With all the problems going on in the U.S. right now!

In a time when so many people are out of work, with gas prices sky high, with unemployment running out for so  many people, with the housing market in the toilet, with the crappy financial future that is being left to our kids and grandchildren because of the deficit, etc, etc, why is gay marriage, or Romney's giving a haircut to a gay when he was in High School the most important topic of the day?
Isn’t Joe Biden's gaffes or Obama’s money grubbing form the Hollywood Billionaires more or just as important?  And is that the only thing that the left leaning media, has to talk about right now?