Longtime NBC President Joins Celebs in Urging Obama to Codify Gay Unions
Robert Wright, president of NBC from 1986 to 2007, has joined a list of Hollywood notables -- including Melissa Etheridge, David Geffen, Anne Hathaway, Jane Lynch, Eric McCormack, Mya, Martin Sheen, Lily Tomlin, and "Ellen & Portia DeGeneres" -- in signing a letter to President Obama urging his public support of federal recognition of "gay marriage."
We ask you now for your leadership on ending the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage -- an exclusion that harms millions of Americans each day. Whether to end discrimination in marriage is a question America has faced before, and faces again today. With so many Americans talking it through in heartfelt conversations, it is a question that calls for clarity from the President.
You can offer hope to millions of young gay and lesbian Americans who are facing discrimination. You can tell them that their future is bright, that they, too, will be able to grow up and marry the person that they love, that the pursuit of happiness truly belongs to all of us. You can put government on the side of those seeking to care for their loved ones, instead of those standing in their way. You can affirm that for all of us, gay or non-gay, love is love and commitment counts— and that we Americans should treat others as we all want to be treated.
The letter is also signed by Julian Bond and Helen Fabela Chavez (Mrs. Cesar Chavez), Unitarian Universalist ministers Peter Morales and William Sinkford, NFL players Brendan Ayanbadejo and Scott Fujita, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus, playwright Tony Kushner, and musician Rufus Wainwright.
Brent Bozell dubbed Wright "The CEO of Silliness" in a 2006 column for authoring a Wall Street Journal op-ed claiming the Bush-era FCC was censoring all the creativity out of TV. He issued the same warning in the Journal in 2004.
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Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 2:47pm.
I'm sure I don't want to know about this "codifying" stuff.Cool, I'm with you
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 4:31pm.
A codpiece (from Middle English: cod, meaning "scrotum")...
that's enough for me.
This reminds me of yesterday
Submitted by Pickles and Peppers on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 2:59pm.
In discussing the rights of Americans, we do have the right to associate in groups to advocate our special interests to our government.A long time dream of Angry Black Zippers comes true.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 4:52pm.
A union that advocates, nay, demands it's members engage in gay sex.
Why it's Nirvana on earth.
Sounds kinda antithetical to your deeply held African American-Polish-Catholic beliefs, though.
Now,
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 7:25pm.
that "African American-Polish-Catholic beliefs" is just plain funny, SoL.Neither of you fools
Submitted by Pickles and Peppers on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 7:30pm.
Are worthy enough to pick the gum out of my shoes.And you, Peter Piper---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 8:04pm.
are apparently too stupid to avoid stepping in it.
MD
Speaking of stupid
Submitted by Pickles and Peppers on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 8:08pm.
Care to point out my inaccuracies? Oh wait, I'm supposed to comment on my name, as I've been instructed. Peter Piper is not my name! It's Pickles and Peppers. So knock it off already. Peace out!Awwwww. Is someone's tushy getting a little sore?
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 11:59pm.
Looks like the happy go lucky Angry Black Man mask has completely fallen off in cunjunction with changing the happy go lucky Angry Black Man mask.
Now we are back to the same ol' butt hurt troll that can't understand why he gets so much pushback when he just wants to come here and harass the women, the women's children, Christians, conservatives, contributors, other posters, and word bullies.
Rage on little butt hurt momma's boy. Rage on.
Iz not nwahs. Name not nwahs. Mumzie. Make a word bulliz ztop.
Piz ott.
You again
Submitted by Pickles and Peppers on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 12:06am.
You're really not too bright, are you? (that last part was rhetorical, so no need to answer) You're sorely mistaken if you think your tough guy act is threatening in any way. You're a frat boy. You're useless. Peace out.Angry Black nwahs not scare bully.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 12:24am.
trollie not scard wurd bulliz. Not scard it allz.
8 Whine that you are not scared of those that point out your troll ways. Dead Zippers: You don't scare me, JWF. ... ...you...should know by now I'm not going away. Angry Black Zippers: You're sorely mistaken if you think your tough guy act is threatening in any way.
Still working out of the Troll Bible, New Testament according to Angry Black Dead Zippers.
PS: You did go away. And you came back. And you went away. And you came back. etc. etc. etc.
Looks to me
Submitted by Pickles and Peppers on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 12:31am.
Like you have a history of antisocial behavior.Wrong again, Peter Piper---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 12:36am.
The Vet is anti troll, not antisocial.
The mask slips, the rage peeks out.
How long you gonna last this time?
MD
MD Shoots...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 8:17pm.
...and scores! Three pointer.Are you sure youre not Balboa?
Submitted by brutony1 on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:15pm.
I used to read about him on here for years, and I just officially joined a few months ago, but I havent seen him in a while-is that you, bal? Cause you sure sound like him-wacky lib, against everything we stand for, likes to agitate with wacky left-winged ideals,,Bal, is that you?When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
What is the problem here?
Submitted by Pickles and Peppers on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:23pm.
No, I am not Balboa. I'm not any of the names I've been called here in a short few weeks. But did you interject because you wanted to know who I am, or because you had something to say in response to my post?Yes, Angry Black Zippers...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:06pm.
Good news, we know you're not Balboa.
You've been here only "a short few weeks", yet, once again, the community has descended on you with hellfire. Holy cow, this is beyond the pale. It is outrageous. "Who is this Dead Zippers character?... I never heard of him."
You have done everything right to obfuscate: switch to single spaces between sentences, filling in the subject line, claiming to be a Christian - "Momma, why aren't they buying it this time?" Why you've even established a mutual admiration society with another banned/retread "conservative" entity, previously known as B_M_G.@#*¢%. What more can you do to convince us you're not the reprobate Dead Zippers?
Now again, for the 10th time, please explain to us why your previous avatar (previous = earlier today) was "angry black man" with a Polish-Catholic chaser.
So once again, time is running out on you.
If you can't even make in cyberspace, what is left? The guard will be along shortly to confiscate your belt.
The issue isn't a governmental issue
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 3:05pm.
Or at least it shouldn't be. Marriage is a religious issue that each individual religion gets to decide. The only reason that the government is involved is because of the tax issues which they have created between different classes of people that they have artificailly created using the tax code. If the income tax was abolished the Federal Government wouldn't care or even need to know who was married to whom.Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Is that a picture of Frank
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 7:20pm.
Is that a picture of Frank Gifford used on the Blogs blurb? Generally speaking, why aren't this pics used on the teaser Blog page not found when you open up the article itself?I'd Just Abolish The FCC Period...
Submitted by TheReal7Sticks on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 11:05pm.
Talk about the most useless government regulatory system in human history. In case you forgot, the FCC was founded as part of the New Deal society of 1934, perhaps the biggest mistake of FDR's career. He could not have foreseen the technological advances in media technology, because if he did, we still wouldn't be having these ridiculous conversations about whether it is appropriate to say the word f**k or s**t on national television. It seems every presidency, Democrat or Republican, can never see the fallacy of the Federal Communications Commission or its utter uselessness. We wouldn't have banned the one and only king of all media, Howard Stern, to outer space, or have started all this P.C. thuggery about not airing miniseries about 9/11, the Reagans or the Kennedys, regardless of whose political ideology is behind it.
You are just as guilty at killing the business of television and radio as the liberals are. Just ask the shareholders of radio companies like Citadel Broadcasting, which, last time I checked, traded for as low as a single PENNY.