DU Straights and Gays! "Sanctimonious Bullshit from the 'Hotline.' Great!

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From John on "America Blogspot." A great read which puts "GannonGate" into an interesting perspective that ALL OF US can understand. I as a "hetero, and I think those of our Gay DU'ers." He really hits those who are bashing Gays out there trying to make this a "Gay" story when it's about the MSM's problems in reporting anything real about the gay community. In effect the "Gay Community" is being used by these folks
to keep Gannon/Gate from being heard...:shrug:

Sanctimonious bullshit for the Hotline
by John in DC - 2/16/2005 03:59:00 PM

The Hotline is a big inside-the-beltway publication read by all.

Amid the semi-hysteria over the blogosphere's growing influence, one important question has been left largely unanswered: Does anything go? -- Bloggers have claimed credit for at least helping to bring down several journos in recent months -- Dan Rather and Mary Mapes at CBS, CNN's Eason Jordan and conservative WH reporter James "Jeff Gannon" Guckert. All three episodes featured ideological bloggers either uncovering new facts about these folks or raising questions about their work. But the Guckert episode alone has included a focus on his personal life. -- The cry from bloggers and voices on the left is: How does an (apparent) gay prostitute get (alleged) access to classified gov't documents? (Wouldn't Bob Barr have already called for a special prosecutor if this were 1997?) But if Guckert's personal life is an issue, are the private lives of all reporters now fair game? Aside from issues like Guckerts, legal records, financial matters and even pure gossip could offer a wealth of targets for those web warriors with a grudge. Where does it end, and who's next? Does this mean reporters now know what life's like for a political candidate?

More blah blah blah about Jeff Gannon's private life being offlimits. Let's all say it again, loud and clear. Jeff's previous job, and apparently current job since the Web sites are still live, is not his private life any more than outing Hotline reporters as, well, Hotline reporters is their private life. Whether they like or not, whether I like it or not, running a prostitution service goes against every family value that this administration and Guckert supposedly stand for.

Where was the high-and-mighty Hotline when George Bush, with the help of buddies like Guckert, tried to write me and 20 million of my friends out of the Constitution last year? Where was Accuracy in Media, the conservative bloggers, and everyone else who is defending Guckert's "private life" when my private life was going to singled out and savaged in our nation's most sacred document simply to get a few votes?

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And we're the ones picking a fight over sex.

Spare me your sanctimonious bullshit now that those of us in the gay community and on the left have finally - finally - started to fight fire with fire by simply holding you to the very standards you legislate over us. We are simply giving the GOP the sex-less utopia it's always wanted. How does it feel?

Oh, gee, the Hotline warns, this might establish a precedent. Really? You mean the GOP might respond by using our sex lives against us as a weapon to destroy us and curry votes with bigots?

much more of this great read, here...........

http://americablog.blogspot.com/

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1. GOP use someone's sex life to destroy them?

Well, that's about all the GOP congress did in the '90s. Sanctimonious saints that they are, they are determined to expose Democrat sins. And our mainstream media seems very willing to sit and wait for them to produce proof so they can broadcast it for them.

I'm finding it more and more difficult to understand what is happening in this world and why it is happening. Makes me sorta glad I'm getting old and maybe won't live to see the awful world that is coming.