. . .the Armed Liberal thinks “the gay community would be out for blood.” He’s quoting cited a post from “the Petrelis Files” where White House senior advisor “Valerie Jarrett talking to gay journo Jonathan Capehart:”
Capeheart: One of the things you’ve put a spotlight on, and to veer sharply away from infrastructure, and that was on the rash of suicides of gay youth. You gave a speech to the Human Rights Campaign annual dinner, where you named the victims. You talked about the President’s commitment to making a more inclusive, tolerant, accepting country. Why did you feel it was important to deliver that message, and deliver it there?
Jarrett: Well, I think what we’ve seen over the last few months are some very tragic deaths of young people, our children. And avoidable deaths. They were driven to commit suicide because they were being harassed in school, and driven to do something that no child should ever be driven to do. And in many cases, the parents are doing a good job. Their families are supportive. Before I spoke at the HRC dinner, I met backstage with Tammy Aarberg, her son Andrew. These are good people. They were aware that their son was gay. They embraced him. They loved him. They supported his lifestyle choice.
[emphasis Petrelis]
Armed Liberal via Instapundit. Lifestyle choice? And I thought it was only the social conservatives who used the word, “lifestyle” to describe gays. Petrelis finds it “doubly offensive that [gay journalist] Capehart makes no effort to point out how dangerous Jarrett’s thinking is.”
Maybe he was hoping to join Joe Solmonese on one of hid fancy fundraising jaunts for the DNC.
I thought the offensive part was the word “choice”.
Charon, that too. 🙂
Go look at AMERICAblog. Lotsa people are pissed about this one.
Fair point, John Aravosis, like Pam Spaulding and Michael Petrelis, has shown himself to be an individual with integrity.
But, I’m sure mum’ll be the word at HRC.
Integrity? Really?
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17624/the-most-racist-antiobama-pitch-you-will-ever-see-operation-black-storm
Can someone please proof read for spelling and grammar? The second sentence doesn’t make any sense. And why was this posted to begin with? Who cares about these reporters anyway?
a conservative woman of any colour would not have gotten a pass.
capeheart later stated that he didn’t correct her because he knew what was in her heart.
We’ll take Dave’s comment in two parts, please…
Agreed. Dan, I know you’re a busy guy, but I also know you tend to rush your posts. PLEASE, for the love of GOD, proof your posts.
Valerie Jarrett is perhaps Obama’s closest advisor, and has known the narcissistic sociopath-in-chief for deacades, Dave. She’s not a reporter, and if one of GWB’s advisors had something like this, the howling from the left would be damn near deafening.
No doubt, since Joe Solmonese is Obama’s bitch after all. I fail to see the hypocrisy you insinuate though since even liberal gays are saying far worse things than I about the HRC. Heck, the reaction to Sainz’s statement about Alex Nicholson of SU has been very telling of the wide and growing rift that has developed between HRC and liberal gays.
How can Solomonese breath from inside Obama’s colon?
As a gay man, I’ve always wondered what’s wrong with the word “choice.” This whiny “I-can’t-help-it-I-was-born-that-way” concept is about as wrongheaded an idea as I can think of; unless of course you really do think there’s something inherently immoral about homosexuality. I’ve choosen to live as a gay man because I really like men in every imaginable way. What’s wrong with that?
There is a difference between orientation and behavior.
I agree with Jay 100%, but I feel like a broken record.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with what Valerie Jarrett said. The young man who died made a choice about how to live, and his family supported him in that.
This whole “I can’t help who I am” routine infantilizes queers and rolls back the concept of free will. It’s insidious. I want Nietzsche to come back and call everyone who talks this way “ressentiment-driven flimsies.”
Let’s move on. If this is the worst you can come up with, about Jarrett, then we’re either on the wrong side or not doing our homework.
And I would like to say, I support everyone’s choice of whom to have sex with and how publicly to talk about it. Because, you know, it is a choice.
This whole “I can’t help who I am” routine infantilizes queers and rolls back the concept of free will.
Bingo.
After all, you can’t hold individuals responsible for the fact that they like to dress children as sexual slaves and take them to sex fairs if their sexual orientation forces them to do it.
The Obama Party and the liberal left reduce everything to minority status because they can then use that as an excuse for every lunatic behavior under the sun.
Everyone?