THE LOS ANGELES WEEKLY‘S “The New Blacklist” is author Douglas Ireland’s attempt to equate consumer boycotts of gay-themed entertainment sponsors with McCarthyism.

That’s a stretch to begin with, especially considering the storied history of consumer boycotts from the left and directed at various entities and people like Gallo, Laura Schlesinger, and just last fall the sponsors of Sinclair Broadcasting when that network considered running a documentary sympathetic to the Swift Boat Vets.