Working for the Goon Squad

You gotta hand it to the enemy.  They are much more crafty than the left in their insidious and relentless “messaging.”  Case in point: check out Frank Rich’s excellent column on the New York Times website regarding the continuing war on anything the right wing finds objectionable in the media (among other offenses, a black woman’s boob and the mere mention of the word ‘penis’ get them really hot under the collar – I guess‘taboo’ things turn ‘em on).  The open season they have declared on gays since the presidential campaign has me particularly pissed off, and Rich hones in on how completely evil Spellings and Dobson are in their attacks:

"That our government is now both intimidating PBS and awarding public money to pundits to enforce "moral values" agendas demonizing certain families is the ugliest fallout of the campaign against indecency. That campaign cannot really banish salaciousness from pop culture, a rank impossibility in a market economy where red and blue customers are united in their infatuation with "Desperate Housewives." But it can create public policy that discriminates against anyone on the hit list of moral values zealots. Inane as it may seem that Ms. Spellings is conducting a witch hunt against Buster or that James Dobson has taken aim at SpongeBob SquarePants, there's a method to their seeming idiocy: the cartoon surrogates are deliberately chosen to camouflage the harshness of their assault on nonanimated, flesh-and-blood people."

Yeah, they wouldn't want to actually attack a real gay person like, say, Mary Cheney for being in the public eye and flaunting her lifestyle in front of impressionable young Americans. No siree! Gotta go after poor bunny Buster Baxter, who just wants to know how to make maple syrup, not advance a lesbian agenda (well, tolerance, actually)!