Friday, October 27, 2006
Race-baiting by GOP leaders
The GOP just got done race-baiting Congressman Harold Ford with the help of many in the mainstream media. Its operatives wanted the MSM to run a picture of a white actress to inflame racial prejudice in Tennessee, and, of course, they complied. And, as we have seen far too often, national GOP operatives sit through meeting after meeting social conservative leaders like James Dobson, crafting a strategy for turning gay people into political punching bags to re-elect George Bush.
There's just one problem with all of this. There are leaders in the GOP who themselves have big unanswered question about their own personal lives. Questions I think people like Dobson probably don't want to know the answers to.
Thanks to a tip from one of my readers, I was able to ambush interview one of those leaders -- and trust me... on Monday night, less than a week after the Larry Craig report, I was the last person this guy wanted or expected to encounter.
I've been at this work a while and I can't think of a single straight man in American who when his sexuality was questioned, wouldn't respond with something between indignation and hostility. Not a one. And yet from this leader we've seen over two years of conflicting answers.
I'm going to be laying down a challenge to James Dobson today. I'll be posting a short video clip later on today. And I'll make sure that Dobson's PR team, led by Gwen Stein, knows about the post as well. As we know, James Dobson says that homosexuality is "a disorder" and "a descent into depravity." As the Republican Party gets ready to launch its much-vaunted 72-Hour program leading up to Election Day, Dobson has to ask a serious question of himself:
However, at some point, the mainstream media is going to have to get used to the fact that Democrats are not going to sit back and, as Chris Matthews asserted, not fight back. We are fighting back. And, the mainstream media will just have to get over the idea that gay people and gay intimacy are dirty or a pejorative. And, as GOP leaders are seeing, more and more media outlets stand ready to help move this message.
Look for the video clip later today...
There's just one problem with all of this. There are leaders in the GOP who themselves have big unanswered question about their own personal lives. Questions I think people like Dobson probably don't want to know the answers to.
Thanks to a tip from one of my readers, I was able to ambush interview one of those leaders -- and trust me... on Monday night, less than a week after the Larry Craig report, I was the last person this guy wanted or expected to encounter.
I've been at this work a while and I can't think of a single straight man in American who when his sexuality was questioned, wouldn't respond with something between indignation and hostility. Not a one. And yet from this leader we've seen over two years of conflicting answers.
I'm going to be laying down a challenge to James Dobson today. I'll be posting a short video clip later on today. And I'll make sure that Dobson's PR team, led by Gwen Stein, knows about the post as well. As we know, James Dobson says that homosexuality is "a disorder" and "a descent into depravity." As the Republican Party gets ready to launch its much-vaunted 72-Hour program leading up to Election Day, Dobson has to ask a serious question of himself:
Do I have a Republican Party gay problem on my hands? Should I be leading people to the polls under the banner of combating the "homosexual lifestyle," when many powerful Republican leaders and officials are leading that "lifestyle," too?Just like they did with the Larry Craig outing last week, We know many in the mainstream media will again torture themselves about whether they should cover questions of gross hypocrisy and lies that just happen to deal with sexual orientation. That is their problem, not mine.
However, at some point, the mainstream media is going to have to get used to the fact that Democrats are not going to sit back and, as Chris Matthews asserted, not fight back. We are fighting back. And, the mainstream media will just have to get over the idea that gay people and gay intimacy are dirty or a pejorative. And, as GOP leaders are seeing, more and more media outlets stand ready to help move this message.
Look for the video clip later today...
By: Michael Rogers
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