Fox News Supreme Court whiz Shannon Bream on the media obsession over Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's sexual orientation. I don't think Shannon meant "straight news correspondent" as in heterosexual. "Straight" like CNN's obstinate, lofty, and phony just the facts spin leading to the network's ratings-plummeting trajectory.
Esquire mag Q&A: As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption. She clearly has not. She seems to be a very guarded person, and her friends and her close associates around her don't discuss her personal life. So for me as a reporter, it's not somewhere I would ever go. But if she at any point, like any other public figure, did want to make an issue of it, certainly we'd report on it.
By picking someone with no paper trail and a glib, friendly tongue, Obama is almost inviting the opposition to hump questions like this about the crusty muffin (wo)man.
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ReplyDeleteJim, Muffy was the name of my male cat I got when I was nine and in fourth grade. He was gray and white striped.
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