Memo to James Dobson
When even Michelle Malkin attacks you from the left, maybe it’s time to Focus on something else.
UPDATE: Apparently, the NY Times may have lost its Focus, too. I’ve recategorized this post to “media bias” and generic “morons.” It’s still pretty clear that there’s a moron in here somewhere, but it’s not as clear who the moron is.
UPDATE x2: Jeff Jarvis isn’t exactly helping matters. For shame.
January 21st, 2005 at 1:29 pm
Dobson is guilty of the very sexualization of culture he criticizes
There is something that is beyond being merely “just sad” about Dobson’s new campaign to prove that SpongeBob is a “pro-gay cartoon.” I will admit that I have watched only a handful of episodes, but I never found them to…
January 21st, 2005 at 1:37 pm
We need to get these radical clerics on tv as much as possible.
January 22nd, 2005 at 7:58 am
I think you, and at this point half the blogosphere is wrong about this. Dobson really didn’t do anything wrong, but make any reference towards being skeptical of sexual identity, and the liberal media will see to it you are drawn and quartered. Dobson is a good guy.
January 22nd, 2005 at 10:53 am
“make any reference towards being skeptical of sexual identity, and the liberal media will see to it you are drawn and quartered.”
Justifiably so with cartoon characters.
January 22nd, 2005 at 11:29 am
Not necessarily, see the update. Apparently, Dobson never really attacked SpongeBob, only to the content of an educational video he and several other cartoon charaters appeared in. That’s fair game.
January 22nd, 2005 at 12:28 pm
Thanks Xrlq.
Actus, although this is off-topic would the cartoon The Ambiguously Gay Duo be unacceptable to criticize if it was distributed to minors just because “it’s a cartoon.”
That’s not what is happening here, and it is only right that Focus on the Family should keep parents aware of educators attempting to subvert the moral guidance of parents.
January 22nd, 2005 at 3:16 pm
I’m sorry if my use ‘cartoon’ was ambiguous, as I wanted to include just stuff for kids. There’s besides the SNL stuff obviously adult-themed cartoons out there.
As to the update, they’re criticising a video containing spongebob. Of course, spongebob’s creators are cool with this, and would naturally be the target of the attack on the use of spongebob. What spongebob does is at issue here.
Neither story said that the radical clerics thought spongebob was gay.