Caitlyn Jenner, the transgender athlete, reality star and former California gubernatorial candidate, has signed on to Fox News Media as a contributor.
Jenner’s first appearance will be Thursday on Hannity.
Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement: “Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all. She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience.”
First off, to call Jenner a "trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community" is utterly laughable. There have been a goodly number of transgendeered men and women who have publicly come out, decades before Jenner did. Some have paid the price of losing families and careers. Some have been killed. Jenner lost very little by coming out. She has blazed not a single trail nor set a single example for anyone. As far as the LGBTQ+ commity goes, Jenner is more of a parasite than a pioneer.
Second, by aligning herself with Fox News, she is vigorously stabbing in the back the very community that she claims to be part of. Fox News and their "opinion" shows has been in the forefront of turning transgendered people into the latest public enemy in their culture wars in the hopes of turning out the mouthbreathers in the Christian Taliban for the upcoming election. They did the same thing in 2004, when they ginned up a series of state constitutional amendments to outlaw gay marriage in order to get people out to vote for the Darth and Chimpy Show.
Third, if Jenner thinks that she is going to get any respect or validation for her identity from the bigots at Fox, she is more than likely to be sadly mistaken.
So, the conclusion is obvious: It's all about the Benjamins, baby. That, and getting airtime, because, as the saying goes, bad publicity is better than no publicity.
It seems to me that publicity has been Jenner's fix since way back when. It's no less a draw for her now.
ReplyDeleteHer run for Governor was an empty joke, did she ever express a platform of any kind or was it just vote for me? Now it's on to Faux Nooze for more publicity.
It always seemed that Faux was homophobic so this may be interesting.
Whatever comes of it will be publicity and that will make Jenner happy.
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Just another of the Kardashians...
ReplyDeleteMoney and media attention.
Spokesperson for the LBGTQ, no, its about Jenner.
In the end those surrounding Jenner will be abusive, its
the conservative thing. They will dump Jenner when they
are done or have achieve their goals.
One should not lie with dogs, the fleas can be deadly.
Eck!