I love Ellen DeGeneres. She’s America’s kid sister.

Daily Caller:

Ellen DeGeneres is the new face of JCPenney, and one conservative group is not happy about it.

One Million Moms, an organization whose goal is to stop the exploitation of children by the entertainment media, is hoping to convince JC Penney to fire her for being gay, the Inquisitr reports.

The group argues that the retailer’s decision to hire the openly gay talk show host and comedienne will backfire because most of their customers are from “traditional families.”

I find Ellen’s politics obnoxious but doubt she’ll be advocating for abortion, Obama, and same-sex marriage in these JCPenney ads.

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ABC has relented to objections from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and cancelled the unbelievably bad comedy “Work It” after only two episodes.

It’s my guess that with the protests from GLAAD gearing up, ABC felt it would be hopeless to try and defend (note to Canada, you can probably take Detroit).

It also bespeaks a certain prejudice inside of GLAAD who has never said a word about Tyler Perry, Martin Lawrence or Eddie Murphy (who was once known to be quite transvestite-friendly despite his transvestite comedy). Of course, GLAAD has never been terribly courageous about confronting the black community. Political correctness forbids crossing racial lines.

This might reveal a hint as to why GLAAD felt empowered to attack “Work It.” The plot revolved around two men who are forced into women’s clothing just to get a job. Don’t they know that only women are discriminated against in the workplace (and only make three-fourths of a man’s salary)? Perhaps the writers’ ignorance of Women’s Studies 101 made GLAAD think it had been written by conservatives. (more…)

“Less Than Perfect” star Sara Rue is coming back to television in a new CW series dubbed “Poseurs.”

That’s assuming the PC police won’t prevent the show from airing in the first place.

Rue’s project has her playing a down on her luck woman who decides to “marry” her female pal in order to maintain “her swanky New York  co-op,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sounds like “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” turned on its sitcom head. So far, so good. Gender-based comedies can succeed, witness how the ABC sitcom “Bosom Buddies” launched a young Tom Hanks into the stratosphere.

But the folks behind “Poseurs” better be careful. If one script paints gay marriage in a negative light or tweaks the lesbian lifestyle it could mean another protest from GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

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GLAAD is a cancer on all things free speech. They make the backers of the old Production Code  and those anti-Communist Blacklisters look like look like Marxist libertines.

The ABC comedy “Work It” doesn’t even premiere until Jan, 3, and already it’s invoking ire from rights groups.

The series has sparked anger from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Human Rights Campaign, who argue that the series could prove harmful to transgendered individuals.

The series stars Ben Koldyke (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Amaury Nolasco (“Prison Break”) as two friends and former coworkers who, unemployed and desperate, take to cross-dressing in order to get hired by a pharmaceutical company that’s looking for female sales reps.

The concept spurred an angry message from GLAAD, which argued that, while the show “does not explicitly address transgender people, many home viewers unfamiliar with the realities of being transgender will still make the connection. ‘Work It’ invites the audience to laugh at images of men trying to adopt a feminine appearance, thereby also making it easier to mock people whose gender identity and expression are different than the one they were assigned at birth.”

GLAAD took particular offense to a print ad for the series, in which the two main characters stand side-by-side at a pair of urinals, while dressed as women.

“Not only does it inadvertently further notions that transgender identities are humorous or artificial, but imagery like this are one of the first things anti-LGBT activists resort to when trying to deny transgender people protections against discrimination,” GLAAD argues.

Oh shut up, you fascist, un-American crybabies.

Because GLAAD believes that anyone who falls under an LGB or T should somehow be immune from satire, these bullies attempt to make the absurd claim that obvious humor will turn into bigotry.

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Groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Organization for Women exist to protect the rights of those too often attacked in the press or in the culture at large.

But their noble missions seem to hit a speed bump when it comes time to defend conservatives who happen to fall into their protective sphere.

Earlier this month, a gay reality show star claimed he was assaulted for being conservative. The incident didn’t draw massive press and outrage, so Big Hollywood reached out to GLAAD for a response. Their reaction was muted and brief:

“GLAAD’s mission is to fight for people, Republican or Democrat, who are targeted for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.  No one should be targeted for their political beliefs either, but advocacy around those issues is outside of our mission.  That’s what you guys do.”

At least GLAAD’s reaction to the alleged assault didn’t actively attack the right. That’s precisely the tactic chosen by NOW after it took several days to drum up outrage over a sitting Congresswoman being grossly insulted on a late night talk show:
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When Kelly Osbourne speaks, the culture changes.

That’s what the daughter of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne is hoping, anyway, with her new piece at The Huffington Post. Seems Ms. Osbourne recently used the “T” word – tranny – and knows how much pain and suffering her utterance caused.

Not only will she never use the word again, she wants us all to rise up and join her:

The word “tr*nny” is a derogatory and hurtful word. I was completely ignorant to this and soon came to realize most of my peers and LGBT friends are, too. This is a word I will no longer use or allow. It wasn’t until I googled it after speaking with GLAAD that I found out just how unbelievably offensive it was …

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Anyone heard from GLAAD?

A few days ago I wrote about leftist Hollywood’s fascist attack on Brett Ratner and mentioned that we shouldn’t declare any of this a “gay campaign.” The story below is a perfect example of what I meant. People like Taylor Garrett and Chris Barron are two of many gays and lesbians out there who are not afraid to think for themselves and who want no part of GLAAD’s ongoing bullying campaign to chill free speech.

“The gays” aren’t the bad guys; the left is.

Immediately the left questioned the reality star’s claims.  Copies of the police report can be found at the Huffington Post. See photo below of the rock Garrett says was thrown through his window.

Daily Caller:

Daily Caller:

This week, movie producer Brett Ratner was forced out as the producer of the Oscars telecast after using a gay slur on Howard Stern’s radio show. Let me begin by pointing out that Brett Ratner is an idiot. Anyone who uses the slur he used in an interview — even an interview with Howard Stern — is an idiot. However, the real story here isn’t that some idiot in Hollywood said something stupid. The real story is the situational morality and selective outrage of the left — and in particular the gay left.

Where was the left’s outrage when an actor like Orlando Jones joked about killing Sarah Palin? Where is the left’s outrage when Rosie O’Donnell talks about 9/11 being an inside job? Was Jones blacklisted in Hollywood? Was Rosie forced to walk across broken glass and hot coals to beg for forgiveness? No, these and other Hollywood idiots get a free pass because they chose to bash a person or group that the left has decided is worthy of hate and scorn. The hypocrisy is stunning and no group is more stunning in its hypocrisy and its selective outrage than the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Definition (GLAAD).

GLAAD is the leading mouthpiece for the gay Gestapo in this country. While pretending to be the vanguard for tolerance and diversity, the gay Gestapo is actually committed to stomping out anyone who doesn’t buy into their radical left-wing political agenda. For all the talk of “tolerance” and “diversity,” it is clear that there is zero tolerance for ideological diversity with the gay Gestapo.

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Keep in mind that all this hoopla, phony outrage, and McCarthyism is over the following:

“Rehearsal is for fags.”

And now, because artistic freedom is dead in Hollywood, Brett Ratner is going to get the Tracy Morgan treatment — a THREE YEAR re-education tour:

Following meetings with GLAAD as well as outrage from community members and allies, Ratner issued an apology and today resigned as producer of the 84yth Annual Academy Awards. GLAAD and Ratner are working to convene public discussions featuring leaders in the entertainment industry about promoting fair and accurate inclusions of LGBT people and stories. The discussions will address anti-LGBT jokes and slurs in films and on television today as well as their trickle-down effect into popular culture. The first event will take place in coming weeks with additional discussions to take place over the next three years. Additional details to follow.

“When we sat down with Brett today, he seemed very sincere in his desire to use this experience as a way to begin speaking out against anti-gay language in popular culture,” said Herndon Graddick, Senior Director of Programs and Communications at GLAAD. “We believe his resignation is just the first step and will be announcing a series of concrete actions with Brett in coming days and weeks.”

Actually, this is McCarthyism on steroids. During the witch hunts of the 1950s, at least some fought back and spoke out, but today no one in the industry has the courage to to even squeak in protest. They’re either silent or on board. And someday, if this great Republic of ours survives long enough, honest people will write the history of this era of Hollywood and it will be covered in shame.

Like I said yesterday, this fascistic push has nothing to do with sensitivity or anti-gay bullying or concern for others. Every day, Hollywood defames and roars with bigoted pride against Christians, conservatives and Southerners. This isn’t about bigotry; this is about control.

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Comedians defending other comedians when they’re under attack for being insensitive…

What a novel idea.

First, some background:

Did Ricky Gervais cross the line by being his usual, I-could-care-less-what-people-think-about-me self?

The British comedian evoked online ire after posting a series of tweets referencing “mongs,” once a slur directed at people with Down’s Syndrome, and sometimes accompanying them with photos of him making silly faces. “Two mongs don’t make a right,” read one tweet. “Night night monglets,” he told his followers on Oct. 14.

Criticism came quick. Comedians and Down’s Syndrome advocacy groups have called out Gervais for reviving the word, but he claims “mong” now means something else.

“Well done everyone who pointed out that Mong USED to be a derogatory term for DS,” he wrote, referring to Down’s Syndrome. “Gay USED to mean happy. Words change. Get over it.”

Here’s the latest:

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The Wrap just released the news that GLAAD’s head counting shows fewer disabled characters on television this year.  Earlier today GLAAD released the news that there are fewer gays and lesbian characters on television.  

Later today we’re expecting the GLAAD count of overweight Native Americans with wooden leg characters on television. 

What we will never see from GLAAD is a diversity count involving social and political beliefs.

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Trust me, I am no Chelsea Hander fan, but GLAAD’s fascist war against humor and Hollywood rolling over most every time they crybaby over something, is an appalling assault on free and artistic speech.

THR:

E! Entertainment talk show host and comedian, Chelsea Handler, may have a problem on her hands after making several jokes about Dancing with the Stars competitor Chaz Bono on her show, Chelsea Lately, Tuesday night. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) issued a request for Chandler’s apology on Wednesday.

“Last night’s episode of Chelsea Lately repeatedly made a mockery of Chaz Bono’s transgender identity when discussing the transgender advocate’s upcoming appearance on Dancing With the Stars,” writes GLAAD’s Associate Director of Entertainment Media, Matt Kane.

Kane points out that the “transphobic humor” started in Handler’s opening remarks and continued later in the show with her roundtable comedians, Fortune Feimster, Bill Bellamy, and Jo Koy.

“The Dancing with the Stars cast has been announced,” Handler joked in her opening remarks. “It includes Chaz Bono, otherwise known as Chastity Bono [laughs] before she got her penis [laughs].”

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From James Hibberd at EW:

Tracy Morgan has landed in hot water yet again, this time for a stand-up show during which he mocked “retarded” kids and “cripples.”

Performing at a New York comedy club on Saturday, Morgan told his audience not to “mess with women who have retarded kids” because “them young retarded males is strong … they’re strong like chimps.” Morgan also talked about hooking up with a “cripple” with a prosthetic arm. The crowd reportedly responded with groans and “uh-oh.”

The Arc, an advocacy group for people with disabilities, is calling on Morgan to apologize. “Tracy Morgan should apologize immediately,” The Arc CEO Peter Berns told EW in a statement. “This quote is far too offensive to be excused as comedy, and it is very hurtful to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.” (more…)

This Orwellian moment brought to you by GLAAD and their fascistic Leftist enablers so resembles Winston Smith’s final confession in “1984,” it seems too obvious to even reference it. The video below is a little blurry, so it’s impossible to tell if Tracy Morgan’s blinking some kind of S.O.S…. If he has any pride, he’s blinking some closer to f-u-c-k-a-l-l-o-f-y-o-u:

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Could anything be more un-American than a comedian being trotted around the country to apologize for his … comedy?

Talk about chilling free speech.

Obviously the old saying about not agreeing with but still fighting to the death to defend someone’s speech is all but dead on the Left, especially where the sentiment should be most true … in the world of entertainment.

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When the story of Tracy Morgan’s “anti-gay” comedy rant originally broke I wrote snarked that we wouldn’t hear anything more about it because Morgan was inoculated. After all, he’s openly hated-on Sarah Palin and did not direct “The Passion of the Christ.” That was my mistake, though not necessarily my fault. Because the pecking order of preciousness keeps changing to suit whatever the Left’s cause du jour is, I had forgotten that as of now “sexuality” trumps being both “black” and “liberal” in the PC-Hierarchy Of Those We Must Never Offend. So now it actually makes perfect sense that Morgan has been sent on a humiliating and very public re-education tour in order to save his career.

Today, we receives yet another disturbing and frightening report that reveals just how little our Entertainment Overlords value the First Amendment and the true concept of artistic freedom:

Tracy Morgan met with a group of homeless gay teens and families who have lost loved ones to hate crimes Friday in New York City. The gathering was organized by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) following homophobic remarks made by the 30 Rock star during a June 3 show in Nashville, Tenn.

Morgan has since apologized for his remarks and announced Friday that he’ll return to Tennessee on June 21 to ask pardon from those offended when he said he’d “pull out a knife and stab” his son if he were gay. …

Morgan’s stage remarks caused an uproar, with NBC Entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt and Tina Fey both issuing statements in response to them. “I speak for NBC and myself personally when I say we do not condone hate or violence of any kind and I am pleased to see Tracy Morgan apologizing for recent homophobic remarks in his standup appearance,” Greenblatt said.

Fey also said she was happy her co-star apologized saying “I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville” in a statement to THR.

If you read the full piece, you’ll see that comedian Chris Rock stood up for Morgan (kind of) and that Wanda Sykes bizarrely blames the State of Tennessee for all of this. Sadly, Morgan’s “30 Rock” co-stars, Alec Baldwin and  Cheyenne Jackson both joined Tina Fey in throwing Morgan under the bus. And by doing so, these artistic cowards have only encouraged the guardians of Hollywood’s New PC-Production Code to keep on keeping on.  How ironic — but in a fascist kind of way.

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By now I’m sure we’re all familiar with the story – Tracy Morgan did some crude jokes about homosexuals during a standup routine in Nashville, TN, and as a result he’s facing a backlash that probably made him think his career was imploding. The dreaded speech police of the left, those people who are highly tolerant of everything except what they won’t tolerate, have risen up en masse because Morgan dared speak his mind.

Consider the irony: hard left celebrities – some of whom are openly homosexual – who have staked their claim on being able to speak their minds and otherwise express themselves, are now actually coming after Morgan because he did just that.

Of course that’s not surprising. After all, they are liberals. (Thus they have one standard for themselves, and another standard to which they hold others.)

But what is surprising is that Morgan cowered down to them, apologized, and had a conference call with GLAAD wherein he basically recanted his whole Nashville standup routine. He even promised to take part in GLAAD’s upcoming “Amplify Your Voice” campaign “to combat anti-LGBT bullying.”

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Something happened in 1991 that my daddy never believed possible: Tommy Lee Jones played a gay man.

And the shrill and very vocal faction of the homosexual community cried foul at not only his portrayal, but of the portrayal of homosexuals in “The Silence of the Lambs.” GLAAD led a protest of “Basic Instinct” before the movie had even wrapped principal photography, and the controversy continued when Tri-Star released the picture during so-called Awards Season in 1992.

The nominees:

“J.F.K.” – Great filmmaking and mythmaking.

“The Silence of the Lambs” – The winner, released all the way back in February of 1991, and a genuine crowd pleaser.

“Beauty and the Beast” – I’m not saying it’s a bad movie, but it’s inclusion smacks of tokenism, as in, “There. We nominated an animated movie. Now leaves us alone.”

“Bugsy” – Another good movie, but I remember thinking, “If this gangster movie wins after ‘Goodfellas’ lost, I’ll threaten a boycott like my gay friends did.”

“The Prince of Tides” – The stink here was that Babs wasn’t nominated for best director. It had to have stung that Ridley Scott was nominated instead for directing “Thelma & Louise,” a wrongly politicized road movie about two women on the run from the law. Babs also missed out on scoring one for women when John Singleton was nominated for “Boyz N The Hood.” The irony, I guess, is that all these years later, both “The Prince of Tides” and “Boyz N The Hood” feel like TV movies.

What should have been nominated:

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What has happened to the writers of ‘Glee’? I don’t get it.

These guys pride themselves on being the vanguards of tolerance and understanding. They have been awarded by no less than GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) for their positive and outstanding representations of gays and lesbians in the media. They have been in the forefront of breaking down stereotypes and educating Americans on the dangers of intolerance against groups who don’t fit into the cookie-cutter molds that society would force them into.

So imagine my surprise when they did exactly the opposite to conservative Tea Party activists:

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Kathy Griffin, (herself a GLAAD “Vanguard” award winner for her outstanding contribution to the depiction of gays and lesbians in the media), played a “Tea Party Candidate” who was judging a glee club competition. Dressed all in red and with Palin-esque glasses, her character bursts onto the scene by proclaiming “I am not a witch!” [Insert pause for laughter here].

It’s more than just disappointing, it’s intolerance and bigotry in the name of tolerance and understanding.

The initial reviews of this episode are pretty lousy, even from the show’s fans. And they all seem to single out the Kathy Griffin character as a “dud”. But, none of them understand the real reason why her character was a dud. I’ll explain it for them: Because it was a two-dimensional depiction of a conservative that was not based in any kind of reality or truth. The character was a cartoon image of a “Tea Partier” drawn by a group of writers who probably have never had a real conversation with one of us.

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You want to know why that clip is funny? Because “SNL” is actually going after a bona fide sacred cow. I mean, a real sacred cow, not a fake one like the Catholic Church. Further proof of that protected status comes from GLAAD itself:

The piece was a mock commercial for estrogen replacement therapy and featured men with facial hair wearing dresses, meant to represent transgender women. This segment cannot be defended as “just a joke” because there was no “joke” to speak of. The attempted comedy of the skit hinges solely on degrading the lives and experiences of transgender women. Holding people up for ridicule simply on the basis of their identity fuels a hurtful climate and puts people in danger, especially given how infrequently the media shines a fair and accurate light on the lives of transgender people. “The violence, discrimination and harassment that transgender Americans experience each and every day is no laughing matter,” said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios. “Saturday Night Live is a touchstone of American comedy, but Saturday’s unfunny skit sends a destructive and dehumanizing message.”

Whatever. They have every right to fight back, I guess. Between this and that “electric cars are gay” joke, the entire non-heterosexual community must feel as under assault as Sarah Palin. Two jokes in one year. It’s a regular Hate-a-palooza out here.

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Sandra Bernhard called Bristol Palin a “hooker” on the “Joy Behar Show” while the rest of her panel concurred by offering up more degrading remarks in support of Bernhard. Not surprising that Behar concurs with Bernhard, as she is fond of name-calling too. She has compared former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler.  She called Sharon Angle a “bitch” and said she was “going to Hell.” 

 Being a devout anti-Christian, it seems hypocritical that she believes in Hell at all.

If Behar doesn’t understand the facts or she can’t defend her point of view through rational thought she resorts to name-calling.  When Bill O’Reilly referred to the terrorist of 9/11 as “Muslim killers” she called it “hate speech” and stormed off stage with her pal Whoppi Goldberg in a fit of childish indignation. So it’s OK for her to lie and call people names but when O’Reilly states something that is a fact, it’s “hate speech.” Behar’s name-calling cannot be backed up by any logical facts, but the facts do prove that she is a left-wing wacko and those that sit in her audience and applaud her rabid discourse are no better. Yes I am name-calling here, but at least my name-calling is based on facts.

Sandra Bernhard and Behar, though not twins, are of course likeminded (like Bubba and Forrest): One of Bernhard’s “famous” quotes I found on the Internet iss: “The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his brown-shirted thugs.” Just like Behar, she compares Republicans to Hitler. She also referred to a Republican woman as a “thin-lipped bitch,” and to Sarah Palin’s Christianity as “new goyish crappy shiksa funky bullshit.” Not bad for a comedian ranked in the top 100, well somewhere in the top 90. (more…)