Best aversion therapy EVAH: spend a year with Gluehorse McClydesdale and Rape Gurney Joe. Didn’t seem to work out well for Mr Lindsay, though…

Well, being Southern Baptist he likely had to try the “pray away the gay” path first, and when that didn’t, staring at Deputy Dawg and Reverse Ace was all he had left.

Sen. Graham finds torture attractive.

Of course he does.

I think if he makes a straight sex tape that it should be featuring Bachmann and Palin, after all, it is their Christian Duty to support a fellow Republican

This isn’t a place I would expect derogatory gay remarks. Shouldn’t (D)’s be cheering him if it is the case?? And isn’t this what Ed Rendel meant by the (D) Party having “lost its soul” ???…

(you forgot to include your close harrumph harrumph tag there)

You must not have much of a history here, or you’d realize the target was Lieberman.

No sane person of either predominant gender who enjoyed the company of a human man or respected the rights of women would spend time with “Short Ride” Lieberman.

Thank you, Humorless Purity Police.

If anybody found anybody sexually attractive, why would they hang out with Joe Lieberman?

Book Salon up at the Mothership with Campbell Craig and Fred Logevall’s America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity hosted by Jeremi Suri

And I’m really surprised he didn’t notice that the people making the accusations are in fact conservative Republicans like Graham himself. That’s one reason why this story isn’t being as effectively suppressed as most stories involving Republican sexual orientation tend to be.

For example: In 2004, Jim McGreevey and David Dreier — both of whom were officially straight — were both accused of having their boyfriends on the public tab. Their situations were rather similar, yet the outcome for the Democrat McGreevey was much different from that for the Republican Dreier.

McGreevey, then governor of New Jersey, lost his job, his career, and his marriage and family over the course of the summer of 2004; the media frenzy was the worst and the longest since the Beltway press’ efforts to convict Gary Condit of a murder that the DC police repeatedly said he didn’t commit, and that frenzy was stopped only by 9/11. It may have actually contributed to George W. Bush’s re-election.

The charges against Dreier, a congressman from California, were never officially probed, were never so much as mentioned once on any evening TV news program (even as the very similar allegations against McGreevey were all over network TV at the same time) and he still has his job and his political career. The only negative fallout for him over it was that it prevented him from replacing his mentor Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader when DeLay resigned in 2005; conservative Southern congresscritters opposed his ascendancy because they felt he — whose voting record was conservative in the extreme — was allegedly too “moderate”; as Barney Frank suggested, “moderate” was used as code for “gay”.

Somehow seems natural for you to speak up here. Colbert, who I typically enjoy, is out of line. As he says himself in the piece, it is none of our business. Stephen is comparing the possibility of this man’s gay orientation with Larry Craig in the stalls and David Vitter’s diaper fetish. Because that’s how seamy being gay must be. Straight up slurring. Guessing more is going on here than the show’s usual political humor. If Stephen wanted to nail Graham’s position on a specific gay issue, I didn’t hear it. Tacky as hell, at best.

Not to mention all those constant stories in the tabloids and mainstream press about current Senator from Nevada John Ensign, with salacious details of mistress-payments, cuckold-job-pimping, parent-checkwriting, lawbreaking-for-Hill-lobbying, and child-employing on the party payroll. You can’t go through any supermarket checkout without seeing the garish ENSIGN headlines, with his mistress on Oprah and the Senator lying through his teeth to the war-injured ABC reporter. Federal investigations, and concomitant leaks, every day. Mrs Ensign pumps out book after book about her betrayal, while the mainstream press eats up every appearance of hers.

Oh, wait, not ENSIGN. EDWARDS! someone who hasn’t held office in more than five years and has no political future or friends… but is a Democrat.

Ensign? *crickets*

Never mind.

Colbert has always defended his home-state Senator, which he’s doing here again from right-wing loons accusing him of being gay.

And the argument I have with Lindsay Graham isn’t that he’s gay — it’s that he promotes the agenda of an anti-gay party while closeted.

Graham always voted to advance the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment.

Then Stephen should have made that policy connection clear. All I hear is the conflating of his possible gay orientation with seamy bathroom behavior, and that is what the audience will take away. That is important. Being gay is not normal, it is bound to be seamy. No different from a typical fundie characterization of homosexuality. And no, he is hardly defending his home state Senator.

I’m done.

The criticism is that Graham, like Craig, is a vicious hypocrite and quite possibly self-hating, not that either is gay. The funnier jab is poked at Joe Lieberman, who has fewer principles than the Republican Party, and less interest in credible Congressional oversight than a Bush Junior political appointee.

Don’t forget how the whole thing got started. Colbert was referencing a statement by William Gheen [PDF], the wingnut behind:

Boycott Absolut, a website that just happens to share a web server with http://vedicastrology.com/

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Promise ?!!

LOL.

~The “other” Petro

I am glad you spoke up, you certainly did no harm to anyone other than perhaps bruise egos a bit.

Internalized oppression is a most touchy issue very difficult please everyone’s view. Better to call it out even if some are offended at the suggestion. I think what happened was careless.

Also those of us old enough to recall when grotesque caricatures of Jews were routine don’t like what is done to Lieberman. He is an asshole, yes, short ride, yes but the suggestion that he is sexually repulsive stinks.

As a 100% homo i can say i didnt find any of this offensive, but rather funny. AND if its true that mr Christian Moral Values is a closet gay, voting against the rights of his fellow homos, he deserves everything he gets, that including cheap shots.

But on the other hand, its nice that you care, even about an enemy.

Bingo