Comments on: The Secret Paul Lynde Agenda

The Secret Paul Lynde Agenda

ericb — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:24:04 -0800

The Secret Paul Lynde Agenda
The American Family Association warns us about a TV special that blows the lid off the Homosexual Agenda: "TV Land's 'Happy Face' On Homosexuality Masks Tragic Lifestyle."

"Ed Vitagliano, a media researcher for the American Family Association, says although 'Tickled Pink' does not promote the latest political issues of the pro-homosexual movement, the one-hour special does appear to have some disturbing objectives. One thing the show seems to do, he observes, is to hint that Hollywood has somehow 'outsmarted' mainstream culture for decades by 'sneaking" homosexual characters and motifs into television programs.' "

By: ericb

ericb — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:26:30 -0800

"And then the gays tried to claim that Batman and Robin, Starsky and Hutch, and even Laverne and Shirley are, if not homosexual, at least good friends — how dare they despoil our heroes!"

By: mischief

mischief — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:39:48 -0800

"Hollywood has somehow 'outsmarted' mainstream culture for decades by 'sneaking" homosexual characters and motifs into television programs" Well, duh! If mainstream culture has been outsmarted for decades, then mainstream culture must be pretty damn stupid. Oh, right... ;-P

By: mmahaffie

mmahaffie — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:56:50 -0800

Paul Lynde was gay? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you.

By: furtive

furtive — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:02:13 -0800

What about television's secret aluminium appliance agenda? And let us not forget the terrible George Lopez agenda. Sigh.

By: furtive

furtive — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:03:21 -0800

err make that stainless steel agenda. Just woke up.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:06:56 -0800

There are things far more sinister than television behind the promotion of the homosexual agenda.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:09:26 -0800

television isn't, and hasn't been mainstream culture for decades? what was, the public museum?

By: horsemuth

horsemuth — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:09:35 -0800

I prefer to think of it as the Charles Nelson Reilly agenda...

By: clevershark

clevershark — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:13:41 -0800

It must suck to be a member of the American Family Association. They have to go through life forever fearful that there's a gay man around every corner waiting for them to drop their guard... to what end I'm not sure. They must be afraid of "catching teh gay" or something. Sad, sad.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:17:48 -0800

one wonders why so many apparently fear them and think thier antics worthy of discussion... *cough*

By: malusmoriendumest

malusmoriendumest — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:20:22 -0800

Sadly, heterosexism is everywhere. If you're not poking fun at the homosexual boogeyman, you have to be treating gay people like monsters or perverts. Heigh ho.

By: Cincinnati_Craig

Cincinnati_Craig — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:23:11 -0800

Ahhh for the days when Paul Lynde was the central square on the original Hollywood Squares. My favorite Paul Lynde moment (circa 1969): Peter Marshall: Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather? Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

By: j.p. Hung

j.p. Hung — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:43:45 -0800

oh, it's coming.... The Liberal "gay" Media.

By: peacay

peacay — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:51:02 -0800

The advertizing industry has been withholding $$ from the world of 'gay tv' following lobbying by the AFA.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:52:15 -0800

The AFA neglects to mention the faceless cabal's introduction of flamboyant characters to divert attention from those who successfully weevilled in under the radar, like Lynde. Mwuhahaha!

By: peacay

peacay — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:52:41 -0800

err....rather, the companies that formerly advertized are withholding their money.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:58:25 -0800

My favorite mainstream media hack is the one Seth McFarlane pulled with American Dad. Cloaked as an Archie Bunker-type show centered on a die hard conservative American, they pull shit that Family Guy could never get away with, like jokes involving "taint" and alluding to anal sex. My favorite character is the Paul Lynde clone Roger, though his sexuality hasn't come up so far.

By: davy

davy — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:09:07 -0800

one wonders why so many apparently fear them and think thier antics worthy of discussion... I wonder why you don't know you've just asked a rhetorical question, Quonsar honey. Here's a non-rhetorical question: are you and Kwantsar the same person?

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:19:13 -0800

That Tickled Pink special on TV Land was a hoot (at least for confirmed hellbound sodomites like myself). They're replaying it all month for Gay Pride month. Catch it if you can--it shows up in TiVo listings as "Inside TV Land."

By: kozad

kozad — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:19:52 -0800

BTW, I've always been a big fan of the term "confirmed bachelor," a staple in American media lingo for decades. Too bad Liberace never found a wife, innit?

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:25:19 -0800

er, well, kozad....not so much as a marriageable one in the AFA sense.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:27:14 -0800

...and is calling someone 'honey' in a gay culture thread a Godwin variant or sumpin?

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:32:19 -0800

does anyone know if the homosexual agenda has a web site or something? cause we've been fighting it for decades and I still don't know what it is.

By: Jon-o

Jon-o — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:49:43 -0800

If the right wing (mouth-foaming-maniac) media can "sneak in" characters like Bill O'Riley to promote their agenda, they shouldn't complain about the left wing (gay) media promoting theirs. And what paranoid ultraconservative came up with the notion of a homosexual agenda anyway? He should have kept his tin-foil hat on. Doesn't it sound like these people have merely replaced the "Jews control Hollywood and the media" stereotype with an easier target? Or has they compounded it to "The Jewish-Gay-Liberal Media?" Man, the AFA makes me cringe. It's like they said, "How can we name our organization in such a way that it's really the opposite of what we believe in?

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:07:18 -0800

Sincere question here (no, really): What do people opposed to "the homosexual agenda" think that "the homosexual agenda" is?

By: Mick

Mick — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:14:06 -0800

Wait till they find out that God is in on it too. The fact that the prostate gland can be analy stimulated proves it.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:21:39 -0800

It was a great special--and i think it was produced by Linda Ellerbee, which also rocks. more on the AFA at the SPLC--...AFA's direct-mail appeals are particularly shrill. "For the sake of our children and society, we must OPPOSE the spread of homosexual activity! Just as we must oppose murder, stealing, and adultery!" says one such recent fundraising letter. "Since homosexuals cannot reproduce, the only way for them to 'breed' is to RECRUIT! And who are their targets for recruitment? Children!" AFA has 21 state directors, including California's Scott Lively, co-author of The Pink Swastika, a book that claims "homosexuals are the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities"... mcsweet and dazed: here's one

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:30:10 -0800

My wife and I have chosen to not reproduce. Does that mean we can recruit some children?

By: kozad

kozad — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:45:20 -0800

five fresh fish: if you recruit children into a lifestyle in which a man and a woman love each other and have sexual relations in which birth control is used to prevent conception, than the answer is no. Get ready for the fiery pit, my friend.

By: abez

abez — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:50:11 -0800

I love how the term researcher is used so loosely.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:55:44 -0800

If people have to be "recruited" into "teh ghey", doesn't that at least imply that there's also someone recruiting teenagers into having straight sex? GIS for "gay agenda":

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:00:59 -0800

dazed_one: here it is, from the AFA itself in a .PDF

By: Edible Energy

Edible Energy — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:01:40 -0800

All this "underscores the fact that there really is an agenda in Hollywood amongst those who are homosexual," Vitagliano says. And its chief aim, he asserts, has apparently been "to kind of broach the subject [of homosexuality] to straight America in as subtle a way as possible with the hopes that they'll be more accepting of the political movement." Well, yeah, he's right about that. Except it's not an agenda "in Hollywood amongst those who are homosexual." It's an agenda shared by all those world-wide who believe that lesbians and gays should be able to live without getting bashed by right wing hate groups. It's not like he's being hallucinatory (is that a word?) It's just that they think that's evil, and I think they're evil. btw, wtf is the dad holding???

By: a_day_late

a_day_late — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:02:35 -0800

Haven't these people ever been to a minor league baseball game in middle America--when they sing YMCA at the 7th inning break? That's where the real homo conversions are taking place. Oh, yeah, the tv. Here's a clue: Well, I wus sittin' home alone an' started to sweat, Figured they wus in my T.V. set. Peeked behind the picture frame, Got a shock from my feet, hittin' right up in the brain. Them ~~Reds~~ homos caused it! I know they did . . . them hard-core ones. ... Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight When I run outa things to investigate. Couldn't imagine doin' anything else, So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself! Hope I don't find out anything . . . hmm, great God!

By: digaman

digaman — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:11:03 -0800

These AFA people spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, obsessing about homosexuality. They see it everywhere -- on TV, in the public library. They can't stop thinking about it. They launch websites and boycotts and letter-writing campaigns about it. The hold press conferences so they can obsess more about it in public. They can't get enough of it. By contrast, my own involvement in homosexuality -- all I did was marry a man -- seems modest and contained.

By: nakedcodemonkey

nakedcodemonkey — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:12:14 -0800

Since homosexuals cannot reproduce... Hilarious. So apparently when we "choose" to be gay, this mental act must set off some sort of sterility bomb hidden in our bodies, rendering us infertile. Or, uh, maybe they figure God makes us gay at birth, but He also sends us into the world sterile. Either way, it's bizarre logic that neither fits their dogma nor the factual reality that thousands of gays and lesbians do in fact have children of our own damned loins.

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:26:15 -0800

in responce to yesterdays homo thread and this one. I just learned this morning that during the Holocost, the Nazis were not just after the Jews but the gays as well.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:32:30 -0800

yup, wheelieman--and they had closet cases among them, just as the GOP and these groups do now. Metafilter: our own damned loins

By: nakedcodemonkey

nakedcodemonkey — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:42:00 -0800

Yes, the Nazis were after a lot of people. Jews, gays, Roma ("gypsies"), Communists...

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:51:13 -0800

I prefer to think of it as the Charles Nelson Reilly agenda... I always suspected Match Game had a sinister agenda. *furrows brow*

By: nakedcodemonkey

nakedcodemonkey — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:52:58 -0800

...not to mention Social Democrats, anarchists, and other "enemies of the state"; ...criminals...Jehovah's Witnesses...asocials, a catch-all term for vagrants, bums, prostitutes, hobos, alcoholics who were living on the streets, or anyone who didn't have a permanent address..."work-shy," or those who were arrested because they refused to work... Of course, there's absolutely no modern political movement in the U.S. that demonizes similar groups of human beings. Nope.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:02:26 -0800

are you and Kwantsar the same person? no. logs can easily confirm this.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:18:32 -0800

Porn stars attended a white house fundraiser! I await Focus on the Family's letter writing campaign against this GOP event.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:24:22 -0800

Get ready for the fiery pit, my friend. Damn. Well, at least I'll be in the most excellent company of everyone I care about. I pretty much loathe the powerseeking controlfreak evangelist religionist nutcases, so I'm just as happy to not have to associate with those fucked-up bastard assholes in the afterlife.

By: peacay

peacay — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:51:44 -0800

from mathowie's link: [Mary - pornstar]Carey: "I'm especially looking forward to meeting Karl Rove. Smart men like him are so sexy. I know that he's against gay marriage, but I think I can convince him that a little girl-on-girl action now and then isn't so bad!" Heh.

By: RedEmma

RedEmma — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:56:27 -0800

Edible Energy: i think it's a whip.

By: Rawhide

Rawhide — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:08:14 -0800

clevershark: "They have to go through life forever fearful that there's a gay man around every corner waiting for them to drop their guard... to what end I'm not sure. " Well, I am pretty sure they are concerned about their OWN end and what that gay man is a'gonna do to it.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:42:16 -0800

I'm not sure I want to check out quansar's log.

By: faceonmars

faceonmars — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:04:41 -0800

>Well, I am pretty sure they are concerned about their OWN end and what that >gay man is a'gonna do to it. I'm pretty sure that most gay men wouldn't find them all that attractive. Even Jim West has to offer men government jobs to get them to have sex with him.

By: StopMakingSense

StopMakingSense — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:18:06 -0800

"I'll take Paul Lynnde to block the progress of the God-Sanctioned progress of American heterosexual marriage, Bob." Talk about your secret squares.

By: Rawhide

Rawhide — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:11:38 -0800

But they can dream, can't they, faceonmars?

By: nofundy

nofundy — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:43:50 -0800

Because hatred is a family value.

By: sacrilicious

sacrilicious — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:55:04 -0800

Maybe there are homosexual characters and motifs on television because there are homosexual characters and motifs in real life.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:54:11 -0800

The saddest thing about all of this, aside from the regular cast of idiots, is the fact that the notion of Hollywood outsmarting mainstream culture about anything is actually plausible. But I wouldn't impute to them any motives that the evangelicals would find frightening in any way; they're just greedy is all, and Americans have always found homosexuals somewhat 'tittilating,' so long as they're on the other side of the glass.

By: telstar

telstar — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:03:46 -0800

Yes Paul Lynde is to blame. His influence led me to accept....TELEVISION!

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:35:14 -0800

In short: If fundies are correct, all the interesting people will be in Hell. Knowing some caring, committed Christians at my church back home, all of whom are gay and fairly open about it, if quietly so, I can only shake my head in consternation at this demonization of homosexuality. Jesus had a lot more to say about false piety and greed than He did about who puts what where.

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:57:16 -0800

/sniff/ I'm just so bitter and sad about this dark life-style that consumes me, I think I'll spread to others. Being gay is such a bad decisioin, I just can't resist spreading the pain... Yeah, right. That's it. Why did I never see it before?

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:43:41 -0800

The long arm of the Lord.

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:03:18 -0800

And the subversive goal behind Paul Lynde was to make us and our children think that gays were people too. Huh. So all this time I have been suckered into thinking that gays were people...I'm almost afraid to ask what they really are. Please, please don't tell me that they are really wolverines in human clothing who will rip off their disguises (once their agenda is widespread enough) and gobble us all up! Oh the horror!

By: telstar

telstar — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:39:35 -0800

Cool band name: The Gay Wolverines

By: wendell

wendell — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:07:56 -0800

So, what is this Haterosexual Agenda?

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:43:20 -0800

It is to spread The Hate, of course. Duh!

By: psmealey

psmealey — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:46:04 -0800

Jesus had a lot more to say about false piety and greed than He did about who puts what where. Amen to that.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:05:23 -0800

Normally, I deride the whole notion of "homophobia" because it simply isn't a phobia, damnit! But these people sound very afraid.

By: malusmoriendumest

malusmoriendumest — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:41:09 -0800

I believe the word you're looking for is heterosexism. It's easier to use, and is more reprentative of some of the deriding and nastiness that goes on in the general way. It is the promotion of heterosexual lifestyles and relationships, and the exclusion of other relationships.