As if you didn’t already hate Fox News

The following is a guest post sent in by a reader:

Radio host John Gibson frames an audio byte from Rachel Maddow, a pundit discussing the Jeremiah Wright scandal who also-just-so-happens to be a lesbian, with a frat-boy pop-shot about her sexual orientation:

Far more is at work here than immaturity and utter disregard for decorum. Opponents of LGBT rights too often reduce their opponents to their sexuality to derail meaningful dialogue about civil rights. It dehumanizes the subject, belying the same subtleties and struggles of heterosexual couples, obsessing on the machinations of sex acts.

Gibson’s degradation of the supposed intimacies of Maddow’s personal life seems not so much malicious as just lazy. Rather than address Maddow’s statement meaningfully, Gibson instantly undercut her ethos by reducing her to an object to be ogled.

I am disappointed, as an Ally and rhetorician.