Lindsey Graham GAY? Conservative Group ALIPAC Demands Senator ' Admit Homosexuality '

[Segami]

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" William Gheen, head of the conservative, anti-"amnesty," anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), spoke at a Greenville, S.C. Tea Party rally this weekend and called for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to "come out of that log cabin closet."


According to Gheen, being gay is "a secret that Lindsey Graham has."


Gheen told the crowd: "I hope this secret it isn't being used as leverage over Senator Graham, so today I think Senator Graham, you need to come forward and tell people about your alternative lifestyle and your homosexuality."


"Barney Frank is more honest and brave than you," Gheen continued, referring to the openly-gay Massachusetts congressman.


ALIPAC has posted the video titled "US Senator Graham is Gay" -- and tagged with the keywords "queer" and "fag" -- on YouTube, where various news outlets have covered it.


The group defended itself Monday, and in fact doubled down on calls for Lindsay Graham to admit his homosexuality.


In a statement, ALIPAC alleged that a "brief clip of Gheen's speech, which is out of proper context, has already gone viral on YouTube and been reported by Keith Olberman on MSNBC without proper permissions or attributions."


Calling out Graham starts at approximately 7:20 of the video


UPDATE:

Former CNN anchor and former ALIPAC partner Lou Dobbs is "calling for William Gheen to resign after his comments/actions on Sen. Lindsey Graham's sexuality" via Twitter.


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[havocmom]

1. .

[marmar]

2. YouTube allows the tag "fag" ?

That's f**ked up. :mad:

[Segami]

7. Looks like it does. A quick dictionary search reveals various meanings and origins

fag 1 |fag|

noun informal chiefly Brit.

a tiring or unwelcome task : it's too much of a fag to drive all the way there and back again.

• Brit. a junior pupil at a private preparatory school who works and runs errands for a senior pupil.

verb ( fagged |føgd|, fagging |føgɪŋ|) < intrans. > Brit., informal

work hard, esp. at a tedious job or task : he didn't have to fag away in a lab to get the right answer.

• Brit. (of a pupil at a private preparatory school) work and run errands for a senior pupil.

[nykym]

11. In addition to

these beauties:

Fag may refer to:

* Fag, a colloquialism for cigarette
* Fag, a junior boy who acts or acted as servant ("fagging") to a senior boy at a British independent school
* Fag, or Faggot (slang), a slur for a homosexual or effeminate man

FAG may refer to:

* Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca, the Guatemalan Air Force
* FAG Kugelfischer, a German manufacturer of ball bearings
* Fluorescein angiography, a medical procedure
* Find A Grave, a web listing of gravesites
* Film Actors' Guild, a fictional evil organization of liberal actors led by Alec Baldwin in the movie Team America: World Police; a parody of the Screen Actors Guild, the abbreviation FAG is part of the joke.
* Fuerzas Armadas Guanches Terrorist group in the Canary Islands
* Fundamental algebraic geometry by Grothendieck

From Wikipedia.

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. You Tube also allows you to "flag" a video for objectional content.

The right wing assholes abuse the Hell out of this feature, so I don't feel too bad about turning it against them on occasion. I just flagged this particular video as "hate speech" on the grounds of sexual orientation.

I'm no fan of Lindsey Graham, but his sexual orientation has nothing whatsoever to do with immigration reform, and it was really shitty of these right wingers to bring up the question, especially in such an irrelevant context.

[Segami]

12. Thank you. These RW's are applying a scorched earth policy throughout and don't care who gets hurt.

[kenfrequed]

3. The right devours itself

This should be a warning to any stupid pundit about the right wing rising and taking back congress.

[Cant trust em]

4. This is uncool. No one should be called out like this. nt

[bluestateguy]

5. He should be outed if he is

Because he takes policy positions on issues that are anathema to gay people. Politicians who use their offices to hurt gay people should be outed if they are living secret homosexual lives.

[GodlessBiker]

9. +100

[emulatorloo]

10. Let me translate; They claim he is being blackmailed by Democrats because he is gay.

That is how they are trying to explain his not being batshit insane on the issue of immigration.

This is really about the most hateful things I have ever seen.

Hateful to gays.

[NYC_SKP]

6. ALIPAC is NOT amused. They've called on HuffPost for a retraction.

From their YouTube comments:

#
ALIPAC1 (uploader) The Huffington Post is lying and claiming that we inserted language insulting to homosexuals into the tags on this video. THAT IS NOT TRUE and we have demanded that Huffington Post remove that piece of fiction in their article linking to this video.

I'm watching it now.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG78fpj0P4M

:popcorn:

On edit: The fucking tags are right there. How else can they get there?

Category: News & Politics
Tags:
illegal aliens amnesty bill queer fag

[emulatorloo]

13. Yep, tags are right there - "queer fag" for all to see

[brendan120678]

14. I'm not a frequent YouTube user...

is anyone allowed to add a tag to a video, or is it creator-specific?

[NYC_SKP]

17. I'm logged in and don't see where I could add a tag. Plus, that capability would be abused...

...if it could be done.

As it is the comments are unbelievably OTT.

I'm pretty sure the posting member owns the tags.

Gheen probably doesn't know shit about youtube, some younger staffer loaded it for them, I suppose?

http://www.youtube.com/user/ALIPAC1

:shrug:

[EOTE]

19. The creators have to add the tags.

So those idiots are basically telling us all to not believe our lying eyes.

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. The tags are added by the creator/uploader

The point is to use keywords that would bring viewers to your video when they typed those words into the YouTube search engine. So if someone typed in "queer" or "fag", this video would come up in the search results, even though it's supposedly a rant about immigration.

[NYC_SKP]

15. Gheen's fucked up challenge starts at 07:20 in the YouTube.

Unfuckingbelievable.

I hated listening that far into it, trying to save others from having to listen through it.

:mad:

[rurallib]

22. thank you so much

[booley]

16. this is why I wish being gay was a choice

Then we could choose who we let be gay.

Seriously, if Rush ever comes out, I am dating women a s a protest.

[Segami]

21. LOL!

[Happyhippychick]

18. Lord if all of the closeted Republicans come out at once it would be a gay stampede*

*quote from my BFF, gay Andy

[geardaddy]

23. Is William Gheen any relation to Ed Gein?

:shrug:

[struggle4progress]

24. An increasing number of Republicans seem infected by something like rabies,

if one can judge all the stumbling, yipping, slobbering, and biting as indicative symptoms. Whether Lindsey Graham is or is not gay, is nobody's business except his own. I think I'll confine my attention to his political positions. I usually don't like those positions, but under our system, that's not my call: it's up to the voters of South Carolina (still "too small to be a country and too large to be an asylum")

[opihimoimoi]

25. Its NOT FAIR to dump(OUT) on Graham...its his right and Freedom to be Gay

and if he is so what???

He is entittled to be all he can be...

[Segami]

26. I agree, its not only UNFAIR but downright hateful. Its the stench of hypocrisy being

practiced while pointing fingers at others, not Graham's partner preferences. Exactly!....if he's GAY, SO WHAT!