National outrage is growing over a MSNBC host who, during a live broadcast, coached her daughter on how she could grow up and marry a girl if she lived in New York.
Breitbart.com is reporting that MSNBC host Krystal Ball brought her five year-old daughter Ella on the air last Friday for a segment on same-sex marriage.
After several moments of coaching and prodding Ella in a discussion about marriage, she finally got to the main point: "Can you marry any person? Any person that you fall in love with? What if you were in love with a girl? Could you marry a girl?"
Ella is conspicuously well-versed in New York law for a five year-old when she answers: "Um, only here I can marry a girl. . . 'cause girls can marry girls and boys can marry boys in New York, and a girl can marry a boy in New York too."
"And that's good because you want people to be able to marry who they are in love with, right?" Ball nudges her on.
She then explains to the child how "strange" it is that other states haven't decided to allow gay marriage.
"They should change that, shouldn't they?" Ball says.
"Yeah!" Ella says, as if a five year-old can have any idea about the complexities of the issue she's talking about. "That's crazy!"
The on-air stunt outraged many, who accused Ball of using her daughter as a political prop to forward her own agenda.
"As journalism goes, this stunt from Ball was exploitative, manipulative pap," writes Breitbart's Larry O'Connor. "It ultimately meant nothing and had no value in advancing the dialogue surrounding same-sex marriage. It served only the narcissistic needs of Ball. It allowed her to show off her child and her progressive parenting skills to her friends at MSNBC, and sadly, to the rest of the world for posterity."
Glenn Beck's The Blaze labeled the show "cringe-worthy" while Newsbuster's Jeffrey Meyers called it "a bizarre and sad turn" for the failing network.
"Such blatant and disgusting use of political propaganda is a new low for the liberal MSNBC network," Meyers writes. "Ball, who along with the majority of the Lean Forward network, actively promote gay marriage on a daily basis, feels that using her daughter to peddle her liberal agenda is appropriate."
Every day people weren't too impressed either.
One commenter named "Jackrile" wrote on the Breitbart site: "I remember when I was around this age. I asked my mom if I could marry my older sister, because we had such fun playing. She explained to me that brothers and sisters don't get married. Was my mom a backwoods, bible-thumping bigot for poisoning my brain and denying my freedom to marry whoever I wanted to?"
Another, named Ricky Pastille, commented: "You really cannot make this stuff up. This poor little girl, at 5 years of age, is being indoctrinated about homosexuality on live TV by her own mother. Good Lord, have American media celebrities all gone over to the dark side -- even the mothers? This is satanic."
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