Including Chaz Bono on “Dancing With The Stars” makes it a “cesspool,” says an anchor on Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) TV, in an interview with Dan Gainor of the ultra-conservative Culture And Media Institute (CMI). Bono, who is transgender, will appear on the ABC TV show later this month. Gainor is also the Vice President of Business & Culture for CMI parent Media Research Center, owned by FOX News contributor Brent Bozell, who also (surprise!) sits on the board of Bill Donohue’s Catholic League. Because fair and balanced goes hand-in-hand with being tied to religious extremist organizations.
“Are we kidding ourselves into thinking that if we pour just a little bit of soap in the cesspool we could go swimming in it?,” the CBN anchor asks.
CMI is the group that recently said normal people “don’t have lesbians in their families raising young children,” and  attacked J. Crew president Jenna Lyons for painting her son’s toenails pink — his favorite color.
Then there’s this about Dan Gainor, via The Huffington Post last year:
Prominent conservative media critic Dan Gainor has offered $100 to the first member of Congress who punches “smary [sic] idiot” Alan Grayson (D-Fl.) in the nose, reports Media Matters. When fellow conservative Jim Geraghty responded (via Twitter) that Gainor should offer that $100 to Grayson’s opponent instead of “financ[ing] violence,” Gainor tweeted that he was joking, although he would “love to see the video.”
The outburst was prompted by comments that Grayson made on the House floor last night regarding unemployment: namely, that Republican lawmakers are “taking food out of the mouths of children” and “trying to revive the America of desperate straits and cheap labor” by blocking the passage of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits. Gainor tweeted that Grayson is “a caricature of a Congressman,” in addition to offering cash for a physical assault on him.
Gainor is the vice president of the Media Research Center, a $6 million-a-year organization that has been praised by Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Newt Gingrich, and he is often cited, interviewed and otherwise taken very seriously by Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander.
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