Noting that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has demanded an apology from a GOP official for bad-mouthing Democrats, Polipundit has provided some vintage, frothing-at-the-mouth, blinded-by-hatred Dean. Polipundit says it best: Pot, meet Kettle.

Hat tip: Dirty Harry.

After reading GP’s piece on “Gannogate,” I didn’t think I needed to blog on the topic. I thought he had said all that needed be said on the topic, especially his point (which, I believe, is the only media-worthy issue in this story):

. . . if this guy was in fact a job-drifter and possible male prostitute (!!!) then what on earth was the White House thinking in giving him a press pass and access to the White House in this day and age of terrorism?

But, alas, leftist and gay blogs won’t leave the story alone. Even the WASHINGTON POST‘s media critic Howard Kurtz and the Media Research Center‘s Tim Graham have weighed in.

What has really offended me about this whole situation is the pretension of those on the left, notably Americablog’s John Aravosis who, as I understand, broke the story. Somehow, like Michelangelo Signorile in 2001, he thought it his business to publish salacious details about a gay conservative. Back then, Signorile published details about a contact ad Andrew Sullivan had placed on a gay website.
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If you read the gay press, you’ll find much bellyaching about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s filing an appeal of a judge’s decision demanding that the city grant marriage licenses to gay couples. N.Y. State Senator Tom Duane, a longtime gay activist, called the mayor a “coward” while most of the Democrats vying to oppose him in the fall election have been tripping over themselves in order to denounce this Repubican.

And these very Democrats and gay activists forget to mention that this good man believes the issue of gay marriage is “better resolved in the Legislature, where he pledged his help in pushing the issue, rather than the courts.” Yep, we’ve got a Republican Mayor willing to promote gay marriage in the state legislature. But, because he doesn’t think courts should decide this issue, a gay activist has called him a “coward.”

And while those on the left can’t cease their bellyaching about this Republican, they don’t have the stomach to take on Democrats who have the same or similar stand on gay marriage. Indeed, they eagerly supported John Kerry’s bid for the White House even as that Democrat claimed to have fundamentally the same position on gay marriage as President Bush. Indeed, these activists have backed many a Democrat who are less open to gay marriage than the Big Apple’s Republican Mayor.
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