Seriously? We don’t know where Mario Lopez stands on the political spectrum but he’s always come across as a sincere, polite professional, so of course, he has to be destroyed and made to grovel over his comments on a podcast that maybe leaving it up to 3-year-olds to determine their own gender isn’t the wisest move a parent could make.

As Twitchy reported earlier, his name was a trending topic on Twitter earlier Wednesday because of it, but check out this headline from the folks at NBC News:

NBC coming in with the basement-conspiracy-site-level headline spin ? HE LITERALLY JUST SAID 3-YEAR-OLDS SHOULD NOT BE CHOOSING THEIR OWN GENDER. THAT’S ALL HE SAID. pic.twitter.com/cDRixMfBHG — Adam Ford (@Adam4d) July 31, 2019

That is one seriously out-of-context headline.

Look at the words Lopez actually said and then look at that headline and then be sad that this is our media pic.twitter.com/gJoPUtAltC — Adam Ford (@Adam4d) July 31, 2019

Yeah, and?

In other news, Mario Lopez says what we are all thinking. And I mean like a vast majority of Americans. Stop making this “controversial” @NBCNews https://t.co/aSP3Vupc5q — Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) July 31, 2019

The "media" is running out of people to vilify or be outraged at. Their pool of celebrities to unfairly target or politicians to accuse of racism is drying up. But don't dare call them #fakenews or they'll cry bloody murder. — Jonathan Hansen (@jondahutt) July 31, 2019

Isn’t this inciting violence against Lopez? Some LGBTQ advocate who’s teetering on the edge could see this headline and do something drastic. The media really needs to be regulated before someone gets hurt.

Not that this is especially new or unusual for them, of course. But I do miss the days when we were just talking about 'splody cars. — ᵖᵍᵉᵖᵖˢ (@pgepps) July 31, 2019

Oh yeah, the GM pickup that was rigged to explode on camera! That predates even Dan Rather’s foray into fake news.

If Mario does'nt defend his comments and call out

the liars then he's done anyway . — lynn sweat (@lynnsweat1) July 31, 2019

Narrator: He’s done.

The heretic cannot be tolerated. These people are the modern-day version of the Salem witch trial days. Toss Mario in the pool and see if he floats. — Alex Lekas (@TheAlexLekas) July 31, 2019

He should pen an @nytimes op-ed about how racist Trump is and his next movie project will be an anti-@NRA documentary. That should get him out of the headlines for being homophobic. — 2A Voter?? (@bluesky76251) July 31, 2019

Seems like one should at least be fully potty trained before having to make life altering decisions. But, maybe that's just me. — [email protected] (@KKaydownthehall) July 31, 2019

My 3 month old son came home from daycare and told me that his teacher asked him what gender he was choosing. When I asked him what he did, he replied; I told her to GTFO I'm eating my crayons. — Polish Goodfella (@dbro2) July 31, 2019

What’s really sad is that this is even news. — Katherine D (@kmd2210) July 31, 2019

This is seriously fake news, NBC News. It’s not that hard to fix, though it might be too late.

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