The Free Press82%
Douglas Murray: How a Gay Cruise Got Stuck Between Islam and the West 70%
By Douglas Murray88%
7/15/2026, 12:05:36 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Right Leaning Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 8.3% saturation with 19 hits. Analysis detected 38 faulty-reasoning hits from 230 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64.1% and a BS Rank of 70% (4,779 of 15,741 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 69.60% of the article peer group.
Talk about a big gay scandal.
This week brought news of a gay Virgin cruise ship called
<em>Scarlet Lady</em>,
which, by my count, is at least a triple entendre.
In recent days, the ship was
barred from docking
in both Turkey and Egypt.
To make it even more of a gay hate crime, the
<em>Scarlet Lady</em>
was carrying not just 2,000 gay Americans but also Patti LuPone.
The mainstream media, and what remains of the gay press, swiftly framed this as a pattern-example of anti-LGBT discrimination.
Indeed, CNN ran the story
under the headline
: “Twice-Rejected American Cruise Puts Spotlight on Rollback of LGBTQ Rights, Passengers Say.”
The story CNN and others ran with was drawn in part from the testimony of one Kyle Olsen, the owner of an LGBT travel company who claimed that the ban reflected a “broader global trend.”
He added that “We’re seeing a rise in right-wing governments and increasingly conservative political movements, and in many places LGBTQI+ rights are being rolled back as a result.”
According to Olsen, “The decisions by Turkey and Egypt don’t exist in isolation.”
The strong insinuation of these reports is that the spurning of
<em>Scarlet Lady</em>
is a result of a world in which Donald Trump has been re-elected and right-wing populism is on the march worldwide.
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