“To me suggesting I should treat gay marriage opposition as legitimate seems to me like suggesting I should have been unbiased about Jim Crow,” tweeted Hunter Walker, the Senior Political Correspondent for Business Insider [1].
Walker, the son of two lesbians, said last week that he generally likes “to think I am fairly objective and unbiased in my reporting and even my comments on this personal Twitter.” However, he declared, “I make absolutely no effort to hid [sic] the fact I am totally, completely pro-gay marriage.”
Walker’s Twitter rant came in response to a Washington Examiner article titled “Media openly cheers Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling.” [2] In the piece, T. Becket Adams noted the large-scale abandonment of objectivity by liberal journalists and media outlets covering the news. The usual suspects — including the Daily Beast, BuzzFeed and HuffPo — clearly expressed joy and approval at the decision.
Walker didn’t see any problem with that. “This is basically the one issue where I make no pretense or effort to be remotely unbiased,” Walker continued. “The arguments against gay marriage are so utterly stupid and hateful that I feel no need to pretend otherwise.”
Walker then gave the classic liberal ultimatum: “Gay marriage is fantastic,” he tweeted. “To say anything otherwise is a personal insult to me and my family.”
Right. So it’s not just disagreement the reporter won’t tolerate. If conservatives don’t cheer and wave rainbow flags, it’s a personal insult.
Then, just to give those conservative “haters” something to think about, Walker went a little further. “And, as far as I'm concerned … anyone else who suggests gay marriage should be anything but cheered can go f**k themselves.”
Wait, sorry, who’s being hateful here?