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Dr. Eowyn posted: "Have you ever watched ABC's "What Would You Do?"? --
the network's hidden-camera gotcha journalism, anchored by John Quinones
(below)? On June 14, 2013, ABC chose for its sting operation the humble
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Have you ever watched ABC's "What Would You
Do?"<http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/>?
-- the network's hidden-camera gotcha journalism, anchored by John Quinones
(below)?
[image: John
Quinones]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/john-quinones.jpg>On
June 14, 2013, ABC chose for its sting operation the humble folks of
Amarillo, Texas -- what Quinones smugly referred to as "cowboy country"
(Read: "redneck bigots").
As described by John Nolte for
Breitbart.com:<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/22/ABC-News-Fails-To-Find-Homophobes-In-Texas>
*ABC News displays its own kind of bigotry by setting up their hidden
cameras at a famous steakhouse in Amarillo, Texas, to hunt for homophobes.
Three child actors dressed as Boy Scouts sit at a community table. One
comes out to his friends as gay, and ABC News is there to capture the
Southern-fried bigotry. *
*Except, all they find is loving Christianity:*
A kind-faced woman (below) gently says to the three pretend Boy Scouts:
"Listen, Christians don't hate the sinner. We just don't like the sin. But
Christians still love ya." Then she reminds the three actors that even
though we sin, "you can ask for forgiveness," and that the Bible says "Men
shall not lay with men."
[image:
WhatWouldYouDo1]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/whatwouldyoudo1.jpg>The
cowboy sitting next to her tells the three pretenders: "There's a lot of
good Christians in this world that will help you out with stuff like that
though."
The kind lady then reassures the "coming out" *faux* Boy Scout, "If you do
end up accepting it and doing that, there will be people that will accept
you no matter what."
As Nolte points out:
*"What Would You Do?"[...] is probably the most appalling kind of gotcha
journalism allowed to broadcast these days. The segments are almost always
politically correct
(race<http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/video/buy-beautiful-black-doll-13216090>,
homophobia<http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/son-berated-parents-gay/story?id=12275222#.UcW-evXn-Uk>,
Muslims<http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/video/stop-muslim-discrimination-11347387>,
bullying<http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/bullied-gay/story?id=11972961#.UcW-yfXn-Uk>,
smoking<http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/02/parents-smoke-near-baby-would-you-say-something/>),
but the targets are not the powerful; the targets instead are everyday
American citizens.*
*It is Candid Camera for smug, sanctimonious, left-wing elitists -- Borat
for The Awful.*
*If anchor John Quinones had even a hint of moral courage, he would turn
that hidden camera on his colleagues who work in the powerful world of
media. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what the media would do in certain
situations involving conservatives, Christianity, Barack Obama, oh, and
Southerners? *
*But Quinones isn't about afflicting the comfortable; he is a bullying
cultural enforcer targeting the powerless. *
*And remember, when James O'Keefe does this exact sort of the thing to The
Powerful, he is pummeled by the
media<http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2011/03/09/OKeefe-and-Breitbart-Discuss-NPR-Investigation-on-Hugh-Hewitt-Show>and
is then put out of business by our government during
all of Barack Obama's re-election
campaign<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2011/06/07/Judge-Reverses-Decision--Will-Now-Allow-James-OKeefe-To-Attend-Conservative-Conference-In-California>
.*
H/t FOTM's Stephanie O.
*~Eowyn*
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