Chris Matthews Show this weekend - Lincoln may have been gay

[liberal N proud]

My wife had the TV on this morning tuned to the tweedy show, I got up and went and took a shower.
When I returned, I asked her if she had enough of them yet, She said she wanted to hear the story they were going to have about the Lincoln bedroom.
I couldn't believe it when they went into detail how they had concluded that Lincoln may have been bisexual if not gay.
My wife commented that they have run out of things to talk about to which I said, they had some motive for a comment like that, I just am not sure what.

I looked for transcripts to todays show but only found the text below.
at http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/whatson.html
Todays show was not in the transcripts yet - 2 week delay.



WEEKEND JAN. 22-23, 2005
GUESTS:

Gloria Borger -- US News & World Report
David Gregory -- White House Correspondent; NBC News
Joe Klein -- Time Magazine
Andrew Sullivan -- New Republic Magazine; Time Magazine
TOPICS
Liftoff

President Bush launches his second term with a master plan to topple tyrants and push democracy!
Club Hollywood
Should "The Passion" make the Oscar list? Can a little indie beat the big shot "Aviator"? Will a "Million Dollar Baby" win the title?
The Lincoln Bedroom
A new book says Abraham Lincoln may have been gay. What does it mean?

[inslee08]

1. I think I stand for a lot of people when I say...

Who the @#$% cares?

(Not attacking the poster, I'm attacking the way that the media is carrying the story)

[medeak]

2. book promotion tour

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/49/news-ireland.php

Lincoln apparently left some writings...and shared bed with friend for years?

[Mad_Dem_X]

3. Cons are obsessed with gays!

Lincoln...Spongebob...WTF?

[liberal N proud]

6. Does that mean the repukes will kick Lincoln out of the party posthumously

Maybe they are trying to find a way to change the Lincoln Memorial to the Ronald Reagan Memorial or the Bush Memorial?

[KareBear]

4. This isn't new...

Historians have been speculating on this for years. Google it for kicks.

[Spinzonner]

5. Wasn't that on "Scared Straight" some time ago ?

[Botany]

7. So are you saying that John Wilkes Booth was .....

...... acing under the orders of Revs. Dobson and Phelps? After all Mr. Booth was an actor and you know actors are gay was he really Abe's lover and working for the neo
cons and the People for the American Way. How else could have Booth gotten so close to Lincoln? I smell Karl Rove's great great great grandfather all over this. Old
Zachary Rove. It all make sense now!

:tinfoilhat:

[Az]

8. It functions to make scholars appear to side with liberal/GLBT agendas

Lincoln is the cornerstone of the repuke party historically. Any slight of this hero will be seen as an attack on all. Thus by claiming he was gay/bi it will be seen as a battle cry for the right to counter intellectual excess and the supposed gay agenda.

[pretzel4gore]

10. they hate Lincoln

if Abe is a hero to anyone, it's dems and libs etc....and obviously black america....you may be right about the schemeing of the repukes, but only recently freepers were hammering Lincoln for his violations of the constitution during civil war. If the repukes have a hero it's Clement Valladigham, a Ohio pol who tried to help the south until one day Lincoln 'deported' the goof, throwing him across the line into southern territory....Valladigham had to literally go around the world (New Orleans to England to Canada) before he could sneak across the border many moons later (lol)...Abe left him alone after that, as the south was clearly doomed by then....

[kskiska]

9. He did have a high-pitched voice

not the Paul Robsonesque voice attributed to him by filmmakers.

[theHandpuppet]

14. And just why does having a "high pitched voice"...

... have anything to do with being gay, may I ask.

[kskiska]

15. Maybe nothing.

[shrike]

11. Sharing a bed was not unusual

for either sex. No central heating.

However, one of Lincoln's male friends described his thighs as perfect. Would a heterosexual male say this?

[VOX]

12. Now here's a burning issue for our time.

Just how "honest" was Abe?

God, I **loathe** the mainstream media. :grr:

[UTUSN]

13. LINCOLN Show - Chris MATTHEWS May Well Be a Jerkoff Flunky n/t

[Deja Q]

16. Tarnish Lincoln and replace him with somebody else.

Like this piece of feces, perhaps?