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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-11 01:00 PM
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Strange Bedfellows ~ Breitbart Is Throwing an '80s-Themed Gay Party
For months, the family values wing of the Republican Party has been protesting the inclusion of GOProud ... You won't hear any protesting, however, from conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart.

~snip~

"We're going to have a big ol' gay party," he said on a radio show Wednesday. Breitbart says gays deserve a place within the Republican Party and he's been "offended" by efforts to exclude them. Therefore, he's throwing an 80's-themed gay party to welcome them on board.

If this sounds like uncharacteristic behavior for Breitbart, his additional remarks should clear things up:

I am not endorsing gay marriage, I'm not endorsing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I will be the harshest critic of the activist gay left, who I fear more than al-Qaida. But for these people not to exist in a two-party system, for you to tell them they're not welcome in the big tent, I have a huge problem with that and I'm going to indulge in my all '80s Depeche Mode, Cure, New Order fetish and we're going to have a big 'ol gay party at CPAC.


Al-Qaida—really? (...)
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Breitbart-Is-Throwing-an-80s-Themed-Gay-Party-3005
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-11 01:25 PM
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1. In a later tweet, Breitbart stood by the "activist gay left" statement, saying:
I stand by my 'activist gay left' comment. 'Outing' from 80s on & treatment of conservative gays who don't politically conform is heinous.


So Breitbart "fears" the activist gay left because of "outings" and the way they treat "conservative gays." In fact, they are worse than Al Qaeda in Breitbart's mind.

Something tells me no one really should be looking into Andrew Breitbart's walk-in closet.
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-11 01:28 PM
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2. Right - back to the 80's of casual bath house sex and AIDS
No marriage, no open service in the military, just anonymous, closeted sex. Fits with the Republican agenda, so why not.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-11 01:30 PM
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3. "I will be the harshest critic of the activist gay left,
who I fear more than al-Qaida."

Wait, what?
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-11 02:32 PM
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4. He seems to have a comprehensive kowledge of the gay 80's. nt
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