A GIFT

from MediaMatters:

Nationally syndicated radio host and frequent FOX News Channel contributor Mike Gallagher, as guest host of the October 16 edition of FOX & Friends: "What if the question was, 'Listen, there's a big problem in America with obesity. We do know there is. It's a health care thing.' And what if the answer had been, well, you know, Edwards's wife has talked about the struggles she's had with weight, I mean, right away people would have said, 'Come on.'"

Note, of course, that Gallagher frames lesbianism, in this context, as a problem in and of itself. (obesity is "a health care thing")

Similar framing mechanisms are used in the other examples cited by MM: Rush Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan on having abortions, Tucker Carlson on marital infidelity, and E.D. Hill on alcoholism. They're all suggesting that being a lesbian is either a bad thing, a problem against which one struggles, or a sad and perhaps shameful thing.

Suddenly Elizabeth Edwards is beginning to make a lot more sense, eh?