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Gay Groups Oppose Black Mayor Nominated to Head Va. Dem Party; Will MSNBC Cover Spat?
Topic Started: Mar 10 2014, 07:22 AM (55 Views)
Berton
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Gay Groups Oppose Black Mayor Nominated to Head Va. Dem Party; Will MSNBC Cover Spat?

To its credit, the Washington Post this morning is reporting an intramural spat roiling inside the Democratic Party in the Old Dominion. Turns out gay rights groups are livid that Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-Va.) has nominated Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones to chair the state's Democratic Party. Jones, who happens to be African-American and is a Baptist pastor, "has not endorsed same-sex marriage," the Post's Laura Vozzella noted, even though he has a strong record on other issues of import to the gay-rights movement.

"Activists are working to thwart Jones's election at the party's central committee meeting March 15 -- setting up a highly unusual battle for a sitting governor, whose choice for party chairman is rarely challenged," Vozzella noted in the fourth paragraph of her March 7 front-page story. While the Post deserves kudos for noting the rancorous division within the Democratic ranks, it remains to be seen if MSNBC -- which revels in portraying Republicans as bearing antipathy towards African-Americans -- will dare to cover the story at all.

Democratic racial politics aside, this is also a matter of a new litmus test which is emerging throughout the country in Democratic Party politics, with would-be party leaders being pushed to stifle their moral and religious objections to same-sex marriage, even though they may be wholeheartedly in support of other items in the LGBT agenda. As Vozzella noted, Jones "issued a proclamation to mark the [Richmond's] Transgender Day of Remembrance."

We don't expect that MSNBC, much less any other liberal media outlet, will pay significant attention to this spat, although, quite frankly, they should......

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Hypocrisy in the MSM and infighting in the Dem Party. Who would have thought it?

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Two answers to the question asked in the title. One, is there any credibility in a blog's "news report?" Two, who cares whether MSNBC covers it, other than someonetrlying to play a "gotcha"game?
Edited by colo_crawdad, Mar 10 2014, 08:33 AM.
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Berton
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Can the same be said about the blog called MediaMatters?

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I am sure you would say yes to that question while many others would say no.
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Berton
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Of course others would. All far left wing extremest would answer no. Just as you would.

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The black mayor is a minister, must be his church doesn't believe in gay marriage. It's understandable why gay rights groups would oppose his appointment. I fail to see where it has anything to do with MSNBC. Is Fox covering it? Or the ABC's?

Trying to manufacture another controversy.

And, the extreme leftist comments are getting old too. A figment of Berton's brainwashing by right wing media.
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