Dear Doves,
“When you wanted to watch Thanksgiving Day parades in the good ol’ days, networks used to have cameras which showed the parade. You would have to endure commentary full of terrible jokes from Level Z celebrities and news reporters who had drawn the short straw, but you could always turn down the sound.
A good number of years ago, this began to change: promotions for movies and especially Broadway shows began to replace coverage of the high-school marching bands and balloons of cartoon characters. The off-key shouting which too often constitutes Broadway-style singing these days, along with clumsy lyrics stuffed with too many syllables, began to dominate the “parade” coverage.
And so this morning, knowing that we would not be seeing much of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade because of this trend, but prepared to mute the song-and-dance sequences, we turned on NBC. Around 9:15 or so, we were astounded to see a bizarrely dressed crew of homosexuals and transvestites mincing and prancing around yelling about the joys of their “lifestyle.” Which freak show they are promoting I did not bother to discover.
So I checked the listings and discovered a Chicago parade sponsored by McDonald’s. We switched channels to WGN, and hoped that we would not be assaulted by something morally objectionable.
But no! We were greeted by a “performance” of a Christmas song medley by the “Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus,” again complete with transvestites, who occasionally grabbed their rears and did a bump and grind while singing Christmas songs!
As of today, McDonald’s and Macy’s have forever lost my business! I will be sending them letters of protest, which will also be sent to NBC and WGN.”
YsiChrist,
Patty RP