Panahi initially wrote for the daily free commuter newspaper mX, writing a weekly sports gossip column. She has a child with an undisclosed father and was a single parent as of 2016. Panahi worked as a personal banker at Colonial Mutual and was the youngest branch manager in the company's history. She joined Australian Young Labor and volunteered in the 1996 election campaign. Panahi worked in banking while attending Monash University, studying but not completing a Bachelor of Business Finance.

In 1984, they were accepted by Australia as refugees and lived in Melbourne. However, her family was targeted by the Shia Islamist government of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Panahi described her parents as 'relaxed Muslims who were not particularly political'. Her mother worked for a hospital associated with the Shah during the Iranian Revolution. The family returned to Iran during her infancy, living on the coast and moving to Tehran by 1979. Her mother was a midwife and her father was an agricultural engineer. Rita Panahi was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, the child of Iranian parents. Panahi also hosts her very popular “Lefties Losing It” compilations. She works for The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia and is the host of The Rita Panahi Show and The Friday Show on Sky News Australia and is a contributor to Sunrise on the Seven Network. The comment was deemed to be a veiled attack on the non-heteronormative community.Rita Panahi (born 3 March 1976) is an Australian journalist, news anchor, and columnist.

The immediate response from the Twitter cesspit, inhabited by hopelessly broken souls who think they’re saving the world one lynch mob at a time, was ferocious.

But why that question? Does it really matter? Why the need to define people as only gay? There’s much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness.”Īnd he said: “I created Bert. The latest trouble started, as it often does, on Twitter, where Bert’s creator, the famous puppeteer, director and actor Frank Oz, posted: “It seems Mark Saltzman (a former Sesame Street writer) was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay. Some advice: if you ever find yourself obsessed with the imaginary sexual lives of puppets, then waste no time in seeking professional help in determining where you have gone wrong in your life. The Sydney Morning Herald, true to form, refused to accept reality: “ Sesame Street writer confirms Bert and Ernie are a gay couple.” Vox’s The Verge published a similarly delusional piece: “Why it matters that Bert and Ernie are gay, which they are”. The Washington Post’s headline read: “ Sesame Street once again shuts down speculation over Bert and Ernie’s sexual orientation”. The Guardian delivered the devastating news to its audience, many of whom seem heavily invested in the sexual preferences of puppets, with this headline: “Sesame Street disputes writer’s claim that Bert and Ernie are gay.” Sesame Street, a program aimed at preschoolers, is the latest children’s TV offering to fall foul of the soldiers of the progressive movement.Ĭonfirmation that the program’s supposedly homosexual couple, Bert and Ernie, were just good friends made worldwide news, as outraged LGBTIQA+ activists expressed their dismay.

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