Here are the winners of last blog-sabbaths caption contest. Winners were chosen arbitrarily by my lawyer, Rusty Shackleford.
Runner up goes to me, for the obvious Mr. Garrison comparison....
Of course, this caption contest was inspired by the leftosphere's gay McCarthyism.
Gay-witch hunting that still seems to take up so much time for the left-blogosphere--and trust me it's going to get much worse before it gets better.
Evidence that Mehlman is gay? Well ,he's not married. He seems to be pretty clean. And no one has seen him on a date recently.
Sounds like a lot of guys I know. Most of the time I just call them loser.
Anyway, Mehlman has denied that he's gay. I'm sure this won't satisfy the leftosphere. They won't be satisfied until they out a prominent Republican. And if there are pictures--hot man-on-man action pictures--all the better.
Oh, yeah. Is Ken Mehlman gay?
There is an orthodoxy on the left that gays must be Democrats. That Republicans hate gays. That to be gay means automatic support for gay marriage.
The worst part about this orthodoxy is that gays who don't toe the party line are considered worse than enemies.
And traitors, as you know, must be rooted out. Exposed.
It's a kind of McCarthyism. Only McCarthy was at least trying to root out real traitors--people who he believed were giving away America's nuclear secrets.
McCarthy, however wrongly he pursued those goals, at least had worthy goals. He was trying to save America from a very real threat.
Can the gay-outing McCarthys of the left say the same thing? Is the goal of gay-marriage so fundamentally important that destroying the lives and reputations of people is worth it?
In my mind the gay-outing left better take a good long look in the mirror and ask if such destruction is really worth it in the long run.
History has past judgement on McCarthy, and so too will it pass judgement on those who employ his tactics in much less important a cause.
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Is McCarthy on everyone's mind, or what?
What worries me is that earlier it was Stephen Hawking, and that somehow trasferred into McCarthy. I'm not quite sure what to do with that.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at March 22, 2005 05:19 PM (C5gjM)
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Will starving gay invalids have their Perrier water-tubes removed?
The McCarthy-Monster is a creature of their own Leftbat fabrication as and hysteria much as anything. Senator Joe was actually short of the mark counting the numb er oif actual Commuinists who'd infiltrated the Government. It was the the *House* (not Senate) Un-American Activities committee who bothered a few over-wrought Hollwood screenwriters. And nobody died when they lied about Uncle Joe - except for people in The Sovietlandia Workers' Potemkin-Paradise, but Uncle Joe'd been killing them for years and nobody squacked about it in Hollywood.
Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at March 22, 2005 05:51 PM (sE9R7)
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Ken Mehlman started this when he used the gay community as an electoral pinata.
Ed Schrock talked about the sanctity of marriage while he was cruising for man on man action in VA.
If the Repugs wanted a war with the gay community, they got one.
Posted by: Scott at March 22, 2005 08:08 PM (M7kiy)
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Since when has defending 5,000 years of Judao-Christian tradition been some sort of new thing or opening salvo?
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at March 22, 2005 08:45 PM (JQjhA)
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"If the Repugs wanted a war with the gay community, they got one."
Couple of questions here:
If being gay is ok, then why do Dems call Republicans gay as a slur time and time again?
What war with the gay community? Do they even have an army?
Posted by: Buckley F. Williams at March 22, 2005 08:55 PM (O2fD/)
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McCarthy, however wrongly he pursued those goals, at least had worthy goals.
And just how SHOULD he have gone about it?
I gotta go with Keith on this one.
Posted by: Brian B at March 23, 2005 03:56 PM (CouWh)
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"It's a kind of McCarthyism. Only McCarthy was at least trying to root out real traitors--people who he believed were giving away America's nuclear secrets."
No, McCarthy used the combination of inuendo and a brief case to promote himself - quite successfully - by implying that anyone who had left-leaning political tendencies was a communist. Not everyone that McCarthy attempted - and sometimes succeeded - in destroying with his smear campaign was a commmunist, and not anyone who he supposedly "exposed", had engaged in seditious acts against US interests.
The idea that McCarthy was just a misunderstood do-gooder who was unfairly driven from Washington DC is just the type of liberal, reinvention of history that most *real* conservatives abhor.
As for Guckert, you might as well face the fact that he outed himself. He posted *public* messages where *anyone* who cared to look could find them. That is hardly the behavior of a closeted gay. The fact that liberal bloggers attacked him they way they did is probably more of a reflection of the type of reporting (cough!) that Drudge/O'Reilly/Limbaugh engage in. The bloggers actions are/were tawdry and stupid, but Republicans have proven themselves to be good teachers.
Perhaps *too* good.
Republican=Democrat without guilt
Posted by: bodybagger at March 23, 2005 05:32 PM (cjCfM)
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Apparently bodybagger hasn't heard of the Venona Project.
Posted by: Brian B at March 23, 2005 06:04 PM (CouWh)
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"Apparently bodybagger hasn't heard of the Venona Project."
Wow! You mean the Soviet's had *spies* in the US?
Here's a freebie: Klaus Fuchs lived for a short time about thirty miles from where I am living now.
Actually I have heard of Venona, but I knew about Soviet spying earlier than 1995 because it was common knowledge that Fuchs had penetrated the Manhattan Project. If you care to visit the museum where the Manhattan Project is covered in depth, let me know and I will give you directions.
But Venona Project was not McCarthy had in his brief case. The Venona Project didn't become public until *after* McCarthy was dead. Are you claiming that Joe knew about the details exposed in Venona?
I guess his claims will be treated will be treated with the same interest as Nostradamus now, eh?
Posted by: bodybagger at March 23, 2005 06:15 PM (cjCfM)
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"Since when has defending 5,000 years of Judao-Christian tradition been some sort of new thing or opening salvo?"
Ok, so you've been defending poligamy all that time too? Because that's portrayed as A-OK in the Old Testament. I love the selective verse plucking you ignorant bigots do to further your agenda. There is no God, Jesus was mortal, and gay people are here to stay. The "Judao-Christian Tradition" is a bunch of mythology. Your religion is childish. Mind your own business for a minute and your might realize what a fool you really are.
Posted by: chadwig at March 23, 2005 06:26 PM (HmWLC)
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Are you claiming that Joe knew about the details exposed in Venona?
No, but I am saying that the information Venona has exposed definitely vindicates him. If anything, he UNDER-estimated the number of spies in the US government.
I guess his claims will be treated will be treated with the same interest as Nostradamus now, eh?
Hey, congratulations at beating the stuffing out of that straw man there!
Posted by: Brian B at March 23, 2005 08:07 PM (CouWh)
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Ok, so you've been defending poligamy all that time too? Because that's portrayed as A-OK in the Old Testament.
Um, no. It's portrayed, because it happened. But if you'll read through all of the stories in the OT that portray it, you'll notice they also unflinchingly portray the problems that arise because of it. It's a common misperception that just because the Bible records some behavior, it condones it.
I love the selective verse plucking you ignorant bigots do to further your agenda.
You mean like selectively plucking references to polygamy? Pot/Kettle.
There is no God,
A belief that requires as much faith as does the opposite.
Jesus was mortal,
ibid.
and gay people are here to stay.
Ummm.... where exactly did Rusty ever dispute or bemoan this fact? Again, the Left is expert at tearing apart straw men based on what they THINK we conservatives believe, but have a hard time actually listening to what we REALLY said.
The "Judao-Christian Tradition" is a bunch of mythology. Your religion is childish.
Tolerance in action, folks. Give him a hand!
Mind your own business for a minute
Ummm... we're not the ones outing people... drop the stone while your in the glass house.
and your might realize what a fool you really are.
....he said without irony.
Posted by: Brian B at March 23, 2005 08:14 PM (CouWh)
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"No, but I am saying that the information Venona has exposed definitely vindicates him."
Another pointless appeal to authority.
Care to elaborate?
"If anything, he UNDER-estimated the number of spies in the US government."
So Joe didn't destroy enough people, eh?
>>I guess his claims will be treated will be
>>treated with the same interest as Nostradamus
>>now, eh?
"Hey, congratulations at beating the stuffing out of that straw man there!"
You obviously have difficulty distingushing sarcasm from a strawman.
Posted by: bodybagger at March 23, 2005 09:25 PM (cjCfM)
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I'm pro-life, fiscally conservative, and gay. I fully support outing people that are hostile to gay marriage. If you will notice I didn't say gay rights, but gay marriage. Non-discrimination laws are worthless and can't be inforced so the only real fix for gay folks is marriage rights. I used to be the self-hating type up until just a few months ago. Hell, I didn't even support gay marriage. But anyway, if a person is using anti-gay sentiment for any type of gain and is gay, it isn't that they should be outed, it's they need to be outed.
Posted by: Branden123 at March 26, 2005 03:34 AM (uNcYS)
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Branden123: No hate here. Just don't agree with this gay marriage think. Am I any more wrong than you for believing the way I do. Less face it. It's weird. Men marring men Yuk!. Not the way nature intended. To me being gay is like any other sickness/disease/whatever. Accept it and live with it, but don't push it. I don't want to hear about it and don't wish to have it around me. Sorry, and good luck. Self control????
Posted by: greyrooster at March 26, 2005 07:52 PM (CBNGy)
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just to clarify, senator joseph mccarthy was gay, and his aides roy cohn and david schine were also gay. Mccarthy was censored by the Senate after his tactics finally caught up with him. McCarthy was not attempting to do something noble. He had no real credentials as a Senator, so he decided to find suspected communists, sexual deviants, and other misfits in the government to criticize. Sounds like James Dobson and Jerry Falwell going after Spongebob and Purple Teletubbys. I can understand gays who are libertarian, but its hard to understand gay conservatives. Lauch Faircloth and Don Nickles have called homosexuality deviant behavior. Who was their campaign director? Arthur Finkelstein; a gay man who recently married his lover of many years in Massachusetts in the presence of their adopted kids. Who allowed for gays to adopt? Not Faircloth or Nickles.
Posted by: homohypocrisy at April 18, 2005 04:39 PM (/oZEg)
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just to clarify, senator joseph mccarthy was gay, and his aides roy cohn and david schine were also gay. Mccarthy was censored by the Senate after his tactics finally caught up with him. McCarthy was not attempting to do something noble. He had no real credentials as a Senator, so he decided to find suspected communists, sexual deviants, and other misfits in the government to criticize. Sounds like James Dobson and Jerry Falwell going after Spongebob and Purple Teletubbies. I can understand gays who are libertarian, but its hard to understand gay conservatives. Lauch Faircloth and Don Nickles have called homosexuality deviant behavior. Who was their campaign director? Arthur Finkelstein; a gay man who recently married his lover of many years in Massachusetts in the presence of their adopted kids. Who allowed for gays to adopt? Not Faircloth or Nickles.
Posted by: homohypocrisy at April 18, 2005 04:39 PM (/oZEg)
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Shearn Moody, he's a good old boy
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"...Herb Smokler relates a story Shearn Moody told him about Roy. Moody, who is reported to have blown an inherited fortune of tens of millions, kived on a 600-acre ranch near Galveston, Texas, which Newsweek described as "part fortress, part sybaritic playground...the estate was protected by German Shepherd dogs, electronically controlled gates and bullet-proof windows...Moody installed a metal slide so he could plunge directly into his swimming pool from his second-story bedroom suite; when he invited guests over, says former aide James Wohlenhaus, 'there would be bands playing music and three or four stages scattered around the grounds on which players acted out sex acts. There was something for everybody.'"
Smokler said, "Roy was down at the ranch and wanted one of the many boys of the night that Moody would readily provide his guests who so desired. The story was that Roy had seen this person with warts on his anus and had said, 'Well, I don't care.'" In due course Smokler, who is a physician, said, "Roy had a case of venereal warts on his anus...He had been treated with podophyllin, and it's very irritating and it's quite uncomfrtable." Not long after Roy's encounter with the boy, Smokler found himself in the back of Moody's limousine going back from the airport in Houston to the ranch in Galveston. Sitting in the back seat wwas a Nixon, Mudge, Rose partner, Art Mann- and this was back when Nixon was President. Art Mann, Moody and me in the back and in the front was Cohn and he was having a very involuted legal conversation, but if you looked at him carefully leaning over the back seat, his pants and underpants were down to his knees and his anus was attached to the aperture of the air conditioner...well, it's absolutely true. I was there."... from Citizen Cohn[i/i], by Nicholas Von Hoffman, Doubleday New York 1988, p.364
Posted by: Robert D. Reed at May 17, 2005 11:19 AM (wckdF)
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Moody Ranch......Looking for James Stoker. a good friend. Please Help...Thank You LG
Posted by: LJG at June 13, 2005 06:43 PM (ywZa8)
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