When those wacky conservatives take a gay panic holiday, they simply transition back to their original (favorite) panic–race!
The most recent example of this is Mississippi Governor Halley Barbour’s refusal to denounce Confederate license plates (and you thought the Civil War was over!)
“I don’t go around denouncing people,” Barbour was quoted as saying this past February in Peter Beinart’s column in the Daily Beast, defending his decision to issue a plate to former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Now pork pie hat fashion plate Matt Drudge, has taken the baton from Barbour, and gone full-throttle with early summer race baiting. Gawker reports, “the Drudge Report … has conveniently rounded up a slew of run-of-the-mill summer crime stories that happen to involve black people and suggestively weaved them into a nationwide race riot.”
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If you don’t know about Matt Drudge, he’s the (former) closet case who stoked the 90’s Clinton-Lewinsky blue-dress-with-spunk-&-pizza scandal. We were reminded of Drudge and his awkward-yet-gay past while reading a New York Magazine profile of David Brock. He was another closeted Republican who famously came out, apologized to Clinton, and according to Gawker:
…wrote in his memoir Blinded by the Right about a “scary” date in which Drudge, after bringing Brock flowers and navigating the Santa Monica gay strip “like a pro,” stepped on a competing suitor’s foot “really hard” (in Drudge’s purported words) in a nightclub to scare him away from Brock.
He also reproduced an overly blunt email in which Drudge wrote, “Laura [Ingraham] spreading stuff about you and me being fuck buddies. I should be so lucky.”
We should be so lucky that Drudge would have been given a liberal education about the consequences of associating people of color with general criminality while quivering in his awkward closet. But no — now, somehow, he’s a king maker.
Dude, don’t fall on your scepter: that rod hurts!
David Ehrenstein
What do you mean “former” closet case. Whe did he go on “Ellen” and come out?
Clearly the scumbucket’s been dissed by the black men he wants to fuck him.
divkid
hmmm, i’ve seen that face somewhere else?…. oh yeah, that’s it…. my dictionary fell open at the K section…and there was that face — defined under KAPO.
homosexualist he may be, but somebody please have a word — pork pie hats and striped pyjamas…sooo not a good luck.
huh
you all watch too much LSD NBC
divkid
@divkid: *sigh* “not a good LOOK”
Cam
He is still a closet case.
dan4
So pointing out a rash of violence (over a specific period by predominantly one race and age group of criminals) is now racist? You’ve GOT to be kidding me!
CNN made the same exact connection last weekend – and they included some great video. It’s so nice of them to join Drudge’s racist DL movement.
jason
This is a very funny piece by Queerty.
We must all remember that Drudge got his break from a drop of sperm on a piece of cloth.
robert in NYC
Andrew Breitbart is yet another closet case!
Adman
He reminds me of a guy I knew a few years ago, Henry from the Castro. His partner was such a cool mid-western type of guy, and here he was attached to this creepy conservative, the Latino psycho. It was weird. He was really queeny and feminine while in denial about it completely. I mean macho pissing contests with green activists who go door knocking during a cocktail party? The guests at the party including among others his(Henry’s)boss and supervisors? What a kook. It’s Really whacked what religion/right wing politics does to gay guys. I still remember his creepy laugh, “teeheheheheeee!”. Ugh.
delurker
@dan4: more gay con scum on queerty. if you can’t see he’s playing on white fear and resentment like good conservative, then you are really, really dense. but you are a conservative, so that is to be expected.
dan4
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson
The truth shall set you free liberals, progressives, and Democrats. Stop being slaves to propaganda.
christopher di spirito
Drudge is the cat who has sex with eggs. A genuine freak.
Thom Freeheart
If the Left want to portray all Republicans and the Right as racists and homophobes in an effort to scare blacks and gays from considering the merits of small government and capitalism, that is their right. Anybody who cannot distinguish fact from propaganda deserves to be taken. But when the Left actually start believing it themselves, they make themselves to be clowns.
robert in NYC
Really Thom? Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann et al sure have a hard time distinguishing fact from propaganda, more sound bites than anything else, no intellectual curiosity whatsoever.
If they and other republicans, tea partyers and civil libertarians (all republicans) are all for small government, can you tell me if people who share those beliefs, middle class republicans, who’ve lost their jobs, having a very difficult time finding another job, have perhaps lost their homes, all their life savings, investments, health insurance, who would they turn to for help in the absence of relatives and more importantly, how would they get access to health care without any source of income? The Koch brothers?
Why aren’t all GOP members of both Houses declining their federally funded (big government) health plan and pensions for life (big government)? I assume they’re going to decline medicare and social security when the time comes (big government), refuse help from the police or fire department (big government)? Are they paying for their elderly parents’ health care and day to day living. Do all their children attend private schools, if not, why do some republicans send their children to public schools (big government)?
What exactly are the republican tea partyers and civil libertarians going to do about equality for LGBT people, those who may not be the majority of republicans, the handful of moderates lets say, who I wouldn’t brand as extreme? Who among them is going to support full equality and if so, who are they?
delurker
@dan4: read up on nixon’s southern stategy. i am sure he has said a lot worse. he actually courted the disaffected southern racist democrats!
conservative moron (redundant)
Nat
@Thom Freeheart:
American politics is inevitably defined by two options. Reality dictates voting for the lesser of two evils, which for minorities of all kinds since the 60s has been the Democrats.
And neither party is a party of small government or anti-capitalism. That’s patently ludicrous. Political parties don’t destroy that which sustain them.
dan4
delurker: Read up on Margaret Sanger, a HERO of the progressive and liberal left. Her whole agenda was killing anyone who wasn’t white or “normal.” YOUR party celebrates a woman who wanted to fill anyone who was “subnormal.” And that’s a FACT, FUCKER!
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1816
Liberals, progressives, and Democrats: STOP being a SLAVE to propaganda.
dan4
delurker: Sorry, that should be “kill” not “fill.” Although, I’m sure she’d been happy to “fill” the “subnormal” full of lead AFTER they were born if she wasn’t able to suck them out and kill them before they were born……
randy
Drudge is officially in the closet, but he’s been outed many times. Genre magazine just listed him as one of the most influential gay men in America.
He is a shill for conservatives, and so for them he is a useful idiot. They don’t care if he’s gay so long as he attacks gays and makes gays look bad whenever possible. Which is does. And they don’t care as long as he attacks liberals all the time. Which he does.
The moment he comes out, however, he will no longer be invited to the tony cocktails parties and his viewership will dry up. That’s why he’s closeted and will remain so until he finds another line of work. Or, of course, until he is caught having sex with a man.
He is a true self-loathing homosexual and that to me is the worst kind. He sells out on our rights just to make a name for himself and to make a buck.
Victor
@dan4:
Give it up. The former head of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, apologized a few years ago for the GOP’s “Southern Strategy,” a vicious usage of anti-black messaging and politics to win racist white votes.
Sure, there are individual Democrats who are racist, sexist, and homophobic but the party as a whole doesn’t rely on racism to win votes. And, when not using racism to when votes, the GOP is more than happy to use homophobia. We don’t live our lives in a vacuum. We watched the GOP under Bush use anti-gay marriage initiatives to bring voters to the polls. We the GOP pushing the same anti-gay rhetoric now.
Why should LGBT people pretend that the GOP is any kind of friend of gays?
The Artist
We should feel sorry for this guy. Self-loathing is not good. LUVURSELFB4OTHERS! Peace.
dan4
“Sure, there are individual Democrats who are racist, sexist, and homophobic but the party as a whole doesn’t rely on racism to win votes.”
Victor: As LBJ’s quote (and the liberal and progressive agenda over the last 50 years) proves, they use racism AND slavery to win votes. Aside from the new “African American” classification and LABEL, there is NO real advancement for any minorities. How sad that the organized left is able to shackle new generations of voters with their horrifying propaganda.
delurker
@dan4: The past 30 years have been a failed experiment in trickle-down economics. Who has that helped? Not blacks, not middle class whites, nor anyone in the middle class, save a few on top. That is what your “fiscal conservatism” is all about.
All this Dems=KKK, Margaret Sanger, white resentment politics bullshit is a smokescreen for the fact that the only real economic policy Republicans have are tax cuts for the wealthy. Keep fucking that chicken, I guess.
robert in NYC
No. 23,Well said.
I read an article today penned by Peter Goldmark, former budget director of New York State and publisher of the International Herald Tribune. He said the Republicans in the House are acting like jackasses. They’re doing it on the critical issue of the debt ceiling, which could undermine confidence in the U.S. around the world if it is mishandled, meaning if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, un-American in fact.
The republican-dominated House of Representatives said last week they would REFUSE to raise the national debt limit unless their draconian spending cuts were instituted, meaning taking the democrats hostage and trying to take the whole economy and the foundation of the financial system with it.
First of all, they shouldn’t play threat games with something as serious as the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
Second, at present, our government is politically divided, and the responsible course is to work toward practical compromise on the debt and budget issues, not destabilizing grandstand plays.
Third, the Alice-in-Wonderland gyrations the republicans went through signal to the world that what they put forward was farce. They introduced a motion so that they could vote against it. Then they telephoned financial leaders and said, “we don’t really mean it, don’t worry”. This is low-grade vaudeville, not thoughtful policy.
Fourth, threatening to stop the orderly operations of government is like pointing a pistol at your own head and saying: if you don’t do what I say, I’m going to shoot myself—and all of the rest of you, too. It may be raw meat for some of the extremists back home, but for the rest of the world, it’s a chilling message that there is a dangerous and unreliable group of crackpots (republicans) loose who don’t understand how the financial system operates (tea party bagger idiots like Bachmann, Ryan, Pawlenty et al). Observers of the U.S. around the world understand fully that these johnny-come-lately fiscal hawks are the people who gave us the reckless tax cuts and unfinanced Medicare programs that exacerbated our fiscal problems in the first place.
When vital services and paychecks are interrupted (which is what the stimulus prevented from happening by giving the banks a bailout, most of us are paid by check or automatic direct depost), then the political pressure on the system shoots up to boiling level.
Its going to cost the U.S. dearly and shake confidence in both the dollar and our political system, even if at the 11th hour the crisis is defused which is what the republicans may do anyway then turn around and blame the democrats. It will also kill any hope of job creation and growing the economy as foreign investment deteriorates.
The right answer in the long run is to get the budget deficit under control and not have to borrow (an addiction of all previous republican governments who have never come up with the means to pay it back). Borrowing soared under Bush to one of the highest levels ever.
Tough medicine is needed, and neither party has taken any. The last thing we should be doing is triggering a debt crisis. To do that is demonstration of (republican) irresponsibility and the world will see it for what it is. House Republicans are playing with fire and face defeat in 2012, the Ryan medicare debacle aside.