Double Standard
By Mitch Berg
When it comes to gays, the left talks a big game – but as we’ve been noting for years, when the chips are down, lefty commentators are vastly more likely to resort to gay-bashing than the mainstream right. (Note: opposing gay marriage is not “Gay-Bashing”).
I noted this years ago in re Nick Coleman’s abortive, abortious “radio show”, which consistently tittered and giggled like a couple of junior high kids over a bunch of “gay” cheap shots. Of course, even the most rigorously reputable regional media outlets aren’t above gay-baiting cheap shots.
Taranto notes its’s not just a regional phenomenon:
There’s almost a year to go before the presidential election, and already the Angry Left is employing gutter tactics against the Republican front-runner. One ugly theme has emerged:
* “Could the United States, for that matter, elect a cross-dresser? The Rudy Giuliani surge would be comic if its broader implications were not so grave.”–James Carroll, Boston Globe, Oct. 29
* “Rudy’s acceptance of Pat Robertson’s endorsement is equally foolish. Not only has it made utterly transparent that Giuliani isn’t just a cross dresser but also a man capable of practicing the oldest profession as well as any Jezebel . . .”–Gloria Feldt, Puffington Host, Nov. 9
* ” Rudy Giuliani did Hillary imitations, complete with mincing steps and effete hand gestures, looking just like the cross-dresser we know him to be.”–Stanley Fish, New York Times Web site, Nov. 11
* “The old guard, Pat Robertson, has just endorsed the cross-dressing former mayor of New York to defeat what he called Islamic ‘blood lust.’ “–Andrew Sullivan, Times (London), Nov. 11
They make Giuliani sound like Boy George. In fact, as we’ve noted, he’s more Monty Python, having donned a dress on a couple of occasions purely for comic effect.
It’s especially sad to see Andrew Sullivan, who styles himself a champion of gay rights, resort to a rank appeal to homophobia in order to score cheap partisan points.
Sad?
More like “predictable”.
I’d love to see how the region’s more-prominent gay-activist bloggers (pretty much universally left-of-center) treat this.
Or “if”.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:15 am
It’s just incrediblty funny when the party modeled after the town in “Footloose” turns out to be gayer than the crowd at a Liza Minelli concert.
I agree with you on the Monty Python defense. This might help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_D7WtOHZd0
November 14th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Since Hillary is married to a closet polygamist, really the Democrats should be quiet on this.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Thanks for the suggestion, UpChuck, but I kinda doubt they will. You wingnuts have been playing at your phony culture war too long to whine when the tables are turned.
http://snipurl.com/1tmqn
November 14th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Liberal-being gay isnt a choice, you’re born that way and it is to be respected, you stupid faggot.
Angryclown-The tables are turned!
Normal People- huh?
November 14th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
angryclown said:
‘the party modeled after the town in “Footloose”’
You just make things up and then believe them, don’t you! 🙂
November 14th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
“but as we’ve been noting for years, when the chips are down, lefty commentators are vastly more likely to resort to gay-bashing than the mainstream right”
Where is the research that supports this claim? If you have issues with someone saying “most” then you have to substantiate this claim, or there is a double-standard, just not the one you meant.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:46 am
(Note: opposing gay marriage is not “Gay-Bashing”).
Can I talk you into putting a “necessarily” after “not”?
As somebody who is very strongly in favor of gay marriage — for reasons that I think are fundamentally, if not commonly, conservative* — I’m certainly willing to acknowledge that there are objections and objectors to SSM who don’t do so out of bigotry against gays, but there are those (and I’m not pointing a finger at you, or, for that matter, anybody in the mainstream conservative local blogosphere) who very much do.
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*It’s your blog, but I’d like to save that part of the discussion for another day, and perhaps another place.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
joelr said: As somebody who is very strongly in favor of gay marriage — for reasons that I think are fundamentally, if not commonly, conservative*”
*Digs cruising airport men’s rooms.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
ac? Did your mother have any children who lived?
November 15th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
She had Angryclown and his 12 clown brothers.
So did your mother, come to think of it.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Somehow, I’m not at all surprised that ac is unable to distinguish between a vagina and a clown car.