So much so he did this interview defending her in Salon. The final sentence has a subtle Freudian slip which signals Gene's subliminal desire:
It's frightening to me as a believer in our system that you've got what is essentially the unchecked power of the media to destroy. It's shocking to me that people don't know better. But don't you think people are becoming more aware? I'm alternately exhilarated and depressed. Some days I feel like I'm going to expose them all; it will all come out. Other times I feel like the Dutch boy with one finger in the dike.
Other than this snippet from Lyons on Lesbos, he's as funny as Al Francken's Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. And as accurate.
He's Maureen Dowd without the well-turned phrase: all bile and no style.
If body part nicknames are the mark of wit, his Little Annie Fanny falls flat. I did enjoy George W. Bush's reference to the Large Adam Fanny as a major-league a**hole.
Gene Lyons with his finger in the dyke.
That's what burbles up from his oblongatal swamp.
So maybe Gene is a lesbian trapped in a gay man's body.
He must really hate himself.
No wonder they have all those conferences on gender. This gets confusing.