MSNBC host’s backpedaling on gay comments shows we’re living in Bizarro-World
After Democratic Senator Cory Booker relentlessly grilled then-candidate for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his views of gay marriage , conservative commentator Ben Shapiro mockingly imagined future questions that could be leveled at supporters of traditional marriage: "To verify your tolerance, I now ask that you publicly watch 'Brokeback Mountain' without making a face and that you cry at the end, sir!" I miss the days when parody was parody and didn't immediately occur in reality after the joke was made. MSNBC 's Joy Reid, a popular TV host , has come under fire for previous comments on an old blog about gay marriage and people she suspected of being gay, with a number of LGBT activists compiling her worst offences against "the community" and tweeting them out. Those comments included Reid's musings on the gayness or lack thereof of various public figures, as well as an apparently "transphobic" comment that involved her ac