Posted on 04/25/2015 10:30:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last night’s interview with Bruce Jenner by Diane Sawyer on ABC’s 20/20 turned out to be very revealing … in a much different way than many thought. By this time, a relentless series of media reports had made it quite clear that Jenner had embraced a transgender identity, at least privately. The big reveal turned out to be that Jenner also identifies as a conservative Republican:
When Sawyer asked if Jenner cheered when Obama became the first president to even say the word “transgender” in a State of the Union address, the 65-year-old replied that he “would certainly give him credit for that.”
“But not to get political,” Jenner continued, “I’ve never been a big fan, I’m kind of more on the conservative side.”
“Are your a Republican?” Sawyer asked in response, to which Jenner replied, “Yeah! Is that a bad thing? I believe in the constitution.”
“Do you think that would be an unsettling thing for some people in the conservative wing of the party?” Sawyer asked.
“I’ve thought about that,” says Jenner, adding that neither political party has a monopoly on understanding.
Tolerance? Not so much. Prior to the interview airing, progressives on Twitter offered lots of support for Jenner, and plenty of predictions about how conservatives would heap scorn on Jenner. After Jenner truly came out, their tone changed considerably, as Twitchy documented:
So any sympathy my mother had for Bruce Jenner evaporated once she heard he wasn't a fan of President Obama.
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) April 25, 2015
.@PerezHilton No, the real question is…what will liberals think of him now that he’s a Republican. GOP will be fine with it. @GayPatriot
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) April 25, 2015
@Leann_az @JayCaruso @GayPatriot @PerezHilton Mostly, we really don't care. Sorry to be iconoclastic.
— Scott (@FiveChels) April 25, 2015
It’s probably safe to say that most conservatives and Republicans didn’t really care much one way or another about the lifestyles of the Kardashians and Jenners before, during, or after this interview. They have found a way to prosper in the open market, and can use their money to use as they see fit within the bounds of the law. For the most part, we’d see this as none of our business, and it’s still really none of our business. As long as Jenner isn’t demanding that we participate in his transition, few if any of us will care.
That is actual tolerance, rather than the Enforced Participation Happy Inquisitions of Tolerance that progressives impose, continually demanding not just acceptance but celebration by all. It seems like Jenner understands that, too. Good. I’m with Kurt Schlichter on this:
Accept him, her, whatever as an ally in our campaign to destroy collectivism. #caring https://t.co/jocOAKHk1G
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 25, 2015
Oddly, ABC doesn’t, though. They’ve broken out the lengthy interview into several segments, but none of those highlight this particular reveal. Isn’t this worth promoting, at least for the novelty of it?After all, novelty is the reason for airing this interview in the first place. Speaking of which, Sawyer also asked him about whether this was a promotional stunt for the reality-TV show. Jenner insists it’s not:
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I tend to take Jenner at his word on this point. It’s not going to do the reality-TV show any good to have him outside the stultifying progressive closet in Hollywood and out in the open as a conservative Republican. The reaction to his coming out proves that much.
Update: John Nolte slaps the “parochial” media:
The left-wing Huffington Post is even more confused than Ms. Sawyer. The Daily Caller’s Betsy Rothstein notes that HuffPo has saturated its site in overnight Jenner coverage without once managing to reveal his identity as a Christian Republican.
Newflash: Jenner didn’t get a brain transplant. …
Like most everyone else in America, legions of conservatives and Christians live and work, and dare I say, coexist just fine with their openly gay friends, co-workers, and relatives. America has come a long way in a very short time when it comes to recognizing the humanity of homosexuals, and that is truly a wonderful thing. And long overdue.
Where we disagree is on the political issue of same sex marriage, and despite what the media believes, holding the same opinion on gay marriage that Barack Obama did two years ago, and Hillary Clinton did 2 minutes ago, does not make one a Nazi.
Moreover, I personally don’t know of any Christian or conservative who doesn’t fully grasp the Biblical notion that sin is a verb, not a person. Like sex outside of marriage or lying, homosexuality is a sin, being gay is not. We are all sinners, and we are all children of God.
The mainstream media is positively drunk on its own sanctimonious ideas of diversity, inclusion and tolerance of different cultures and ideas. And yet this same mainstream media regularly displays a stunning ignorance when it comes to understanding a political and religious culture held by something like, oh, 100 million Americans.
It’s not a stunning ignorance. It’s willful blindness, and a bigotry all of its own.
Update: Steven Crowder writes, “Being a Republican is now more shocking than ‘transgender’.” Well, to the mainstream media and to progressives, yes it is.
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Americans with common sense.
Since around two or three percent of the population in general is sexually attracted to their own gender rather than the opposite sex there are probably few Christians who do not have friends, co-workers, and/or family members who fit that classification. We also may have friends and family who are compulsive liars, adulterers, tax cheats, and even lawyers or politicians. And none of us is justified in claiming that we ourselves are without sin. We may, do, and are compelled to condemn sin, our own and anyone else’s. What the so called Gaystapo demands is that we shut up about it and if we don’t we will be silenced by force. That’s their perverse definition of tolerance, which anyplace but in Alice’s Wonderland is easily identified as Fascism.
So he’s keeping a male voice, even after all the alterations? I heard him on the radio last night. He sounds like he always has, just a bit more raspy. That may be due to him having his Adams Apple removed last year. Insurance covers these things? Though for Bruce, he could get quick cash by hocking one of his gold medals if he still has them.
The sodomite lifestyle is not the kind of sin someone commits and says “Oops, I’m sorry”, is repentant, and asks for forgiveness. It’s on-going, unrepentant sin.
Maybe it’s because I’m a fundamentalist separatist (as in “come out from among them and be ye separate”), but I’ve made it to over 50 yo without being able to count any acknowledged, or to the best of my knowledge, any closeted, sodomites, amongst the people with whom I socialise.
Paid for by the Dems to say he is Republican.
Bruce probably leans toward Rand Paul would be my guess.
A Libertarian leaning weirdo, Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Then you’re among the “probably few” I referred to. I’ve certainly known some and frankly my main reaction has been pity. That lifestyle is anything but “gay”.
just about sick to death of peter puffer articles - especially Brucette Jenner - ggrrrrrrrrr
If Bruce were elected President, he could serve as both President and first lady.
So Bruce is a Conservative, okay that’s fine.
And if Bruce is more comfy in a dress, that’s okay to.
I don’t care what people do behind the closed doors of their domain. I can’t stand it when it’s rammed down my throat in public by people who somehow think they need special protected rights.
That’s the impression I get from statistics, as opposed to Hollywood and MSM portrayals of them. That’s the kind of job Hollywood and the MSM has done on the youth, that they could conceivably think this lifestyle is cool, instead of pathological, in the face of all the evidence.
There is nothing conservative about this guy
Bruce Jenner proved what Conservatives believe — that the Constitution embodies universal principles that every freedom-loving individual regardless of race, color, national origin, or sexual orientation holds dear.
The reason the Wheaties company put Bruce Jenner on its cereal boxes after he won the Olympics was to honor him as an example of the best of America, an American hero.
Last night, the liberal ABC network honored Bruce Jenner as a hero of the transgender-promoting Left by featuring him in an interview. But he’s still an American hero for having the courage to speak up for the Constitution.
Seventeen million people watched the interview. Those viewers who have an inclination towards taking the path to trans-genderhood will be more likely to do so now following Bruce Jenner’s example. And those who have an inclination towards becoming Republicans and supporting the Constitution will also be more inspired to do so. All in all, a good night for Republicans.
Choosing to self-mutilate the body God gave you is not a conservative value.
I saw clips of that show, there ain’t nothing conservative going on in that family
Bruce isn’t a peter puffer, more like a ‘lesbian trapped in a man’s body.’
RE:lesbian trapped in a man’s body.’
You mean he’s a Male Lesbian?
Jenner and all like him/her/it are emotionally and mentally disturbed or outright insane. Nothing they claim or say should be taken seriously.
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