MSNBC may be viewed as the liberal equivalent to Fox News, but for a "liberal" network, the following really angered me today.
They had a video posted called, "Parents horrified as kids show up in gay ad." What does that make you think the story is about? First, I think of homophobia - of a great fear of the gays. And I think that the story is probably about gay groups manipulating children somehow, destroying America's families one at a time.
Turns out that it is regarding Prop 8 in California, which seeks to ban gay marriage in that state. Only the ad is for Prop 8, meaning AGAINST gay marriage rights. The kids in question showed up in an anti-gay rights, homophobic ad, not in a "gay ad."
And as it turns out, the scummy, small-minded advertisers didn't even do anything illegal. They used footage of kids attending a gay wedding, which is legal in California, where for political campaigns public footage can be used without the permission of the people in the video.
Thanks, MSNBC, for letting your true colors show in your own false advertising of this "news story."
