WOW WOW WOW Wish I said this. More on GANNON!!!!

[BigBearJohn]

You've got a lot of nerve, Hotline. The entire GOP and its mainstream media sympathizers have a lot of nerve. We're talking about a hooker getting special access to the White House, the president, and intelligence information, and somehow everyone has suddenly discovered a conscience about homosexuals and hookers. Oh how I wish that conscience were real. But it's not. Bash a fag, bash a whore, and the GOP eats it all up. They throw us to their hateful, bigoted religious right buddies for votes with glee, while Mary Cheney cowers in the corner and Ken Mehlman runs for the shelter of the off-the-record quote.

Well newsflash Washington. The GOP is the one that rose gay-bashing and gay-baiting and sex-baiting to an art, and JeffJimGuckertGannon willingly joined the family values parade in print and in passion. They're trying to ban condoms, pornography, AIDS education. They take children away from gays, and want to make our very lives a crime. GOP Senators compare us to kleptomaniacs, alcoholics, and man-dog sex. And they can't even handle a bronze breast on a statue.

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?

I don't like this battle, I don't enjoy this battle. I hate this battle. But the battle began years ago, and until now, we sat back and watched and waited and hoped it would go away. Well it's not going away. We have a choice. We can sit back and watch the GOP sex police destroy us. Or we can fight back. And I can think of nothing more poetic, nothing more just, than fighting back by simply holding them to their own standards.

More:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/sanctimonious-bullshit-for-hotline_16.html

[MichaelHarris]

1. The republican party is interesting in that

they allow gays to join the party they just don't let them into heaven.

[Lindacooks]

5. LOL! How true!!

I'm going to remember that statement.

[MichaelHarris]

8. every now and then

I come up with a good one. Wonder if we will hear one of the talking heads on TV quote me?

[fooj]

2. Screw the moral highground! These bastards deserve everything

coming their way! The teflon days are numbered...

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. a precedent about looking into people's PRIVATE LIFE?!?!??!

wasn't that standard thrown out the window with the impeachment of CLINTON!?!?!??!

fucking conservative asshats...

[Warpy]

6. Er, it aint private any more

When they let this guy in past the FBI and Secret Service, it became a national security issue.

Trust me, any cursory look at this guy by either agency would have turned up the fact that he used an alias because he had something to hide, a second job as a rough trade gay hooker.

This is what the problem is. I wouldn't give a rip if it were only a gay hooker being hired to service a higher up with a taste for leather and handcuffs. It's granting him special access to the White House by a government so paranoid about the people it is supposedly serving that it has placed the whole building off limits to the public.

I mean, come on now. Who's his daddy?

[Blue Gardener]

7. If he wanted a private life

Maybe he shouldn't be pimping himself all over the internet(s).

[LondonReign2]

12. I prefer the term "Fuckwits" to "Asshats"

nt

[Shopaholic]

4. Ain't that the truth!

I enjoyed reading that. It's really great-and dead-on!

[Hugin]

9. A bit more readage...

Must make up for the "cracker" sin.

Kick.

[Kingshakabobo]

10. When you place pictures of your penis and rear end on the web

it is no longer your private life.

[seabeyond]

11. i want it investigated cause i am sure, and all we have heard

there is a real orgy going on in the white house. some really sick pigs. i think maybe this may expose them

[DearAbby]

13. Granting a "reporter" Using an Alias AT A TIME OF WAR!!??

The Security messures at Bush's inaugration, comes to mind the extent they claim it was needed because WE ARE A NATION AT WAR...to allow a person with questionable background who used an alias to gain access, to the White House? Can you see the discripancies of these two Examples? I CAN...what the hell is going on? WE SHOULD DEMAND ANSWERS.

I as a citizen would not be allowed to see my President Speak this past Summer, Unless I signed a Loyalty oath...Yet a Hooker/selfclaimed reporter can access this same President using false information? GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

[0rganism]

14. So Hotline is now in the business of attacking bloggers' "personal lives"

Hell, if "personal life" is what they call Gannon's prostitutional self-promotion via the public internet, then there's every reason in the world to apply that same standard to the Hotline's attacks on John's americablog. Aside from the amazing hypocrisy, the very thought that something posted on the internet, on a publically accessible webserver, is "private" or off limits for commentary requires an extraordinary lack of comprehension worthy of Fox News viewers.

[LiviaOlivia]

15. kick

[BigBearJohn]

16. A PRIME example of GOP "family values" (see attached)