Modern Family Creator Offers Fan Ann Romney Role as Gay-Wedding Officiant

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Source: E! Online

Ann Romney might be gearing up for her role as potential first lady, but she might also wanna prep for another one: TV star.

Mitt Romney's 63-year-old missus openly professed her love for Modern Family to Entertainment Tonight, and now its creator, Steve Levitan, has offered her a spot on the show—while slyly taking dig at her husband's anti-gay-marriage stance.

The showrunner took to Twitter yesterday and wrote: "Thrilled Ann Romney says ModFam is her favorite show. We'll offer her the role of officiant at Mitch & Cam's wedding. As soon as it's legal."

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Levitan, of course, was clearly taking swipe at the Republican presidential candidate, who's been a vocal opponent of gay marriage.

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Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/341731/modern-family-creator-offers-fan-ann-romney-role-as-gay-wedding-officiant

[JBoy]

1. She was also a Hogan's Heroes fan,

but she rooted for the Germans.

[liberalmuse]

2. It's weird how so many conservatives love "Modern Family"

And "Two and a Half Men". I don't get it.

[ZombieHorde]

3. There are pacifists who love action movies.

Probably the same thing.

[LynneSin]

4. I think of myself as a pacifist yet I love the game Risk

Nothing like a lil world domination amongst friends!

[ZombieHorde]

5. Good example. Our entertainment choices does not always reflect our politics. nt

[VWolf]

6. Yep. I liked to watch "24" and "La Femme Nikita"

Doesn't mean I want our government doing those things.

[ZombieHorde]

7. My wife describes some of my movies as "disturbing torture porn,"

but I am against torture.

[VWolf]

8. I think the problem is

that many on the right cannot distinguish between hollywood and reality. It's a distinction most are able to make before they reach age 10.

Unfortunately, these people haven't getton there yet, at least mentally.

[Odin2005]

11. Or the computer game Civilization.

MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!

[SmittynMo]

9. They are hypocrites

I'm sure they laugh their asses off (in a demeaning way) at the gay couple. They most likely watch it for the other characters.

Modern Family Rocks!!!

[LibertyLover]

10. Recently I read an article

that said if you liked NCIS and/or NCIS Los Angeles you were most likely conservative both religiously and politically. That made me laugh because I like both those programs and am neither religiously conservative (unless you take into account the fact that I practice that real old time religion , nor am I politically conservative. So I'd have to say that sometimes favorite television shows are just favorite television shows and don't have much to say about a person's political or social leanings.

[Yavin4]

13. Not Strange At All. Racists Love Jazz, Rock and Roll, The Blues, and even Rap/Hip Hop

and other forms of African American entertainment.

What you like in entertainment does not necessarily reflect your politics in any way.

[alp227]

12. The Dan Quayle "Murphy Brown" role of 2012?

History repeats itself. If you weren't watching TV back in 1992 (I was a baby back then, there's my excuse), here's the context: the (R) VP from '92, Dan Quayle, made a speech attacking Murphy Brown the TV show over the female character who became a single mother (http://web.archive.org/web/20110102094039/www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975627,00.html). The season premiere of Murphy Brown at the beginning of the '92 season used video of Quayle's speech as part of the episode story. (Quayle actually did not make a cameo, my bad.) But in perspective it's an interesting look at elections clashing with pop culture.