This has been the lead story on Drudge Report all day. What you see here is Matt Drudge, a conservative gay man, implying that Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano — who’s been under fire by the right-wing with demands she resign after the bungled Northwest terror plot — is a lesbian (which she may very well be), and that she wants to see the naked goods of American women by spying on them via advanced X-ray machines at airports. Andrew Sullivan wonders aloud, “Isn’t outing people something Drudge might want to avoid?” Which is, uh, not even the point, because Matt has been dodging the gay rumors for years. So what we’re looking at isn’t a callous misstep from Drudge in the arena of outing political types, but his engagement of the “gays are scary” storyline that’s often pushed by, well, self-hating conservative gays.
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Well Maybe Janet Napolitano Does Want to Peek at Lady Parts
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Cam
Drudge was a shill for the McCain campaign, he ran their ads and wouldn’t post any stories unfavorable to the campaign once they started running ads on his site. He is now getting ad money from every conservative out there. Of COURSE he is going to post something like this. Not that I think he’s wrong, but I just think it’s weird that he is trying to make lesbian insinuations when he is gayer than the inside of George Michael’s Purse.
Alex
You totally miss the point of this headline. Big Sis (as in Big Brother from the George Orwell novel “nineteen eighty-four”) wants to know what you are hiding under your clothes.
America is quickly becoming a totalitarian police state, because now basic dignities such as your private parts are no longer respected.
hmm
I wouldn’t want someone to look under my clothes airport-security-style, even if I was just as scary a lesbian as Janet.
So Matt Drudge is awesome.
dontblamemeivotedforhillary
Matt Drudge is J Edgar Hoover without the fifties house dress. Janet Napolitano is probably not that concerned that the word “lesbian” gets thrown around at her much like former Attorney General Janet Reno who came out in a rather liberated fashion. It’s like outing Rosie before she actually came out for that one borderline retarded fan in the Midwest who might be shocked. Napolitano is no “Brownie” as in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of the floods in New Orleans and the Panhandle but she’s a person who will probably be doing her job double-time given her naive first interpretation of the Underpants Bomber and subsequent scrutiny she will encounter for the rest of her tenure. The inconvenience of a full body scan is nothing compared to the widespread panic when we realized that the TSA and the checks and balances to protect fliers was never there since 9/11. It is the job that no-one wants!
Lukas P.
Matt-ress Drudge is just drumming up B.S., come on. Makes no sense.
I suspect Janet N. could find easier ways to see naked lady parts than to tag along with TSA employees as they screen airline passengers with full body scans.
Whether or not she is lesbian is irrelevant. The Repugnaphiles have been gunning after Dame Janet since day one. Surely they can focus on something more substantive and less titillating.
reason
This is so ridiculous, but I must apologetically admit it’s amusing. Though I may shed some tears in realization that this is where the Republican Party has crash landed. It’s a true disgrace, the party has not only abandon true conservative principals but America as well. So much for a revamping of the party and grandiose thoughts of a smooth landing on the Hudson. It will be a cold day in hell before you find me traveling Republican Air with Steele, McConnell, and Boehner sweating in the cockpit while half dead McCain is servicing the cabin.
John
dontblamemeivotedforhillary, why don’t you change to:
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christopher di spirito
Matt “I have sex with eggs” Drudge? Yeah, people really take him seriously. He’s a damned freak. Fugly too.
Back to the proposed body scan equipment.
Many Americans aren’t keen on having a $7 an hour TSA agent gaze at our cocks and pussies in-front of 200 passengers waiting online behind us to board a flight. It’s a violation of child porn laws in the UK.
I just want to know, will the TSA agent buy me dinner once he’s done looking at my junk or will it be just anonymous sex?
Brian Miller
Wow, so Napolitano is the “victim” here, even though she supports the conversion of airports and other transit hubs into places where “security agents” can digitally strip search everyday people?
Really?!?
terrwill
Matt Sludge is reprehensive. I admit that I do visit his site, and never once has there been a post even remotely postive for the Gays.
This whole subject of the lifesize viewfinders is basicaly moot.
There are reports that the fundamentilist muslim scum have already purchased these scanners to test what can work. Whilst the boner bomb will no longer be effective by these scanners, they have found that the butt bomb allows one to pass thru without detection. (talk about taking one for the team) There is the probablilty that the butt bombers body could absorb the impact of the bomb thus reducing the ability of it to take down a plane. Unfortunatley they only need to slip into the bathroom, remove the bomb from the butt (Ugggh) and detonate it. This would effectivley guarantee a success because it would avoid the possibility of the hero flying Dutchman to prevent detonation. You want to be almost 100% certain of a bombless flight? The airlines need to adopt the El-AL methods of interviewing each passenger with effective methods to rattle the cages of anyone allowing detection simply by behaviour patterns.