquid Silver
Mind you, edible glitter is sugar just like soylent green is…well, you know the rest. But there’s a limit to stupid. I can register my protest to excessive sugar just by not buying that crap.
Now if Pride wanted to support, say, upcycling clothes by partnering with Rit and Jacquard dyes to change clothing colors for a new season and new you…I’d be there.
BoomerMyles
Would he prefer cereal eater just teabag their junk in a bowl of milk?
Is that manly enough for you, Stenchfield?
JRinDallas
It’s just hilarious how worked up these morons get about this stuff. Bravo, Kellogg’s, for provoking this little man’s apoplectic rant about something that just really doesn’t matter. Too bad these snowflakes can’t use their energy to make the world a better place instead of just constantly whining about it. Pathetic.
Imjustsaying
I knew it!
Mister P
It’s quite obvious these morons have no ideas how to make America great, so they resort to culture wars and trying to keep people from voting.
novadude
What I wouldn’t give to have these drooling rightwingnuts stop with their “woke” nonsense. I mean really, does every single sentence have to use that word?
So we’re “woke” and they are not. I guess that means they are asleep? (Actually that might explain a lot!)
Sounds a lot like their attacks on Antifa which is a shortened form of Anti-Fascist. So Fascism is a good thing then?
(They don’t even know how stupid they sound…)
HenryHawke
They know how stupid they sound. They just don’t give a crap.
Kangol2
It ought to tell you something when you’re catching a hissy fit over cereal! The right-wing hysteria never ends, and yet again, they have new buzzwords (“woke,” “cancel culture,” blah blah) like the old ones (“SJW,” “virtue signalling,” “political correctness,” blah blah), to freak out with when they are challenged on their homophobia, anti-gay and anti-trans attitudes, racism, sexism and misogyny, and so on. Meanwhile, they do the very same thing (cancel culture, political correctness, etc. to anyone who disagrees with them. Beyond pathetic!
Heywood Jablowme
“Switch your kids to granola,” Stinchfield concluded. “It’s healthier anyway.”
That’ll never happen. Trumpers don’t believe in eating anything healthy or making kids do it. Making kids eat a pound of bacon, maybe!
Invader7
Sad little limp dick do NOTHING anal orifice !!!
revjimbrooking
This guy is an insult to the human race.
scotty
“always after me lucky charms”
Dick Gozinia
He goes to my gym and he is super nice and friendly. I had no idea he was so right-wing. And he apparently has no idea that my politics are 180° from his.
Doug
It’s really amazing what little it takes for people like Campbell to get their panties in a bunch. He’s so threatened by the fact that a cereal is acknowledging gay pride month!