Right too busy now to fight gay cowboys

[question everything]

Right too busy now to fight gay cowboys

By Steve Young, Guest Columnist
LA Daily News

'Brokeback Mountain' attack on heterosexual cowboy films: With all the attention and award nominations going to the new film featuring a love story between two hard-riding cowboys, why hasn't there been more of an outcry from the far right? "Whoa. One war at a time,"exclaimed one highly rated, nonspinning Fox News host. "The folks haven't even finished fighting the War on Christmas. On Dec. 26, we'll get the troops ramped up for the fight against the War on Heterosexual Westerns."

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What he meant was ... During President George W. Bush's interview with Fox News anchor Brit Hume, Bush said he believed Tom DeLay was innocent of the charges against him. When asked why he could comment on DeLay's ongoing criminal investigation, but not on the ongoing criminal investigation of Karl Rove, the president said, "Oh, is it that late already? You take care, Brit."

In other presidential - oops - news: In a speech last week, the president admitted mistakes leading up to the Iraq war, which White House officials immediately admitted was a mistake to admit.

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Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful."

http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_3319271

[Warpy]

1. Maureen Dowd's take was hilarious

and was followed by a thoughtful discussion of the death of an archetype.

"As President Bush tries to shake off his dazed look and regain his swagger, he will no doubt dust off his cowboy routine: his gunslinger pose, his squinty-eyed gaze, his dead-or-alive one-liners, his Crawford brush clearing.

"But this time, he may want to think twice before strapping on a Texas-shaped belt buckle. W. might inadvertently conjure up images of Bushback Mountain.

"The High Plains, one of the few remaining arenas where men were men, may now evoke something more ambiguous, like men with men. After "Brokeback Mountain," pitching that pup tent on the prairie will never seem the same."

This is well worth the read at http://www.topplebush.com/oped2400.shtml

[question everything]

2. Thanks! That's hilarious

From the same link

or all its dazzling digital spectacle, "King Kong" is not as daring as it could be. Peter Jackson could have made Kong a woman. Or, while he was borrowing "Titanic" imagery for the lovers' parting on the Empire State Building, he could have gone all the way and made "Brokeback Island."

Just picture it: Leonardo DiCaprio, blond, doe-eyed and smitten, curled in the ape's epicene yet hairy grip. Kong, swinging both ways.

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3. Queen Kong just doesn't have the same alliterative appeal