Times Overexcited About First Daughter Barbara Bush's Support of Gay Marriage

Reporter Michael Barbaro hyped up on Tuesday the less-than-earth-shattering news that Barbara Bush, one of President George W. Bush's twin daughters, has made a video in support of gay marriage: "Daughter Of Bush Endorses Gay Marriages."

Barbaro managed to compare the video for a gay rights group to such "weighty issues" as the Iraq War:

The Bush dynasty is no stranger to generational conflict: father and son differed over deposing Saddam Hussein, raising taxes and the role of the United Nations.

Now it is father and daughter who find themselves at odds over a weighty issue.

Barbara Bush, one of the twin daughters of George W. Bush, will endorse same-sex marriage on Tuesday, publicly breaking ranks with a father who, as president, pushed for a constitutional amendment banning such unions.

Bush taped a clip calling on New York state to legalize gay marriage.

Ms. Bush is the latest child of a prominent Republican leader to embrace same-sex marriage, long considered anathema to the conservative movement. Gay rights advocates have been quick to seize on the generational split as evidence that the acceptance of same-sex marriage is blind to party affiliation and family values.

Meghan McCain, the daughter of John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, has become an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage, despite her father's opposition to it. And Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, has forcefully backed it as well - and is widely credited with helping to persuade her father to do the same.

Barbaro then cited noted political analyst and brave Ugg Boots wearer Meghan McCain before returning to Barbara Bush's "striking" "foray into the same-sex marriage debate" (she has gay friends!) that has evidently silenced her father, or so the excitable Barbaro would have us think.

C. Brian Smith, a friend from college who is gay, recalled that the Yale Ms. Bush inhabited was filled with openly gay students and unbothered by questions about sexuality. "She had that mind-set," he said. "She was loved by the gay community at Yale."

Members of the Bush family seemed uneager to discuss her entry into the marriage debate. Ms. Bush declined an interview request. A spokesman for Mr. Bush said he had no comment. Her sister, Jenna Bush Hager, a correspondent for "Today," has not publicly discussed the topic.

Allahpundit at HotAir wonders what the fuss is about, considering it's hard to find a family member of a Republican president or presidential candidate that doesn't support gay marriage: Besides President Bush's wife Laura and his former Vice President Dick Cheney (and Cheney's daughter Liz), there's both Cindy and Meghan McCain.