"Bush Followers Outraged Over Political Use of Homosexuality & Sex"

[greeneyedboy]

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-followers-outraged-over-political.html

Bush followers outraged over the political use of homosexuality and sex -- seriously
Scads of right-wing bloggers are scandalized and outraged today because it has been reported that GOP social conservative Senator Larry Craig routinely engages in anonymous sex with men. Why, they are just furious that anyone would introduce issues of someone's private sexual affairs into the public arena, and particularly can't believe that someone would try to use a person's homosexuality as a political weapon. Most movingly, they lament that exploiting private sexual behavior this way will drive good people out of political life.

I really hadn't intended to write about this Larry Craig story when I read about it this morning (I was and am working on a post on the President's very inspiring signing ceremony yesterday), but then I became exposed to this disgustingly pious concern being paraded about by all sorts of right-wing pundits over dragging sexual innuendo into the public arena and subjecting political officials to unpleasant personal attacks that would drive good people from office, and how can anyone let that raging, violent hypocrisy just go uncommented upon? Their entire political movement over the last 20 years has been fueled by sleazy sexual innuendo; dragging private sexual behavior into the public arena for fun, profit and political gain; and exploiting the gay issue to drive people to vote for them.

Are they aware of the history and behavior of their political movement when they deliver these sermons or, like the chaos and civil war they brought to Iraq, do they block those facts out and create a different reality for themselves?

for the glaring evidence of their hypocrisy, see http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-followers-outraged-over-political.html">Glenn Greenwald's "Unclaimed Territory"

[rodeodance]

1. DAH------so they have a bee in their bonnet?--Lots of bogs need some

company

[cspanlovr]

2. Amazing. Brainless twits.

[Tyo]

3. So lemme get this straight (so to speak)

They demonize and discriminate against gays and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is when one of their own gets outed?

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Why weren't they furious when...

Republicans introduced issues of President Clinton's private sexual affairs into the public area?

I really ought to get a smiley of a cow taking a dump.

[zbdent]

6. They were furious because, by having a "secret affair" and covering

it up, Clinton was "forcing it out into the open and into the children's TV time" ...

:silly:

[grizmaster]

5. Looks like Monica has come back to bite them in the ass

...in a manner of speaking

[yellerpup]

7. Yeah! Go Monica!

Chomp, chomp! :rofl: :rofl:

[yurbud]

8. "Jeffrey Dahmer condemns Donner Party cannibalism"

"They should have left some for me..."