Here's the Rub

I've been reading this WaPo review by Tom Shales of 'All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise' for several days now. Each time I read it, something would gnaw at me that I was missing the bigger picture. It finally occurred to me:

It's as if the primary concern of Rosie O'Donnell, who captained the project, was presenting to the mainstream TV audience a scrubbed-up, politely tidy image of gay men and women -- a portrait meticulously devoid of the drag queens, pierced nipples and campy vamping one often sees when a local TV station rushes off to cover a gay-themed event. O'Donnell earns herself a citizenship award or a political correctness award, but the unfortunate byproduct of the consciousness-raising is that it isn't engaging, it isn't much fun, and sometimes it's punishingly platitudinous.

Eureka! Tom's all pissy because he had his box of tissues and hand lotion and was ready to tsk-tsk cluck-cluck his way into a frenzy. Instead he had to switch over to Logo for the big finish. I'll see if I can't dig up some hot Jeff Gannon and Ken Mehlman links and send them over to him to help him out, the poor little bugger.