Amy Kushnir would have been equally upset with a hetero Michael Sam kiss

[pokerfan]

Why do I find that more than a little disingenuous?

Amy Kushnir, the Dallas talk show host who got national attention for her outrage over the televised Michael Sam kiss, spoke with Glenn Beck Monday night, and repeatedly insisted she was not objecting to Sam’s sexual preference, just the fact that ESPN was exploiting the kiss for its maximum “shock value.”

Kushnir told Beck she’s been receiving horrible comments on social media, including rape threats and death threats. She said she “wasn’t talking about sexual preferences” and made it clear she really would have had a similar problem had a straight couple been “licking cake off each other’s faces.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/dallas-host-to-beck-michael-sam-kiss-was-espn-publicity-stunt-for-shock-value/

Really?

[Cha]

1. Well, we mustn't upset this anti-kissing busy body.

[pokerfan]

2. If she had a history of speaking out against televised PDAs

she would be a little more believable. But there was obviously something different about this kiss that really set her off. I wonder what that could have been. It's a conundrum.

[LadyHawkAZ]

3. mmm hmm. suuuure she would

[nomorenomore08]

4. Man-woman kisses in sports are so banal as to escape comment.

Maybe in another decade or two, same-sex kisses will be much the same.

[msanthrope]

10. Love this! nt

[JI7]

5. anderson cooper ran a clip yesterday with her and 2 male strippers or body builders

or some shit. but it was 2 muscular guys without their shirts on lifting her up .

[pokerfan]

6. Cooper: Ensure that TV does not become a “free for all replete with half-naked men...

Cooper said action was needed to ensure that TV does not become a “free for all replete with half-naked men and indiscriminate kissing” before playing The Broadcast footage of Kushnir gleefully being hoisted in the air by two half-naked male strippers whom she kisses on their cheeks.

“It's okay, she was kissing strippers and she didn't even really know them. It's not like two guys who actually, you know, are in love, or anything – that's offensive,” Cooper sarcastically said.

[xfundy]

7. And, she's the spawn of scamvangelist

"Rev" Tilton.

[alp227]

8. Basically a cover-your-ass excuse. nt

[TacoD]

9. Amy Tilton Kushnir (nt)