Most members of Congress go around quoting the Founding Fathers, maybe Lincoln or MLK, definitely Reagan. But not Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL). He goes for the true voice of the generation when he needs to add a little oomph to an argument — Taylor Swift.
Cornered by interviewer Jeff Zeleny of ABC News about that whole bizarre Downton Abbey-inspired (and questionably expensive) office remodel, Schock offered this bit of word mush:
“I’m different. I came to Congress at 27. When I go take a personal vacation I don’t sit on the beach, I go do active things. And so, I’m also not going to live in a cave. So when I post an Instagram photo with me with my friends, as Taylor Swift said, ‘haters are gonna hate.'”
Spoken like a true patriot.
Here’s a Vine showing the good part:
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And here’s Aaron doing his best to deflect questions about that expensive remodel:
h/t Towleroad
Cam
And a request has gone in to investigate the possible ethics violations associated with this office.
I guess violation the no free services rule and no personal use for Campaign funding rule is ok for the guy who votes against gay rights.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/aaron-schocks-downton-inspired-office-draws-ethics-questions/
robho3
I don’t know if this man is in the closet or not and frankly I don’t care. But he is odd – gay, straight or otherwise. Spending $100K to decorate an office is just another example of the corruption of our elected officials in DC.
jwtraveler
I don’t understand what the obsession with this guy is. Yes, he looks good without a shirt, but so do thousands of other men. He might be a closet case? So what? So are many other politicians and celebrities. So he’s a possible closet case with a hot body. Got it. Next!
BJ McFrisky
And the campaign out Aaron Schock continues . . .
If you ever wondered why he publicly keeps his distance from such vicious bitchiness and plays it straight, wonder no more. It’s the same reason I used to.
Cam
@BJ McFrisky: said… “If you ever wondered why he publicly keeps his distance from such vicious bitchiness and plays it straight, wonder no more.
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Just so I have this straight. He can vote to attack gays, stripping away LGBT’s civil rights, and forcing them into second class citizenship and that is a “Political Difference”.
Gays point out that Schock has been outed in the national press and THAT is vicious and he is the victim?
Once again BJ will ALWAYS defend ANY anti-gay GOP bigot.
So attacking gays, and stripping their rights away isn’t bad, but pointing out that he may be gay is the worst most vicious insult ever?
Just admit you are either an anti-gay bigoted troll or you have the most scorching case of self hatred ever.
Captain Obvious
@jwtraveler: Personally I don’t think he even looks that great… he looks average and scrawny. I could see if he was like some seriously fine Joe Manganiello type, Shemar Moore, or even an Anderson Cooper.
I think Queerty and others just love the gay witch hunt and didn’t get the memo that most of us don’t care anymore.
Bauhaus
@BJ McFrisky:
Schock plays it straight? That’s the best line you’ve written, troll.
@Captain Obvious:
I don’t know about Queerty, but many others do enjoy seeing self-loathing closet-case climbers, getting their comeuppance.
AtticusBennett
awww, BJ McFrisky and Schock have a lot in common – they’re both pathetic closet cases whose fathers hate them. how cute.
Cam
@Captain Obvious: said…
“I think Queerty and others just love the gay witch hunt and didn’t get the memo that most of us don’t care anymore.”
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If you don’t care that somebody attacking your civil rights may be a hypocrite whose attacks on gays can be destroyed by a little research, that is your problem.
George Reckers was outed, what did that matter? Oh that’s right, his writings were the main defense being used by the anti-gay side in the Eddie Windsor Case, and the Ca. Prop 8 Cases. When he was outted his research was tossed out and the anti-gay sides lost the only supposed research backing up their position.
So yeah, outting anti-gay hypocritical bigots doesn’t matter at all does it?
MCHG
There’s nothing more obnoxious than when someone laughs at their own joke, which is exactly what the media has done with this story. How rational does anyone think they look to independents and non politicals while crying bloody murder because a congressman redesigned his office. It’s a very small, rabid base of people who care about this man’s alleged homosexuality. His right-of-Hitler constituents don’t care. Straight people for the most part don’t care. America has, almost entirely, conquered it’s fear of gays. Maybe the gay community should too. And I’m not defending this guy’s politics, but harassing a gay person for belonging to the “wrong”political party is it’s own form of bigotry.
BJ McFrisky
@AtticusBennett: Give it up Attic-dweller. You’re not clever enough to be even remotely interesting.
Daddy issues, ha!
BJ McFrisky
@MCHG: Watch out, you’ll piss off the natives. They have their own special hatred of anything that doesn’t fit their ideology.
onthemark
@MCHG: “His right-of-Hitler constituents don’t care” [if he’s gay].
Oh, they may finally start caring NOW. His constituents hate PBS and are always wanting to defund it – “haters gotta hate,” you know – so they hate fabulously twee stuff like “Downton Abbey”… so they hate its fans, perhaps even their fabulous Rep. Schock.
AxelDC
@jwtraveler: And he votes against every pro-gay initiative that comes before him.
Closet gays that vote against gay rights deserve to be outed. Once they are outed, they are less afraid of standing up for our interests.
Cam
@MCHG: said.. “And I’m not defending this guy’s politics, but harassing a gay person for belonging to the “wrong”political party is it’s own form of bigotry.”
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Could the people trying to paint Schock as a victim please give it up.
Did you actually say “Harassing a gay person for belonging to the wrong party is it’s own form of bigotry?”
You guys never get tired of repeating the same B.S. do you? Schock SUPPORTS ANTI-GAY LEGISLATION. He is attacking the gay community and trying to permanently condemn LGBT’s to second class citizenship.
Your B.S. of trying to paint th attacker as the victim didn’t work when the Mormons or the Evangelicals tried it, and it certainly doesn’t work when some of you Fading Log Cabin folks try it now.
What you SHOULD ask yourself is if you aren’t self hating, or a bigot, why are you so desperate to defend somebody who supports attacks on the LGBT community?
Cam
@BJ McFrisky: said… “Watch out, you’ll piss off the natives. They have their own special hatred of anything that doesn’t fit their ideology.”
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That ideology being that as LGBT’s we do not like it when elected officials attack and bully the LGBT community and try to pass laws against our civil rights.
Unlike your ideology BJ, which is rabidly defending every anti-gay bigot mentioned on Queerty.
tdx3fan
@robho3: Since he gets funding to create his office and pay his staff, I am not at all surprised that he uses most of that to decorate his office and then pays his staff peanuts… he is Repug after all.
tdx3fan
@jwtraveler: I think its more than he is a walking hypocrite and always so quick to vote against gay rights; however, he is most likely getting dick on the side.
tdx3fan
@onthemark: Wait until Taylor goes on the attack of this bigot for bringing up her name and “quoting” her. If there is anything Miss Swift cannot stand, its a bigot.
Ladbrook
As I’ve said before, Schock is a pathetic excuse for a human being. When he finally comes clean, I hope it’s dirty. He deserves a middle finger from every member of the LGBT community… now, and 50 years from now. I hope history remembers him (and Lindsey Graham) for the vile men they are. And I hope the LGBT community never forgets.
Low Country Boy
If he’s not gay, he missed a good opportunity.
demented
@Cam: Aw honey, it isn’t anti-gay bigots who do that. It’s all politicians, most of whom happen to be bigots of one kind or another.
Which brings me to another issue: I don’t think Schock is a bigot. No, what he’s doing is pandering to a voting bloc, which makes him… A POLITICIAN.
Being a bigot means that they passionately hate some group of people, and politicians don’t let their bigotry come into their work. Nobody successful in Hollywood has any deep-seated beliefs that they express in their work; everything they say and do is calculated to try to keep the same people voting for them and giving them money over and over. Gay rights, women’s rights, international affairs, none of these actually matter to them.
That’s why they often change their opinions radically over a short period of time, switching parties if they have to. He’d become pro-gay in a second if he thought it would ensure reelection.
demented
@demented: fuckit, I meant in Washington, not Hollywood. I don’t know how that got in there.
Ladbrook
And not surprisingly, Schock likes to hire unrepentant bigots to his staff… and one of them had to quit earlier today after comparing African Americans to zoo animals. Nice. Yeah, that Schock is quite the princeling. His district voters must be so proud of their little boy.
http://newsfeed.gawker.com/aaron-schock-adviser-quits-after-comparing-black-people-1684036873/+tcberman
jamesinNYC
@BJ McFrisky: BJ McFrisky I hesitate to respond to you because you seem to have an endless supply of free time (i.e., no personal life) to go on the attack as soon as someone challenges you but here I go. I believe your screenname comes from your main hobby which is giving BJs at glory holes where people can’t see how hideous you are. Outing an anti-gay hypocrite is precisely what venues such as Queerty should be doing. In fact, major media outlets should expose such hypocrites, but they don’t so all we are left with is Queerty and trolls like you who lurk here.
NoCagada
@jwtravelerIt’@tdx3fan: He’s most
likely getting dick in the rear
NoCagada
He’s different, alright. If he’s not gay, he’s definitely quite queer.
NoCagada
You know, I can just see him lypsinking to TS in the mirror…then he probably sinks his lips on somebody else.
Kangol
@BJ McFrisky: And the campaign out Aaron Schock continues . . .
If you ever wondered why he publicly keeps his distance from such vicious bitchiness and plays it straight, wonder no more. It’s the same reason I used to.
So you’re admitting you were a closeted, anti-gay homophobe like Schock? Thanks for putting that out there. No surprise, but glad to hear you finally admit it.
Kangol
@Ladbrook: Great comments. Just remember that he can keep his job and home, have sex with another man without getting arrested, and even get married if and when he comes out of the closet not because of closeted gays and anti-gays and their supporters, like BJ McFrisky, but because of brave, out gay people, some of them effeminate, some of them trans, of all colors, all genders, who have fought tirelessly for these rights and social, political and economic equality. Some people like to mooch off the hard struggles others wage.
Schock is one such beneficiary. I couldn’t give half a damn whether he wants to decorate his office like Lady Mary or be Lady Mary Grantham, but he just better hope the ethics inquiry goes nowhere.
BJ McFrisky
@Kangol: Closeted, yes, in my early 20s. Back when the gay community was blaming Reagan for them contracting a disease due to their irresponsible promiscuity. But I was never “anti-gay,” and never have been.
Cam
@BJ McFrisky: said.. “But I was never “anti-gay,” and never have been.”
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Just that he likes to defend every anti-gay bigot Queerty writes about.
Oh, and just an observation. Anybody notice that now that BJ is posting a lot Jason Smeds seems to have disappeared?
Black Pegasus
I bet he can slurp a good cawk like most closeted gay republicans.
jwtraveler
@Cam: @AxelDC: I understand the point of outing anti-gay closet cases, but what does any of that have to do with his physique? Does being physically attractive make his politics more or less objectionable?
jwtraveler
@Captain Obvious: “Personally I don’t think he even looks that great… he looks average and scrawny. I could see if he was like some seriously fine Joe Manganiello type, Shemar Moore, or even an Anderson Cooper.”
That’s completely irrelevant.
Cam
@jwtraveler: said….”@Cam: @AxelDC: I understand the point of outing anti-gay closet cases, but what does any of that have to do with his physique? Does being physically attractive make his politics more or less objectionable?
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I haven’t made one comment about his physique. This is an anti-gay politician fighting and voting against our rights, and now he may have possible ethics violations against him. Any time an avowed enemy of gay rights comes under scrutiny, why wouldn’t we be reading about it.
If what you are talking about is Queerty posting those pictures of him, those are publicity authorized by Schocks own staff and have appeared in multiple magazines. That is how he is promoting and presenting himself, so rather than being upset at Queerty for running the photo, how about getting upset at the guy for speaking out against gays civil rights.
Captain Obvious
@jwtraveler: How is it irrelevant when it’s the only reason anyone is really talking about him?