Digby nails the Gay Mary Brohaha....

[trumad]

Family Values

Apparently, the kewl kidz in the press tent all "gasped" when Kerry used the word "lesbian" the other night. And like their emotional role models, Beavis and Butthead, the mere mention of any word they associate with sex excited them a little bit. Because it did, and the Bush campaign sensed it, it's become one of those faux outrage dances that the media and the Republicans perform so well together.

I just had the misfortune to see Mickey Kaus on Fox (playing the conservative, for once) discussing the Mary Cheney incident. He claims that Kerry and Edwards were making an "ugly" cynical outreach to homophobes. (The fact that gay people don't see it that way should be telling, but no matter.) According to Kaus it's clear that Kerry and Edwards are trying to pry the homophobes away from the Bush campaign.

This is such patent nonsense. If he outed Mary Cheney perhaps it would be worth a fuss, but the woman (who is 35 years old) has been out for years working explicitly on gay and lesbian issues. She's the third most famous lesbian in America, fergawdsake. If Kaus thinks that Kerry is hoping to pry the homophobes away from the Republican party by outing an already famous lesbian he needs to think a little bit about how that might work.

On the other hand, it is perfectly fair to out the personal hypocrisy within an admininstration that, at the behest of its bigoted base, wants to enshrine discrimination against gay people into the constitution yet are quite tolerant of homosexuality in their personal lives.

This isn't just a little game. It is a serious matter of equal rights under the constitution. And, the Cheneys' behavior can be directly compared to the type of behavior that used to be tolerated from white men like Strom Thurmond who agitated for decades for Jim Crow and discrimination against african americans while privately being quite fond of his african american daughter. That goes beyond hypocrisy. For any enlightened person, it is intellectually and emotionally incoherent.

The rest: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2004_10_10_digbysblog_archive.html#109786269002734119

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. Have any gays appeared on TV to counter these idiots? eom

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. Found my answer

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/15/log.cabin/

[takumi]

2. Exceptional Prose!

[KittyWampus]

3. Fucked Up Priorities. ANOTHER Idiotic Thread On Cheney?

troops mutinied in Iraq
Rove testified to a Grand Jury

But by god, we need ANOTHER thread on this same GOP Enabling bullshit non-story.

[sangh0]

4. "first we have breaking news, ....

"...Karl Rove just finished testifying about the Valerie Plame outing...."

That's how Terry McAuliffe responded on CNN. THAT's how you respond to questions about Mary Cheney. You go on the offense.