Business Insider’s Walker: Gay Marriage Opponents 'Can Go F**k Themselves’

July 6th, 2015 1:13 PM

“To me suggesting I should treat gay marriage opposition as legitimate seems to me like suggesting I should have been unbiased about Jim Crow,” tweeted Hunter Walker, the Senior Political Correspondent for Business Insider

Walker, who was raised by a lesbian couple, said last week that he generally likes “to think I am fairly objective and unbiased in my reporting and even my comments on this personal Twitter.” However, he declared, “I make absolutely no effort to hid [sic] the fact I am totally, completely pro-gay marriage.”

Walker’s Twitter rant came in response to a Washington Examiner article titled “Media openly cheers Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling.” In the piece, T. Becket Adams noted the large-scale abandonment of objectivity by liberal journalists and media outlets covering the news. The usual suspects — including the Daily BeastBuzzFeed and HuffPo — clearly expressed joy and approval at the decision. 

Walker didn’t see any problem with that. “This is basically the one issue where I make no pretense or effort to be remotely unbiased,” Walker continued. “The arguments against gay marriage are so utterly stupid and hateful that I feel no need to pretend otherwise.”

Walker then gave the classic liberal ultimatum: “Gay marriage is fantastic,” he tweeted. “To say anything otherwise is a personal insult to me and my family.” 

Right. So it’s not just disagreement the reporter won’t tolerate. If conservatives don’t cheer and wave rainbow flags, it’s a personal insult. 

Then, just to give those conservative “haters” something to think about, Walker went a little further. “And, as far as I'm concerned … anyone else who suggests gay marriage should be anything but cheered can go f**k themselves.” 

Wait, sorry, who’s being hateful here?