For the first year ever, the annual White House Easter Egg Roll tickets were dispersed via the Internet, as opposed to an in-person, first-come, first-served basis that the White House has used for years for the general public. This year the Obama White House tried out another first: setting aside a few tickets for same-sex marriage activists.
Washington Times correspondent Christina Bellantoni reported the story last Wednesday:
President Obama's White House saved Easter Egg Roll tickets for gay and lesbian parents, reaching out to groups that felt ostracized by previous administrations.
The White House would not say how many tickets were set aside for the group for Monday's annual celebration, only noting that it was far fewer than the large block set aside for military families and the 2,000 saved for D.C. public schools. There also is a batch for administration employees and their children.
The White House Office of Public Liaison coordinated with several groups representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and saved a group of tickets for those families.
Story Continues Below Ad ↓Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of the Family Equality Council, said 10 families from her group will attend the egg roll, thanks to the new White House policy.
So the Obama White House took the occasion of the annual Easter Egg Roll to curry favor with a left-wing political interest group. The Obama administration is literally using children of gay and lesbian couples as pawns for political purposes.
But aside from the Washington Times, it seems the mainstream print media are ignoring the story. A search of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and USA Today in Nexis from January 1 through April 13 shows only one obscure mention from an April 12 New York Times story about a possibly homosexual contestant on "American Idol":
Even the White House made a point of inviting lesbian and gay families to join in an annual Easter Egg Roll.
Thus it seems plausible that a person with more than a toe peeking out of the closet might actually win the most hotly contested singing show on the planet. True, it took six years of public insinuation before Clay Aiken, the popular also-ran from Season 2, made the choice in 2008 to come out. When he did so, however, the anticipated career-stall never happened. The news was greeted with a collective yawn.
A Nexis search of the past four months likewise found no mentions of the ticket set-asides, and a review by Media Research Center analysts of the April 13 editions of NBC's "Today", CBS's "The Early Show" and ABC's "Good Morning America" likewise found no mention of the ticket set-aside.
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In 2006, this was the
April 13, 2009 - 17:00 ET by motherbeltIn 2006, this was the story: the gay parents were going to line up overnight to get tickets
Hundreds of gay and lesbian parents, some from across the country, plan
to line up overnight tonight to get tickets to the 128-year-old
Washington ritual Monday, to blanket the White House lawn with a
realistic mosaic of their families.
I guess this year The One decided that it was unfair for those folks to line up like everyone else for their tickets.
Apparently some activist groups are more equal than others.
They might say "Wow, that sucks!" But at least they'll say "Wow!" -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes
Hey, stop trying to confuse things with facts, willya?
April 13, 2009 - 19:20 ET by CKA in Red State USAAfter all, history is exactly what Obama says it is.
And as we know, his history doesn't seem to match anyone else's.
What history?
April 13, 2009 - 20:02 ET by Dan DiegoWhat history?
Same techniques, different times
April 13, 2009 - 17:02 ET by Flying_Dutchman“The Obama administration is literally use (sic) children of gay and lesbian couples as pawns for political purposes.”
Did you feel the same sense of outrage when the Bush administration paraded the “Snowflake Babies?”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/28/national/main712541.shtml
I suspect that if either group felt exploited as political pawns, they wouldn’t have shown up.
There is a difference
April 13, 2009 - 17:08 ET by sdbThere is a difference: The 'Snowflake' parents do not ask for, nor did they receive special priviledges. The LGBT parents are, and did.
What??
April 13, 2009 - 17:05 ET by SeashellThe White House would not say how many tickets were set aside for the
group for Monday's annual celebration, only noting that it was far
fewer than the large block set aside for military families...
Well, I will take some comfort in knowing that they didn't blow off all our hard working military families to make room for gay and lesiban families.
BTW-I don't know, but I bet the previous adminstrations didn't ban gay and lesbian families from coming but didn't make a big to-do about their coming either.
Good point,
April 13, 2009 - 19:43 ET by Indiana Joe"BTW-I don't know, but I bet the previous adminstrations didn't ban gay and lesbian families from coming but didn't make a big to-do about their coming either."
Exactly. I have nothing against LGBT (maybe I got the order wrong) people, but I don't think it needs to be paraded around. No discrimination, and no special privileges.
That's equality.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
§ KEN!!! ALERT!!! Guest Passes out on Beck Show!!!
April 13, 2009 - 17:08 ET by TheSterBreaking on Drudge!!
Huff Post already making fun of it!!
TYPICAL LIBS.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/david-bucker-faints-passe_n_186385.html
Ster.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Yeah Ster ...I saw it
April 13, 2009 - 17:14 ET by bigtimerYeah Ster ...I saw it live...I prayed the man was ok...leave it to a leftist site like HuffnPuff to show their true colors...such kind gentle people aren't they.
Uh-Oh...I think you probably better take this to the OT...this is the Egg Roll Bull thread for the special group that O owed a pay-back for their support.
Btw all...the guy is fine now...
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Oh isn't this just
April 13, 2009 - 17:11 ET by bigtimerOh isn't this just precious...
No discrimination here is there?
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
"Gays ostracized"? So now
April 13, 2009 - 17:15 ET by SickofLibs"Gays ostracized"?
So now chicken eggs are not good enough for the Easter Egg Roll, we have to upsize those, too?
Crap, let's just go with Chinese egg rolls next year and be done with it - they roll better, anyway.
Pretty good, SoL,
April 13, 2009 - 19:48 ET by Indiana Joe"Ostracized." That one got right by me.
Nice, catch, LOL.
Or did it mean they turned the gay folks into ostriches?
;^)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
I just saw ABC's evening
April 13, 2009 - 18:07 ET by TEI just saw ABC's evening news program. They did cover the Easter egg roll and the homosexuals who were invited by Obama. Predictably, ABC did not just cover the invited homosexuals; ABC celebrated the invited homosexuals and Obama for inviting them. I don't think they mentioned the quota number for the invited gays or the quota numbers for the different racial groups or sexes. I don't expect anyone in the Washington press corps will ask Obama or his minions for the numbers on the quotas used by the White House to determine how many members of various racial and ethnic groups and sexual preferences attended the Easter egg roll.
You know, the Easter Egg
April 13, 2009 - 18:23 ET by SeashellYou know, the Easter Egg Hunt at the White House used to be a fun thing for kids. It is now becoming a political event. So sad. I predict in a few years most folks won't want to even bring their kids to it period.
Obama should have--- --
April 13, 2009 - 18:26 ET by misterbill-- had a film session where he sat all the little kiddies down and let them watch his very special guest consummate their "marriages".
He could have said--and that is how Peter Rabbit makes his eggs.
Sorry folks. I just had to gross out bout it. I have no bad feelings for homosexuals. It is just that they are not man and woman, no mater how hard they want to be. They should be content with having civil unions. They keep forcing the equality issue. Until one of the each couple is re-enginered to be of the opposite sex, that is not going to happen.
I could say one of my best friends is gay--but--it's not true. Of course, nothing will convince any lib that I am not a homophobe. I am not, nor am I a racist, but I still want all those illegal aliens out of my country.
feelings???
April 13, 2009 - 18:50 ET by pagg30"....groups that felt ostracized by previous administrations. "
Were they really ostracized or did they just feel that way? When is somebody going to say "Enough is enough, equality means having to get on line like everybody else"
Two things . . .
April 13, 2009 - 19:23 ET by CKA in Red State USAYes, they just felt that way. Liberal/leftist victims can't be victims unless they exploit their perceived victimization.
And when will somebody say, "Enough is enough . .. "?
I'm guessing among the current administration and, generally, the land of liberals and leftists, which include the Demockacrats/Dementocrats, that'll happen about the same time the first flight of a four-legged pigs takes off from Reagan National and Dulles International airports.
But, then, I'm an optimist.
CKA
April 14, 2009 - 02:54 ET by pagg30You're dead on. But i'm rooting for the flying pigs.
He uses the lifeless bodies of the unborn for political purpose
April 13, 2009 - 19:29 ET by CKA in Red State USASo what's new or upsetting or whatever about this: "The Obama administration is literally using children of gay and lesbian couples as pawns for political purposes"?
The man's a ghoul, an evil man pretending to be a Christian. He exploits the most defenseless, politically powerless segments of society: the unborn, just-born and young children.
He needs prayer from Christians that he comes to the salvation of Christ that he missed while at Jeremiah Wright's church.
BTW: Wonder what colors those eggs were? Red with white hammers and sickles on them, for example?
In the bushes.
April 13, 2009 - 22:17 ET by moovovaHopefully, the kids didn't wander behind any of the bushes looking for eggs...picture all the naked 2-somes (or more-somes) having sex back there.