The Secret Paul Lynde Agenda
The American Family Association warns us about a TV special that blows the lid off the Homosexual Agenda.
TV Land is touting the “Tickled Pink” as the first program to look at how and why certain classic television shows “have hit the funny bone for generations of gay viewers.” The show promises to celebrate a variety of TV shows and situation comedies that have commanded huge homosexual fan bases, and will “get the inside scoop from the talented people that created them.”
Ed Vitagliano, a media researcher for the American Family Association, says although “Tickled Pink” does not promote the latest political issues of the pro-homosexual movement, the one-hour special does appear to have some disturbing objectives. One thing the show seems to do, he observes, is to hint that Hollywood has somehow “outsmarted” mainstream culture for decades by “sneaking” homosexual characters and motifs into television programs.
All this “underscores the fact that there really is an agenda in Hollywood amongst those who are homosexual,” Vitagliano says. And its chief aim, he asserts, has apparently been “to kind of broach the subject [of homosexuality] to straight America in as subtle a way as possible with the hopes that they’ll be more accepting of the political movement.”
Upon watching “Tickled Pink,” Vitagliano says it was “disturbing” to have Hollywood’s homosexual agenda so solidly confirmed. “In some ways it was worse than I expected it to be,” he notes, “because it really celebrated the fact that there were people in Hollywood who were trying to get a message across without the viewer really knowing it — at least if they were straight.”
You know how Paul Lynde used to deliver those suggestive lines on “Hollywood Squares” and how he seemed kind of fey on “Bewitched”? Well, it turns out that he may have been gay!
And apparently the gays all knew this, and laughed at us straight people who were never clued in to their little inside joke. And the subversive goal behind Paul Lynde was to make us and our children think that gays were people too. No wonder we are now having to discuss “gay marriage” in this country!
And then the gays tried to claim that Batman and Robin, Starsky and Hutch, and even Laverne and Shirley are, if not homosexual, at least good friends — how dare they despoil our heroes!
“Even in TV shows that have nothing to do with homosexuality,” Vitagliano notes, “apparently gays and lesbians have often latched onto any hint of a close relationship or spiritual intimacy between characters of the same sex and have read a homosexual subtext into it, desperate to find something — anything — that will give them a sense of normalcy.” Or, in other cases, he adds, indications are that homosexuals often view shows about characters with supernatural powers and hidden abilities, such as “Bewitched” and “I Dream of Jeannie,” and see characters who must keep secrets or lead hidden lives as somehow paralleling the “closeted” homosexual existence.
“I watched the show with a deep sense of sadness,” Vitagliano notes. “It made me realize all the more how much Christians need to reach out to gays and lesbians, who are often extremely lonely people.”
Yes, anybody who would read all kinds of stuff that isn’t there into fictional characters must be really pathetic.
But wait, isn’t Ed Vitagliano the author of “Somthing Swishy About Shark Tail”, the review that claimed the cartoon vegetarian shark in the film was obviously gay, and that the movie was trying to indocrinate kids into accepting homosexuality?
But back to his pity for homosexuals, who are so lonely that they have to make up fantasies about how everybody is gay.
Not that homosexuals are to be pitied, he adds, “any more than we are all to be pitied by God.” But although many homosexuals may feel they are lacking intimacy and a sense of connection with people of their same sex, the AFA spokesman says, “What they really need is a relationship with Jesus.”
Say, that would make a good TV action show: “Gay Starsky and Jesus!” They’re cops who don’t play by the rules!
Anyway, I haven’t seen “Tickled Pink,” but it sounds like fun. Brian Moylan of the Houson Voice said of it:
Insightful, entertaining and thorough, the show is mostly a primer for straight people about gay culture, but trust me: You€™ll think it€™s a hoot €” and informative.
And maybe it will reveal more about their secret Bea Arthur agenda.
June 10th, 2005 at 7:55 am
Paul Lynde is gay? No way!
/chokes on sarcasm
June 10th, 2005 at 8:08 am
Boy, I hope no one tells them about “slash” fanfiction. Their heads might explode.
What’s that address again?
June 10th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Amazing, an agenda in Hollywood! Who would have thought that people using media to deliver a message would actually be trying to say something?
“Whoa, whatter we gonna do about that, ma?”
“Why, burn them films ‘n shoot them folks is what I say.”
June 10th, 2005 at 8:15 am
Oh my. Oh my. That’s why I turned Gay. My love of Bewitched did it. After all, not only was Paul Lynde Gay, but so was Dick Sargent and Anges Moorehead. And her name: - more - head. It’s all so subliminal! There goes the gag reflex!
June 10th, 2005 at 8:28 am
Jane Hathaway…sigh
June 10th, 2005 at 8:32 am
D. Sidhe, slash fiction also totally blows away the “Guys like lesbians, but chicks don’t like dudes making out” theory.
Christians need to reach out to gays and lesbians, who are often extremely lonely people
Well, you think that because when you see them, they’re desperately trying to avoid you.
June 10th, 2005 at 9:02 am
Aren’t they also the ones who go on about how gays are like the Romans, with the bathhouse orgies and promiscuity?
I can see how they’re lonely. Clearly it’s all compensating.
June 10th, 2005 at 9:33 am
Shhhhhhh. Nobody tell on Liberace.
June 10th, 2005 at 10:30 am
D.Sidhe-the url for all the slash fanfiction? That would be
http://adultfan.nexcess.net/aff/
June 10th, 2005 at 12:39 pm
But although many homosexuals may feel they are lacking intimacy and a sense of connection with people of their same sex, the AFA spokesman says, €œWhat they really need is a relationship with Jesus.€
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Yikes. I thought the last thing these people wanted was having those awful gays contemplating a “relationship” with Jesus.
June 10th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
I think most homosexuals have a really good “sense of connection” with their same sex, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
June 10th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
MaryC: Actually I meant the AFA address. I was gonna send ‘em some links and see if the sheer outraged revelation that there’s, my heavens, immoral filth on the internet! would cause a few heart attacks.
It seems like it’d be worth a try.
(And, no, not that URL, anyway. They don’t even list my fandoms. Uh, TMI?)
June 10th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Whatever you do, don’t mention the fact that Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter is a lesbian-loving lesbian.
‘Cause that would just be rude.
June 10th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
god, those AFA fuks piss me off—
June 10th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
hmmm. slash fan fic with Jesus and Starsky…back of the car…Hutch interrupts…might have something here….
June 10th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
I always thought that Maj. Nelson from “I Dream of Jeannie” just had to be gay. Why else would he have fought off the advances of someone so hot and so subservient for so long?
June 10th, 2005 at 3:14 pm
…Oh! and Jan Brady had so many self-esteem issues and unresolved step-daughter issues that there could only be one reason why Peter Brady didn’t jump on THAT!
June 10th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
My favorite Paul Lynde moment, before he keeled over while fucking some rent boys was on Hollywood Squares.
Q: Why do men who ride motocycles wear leather?
A: Because taffeta wrinkles too easily.
Um, guess you had to be there.
June 10th, 2005 at 6:16 pm
I’ve read that the reason so many television shows (and movies) have gay characters and gay references is merely because it peaks people’s interest — whether they are are pro-gay, anti-gay, or have no opinion on the subject, people are interested in gay content. Even what’s-his-name who directed “Lord of the Rings” said that he wanted the relationship between two of the characters (you Lord of the Rings fans can fill in the names) to suggest a homosexual relationship when no such thing is suggested in the book just for this very reason. And especially on television it keeps people tuned in if even for another minute or two. Again, the right-wing-relgious-nuts are being exploited by the plain ring-wing-nuts.
June 10th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
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June 10th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
My all time favorite Paul Lynde response on Hollywood Squares was:
Q: Why do motorcyclers wear leather?
Answer from Paul Lynde: “Because chiffon wrinkles!”
He was great and made many people laugh. Neither he nor anyone gay or lesbian needs the pity of God. Only the haters need that.
June 10th, 2005 at 7:17 pm
…it has to be taffeta. Taffeta is a much funnier word than chiffon.
June 10th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
Well see, the mother and the husband on Bewitched were both gay, because lesbian moms always drive their daughters into the arms of closeted gay husbands. And let’s not even talk about the rebellious and independent Tabitha.
June 10th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
Because taffeta wrinkles too easily.
Chiffon wrinkles, Jim, Chiffon..
June 10th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
Taffeta is a much funnier word than chiffon.
But chiffon, is gayer. Just take my word for it.
June 10th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
I won’t pull any punches.
This is the craziest, most cockamamie pile of bullshit to fall out of the Dobsonite, Christo-Fascist Taliban camp yet.
The insulting thing to an old, straight guy like me is the implicatiuon that somehow we can’t think for ourselves, form our own opinions, nor conduct ourselves in any manner of civility without the odious, mind-numbing, twaddle dictated to us by a way-out-there religious wierdo, and his pack of little goofy automatons.
By heaven, I will make up my own mind about Paul Lynde, two women entering a scene wrapped up in towels, or any other TV issue without the help of any interloping crackpot who is terrified of homosexual people!
Isn’t anyone basically insulted by this twit? Dobson just said, “you can’t think for yourselves,” and then the imperious pooh-bah wants to show us something that most of the people my age saw, laughed at, and then more or less forgot until Dubya’s buddy Dobson saw and got goofy about.
It is thought that it took a stegosaurus about 30 seconds from the time something landed on his tail until it went, “GRONK!” Are we to believe that it has taken Dobson and his merry band of numbskulls 30, or 40 or 50 years to come up with this claptrap they are peddling?!
It appears that man has descended from lower animals….and has lost quite a bit in the descent!!
June 10th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
Many years ago I saw Paul Lynde on stage a number of times in Ohio when he was touring as one of the Kenley players.
http://home.columbus.rr.com/paullynde/plstage.html
I thought he was very funny. I didn’t recognize when he was camping it up, not yet having much experience of the world. He was a favorite with the not very progressive and liberal folks of Ohio. How clever of the gay agendizers to start softening us up back in the sixties. But of course Lynde was an Ohio boy, so we trusted him, and accepted him as a human being.
Our bad!
June 10th, 2005 at 10:56 pm
And what do the ‘right wing neocons’ offer us-badly acted & produced biblical shows heavily sermonizing shows (watch the stuff on TBN) propogandizing and fulminating talking heads (like Dobson et all and Rush L.) and pasty faced heavily made up and coiffed (like drag queens) Teleevangelists (Jan and Paul Crouch, Jerry Falwell etc.-you name em). No wonder everyone finds Desperate Housewives and Will & Grace better to watch.
June 11th, 2005 at 3:30 am
boilerman10: dude, you just gotta listen to Butt Hole Sufers’ “Weird Revelotion”. I think you guys are twin suns of different mothers.
On Topic: I have had a gay friend in high school. a gay roommate in collage. gay friends, gay boss. my wife’s best friends are gay men. my current boss is a gay lesbian. Why am I not gay?
I’ve been married 21 years and never in my life have had a homosexual encounter. Never. One would think that with all the exposer to gays, I should have been turned a long, long time ago.
How come I got passed over for being turned Gay?
The more exposure to Gay culture that these morons have, maybe they will see that quilt that is American Life is integrated with gay threads.
-ub
June 11th, 2005 at 6:07 am
It was the Carol Burnett Show that made me gay.
I mean, LYLE WAGNER…. ahhhh….
How could I have turned out straight after all those hours watching Lyle Wagner?
June 11th, 2005 at 6:17 am
Some of the greatest Paul Lynde quips from Hollywood Squares including the “chiffon” quote
http://www.classicsquares.com/lyndesquares.html
June 11th, 2005 at 6:50 am
Line delivered as Samantha uncovers a bubbling stewpot on her kitchen stove:
Hey, Sammy, what’s cookin’?
With Ed Vitagliano recast as the nose-twitching blonde witch, Lynde’s line seems appropriate to this situation.
June 11th, 2005 at 6:52 am
I wonder if this means that Hannity and Colmes…?
And how come every photo of the Supreme Court Justices shows them “grouped” together, always wearing “matching’ black robes … Why no dress slacks for the men and skirts for the women? And what are they hiding underneath those robes? Butt plugs? Leather chaps?
And what about our astronauts being cooped up for days…
Wow, this subversive gay agenda is BIGGER than anyone imagined!!!
June 11th, 2005 at 7:06 am
Dolores Gray made me gay!
After seeing her in the “Not Since Nineveh” number in Kismet my little seven year-old self was overcome with strange twilight urges that gained full expression in my teenager years when I discovered Hot Man-to-Man Action !
I am ever-so-grateful.
June 11th, 2005 at 7:26 am
Three words for you my friends…
Jim.
J.
Bullock.
too close for comfort INDEED!
June 11th, 2005 at 7:34 am
To the person who wrote that he never thought of Frodo and Sam in “Lord of the Rings” as being gay, but that the director of the film wanted to hint at it. I read “Lord of the Rings” when I was 17 and I definitely thought the relationship between Frodo and Sam seemed a little on the queer side. And I lived in a dinky little NC town where I didn’t know of anyone who was gay.
June 11th, 2005 at 7:37 am
Speaking of shows about super powers, “My Secret Identity” with Jerry McConnell may have turned me gay. I mean, come on, that guy got really cute when he dropped the weight from his “Stand By Me” years.
And maybe it was a bit late, but Jake Gyllenhall in “Donnie Darko” (about another cute guy with a sort of special powers) is also a big culprit. In fact, Jake is so hot that movie turns me gayer and gayer every time I watch it.
June 11th, 2005 at 7:48 am
Even before Paul Lynde, there was Billy DeWolf (anyone out there remember him?). He was a favorite of my mother’s (a straight lady) and her friends.
June 11th, 2005 at 8:12 am
Karl Rove reminds me of the gay pedofile character Baron Harkonnen from Dune series.
June 11th, 2005 at 8:42 am
I’m gay and have a close personal relationship with Jesus. If you mean the Jesus (Hay-soos) who is the hot hispanic guy I get down on my knees to worship in the bushes at park where all the closeted married men go to meet…
(Conductor, I’d like a first-class ticket on the Hell Express, please.)
June 11th, 2005 at 9:27 am
Remember the Meese Commission on Pornography? James Dobson sat there next to a homosexual but didn’t realize he was being “infected” as he must be since he sees us everywhere now.
www.radardan.com/MeeseComm.shtml
June 11th, 2005 at 10:13 am
Going to Hell doesn’t scare me as much as living through another Republican regime. The threat of Hell only works if you believe in fictional accounts written 2000 years ago. Besides, Jesus never said 1 word for OR against homosexuality. Try actually reading your Bible sometime, hypocrite! You might learn a lot about Jesus.
June 11th, 2005 at 10:30 am
My goodness! The next thing you know those gays are going to be claiming that that nice Mr. Nelson Reilly is gay. (What a sweet-heart he is, and so clever!)
June 11th, 2005 at 11:05 am
Hello, my children. I can promise you that all these sexual dieviants will burn in the fires of Hell for all eternity, along with anyone who ever voted Democrat. We know all, we are the dispensers of punishiment. Repent before it is too late. I will forgive you if you are sincere.
June 11th, 2005 at 11:19 am
Jesus, your Mom was artificially inseminated in the presence of an angel. And your Peter founded a church led by non-hetero dudes who don’t wear pants. Isn’t it a little late in the game to be changing all the rules?
Sheesh. Next thing ya know, you’ll be claiming you never said to love thy neighbor as thyself.
June 11th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Paul Lynde!!!??? Oh no…. what’s next? Yogi Bear and Boo Boo? Fred and Barney? The Three Wise Men? And while we’re at it, if Mary was a virgin…why wasn’t Joseph gettin’ busy with her? HMMM???? (too many sheep around?)
June 11th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
Say, that would make a good TV action show: €œGay Starsky and Jesus!€ They€™re cops who don€™t play by the rules!
Nah, make it a movie, with the typical cliches: Jesus, being crucified, “I’m getting too old for this shit!” Partner Gay Starsky, “They crucified Jesus when he was one week away from retirement!”
June 11th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
Ah yes. Billy DeWolf. Funny man. An early gay icon that people loved. He and Doris Day struck up an immediate friendship early on and she adored him as she did many gay men and women that helped to make her what she is to all. Later, in the late sixties and early 70’s, Doris gave Billy a character on her TV show. They will all be available starting this month on DVD btw. Every episode of the Doris Day show is being released. YOu’ll find many gay icons appearing now and then on this show…Doris is gr8 loving and kind person to all.
Thanks for reminding me of Billy DeWolf. I picked him out early from watching old movies and he was hysterical. And don’t forget Kaye Ballard. Good friend of Paul Lynde’s and a very funny commediane. Also on the D Day show and appears around the country still.
So gang, givem a peep…gotta jet….moi
June 11th, 2005 at 7:40 pm
The “Tickled Pink” episode of “Inside TV Land” is scheduled to air for the first time on June 16, to be repeated throughout the month. (You’ll have to check local listings or go to TV Land’s website for the time. As s.z. observed, it’s probably a hoot, for viewers with cable and a sense of humor.
Has it occurred to the people getting their undies in a bunch over this that looking for a gay subtext in a tv show may just be nothing more than a game, a way of making it more interesting(and fun) to watch? It’s also true of movies. Pretty much any action/buddy movie seems gay, even when they put a girl in to throw us off the trail. (In fact, a lot of those movies would probably be better if those “buddies” WERE a couple, dontcha think?)
June 11th, 2005 at 8:18 pm
why do you hate jesus?
June 11th, 2005 at 9:48 pm
Don’t Watch This T.V. Show
Because the American Family Association says so.
June 11th, 2005 at 10:27 pm
Hmm, so how much you want to bet that Ed Vitagliano is gay? Frankly, I’d be shocked if he wasn’t.
June 12th, 2005 at 6:55 am
Oh those sneaky homosexuals - sullying our minds with their Agenda. We should destroy everything on television with subtext and overt sin! Quickly now!
Begone Buffy, Batman, Smallville, Starsky and Hutch, Charmed, Dawnson’s Creek, Angel ect. ect.
While we’re at it, why don’t we get rid of all the works of writing too?
Let’s burn all of Shakespere’s work, Oscar Wilde’s stuff because you know he must have snuck some homosexuality in those awful books of his …
*sigh*. *eye roll*.
June 12th, 2005 at 7:57 am
When I was in high school, it totally escaped all of us that the band Queen had gay members. Queen!!
June 12th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
If the AFA is reading homosexual themes into unrelated programming, then isn’t “Tickled Pink” as well? I found it odd that a network whose core mission is reminding us how great the past is would do a documentary on all the subversion in that good-time TV. It’s more likely viewers back then didn’t try to sexualize everything, and found those shows entertaining regardless of the viewer’s orientation.
June 12th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Moderate Voice, the fact that the American Family Association is warning us NOT to watch it is the exact reason why we SHOULD.
June 13th, 2005 at 2:31 am
…it really celebrated the fact that there were people in Hollywood who were trying to get a message across without the viewer really knowing it — at least if they were straight.
Good Lord! They’re on to us! They must have found out about the topsecret rainbowcolored newsletter! The Gay conspiracy is out of the closet!
Guess we’d better put those plans for World domination back in the freezer until we’ve had the change to pacify Straight America with Will & Grace reruns…
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