Ben Carson has committed the ultimate sin against the religion of modern liberalism: he dared to question the orthodox doctrine that people are born gay. It’s not allowed to suggest it might be a choice, not a gene.
MSNBC’s new afternoon host, openly gay Thomas Roberts, mockingly dismissed Carson’s comments as if they were self-evidently ridiculous, “Dr. Ben Carson…says gay prisoners are proof that homosexuality is a choice. Seriously, that happened….Who knew being a gay is apparently a choice?”
The segment was titled "Seriously, That Happened." His co-anchor Frances Rivera piled on,saying that Carson’s comments “made jaws drop” and that he was “obviously trying to appeal to the most conservative wing of his party.”
Not content with such light jabs at the neurosurgeon, Roberts and Rivera showcased the online uproar over Carson’s statements, making sure to display only the negative feedback from the net,
“As you can imagine…reaction online was less than kind….Dannymoe tweeting ‘Ben Carson continuing to prove that knowing how to operate on a brain is not the same as knowing how to use one.’ Another person tweeting this ‘Ben Carson pretty much saying that male on male sexual assault makes men gay. He’s disgusting.’”
Roberts also hosts a pro-gay show called Out There on MSNBC’s Shift channel, so it’s clear where he was going to line up on this.
Roberts and Rivera did not see fit to show any of the online support for Carson’s views, nor did they bring any anthropologists, psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, or any experts in the field to refute Carson’s contention that people chose their sexual orientation. They did not have to because, as Roberts says, “he is not the only Republican saying some off the wall things. We’ve got Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina apologizing for remarks that he made about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.”
For some reason MSNBC saw fit to have Rivera read Graham’s remarks without putting them on screen. Instead, they hosted a screenshot of a Salon story entitled "Lindsey Graham makes breathtakingly sexist jab at Nancy Pelosi keep it classy, senator."
“Did you see Nancy Pelosi on the floor? Complete disgust,” Graham told a group of political donors after the speech, reported Bloomberg’s Josh Rogin. “If you can get through all the surgeries, there’s disgust.”
Roberts weighed in saying, “Sometimes it’s best just to not speak out loud.”
So the lesson is clear: Carson does not need to be refuted with facts, logic, research, science, or expert opinion because his remarks are like Lindsey Graham’s unprofessional remarks about Nancy Pelosi: they are just examples of “Republican[s] saying some off the wall things.” Such “things” deserve no forum for debate, only the scorn of leftist inquisitors.
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