How Lame Is HRC?

I’m a broken record on this, but I have less respect for HRC, the country’s largest gay rights lobby, than I do for AIPAC. AIPAC may weaken the US, but at least it gets shit done. HRC? Not so much. Case in point – at New York’s Gay Pride Parade, they apparently couldn’t even muster a real contingent for the march, according to mischievous eye-witnesses, recruiting a bunch of 20-somethings from an ad agency – McCann:

Numbering perhaps 30, they were outdone by the delegations of many smaller community groups as well as their fellow corporate sponsors. Walmart’s envoys stretched a block and a half; MasterCard’s crowd was loud and proud … But it seems that HRC, the largest — and richest — LGBT-rights group in the country, could not be bothered to field a team for the largest LGBT-pride parade in the country. Nor did the earnest, well-meaning boys and girls who marched in their stead have much of an idea why they were there. Some clearly thought we and our banner were part of their group. One wasn’t sure what “HRC” stands for, though most gamely chanted “H! R! C!” — corporate cheerleaders shilling for our premier civil-rights organization right down the lavender line. And no one was sure if there were any HRC staffers among them; if there were, I couldn’t find any.

Chad Griffin couldn’t show up?