Gay Math: “Graham” = “5” and “Norton” = “Percent.” QED.

I admit I was thinking of doing one. Part of my ‘New Media Watch’ responsibilities. There was an article linked at Hotair‘s Headlines segment that was spectimating about how many American men are actually gay. From the NYT, of course.

Since I’ve recently discovered that Hotair does allow and record comments on the articles linked in Headlines, I read the comments on the article, which reliably enough turned into a pissing contest between gay and anti-gay commenters, with time out for a commenter who announced he wasn’t interested in the topic. It took multiple additional comments from both camps to uncover the fact that he announced his uninterest because he wanted Allahpundit and Ed Morrissey to know just how uninterested he was generally in coverage of gay issues.

So. I was thinking of a post about it. The slim, young, dashing Harvard PhD named Seth Stephens-Davidowitz who wrote the NYT column was proposing the number 5 Percent. Which is also the number cited with regard to the independently (un)insured who have just been tossed onto the junk pile by ObamaCare. We have been subjected to a huge, tiresomely constant national trauma about gay marriage and hurt gay feelings for several years now. 5 Percent? How is it that they matter so much while the policyholders and their families who no longer have health insurance because of ObamaCare are only 5 percent? (btw this 5 percent is policies, not people. Waddya think? 45 million people affected, just three per policy?)

With me so far? For the record, I think 5 percent is a stretch as a guess about gay men, but if progressives believe that’s the number, they have some ‘splaining to do about why I have to hear about gay causes every damn day of my life while hardworking entrepreneurs who believed a flat-out presidential lie should just go suck eggs.

Why I went to Hotair Headlines to collect the column link and the 143 comments which proved people were exercised about the article and its implicit asseverations about the inherent nature of gayness. Excuse me. Homosexuality.

Only it wasn’t there. Hotair, in all its New Media hypertruthfulness, had deleted it from the Headlines page. Why? Obvious. The anti-gay sentiment that prevailed in the 143 comments (a very high number for a mere linked article) is/was embarrassing to the site.

I keep saying and will never stop saying that the New Media have no chance to end a corrupt game played by the MSM if they are also corrupt.

I’ll point out that I’m not allowed to comment at Hotair because they limit qualifying as a commenter to the maniacal ones who are prepared to queue up for the “This Friday, between noon and 12:05 pm” strictures they place on would-be contributors. And, still, this is what they get. A bunch of illiterates on both sides whose contribution is so icky that they go the 1984 route of erasing them from history. The gay post was a nonpost. Cool.

Or not. My suggestion to Hotair. Open your Comment section to the world. I’m happy to tell you when you’ve done well, as Allah and Ed frequently do. Surely, you must be often embarrassed by the rump who eviscerate the protected trolls. Why you rarely acknowledge your own Commenters unless they catch you in a factual error.

Note well: I’m sending this to the tip address of Hotair. [Tips@hotair.com] Any bets on whether I’ll hear anything back? And how many of you are willing to follow my lead? If New Media are as self serving as Mainstream Media, when will anything ever improve?