"POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER" TWO-MOMS EPISODE: David Frum

[Interesting discussion in comments here, also. --Eve]

...Yesterday's [Washington Post] Style section had a front-page story on Christian evangelicals active on Capitol Hill and another story right beside a recent public screening of the now-famous lesbian episode of the PBS children's series, "Postcards From Buster." ...

Even when confronted with affirmative evidence that there is rather more to the Buster story, Montgomery contrived not to notice it. "Pieper [one of the women featured in the Buster Vermont episode] said the producers had been looking for two-mom families and settled on hers after another option fell through. They liked how Emma and her siblings and moms interacted." In other words, this is not a case of some over-active imagination over-interpreting Tinky Winky's handbag. Buster's producers consciously intended to use their position of trust as publicly funded broadcasters of children's programming to advance a highly controversial agenda of their own. For them to act shocked, shocked, shocked that anybody might object is highly disingenuous. And for a reporter to feign shock along with them is doubly disingenuous.

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posted by Eve at 8:37 AM VOTE

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