Libby Post’s latest column uses last weekend’s Donnie McClurkin gospel fiasco as another example of gays gone amiss–and she’s not talking about McClurkin. Posts Post:
We’ve been out organized because we’re always looking at the short term, always getting angry at our latest savior for not being exactly on cue, always focusing on political purity rather than pragmatism… Unfortunately, our myopic perspective may just leave us with a federal judiciary that will have a much more negative impact on our future than whether or not Donnie McClurkin sings Obama’s praises in the south.”
Citing the recent confirmation of controversial conservative judge Leslie Southwick to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Post derides LGBT activists for a history of falling prey to distractions while opposing politicos strategized the long-term power-plays that form the foundation of everything gay activists are fighting against today.
“Iceberg Politics” [PageOneQ]
thatguyfromboston
I couldn’t agree more. I think the all or nothing approach that some in the community are advocating is short-sighted and infantile. We spend a lot of time castigating good candidates for not pushing for everything that we want to the detriment of our cause and ultimately our nation.
Leland Frances
1. For the record, Libby Post is a “she” not a “he.”
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2. While there are some excellent points in her article—the movement has been rhetoric rich and strategy bankrupt for decades, except of course for HRC which has been rich rich as well—but her poopooing of the significance of the actions of someone like McClurkin is consistent with the kind of flaw that frequently can be found in her thinking.
Perhaps it also demonstrates that she’s just another Obama Troll stooping to use any attempt to distract from his major and unapologetic fuckup. She illogically tries to boomerang us back to all of his pretty words [while playing the “he’s just as good as the other candidates tune] when it was his actions that spoke far louder the past several days.
Legislators and office holders get away with bad decisions like Southwick’s approval because the electorate is underinformed and undermotivated. OR misinformed and mis-motivated. That’s where McClurkin comes in. Despite Post’s irresponsible attempt to trivialize it, the point was not that he was singing Obama’s praises but that he, fulfilling the worst fears of everyone who knew his history, turned it into a revival meeting for gay demonization before the very demographic whom Obama claims to want to educate not just because their homohating beliefs are factually and morally wrong but because they have led/will continue to lead to the support of legislation against us and are LITERALLY leading to their destruction through the continued refusal to deal objectively with AIDS in the Black community. Homophobia, not homos as McClurkin was given a platform to repeat, is destroying Black lives.
Some apocalyptic appointments have been stopped, e.g., the virtual neo-Nazi Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, by a groundswell of opposition which drove the Senate to block them. But the 3000 who Donnie worked into an orgasm of bigotry Sunday night are even more likely now than they were before to do nothing to stop or, worse, approve of the future elevation of judges like Bork and Southwick and, thus, Post’s piece is as off-target as those whom she criticizes.
Key to the success of the Repugs’ playbook has been the manipulation of public perceptions. Looks like Libby’s failure to “get” the damage that someone like McClurkin does, which Obama also didn’t get, is a sign that they’ve succeeded with this lesbian woman, too.
Bill Perdue
Frances, Altar Boy in Chief for HRH HRC is a reactionary apologist for rightwing politics who, paying no attention to evidence and reason, continues to promote the bankrupt ideas of ‘lesser evils’ and ‘judicial saviors.’
Frances goal is another round of the destructive cycle of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton, who have given us 20 years of non stop, non partisan union busting, devastating wars, a decline in the standard of living, accommodations to bigotry like the gutting of ENDA, and etc. In pursuit of that Frances downplays the bigot pandering role of the Clintons and most Democrats in enacting DOMA, DADT, NAFTA, etc. He lies and says those were Republican, not bipartisan laws.
His kneejeck reaction to the anger of voters against the treachery of bipartisan politicians is to blame it on the voters, just as he blames the ENDA betrayal on transsexuals. His version of doublespeak is to claim that “Legislators and office holders get away with bad decisions like Southwick’s approval because the electorate is underinformed and undermotivated. OR misinformed and mis-motivated.â€
Voters aren’t brainless. On the contrary its rightwing antidemocratic louts like Francis who are guilty of rank stupidity.
His arrogant claim that “hoi polloi†are too stupid to know what’s good for them is an example of his arrogant elitism, which is made even more silly by his lack of credentials to be counted among the elite. At best he’s an unwanted lap dog for Democrats, but even in this hole is temper tantrums and hissy fits don’t exactly draw people to him. On the contrary they are an object lesson of what happens when the mind of a has-been right winger begins to curdle.
Working people and GLBT folk aren’t the brain dead zombies of Frances’ fantasies. More and more people understand that on ‘important’ questions – read money, wealth, or privilege – the two parties line up shoulder to shoulder, a frozen phalanx of felonious fakers whose greed and appetite for power are reliable tools used by the rich to safeguard their vested interests.
For a century and a half, since Lincoln’s reelection in 1864, the American people have had a sullen, hostile approach to elections and candidates because they’ve been force fed one ‘lesser evil’ after another. Sick of it, millions of Americans refuse to accept the legitimacy of these dismal frauds. Why would anyone? Why should we?
thatguyfromboston
All I know, is I want to vote for the democratic candidate that can win. any one would be better than any of the repubs.
thatguyfromboston
I’m just a pragmatist that dreams.
Leland Frances
Bill, Bill, Bill. What did your shrink tell you about mixing your meds? This one is for your paranoia. That one is for your hallucinations. This one is for your delusions of grandeur. That one is for your pathological lying. This one is for anger management. That one is for the impotence. DO NOT MIX YOUR MEDS! They worsen your already fucked grasp on reality.
Take your latest delusion, that I am an “Altar Boy” for the Human Rights Champagne fund. That will come as a HUGE surprise to those who have been reading my repeated calls over the past two years over various blogs, including Queerty, for the destruction of the gay Borg. Remember, don’t mix your meds!
On the otherhand, NEVER EVER ANYWHERE have I written a word about NAFTA let alone lied and said it was a “Republican, not bipartisan [law].”
Is the ass from which you pull so many fantasies so big that you have to wear license plates?
I do assert that antigay Republicans and “Republicans in drag” like Sam Nunn had more to do with enacting DADT and DOMA than true Democrats. But, in any case, the former happened 14 years ago and the latter 11. It’s WAAAAY past time you gave up the nipple of your socialist tit and became politically potty trained.
The iPod generation is unfamiliar with the concept of a “stuck record” which occured when a “record player’s” needle caught in a groove of an LP, 45, etc., and repeated the same sound until you physically moved it. A lovely moment listening to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow…” could turn into “over over over over over over over over.”
Comrade Perdue is the Net equivalent of a stuck record. “Hillary evil Hillary evil Hillary evil Hillary evil Hillary evil.” And his tireless and tired slanders against her, nay, any Dem for his dream is a “socialist workers paradise,” is so over!
We’re supposed to be frightened, persuaded, angered by his distorted and dishonest characterizations of what Hillary did in 1996 or 93 or what the Dems did then and over there. Even if everything he claimed were true, and his rants are permeated with more lies than 200-year old cheese has mold, what does it make the victims of his character assassination other than people who have learned and grown? It certainly makes him nothing more than the psychotic holder of a grudge who needs professional help. As the Divine Miss M used to say, “Honey, the 60s are over!”
No rational person gives a flying fuck what Hillary or any other Dem said about, for instance, DOMA a decade ago. It’s what she and others are saying now. The same is true, in a negative way, of the unimportance of what Giuliani, even Romney, said about gays years before. We’re their targets now.
Can anyone guarantee you that it will be a sunnier world for gays if any of the Dems are elected? No more than he or she can guarantee tomorrow will come at all. But when the Repugs are praying for rain, you’d better take your umbrella and your common sense to the polls. Though most know enough to pass by crazy men spouting crazy thoughts, if enough listened to Perdue, we’d have to build an ark.
Bill Perdue
HRH stands for Her Royal Highness Hillary Rodham Clinton, not the Human Rights Campaign, dummy.
Your confusion is understandable, though. Both you and the Human Rights Campaign supported the toothless Democrat version of ENDA which betrays GLBT folk to increase their campaign contributions from bigoted business owners.
As for the stuff about meds, get you own material. I’ve been using that joke to poke holes in your self-styled elitist ‘leader’ impersonation for months. Being a copycat may be a form of flattery, but you really ought to stick for your better known ‘politics by tantrum’ and hissy fits. As the Irish say, “The good lord gave you a limp so we could see ya coming.â€
Leland Frances
So the post above,
“No. 3 Bill Perdue says:
Frances, Altar Boy in Chief for HRH HRC is a reactionary apologist….”
was just a typo whereas most of your mistakes are intentional. A temporary insanity defense by a permanently insane ideologue.
And, there you go again, eating your own vomit about a “toothless” ENDA. So “toothless” that “2,000,000,” according to ENDA Insane co-conspirator Matt “Jim Jones” Foreman, holier than thou activists were demanding Ts be added to it?
If the table is so barren, how come ya’ll were demanding a seat?
A fraudulent argument regurgitated by an argumentative fraud.
Bill Perdue
H(er) R(oyal) H(igness) H(illery) R(odhan) C(linton), dummy.
Leland Frances
NOW I get it! Thanks Billy Budd! Ya just gotta remember it’s hard for us to decipher/visualize what you’re trying to say—not all of us are on the same drugs as you.
And why have you stopped using “RainbowRed” after your name? Are you on probation with the other F(ags) F(or) S(talin) again?
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Forget it Bill, he is not worth keystrokes….or any other kind “stroke” for that matter.
I, for one, appreciate your hope for an American future devoid of rightwingnut dominance.
Bill Perdue
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES,Rt. Frances is the gay version of Ann Coulter.
I usually hammer him because his defense of bankrupt theories like his ‘lesser evil’ absurdity, combined with his veneration of the sainted Hillary and his fathead disdain for everyone else makes his politics an easy target. If he get’s politically run over defending them that’s his fault.
Plus he’s tried to drive dozens of honest GLBT activists out of the dialog using the same language gay bashers’ use: ‘bitch’, ‘cunt’, ‘mad tranny disease’ ‘fag’ and by his dishonesty with claims like ‘the vast majority’ of African American churches are ‘rabidly antigay.â€
It’s necessary once in a while to use him as an object lesson. It’s the blogosphere equivalent of Anita Bryant’s pie in the face.