Who cares?

Really. Seriously. We should pay attention and remember if someone researches the issues and comes and tells us that, say, McCain likes Hondas? That Stephanopolous eats bagels with no cream cheese? That Reid has had a long-lasting friendship with a couple of Taiwanese descent? That I’ve always gone for trim, athletic women over the voluptous type?

I’m guessing that, if sexual orientation strikes one as being of little or no interest unless one is trying to date someone, or if one thinks the entire subject to be as acceptable for polite public discussion as “do you lick up, or across?”, then the various announcements of who is, who isn’t, who wanted to be but couldn’t, and who got all weepy and apologetic when their mom asked them about it holds no interest, and is unlikely to leave any lasting impression.

Side issues like this waste our attention on a completed narrative. Part 1 is done – they’ve told us “it’s lax government and insufficient regulation and rich fat-cat Repub CEOs – oh, and BUSH!” who caused all the trouble, leaving them only needing to close the sale with the “nothing to see here, we already told you who to hate, please move on” ending. Dealing with this new issue would disrupt their timing, and they’d rather we simply fastened their story into our tiny little heads, drew the correct conclusions, and moved on. They have other reasons that we should hate Bush, and the time for our edumacation is getting short.

In the beginning, I have often identified with some ideas from either the Republicans or the Democrats without feeling a bit wrong about it. But the more I became aware of the conventional political alliances, the more I learned that to be insufficiently Democrat is to be a Republican.

Last week, I thought Biden won the debate. Two weeks ago, I thought McCain won. For that, I lost 2 friends.

Up to now, I still could not believe the anger my opinion provoked. I was called a traitor and a self-hating homosexual and minority because I wasn’t pro-Obama enough.

I can’t imagine the abuse you must be getting for your political views. I do not envy your situation at all but our community is better served when we have representation in both parties. I hope you’ll always find the courage to speak your mind and follow what you believe to be good and true.

Increasingly, today’s mainstream media journalists and editors are racing to being tagged with a similar label. Fannie & Freddie, Social Security and the underfunded pension nightmare are all products of a media complicit in the power arrangement with the left. Ethics are long gone and objectivity nonexistent. Should this mess continue to spiral out of control, those in the media profession will also be permanently stained and be unemployable in the trade. Who wants to be a Frank’s Fannie journalist?

Possibly the under 30 one? My experience with graduate students is that they really don’t pay attention to gay/straight or skin color much. Now that is in the sciences so I can’t say what the liberals arts do. But it does seem that the college aged and younger generation are more blind on those issues than others.

I vote it the D rather than gay too. A gay non-democrat would be smeared all over the front page.

On the other hand, Frank’s a Democrat. That gets you a free pass. Ockham’s razor my friends.

That having been said: I would not be surprised if anti-homophobia played some sort of role in this as well.

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline

I don’t mean to be or sound rude but what alternative universe do you live in? Frank has been openly out as gay since at least the 1980s

But the media won’t portray it in the same manner as they did Enron, even though that was a bug bite compared to the killer bee swarm that’s descending upon the worldwide global economy. Why? Because telling the true story will destroy liberal myth making about what works and what doesn’t. And we can’t have that.

But the MSM never dug too deeply into the insanity of Jim McGreevey’s scandal either: there, it was indeed the sensationalism of a gay man cheating on his wife. But the REAL story to me was that he hired an incompetent to head up New Jersey’s DHS so he could have him in close proximity for discreet lovemaking. That this happened in the sobering days after 9/11, when the people were relying on their elected officials to start being serious, adds a pathetic punctuation to the whole thing.

The MSM is nothing but a racket to protect the left side of the political spectrum, whether it is its personalities (Barney Frank, Barack Obama, Harry Reid) or its ideologies (liberalism, leftism, big government).

Because if he were a gay Republican, he’d have been drawn and quartered by the drive-bys for not merely allowing, but CAUSING the collapse of the FMs.

It’s all about the ‘D’.

The media are so in the tank for the Democratic party, and so unconcerned with the impact that it will have on their relevance, that they’ve abandoned any pretense of objectivity.