{"id":1625,"date":"2007-11-14T07:47:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T12:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2007-11-14T07:47:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T12:47:59","slug":"double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 <\/em>more likely to resort to gay-bashing than the mainstream right.\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 opposing gay marriage is not “Gay-Bashing”).<\/p>\n

I noted this years ago in re Nick Coleman’s abortive, abortious “radio show”, which consistently\u00a0 tittered and giggled like a couple of junior high kids <\/a>over a bunch of “gay” cheap shots. Of course, even the most rigorously reputable regional media outlets aren’t above gay-baiting cheap shots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taranto notes its’s not just a regional phenomenon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

* “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<\/p>\n

* “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<\/p>\n

* ” 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<\/p>\n

* “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<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sad?<\/p>\n

More like “predictable”.<\/p>\n

I’d love to see how the region’s more-prominent gay-activist bloggers (pretty much universally left-of-center) treat this.<\/p>\n

Or “if”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 opposing gay marriage is not “Gay-Bashing”). I noted this years ago in re Nick Coleman’s abortive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}