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underbear1 · Oct 18, 2006, 11:55 pm

A hypocritical senator’s closet bites the dust at Pandagon

"Glenn Greenwald has pulled a ton of righty indignation from the past over the Clenis. These are the same people braying now about “privacy” for Craig. Too f*cking bad.

.As should be painfully obvious, the issue with Larry Craig — or with pointing out the wildly promiscuous recreational-drug-aided sexual behavior of Rush Limbaugh, or Newt Gingrich’s multiple, overlapping broken marriages — isn’t to apply our moral standards to their private lives, but is to apply their own publicly claimed moral standards, as well as the core tactics of the GOP, to document that they live in utter contradiction to the sexual morality they relentlessly embrace for political gain…

…Watching Bush followers angrily objecting to the use of sexual behavior and homosexuality for political gain — or listening them oh-so-solemnly lament how the Good People are being driven away from politics because of the personal, invasive treatment to which they are subjected — is about as jaw-droppingly astonishing as any spectacle one can fathom. This is a political movement built upon claims of moral superiority in the sexual and private realms. It is truly difficult to express the level of contempt and scorn that is merited when the most fervent supporters of that same political movement pretend to be offended and angry when it is revealed that the lives being led by their political leaders are grossly inconsistent with the sexual and moral values they claim to monopolize.

These wingers can bleat about the Dem slime machine all they want, but they need to look in the mirror. These are the people who gladly take that call on the batphone from Uncle Karl, the master of taking out the other side using whatever means necessary to stir the Base.

This act of outing Craig is simply pointing out legislators (and enablers) who are more than willing to legislate against those who wish to live their lives openly. If they are going to play the gay card they can’t run once they are caught with a stacked deck."

Oct 18, 2006, 11:55 pm	#10 (permalink) (top)
underbear1 BANNED Posts: 2,630	A hypocritical senator’s closet bites the dust at Pandagon "Glenn Greenwald has pulled a ton of righty indignation from the past over the Clenis. These are the same people braying now about “privacy” for Craig. Too f*cking bad. .As should be painfully obvious, the issue with Larry Craig — or with pointing out the wildly promiscuous recreational-drug-aided sexual behavior of Rush Limbaugh, or Newt Gingrich’s multiple, overlapping broken marriages — isn’t to apply our moral standards to their private lives, but is to apply their own publicly claimed moral standards, as well as the core tactics of the GOP, to document that they live in utter contradiction to the sexual morality they relentlessly embrace for political gain… …Watching Bush followers angrily objecting to the use of sexual behavior and homosexuality for political gain — or listening them oh-so-solemnly lament how the Good People are being driven away from politics because of the personal, invasive treatment to which they are subjected — is about as jaw-droppingly astonishing as any spectacle one can fathom. This is a political movement built upon claims of moral superiority in the sexual and private realms. It is truly difficult to express the level of contempt and scorn that is merited when the most fervent supporters of that same political movement pretend to be offended and angry when it is revealed that the lives being led by their political leaders are grossly inconsistent with the sexual and moral values they claim to monopolize. These wingers can bleat about the Dem slime machine all they want, but they need to look in the mirror. These are the people who gladly take that call on the batphone from Uncle Karl, the master of taking out the other side using whatever means necessary to stir the Base. This act of outing Craig is simply pointing out legislators (and enablers) who are more than willing to legislate against those who wish to live their lives openly. If they are going to play the gay card they can’t run once they are caught with a stacked deck."