They had to cover the story. It was a national phenomenon. But notice how they tried to frame the issue. Writer Carolyn Shapiro puts it this way:
Mike Huckabee, the ex-governor of Arkansas and former Republican presidential candidate, had called for a national Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day to respond to public backlash against its president's recent remarks opposing gay marriage.
See what Shapiro did here? “Public backlash?” That’s like reporting: "September 1939, Poland attacks Germany, brave Germans fight back." The truth is that there was no backlash by the public to Dan Cathy’s comments. Few people even read them when he made them, and the vast majority of those who heard about them agreed with him.
The truth is that elements of the militant homosexual movement have been gunning for Chick-fil-A because the family that runs it are avowed Christians who believe in traditional Christianity. The militant homosexuals were the ones who decided to make the case that traditional Christians were evil homophobes worshipping, in the immortal worlds of Daryl Lease (editorial writer for the Virginian Pilot) a God that’s “mean and nasty.”
But in a country where traditional marriage is the norm, where heterosexuality is the norm, the militant homosexuals over-reached because a few politicians read the newspaper reports, were misled into thinking that this was a mass movement and decided that the way to gain votes was to ban Chick-fil-A. That’s the problem when you live in the MSM echo chamber. You lose track of reality. Bob Owens said it well,
“The greatest trick that Hollywood, the lying liberal media and the Democrat Party was able to conjure was the illusion of their power and our isolation.”
But today there are literally millions of ways that people share their views, and we are not isolated as we were in the era of 3 TV networks and one dominant paper. Owens again.
Clearly, this is more than a “buycott” over gay marriage. If the smattered of people I’ve talked to are representative, homosexuality is a side issue.
This strikes a much deeper, more foundational chord.
The massive crowd reaction locally and nationwide are driven by a loathing of arrogant politicians like those in Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco who feel they have the power and the authority to tell a businessman like Dan Cathy what personal opinions he can and cannot hold if he wants to do business in “their” towns.
They trampled on his religious beliefs. They trampled on his freedom of speech. They attempted to deny him and his franchisees the rights to start small businesses, merely because a free American dared to share what he believed….
We have over the past decades been slouching towards a crisis point in this nation. I’ll leave it for future historians to find fault and place the blame, but the momentum towards disintegration has been apparent and accelerating for some time.
I smirk, thinking about those that are reading this incredulously, thinking, “is this rube trying to tell us that we’re going to launch a civil war over chicken?!?! What a dunce!”
They are capable of only seeing isolated events and individual threads, not the tapestry of tyranny that has turned a simple protest buying of chicken sandwiches and waffle fries into a fed-up Republic’s sudden self-awareness.
The greatest trick that Hollywood, the lying liberal media and the Democrat Party was able to conjure was the illusion of their power and our isolation. As tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans are realizing in a simple act of conscious commerce today and this evening, we are legion. There are far more of us than there are of them, and in that realization, our power grows, and our desire to give up even a fraction more of our rights, shrinks.
I can see the reaction in the Pilot’s editorial offices now. “Didn’t we denounce the mayors for their violation of the first amendment?” Yeah, Homer, you did. But you first stoked the fires of bigotry and hate for people who are Christians and believe in traditional values. You first decided that thousands of years of history and tradition were going to be consigned to the “dustbin of history” – as another Soviet dictator famously said of the US. You first called us names and derided our faith. You demanded that we think like you, believe like you, agree with you or ... SHUT UP!
You want a culture war? We’ll give you a culture war. And wars start in the unlikeliest places.
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