Is America The Land Of Renewal For All?
So I have to admit that I had never heard of Matt Sanchez before my email exchange with GayPatriotWest yesterday. I have to laugh because the tone of his emails suggested he was thinking “Is Bruce on another planet??”
My excuse is two-fold: I didn’t closely follow all of the CPAC Conference, so I missed Cpl. Sanchez receiving the award. And the past two days I’ve been a victim of the US Airways meltdown.. so I have been remiss in my blogger reading duties.
My first reaction to the Sanchez gay porn revelations was this: “My gosh! Is every young conservative gay and/or a porn star?” Then as I sat at Chicago O’Hare last night, cursing US Airways, I began to read the whole story in postings by Dan and by Joe.My.God. What struck me immediately was the venom of Joe’s commenters (nearly all of them being liberal and gay). Here’s just a sample.
Hate and self-hate exposed again…and just in time to put the story in the air permanently…
I guess I have to say it…self-hating gay Republicans — thank you, thank you, thank you!
To the religious right: hope you like being corrupted by Ann Coulter. Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. (and roaches, ants and lice and all the cats in my hat. Click.)
BamBamBam | 03.06.07 - 10:40 am |***********
Gee, another self loathing gay republican. Just what the world needs, another one. Waits for the shit to hit the fan *grabs a chair and some popcorn* mark | 03.06.07 - 11:16 am
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The “Dirty Sanchez” jokes aren’t going to quit. Days like this make me love coming here to read TMZ… I mean JMG. At least Joe pointed out that ex-porn stars are still entitled to enter the military & be right-wing, much as we hate it and some pedantically assume they can be nothing but “self-hating.” The joke’s more on O’Reilly & Coulter. It almost seems good enough to have been a publicity stunt (”secretly get a porn star into the inner circle of O’Reilly, then watch the shit fly”) — except I’m assuming he’s serious about his “harrassment” cause and loves licking the asses of O’Reilly and Ann Cunter.
kusala |03.06.07 - 1:15 pm |
Pretty gross, and intolerant, eh?
I wondered what this morning would reveal (as these types of stories seem to have multiple and long legs) as I walked the PatriotPooches. And I suddenly realized how interesting this story was from the perspective of being a patriotic American. Stay with me here….
One of the greatest things about our nation (as opposed to others) is that we give our fellow citizens a second, third, and fourth, etc. chance to re-do their lives. Here’s an extreme example… just to make my point…. It was amazing how Richard Nixon morphed from Constitutional Villian to Elder Cold War Statesman.
But does this spirit of tolerance and renewal extend to those who challenge moral standards? Does a gay porn star get a second, third, or fourth chance to do something else with his life? Apparently the Post-Clinton Angry Liberals say “NO!”
It is amazing how an issue like this really challenges the political stereotypes of who is truly tolerant. Most (not all) Liberals these days talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk. And most (not all) Conservatives that I know don’t preach but instead accept all Americans as individual gifts from God. I’d prefer the latter.
Case in point….. Contrast Michelle Malkin’s awesome post this morning on the Sanchez matter versus the hate-filled, angry liberal commenters at Joe.My.God:
Last night, hate-filled liberals on MSNBC attemped to smear Marine Corporal Matt Sanchez and conservatives who honored him at CPAC for his support of the military at Columbia University. They gleefully showed photos of Cpl. Sanchez at the event–including ones I took–in mockery after his gay porn past was outed by left-wing blogs. They cackled “Semper Fi.”
I said the other day I thought CPAC organizers would be justified in being embarrassed if the rumors about Sanchez’s porn star past 15 years ago turned out to be true. Well, the rumors are true. But it is neither CPAC nor Cpl. Sanchez who should feel embarrassed.
It’s the nasty, gloating liberals who claim to stand for tolerance, privacy, human rights, and compassion. I predicted the other day that left-wing bigotry would rear its ugly head. I was right. The e-mail I’ve received is more disgusting than anything Ann Coulter stupidly said at CPAC. And I can imagine the vitriol Cpl. Sanchez is enduring.
Very classy, Michelle. Thank you. None of this is suprising to me these days. Liberals are angry, they seem to hate everyone and they tear down those who violate the Liberal Political Correctness Rules. One would think liberals, who preach sexual freedom and pro-choice, would celebrate gay porn stars, escorts and Congressmen who come out and try to make changes in their lives. But not when those people do not have liberal political views. Instead — they are treated as pariahs.
**UPDATE** SeeDubya JunkYardBlog puts it this way:
Redemption is a Christian doctrine, and an American doctrine, and a conservative doctrine as well: making the best of what you have instead of insisting on perfection. Perfection is a myth. Perfection is the enemy of the good. All men, and all institutions, and all human doctrines, are deeply flawed and twisted, but we must do the best we can with them.
To understand American conservatives, even those who aren’t themselves Christian, you need to understand Christianity–not as it appears in vicious stereotypes and smears on left-wing blogs, but as it is really preached and practiced and understood. As I am fond of pointing out, a lively Christian faith is actually a great defense for American liberty, and a firewall against ideological zeal and extremism. And as seen in the response to the revelations about Cpl. Sanchez, it keeps us human.
As for those who outed him and had this blow up in their face, I pray they look at Chuck Colson’s example and take it to heart. There’s more to being human than just scoring political points.
I am an optimistic, conservative American who believes we all deserve second chances and all have the power of America to make our dreams come true. I’m sad that so many angry Post-Clinton Liberals are continually descending into a pile of hate spewage. But that’s life these days I guess.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
[RELATED STORY: Matt Sanchez in his own words - MattSanchez.blogspot.com]
[RELATED STORY: Matt Sanchez Responds, Sort Of - JoeMyGod.blogspot.com]
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Pingback by Right Voices » Blog Archive » “Why did I become a conservative? Just look at what I left, and look at who is attacking me today.” — March 8, 2007 @ 12:15 pm - March 8, 2007
Bruce, we’ve been saying it for years: the Left, and especially the GayLeft to gay men, are some of the most intolerant, spiteful, unforgiving, mercilessly petty queens.
The Sanchez story is all about PR spin. They use it to unmask the true nature of conservatives and GOPers as hypocrites without equal. The other side(s) use it to tar the Left and GayLeft as mean spirited, petty and vicious.
Sanchez’s greatest ’sin’ to the GayLeft is that he’s not repentant, not self-loathing, not cowering ala Mark Foley or the rightwing ministers or the Capitol GOP staffers before the holy of holies GayLeftBorg.
I think Joe.My.God is drawn to the Sanchez story because he recognizes a fellow media whore… and rabid partisan. Politics is a rough sport; and the GayLeft plays it with particularly gleeful spirit… but you have to expect that from a segment of our community where gossip, story laundering, petty jealousies, and vindictiveness find their greatest and most comfortable repose.
Your right again; the Left has an ugly head and face and it’s reared… no pun intended.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — March 8, 2007 @ 12:46 pm - March 8, 2007
Its sad but not too shocking that the Left is treating this like this. Conservative gays are called ’self-hating’ all the time, yet aren’t the actions of those name callers the real self-hate?
Comment by jon — March 8, 2007 @ 2:03 pm - March 8, 2007
Give me a big frakin break! This former “redeemed” prostitute charged $200 bucks an hr. The reason this hits you guys on the right so hard is because you scream about morals, family values to high heaven. This is what makes this a story. Yes we can be intolerant on the Left but baby you guys on the right gave us lessons. So forgive me, if I do not feel to sorry for this guy or your cause.
Comment by Dave — March 8, 2007 @ 2:57 pm - March 8, 2007
So Dave, that means you did not have any problem with Gerry Studds (D-MA) having sex with an underage male page (not just corresponding with him), or the live-in boy-toy of Barney Frank (D-MA) operating an escort service out of Frank’s DC home and getting him to fix his illegal tickets, now do you?
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberalism.
Dave, come back when you are better prepared to debate. Until then, maybe you can work on your anger management issues.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 8, 2007 @ 3:33 pm - March 8, 2007
I call bullshit.
This is not about denying him second chances. It’s just outrageous the double standards of so-called conservatives.
The whole thing is indecent. He won’t acknowledge he is gay. Fine. I can understand a dude having gay sex not calling himself gay because he could be bisexual. That’s OK with me. Is he acknoweledging he is bisexual? Nada.
So it’s OK to “not ask, not tell” for him but, given it is common knowledge now that he indeed engaged in gay sex/porn, wouldn’t that give the Army grounds to dismiss him? Wouldn’t it be cool if that did not happen, setting a legal precedent allowing more openly-gay patriots in the Armed Forces?
But he won’t tell.
So what are you saying? That it’s OK for this guy to repudiate his gayness? What does it say about you? What is it about republican gay men who don’t get that the GOPs embrace of the ex-gay movement is akin to Democrats embracing the KKK?
Seriously.
And then there’s the obvious parallels with the feminist bloggers so many right-wingers were happy to bash. Not so with Mr. Dirty Sanchez.
The truthiness. It boggles the mind to think how right wingers parse reality.
Comment by liza — March 8, 2007 @ 3:35 pm - March 8, 2007
But Dave… it doesn’t hit us.
This is what you, and quite a few others, are failing to comprehend. It doesn’t hit us. We aren’t standing where you think we are standing.
Comment by Synova — March 8, 2007 @ 3:39 pm - March 8, 2007
Hmmm…perhaps we should have MORE gay-porn stars in the military. The liberals certainly aren’t letting their kids enlist.
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — March 8, 2007 @ 3:46 pm - March 8, 2007
You can almost see Dave’s eyes bulging and hear the shrieking voice, can’t you?
Comment by Bruce (GayPatriot) — March 8, 2007 @ 3:55 pm - March 8, 2007
You know Dave nobody is perfect, and some of us have more and bigger skeletons in our closets than others, but everyone has done something they regret or wish they had done differently.
This young man has moved beyond his past, he joined the military, he is attending school, and it looks like has a decent job. If he has moved past it, who are we to judge?
That said, I thought this quote from his own blog deserves repeating, because I think he hit the nail on the head:
Let’s face it people, you’re all cynical enough to know that if I had espoused liberal causes, spoken out against the military, got a liberal award for courage and then outed with a porn-past, you’d be clamoring for my memoir, and nominating me for a diversity ticket with Barack Obama
Now the memoir and Obama thing is a bit hyperbolic, but I think the point is that if he was all those things for the liberal left, they wouldn’t give two hoots about his past, and would hail him a hero because of it as much as in spite of it.
Comment by just me — March 8, 2007 @ 3:57 pm - March 8, 2007
What’s funny is that if, as I pointed out before, we said that people who were HIV-positive and spoke of the necessity of safe sex were “hypocrites”, Dave and his ilk would shriek bloody murder, arguing that a person’s previous choices and decisions should not stain them for life.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — March 8, 2007 @ 4:30 pm - March 8, 2007
Do you never tire of this playground left-right fighting?
Lets do something constructive for a change.
I bet both sides can actually form an alliance, and work together to accomplish something good for this country.
Lets band together and demand, loudly, that Sanchez be allowed to continue his service as a Marine reservist.
It could be the death knell of anti-gay bigotry in the military.
Comment by Tano — March 8, 2007 @ 5:17 pm - March 8, 2007
Tano: Did the guy say he wanted you to take up cause on his behalf?
Comment by Vince P — March 8, 2007 @ 5:21 pm - March 8, 2007
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”.
Oscar Wilde
Comment by Gail — March 8, 2007 @ 6:00 pm - March 8, 2007
#12 I believe he’s stated that he’s not gay. The military may very well have issue with the porn movie acting or may decide that it was before he entered the service and doesn’t matter. Military prudishness is rather selective and random but things that involve unseemly display of military members tends to get put a stop to even if they were hetero displays.
Comment by Synova — March 8, 2007 @ 6:14 pm - March 8, 2007
#6 - Uh, liza dear, two things:
1. There is no such word as “truthiness.” It’s either true or false.
2. “What is it about republican gay men who don’t get that the GOPs embrace of the ex-gay movement is akin to Democrats embracing the KKK?”
Ever heard of Robert Byrd (D-WV), dear? The Senate President Pro Tempore who served as a Grand Kleagle in the KKK longer than Cpl Sanchez’s porn career?
Match, set, game. You lose. Go spend a weekend in Remedial Posting 101 and maybe you will come up with something constructive.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 8, 2007 @ 6:14 pm - March 8, 2007
Furthermore, Tano, had you and your fellow leftists not been so eager to expose Sanchez’s “hypocrisy”, this never would have been a problem.
Sanchez kept his end of the DADT bargain. Gay leftists like you outed him with malicious intent. He will leave with his head held high, knowing that you and your fellow hatemongering bigots, given your refusal to expose OTHER military members, are exposed as hypocrites who are taking revenge on him for his political beliefs.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — March 8, 2007 @ 6:15 pm - March 8, 2007
This is not about denying him second chances. It’s just outrageous the double standards of so-called conservatives.
How do you figure that? He’s owned up to his past and made no excuses for it.
The whole thing is indecent. He won’t acknowledge he is gay. Fine. I can understand a dude having gay sex not calling himself gay because he could be bisexual. That’s OK with me. Is he acknoweledging he is bisexual? Nada.
Maybe because he isn’t gay or bi. As difficult as it may be for some to understand people can have sex with people of the same or opposite gender and not ‘change’ their orientation. I had sex with women when I was younger and believe me it didn’t make me straight or bi. Physical stimulation can be gratifying regardless of the gender if one is in the right frame of mind, add some case as an incentive and I can see how a straight man can do gay films. Understanding it though doesn’t mean I approve of this or think such a person shows good judgment by doing so. In fact I think it’s rather sleazy and shows a lack of character, but such is not permanent. One can change their behavior and redeem themselves from their past mistakes. It looks like Cpl Sanchez may have done this, which is fine by me. Besides, the bit about him being a former escort was more disturbing to me than his being a former porn star. Yet if St. Mary Magdalene in the traditional view can repent and change than so can Cpl. Sanchez and the rest of us (whatever our own particular sins are).
So it’s OK to “not ask, not tell” for him but, given it is common knowledge now that he indeed engaged in gay sex/porn, wouldn’t that give the Army grounds to dismiss him?
I must admit that I’m wondering if such is possible. I guess it depends upon the view of his command and how good of a Marine he is. There is a loophole in DADT given that this all occurred prior to his entry into the Marines and if his command finds that “such conduct…is unlikely to recur” the policy doesn’t apply.
Wouldn’t it be cool if that did not happen, setting a legal precedent allowing more openly-gay patriots in the Armed Forces?
I’d prefer Staff Sgt. Alva being the proverbial “Rosa Parks” in this, but given my antipathy towards this assinine policy, it wouldn’t bother me.
So what are you saying? That it’s OK for this guy to repudiate his gayness? What does it say about you?
What does it say about you that you presume Sanchez IS gay? Perhaps he’s not and such is for HIM to say, not you or I.
What is it about republican gay men who don’t get that the GOPs embrace of the ex-gay movement is akin to Democrats embracing the KKK?
Seriously? Look, I’m a bit ticked off at the GOP when it comes to this and many other things right now, but this is more than a tad hyperbolic.
And then there’s the obvious parallels with the feminist bloggers so many right-wingers were happy to bash.
Which feminists? What exactly are you calling feminism? Are you seriously saying that because not everyone subscribes to what you may think constitutes feminism that they are therefore misogynist? That’s very puerile thinking.
Not so with Mr. Dirty Sanchez.
First you whine about so-called right-wingers, then you resort to ad hominem about someone who did nothing to harm you? Typical.
The truthiness. It boggles the mind to think how right wingers parse reality.
When the Left finds reality, give us a call.
Comment by John — March 8, 2007 @ 6:32 pm - March 8, 2007
I must say I love it! Let’s see now how many gays did the Repubs recentely have exposed? Mark Foley check, Ted Haggard check, Matt Sanchez check. Man karma is a big frackin B, ain’t it Republicans.
Comment by Dave — March 8, 2007 @ 7:16 pm - March 8, 2007
Wow, after seeing all this, it seems gay republicans should be hauled off to a death camp. It seems as if that’s what they’re asking for anyway.
Comment by not a liberal — March 8, 2007 @ 8:46 pm - March 8, 2007
I think I’m the only one who thinks Sanchez’s past lends the GOP a bit of cachet, if nothing else than to prove that we are about ideas rather than specific life choices. The Democrats are trying to make the most of a seeming hyprocrisy, but Sanchez proves it’s a lie — a lie that has been Democrat bread and butter for decades. This story is overwhelmingly positive in my view because the very sensitivity the left has preached is proven to be such a colossal shell game. As I said in another thread, I think perhaps the Democrats are jealous that Sanchez publicly and thoughtfully rejects them and worry that he might encourage others not to regard their penises as voting levers.
A hot marine and ex porn star who loves his country and stands up to a bunch of fascist leftists in academe? Let’s see…how late is the video store open tonight?
Ah, it’s good to be a Republican.
Comment by HardHobbit — March 8, 2007 @ 8:46 pm - March 8, 2007
“I believe he’s stated that he’s not gay”
Ah, I see now. The “redemption” that y’all are talking about is being “cured” of his gayness.
So this is the redemption that you think is so praiseworthy?
I guess you have a point though. I forsee a bright future for Sanchez on the right side of things.
Comment by Tano — March 8, 2007 @ 8:50 pm - March 8, 2007
Tano: Just what business is it of yours what the guy does? Who are you? Do you think people are somehow obligated to justify themselves to your political views?
What is with the Left and their intrusion into every aspect of other people’s lives?
Your questions about him in a public forum to people who dont know him are just out of line.
But I guess when politics trumps all, as it apparently does for you, everything about a person must be appraised for Political Correctness.
Isn’t that called tryanny?
Comment by Vince P — March 8, 2007 @ 8:55 pm - March 8, 2007
Peter Hughes writes,
“Ever heard of Robert Byrd (D-WV), dear? ”
One wonders why you trash Sen. Byrd. Here is a man who grew up in a dirt poor, extremely backwards environment and joined an organization that was respected in that place and time (his father had been a member). Over the years, as he became aware of the wider world, and became his own man, he understood what the Klan was all about, and rejected it. And has apologized for it countless times.
Contrast that with a gay man who, one imagines, was totally secure with his sexuality - who now renounces not only the porn business, but, apparently, his identity as well, and joins in with the movement that mocks, ridicules, and would love to suppress the gay world.
I see one man, worthy of the notion of “redemption’ and renewal, and one not. Guess which?
Comment by Tano — March 8, 2007 @ 9:01 pm - March 8, 2007
Ah, I see now. The “redemption” that y’all are talking about is being “cured” of his gayness.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? You are commenting on a blog run by gay men, responding to commentors that are mostly gay, and most of us are quite “out”. No one here said anything remotely like you claim. The ‘redemption’ you speak of concerns his turning from his past mistakes, not his sexual orientation. No one here has any clue whether Sanchez is gay or straight and to my knowledge he hasn’t made any statements against either.
I guess you have a point though. I forsee a bright future for Sanchez on the right side of things.
Perhaps. One thing is for sure, he’d be tossed under the bus by libs for political convenience when the need arose if he were a Dem.
Comment by John — March 8, 2007 @ 9:02 pm - March 8, 2007
I don’t think it matters at all if he’s gay or not. Why should it? I only mentioned that he’d said he wasn’t as a point of trivia in the interest of accuracy.
I doubt he really expects people to believe him, even if it’s true. I don’t get the idea that he cares.
Comment by Synova — March 8, 2007 @ 9:03 pm - March 8, 2007
Vince,
I dont understand your point. What do you mean that it is not my business what he does? It is the conservatives who have put this guy forward as a hero, for what he does, politically. You hold someone up as a hero, you think nobody is going to ask who this guy actually is?
And what questions am I asking about him? I am asking questions of YOU. Are you thrilled with the notion that a gay man can be rehabilitated in the eyes of conservatives by denying his identity? That he is so proud to accept awards from the creeps at CPAC? That he grins his way through a photo with Ann Coulter?
These are all public statements, of an inherintly political nature. But, I guess your position is that since he is on “your team” - politically - then he should be given free rein to do what he wishes and everyone else should just shut up. Now that would be tyranny.
Comment by Tano — March 8, 2007 @ 9:10 pm - March 8, 2007
Here’s where most of you are off-point … especially regarding this man’s redemption: he entered the Marines with this is in past. He could not - I repeat - could not have disclosed the truth about his past and still entered the Corps. Ergo, his initial and sustained deception renders considerable dishonor on the Corps. This is not redemptive behavior.
Second, his fundamental notoriety and ostensibly the reason he was honored with the Kirkpatrick award [stop spinning in your grave, Jeanne] was because of his sustained defense of conservative principles in dealing with the knuckleheads who allegedly called him a baby-killer and disparaged his inherited degree of intellect. While he reacts with indignation to that verbal attack and [in the thousands of word that I've read of his] doesn’t primarily acknowledge their first amendment right to free speech, he jumps right up to the defense of Ms. Coulter on those grounds … though he doesn’t agree with her characterization.
Lastly, where is redemption in these matters for a guy who was on his ManHunt.com account just some 12 days ago?
I will invite those who think that Sanchez has redeemed himself to read reviews from his porn days [kristenbjorn.com comes to mind]. The attitudes expressed a decade or so bear a strong resemblence to the same ones he expresses today. In the end, though, this episode will be but a grenade toss in the culture wars … in my opinion, most likely to be considered a PR campaign to drum up sales for his forthcoming book.
Peace.
Comment by Paul — March 8, 2007 @ 9:21 pm - March 8, 2007
America is the land of second chances; just ask Ted Kennedy
Did Mr. Sanchez drown anyone? Is he running for Senate?
So the man did porn/escorting to make the rent? No shame in hard work; he didn’t ask for a hand out or a government check. As far as we know he’s not a thief or drug addict. Maybe his acting career isn’t something to highlight on a resume, but he did a stint in the military and is putting himself thru Columbia (although I do question his choice of university – Columbia is a hell hole of anti Semitism and anti Americanism).
He’s not the first person to make a buck (or $200 per hour) by taking his clothes off; check out daytime soaps and you might see some familiar faces - and chests.
It’s not like the young man did something really crazy, like doubting global warming or denouncing the United Nations. Then we’d have to send him off to rehab.
As for Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly or any of the other regulars on FOX: If they’ll invite the likes of Bill Maher, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, or Michael Moore on their shows – what’s wrong with having a genuine hustler on?
Vera wishes every success to Mr. Sanchez’s future endeavors.
To quote Dorothy Fields “It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish…”
Comment by Vera Charles — March 8, 2007 @ 9:28 pm - March 8, 2007
I am not convinced that the guy is gay based solely on his appearances in gay porn. Gay men appear in movies as straight characters, and some straight men have appeared in movies as gay. It is a business, and while I don’t exactly follow the porn industry, I imagine the only criteria is that you look hot and be willing to have sex.
I don’t care if the guy is gay or not, but I think he should be the one to say whether he is, and I am not convinced that this move the the left is exactly something to be proud of.
Comment by just me — March 8, 2007 @ 10:22 pm - March 8, 2007
Tano, if you are seriously trying to excuse Robert Byrd for his past misdeeds while trashing Cpl. Sanchez, then YOU are the one with the morality problem.
Checkmate.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 8, 2007 @ 10:26 pm - March 8, 2007
And, Peter H., if you really think that the Republicans would charitably dismiss Cpl. Sanchez’ past illegal conduct (for prostitution is still illegal in 49 of the 50 states) if he happened to be a liberal Democrat who had been fęted at a DNC banquet, you’re the one with a reality-perception problem.
Hole in one.
Comment by vaara — March 8, 2007 @ 11:27 pm - March 8, 2007
I think it would be great if he tried to helped repeal DADT. Come on Matt, use your new found celebrity for something worthwhile and help your fellow gays out. Stop whining about how mean liberals are, and that being liberal made you do porn. Take a stand, I for one would welcome a gay conservative to our movement. We need different voices and perspectives.
Comment by Dave — March 8, 2007 @ 11:51 pm - March 8, 2007
PeterH,
If you were able to read the English language, then you would realize that I was not excusing his past affiliation, but forgiving it, based on many decades of repentance, and the general spirit of American renewal.
And, BTW, your arguments really dont garner any more weight simply by you asserting that they are decisive. Kinda tacky, actually…
Comment by Tano — March 9, 2007 @ 12:37 am - March 9, 2007
Dave: Please… the Left is not interested in anything that is different than it. Matt owes you ziltch.. Who are you to make such demands on another individual?
Comment by Vince P — March 9, 2007 @ 12:48 am - March 9, 2007
-Sanchez kept his end of the DADT bargain.-
By making gay porn films?
Then he said to Joe.My.God that gays are “deviant”. If he finds gays deviant, then why did he make gay porn movies? Didn’t he also escort?
Why are we supposed to see this man as a victim when he makes anti-gay comments after taking gay money for years?
Comment by Carl — March 9, 2007 @ 12:54 am - March 9, 2007
One wonders why you trash Sen. Byrd. Here is a man who grew up in a dirt poor, extremely backwards environment and joined an organization that was respected in that place and time (his father had been a member).
Oh. “White-Nigger” Byrd was a victim. I think the same could be said for Hitler and many other great haters of history. Libs will excuse any murderers as long as they were a victim, especially if they put a “D” after their name.
I’m sure you can absolve yourself of any sin with a charitable donation to the DNC too.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — March 9, 2007 @ 1:08 am - March 9, 2007
I agree with every word of this by David Horowitz:
Yesterday, Max [Blumenthal] filed a column on these [CPAC] episodes at The Huffington Post. The column quoted sources in the gay Left “outing” Matt Sanchez with the revelation that 15 years ago, he was a gay porn video star and alleging that he was a male prostitute, as well. As conservatives know from first-hand experience, viciousness – the politics of personal destruction – is the progressive middle name. There is no conservative outing machine. The invasion of a person’s privacy – the reckless disclosure of private information that could potentially have untold consequences on a person’s career, relationships, friendships, and family – are all easily justified if you are a Progressive, of course, because you are on a mission from God: to save the world. That’s how the Gestapo worked and the Khmer Rouge Marxists, and that’s how Max and his friends work, too. It’s all for the good of the cause. In fact, it’s required by the good of the cause. The more noble the cause, the more people you can justify destroying to make it a success.
For the record, I have no particular concern about adult pornography and personally could not care less what Matt Sanchez did with his life when he was a young man. Who among us is without pieces of their lives, or without actions in their past that they did or did not do, that they now regret? Unlike Max, moreover, Matt Sanchez wasn’t born with a silver spoon up his ass. He didn’t have an insufferable daddy to inspire him to be a verbal assassin or to connect him to like-minded intellectual thugs so he could make a good living at the same time.
If pornography doesn’t involve children, it’s what Progressives like to call a victimless crime, and therefore not a crime. I happen to agree. I think pornography should be regulated and kept from children and criminalized where children are involved, to protect their innocence. I also respect religious people who consider pornography sinful and even religious people who think that any female flesh visible, even ankles, is pornographic. But I don’t agree with them. The American freedoms that Max and his friends find so oppressive are about this diversity, too.
I find it appalling that people who actually call themselves Progressives would attack an Hispanic American and accuse him of being an exploited minority because he chose to serve his country. I find it appalling that gay leftists – who otherwise think Bush is destroying the constitution by tapping the phones of our terrorist enemies – would open an American citizen’s buried past and make it public in an attempt to destroy him. But I’m not surprised. That’s what the Left does. All day and every day. It’s for the cause.
Comment by Vince P — March 9, 2007 @ 2:28 am - March 9, 2007
The Left are intolerant? Lets see Sanchez walk into Dr. James Dobson’s or Pat Robertson’s church and see how far he gets. Lets see Sanchez walk into any Evangelical, Catholic or Southern Baptist mega-church and see how far he gets. Lets see Sanchez make a pro-gay rights comment about same-sex marriage and see how far he gets (swept right under the freakin carpet). Even the Right-wing “uncle tom” gays would disown him. Yeah…I went there and called it like it is!
Since the mid nineties, the Republicans and Conservatives have been on a moral crusade against Homosexuals claiming everything under the sun from huricanes was God’s way of punishing gays to AIDS being the wrath of God for homosexuality. Gays have endured a constant and never-ending slur campaign for practically a decade and campaigns have been won because of it. Liberals have spent years being slurred BECAUSE of our tolerance while the Right-wing and their “uncle tom” gays defend Ann Coulter for using the word “faggot”. How dare you accuse Liberals of intolerance! Most of the leaders you idolize have won their elections based upon treating people like you like the lowest form of scum on Earth and you suck up to them? So you can play into this thumbsucking tantrum nonsense over being afwaid of the big bad wibawals! WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! Grow up! You live in the most Liberal country in the World. If you’re a Christian, you’re part of the most Liberal religion in existance. To every other being in the entire planet….YOU ARE A LIBERAL!!! And not a very bright one at that.
And now you take a Liberal stance in defending diversity by accusing Liberals of being intolerant while for the past 10 years, you have slammed Liberals for being tolerant? Do you get headaches uncle tom?
Comment by Syntax — March 9, 2007 @ 2:33 am - March 9, 2007
“I find it appalling that gay leftists – who otherwise think Bush is destroying the constitution by tapping the phones of our terrorist enemies – would open an American citizen’s buried past and make it public in an attempt to destroy him. But I’m not surprised. That’s what the Left does. All day and every day. It’s for the cause.”
appearing in porn is not what I think you can call a “buried past” and Sanchez on his own blog points out that he was willing to deal with the issue when he decided to accept the award at CPAC. I think he is a brave person and have a lot of respect for him. He is not afraid to face the media and lives his life with his head held high. I think he is a good role model for people who do not want to be labled and want to serve in the military regardless of their past sexuality. I do not see anything wrong with outting someone who has been in porn movies though. It is pretty different than outting a private citizen. Porn is the last thing from private.
Comment by left wing guy — March 9, 2007 @ 4:52 am - March 9, 2007
Sanchez, Gannon, Gingrich…
The hypocrisy is staggering. And fascinating. I see that this blog is consistent in its use of tropes, however: go after liberals for conservatives’ hypocrisy.
Comment by jimmy — March 9, 2007 @ 5:06 am - March 9, 2007
Jimmy: you’re quite the gossip queen arent you? You going to start digging for my private info too?
You are nobody. You have no justification to call anyone a hypocrite other than your own privacy-violating airing out of people’s private lives that have nothing to do with you and are none of your business. Little busybody gossip queen is certainly not the Judge of someone like Newt or this Marine guy
Comment by Vince P — March 9, 2007 @ 6:30 am - March 9, 2007
proud gay conservative = “although I disagree with some of their policies, I’ll work from inside the Democratic party to change people minds”
self-hating gay conservative = “although the party exploits hatred for people like me, and supports policies that discriminate against me, I’ll work from inside the Republican party to change people minds”
gay conservatives in the GOP are necessarily self-hating — they choose to be a member of a party that despises them as human beings while agreeing with their politics, rather than choose to be a member of a party that respects them as human beings while disagreeing with their politics.
Matt Sanchez (a member of Columbia’s Gay Republicans) is a typical self-hating gay Republican.
Comment by p.lukasiak — March 9, 2007 @ 7:26 am - March 9, 2007
Guys, we’re being too hard on the GayLeft violent outing of yet another gay person… the Sanchez case was truly one that the GayLeftBorg just couldn’t pass up no matter how hard they might try to reform and do the moral thing. If they have morals.
Look, it had all the hallmarks of GayLeftBorg heaven and SnoopyDances… 1) you could out a gay conservative and holler “hypocrite” until hell freezes over; 2) you could piss all over the military and especially the Marines with the story –what GayLeftie doesn’t foam at the opportunity to smear the Marines? 3) you could link the guy with gayporn and FarRight activists like Coulter, Newt, Hannity and OReilly; and 4) all while feeding your true nature to gossip, smear and flame on others you admire. If only Sanchez was vocal about supporting the WOT-Iraq, it’d have been perfect.
Let’s face it… if Sanchez were stupid and a Democrat or liberal, he’d be the GayLeft’s dream posterboi… x-rated pictures just an added benefit.
We shouldn’t be too hard on the GayLeftBorg’s outing of another gay man… it’s become their reason for living. It’s why GayLefties write slanderously about CJ-SCOTUS Roberts as closeted gay, several GOP Senators as gay, movie stars as gay, etc.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — March 9, 2007 @ 9:14 am - March 9, 2007
I just quoted this in the other Sanchez… but it is so wise, it is worth repeating:
Comment by Calarato — March 9, 2007 @ 10:13 am - March 9, 2007
To vaara, tano et al:
In case you haven’t been paying attention (which is obviously the case), those at CPAC who were in attendance for Cpl Sanchez’s award have all pledged their support to him. See Joe.My.God, Michelle Malkin, and other bloggers for proof.
Maybe the reason you are all frothing at the mouth is because your ilk is the kind to kick a man when he is down, rather than offer support. That’s what separates liberals from conservatives.
And as far as being “forgiving” to Robert Byrd, I daresay you have done the same thing for David Duke, no?
(Crickets chirping.)
Try again.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 9, 2007 @ 10:24 am - March 9, 2007
Calarato, that website “JoeMyGawd” is the achetypical blog of the GayLeftBorg. Snarky without purpose. Meanspirit worshiped as a character strength. LockSteppingGayLeftFascists who burn heretics at the stake faster than Sen Byrd can don a white hood or a Kennedy can rape again or Hillary can flip-flop.
Sanchez has it about right: the GayLeftBorg start with hypocrite and work backwards to prove everyone else is at least as messed up as they are… and for you lower case clan here: next time it’s 2AM at the gaybar and you’ve failed to hookup with anything, ask your fellow-left-behinds to raise their hand if they’re under a therapist’s care… 10:1, most hands of the left-behinds will go up. Ask how many are Democrats or leftwingers… none of the hands will go down.
Good points, too, Peter.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — March 9, 2007 @ 10:51 am - March 9, 2007
By making gay porn films?
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is exactly that.
Tell us, Carl, would you object if a man were thrown out of the armed forces after he posted on his AOL profile that he was gay — or would you claim that he had it coming, because he posted that?
Think carefully, because it’s not a hypothetical case — and if you react the consistent way, you’ll go against gay left dogma.
Meanwhile, to Syntax, if you’re so anti-homophobia, start with your own.
Either scream bloody murder that Howard Dean, head of the DNC and a leader of liberals, who gays like yourself claimed was “pro-gay” and “gay-supportive”, is a homophobic, evil bastard for pandering to evangelicals who you call “antigay” and insisting that the Dem Party platform “shares their values”….or reveal your own hypocrisy.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — March 9, 2007 @ 3:19 pm - March 9, 2007
Carl: Then he said to Joe.My.God that gays are “deviant”. If he finds gays deviant, then why did he make gay porn movies? Didn’t he also escort?
Did Joe forget to post this supposed comment by Sanchez, because try as I might I just cannot find it in the interview found on his blog.
Syntax: Lets see Sanchez walk into Dr. James Dobson’s or Pat Robertson’s church and see how far he gets.
You have your nutjobs and we have ours. Rather unsurprising. You presume that every Republican, or GOP-leaning Independent, agrees with everything the Party advocates and with everyone considered to be a prominent leader of it. Please, do tell me you do when it comes to the Democrat Party. I’d love to show how assinine that claim is…
Syntax: Liberals have spent years being slurred BECAUSE of our tolerance while the Right-wing and their “uncle tom” gays defend Ann Coulter for using the word “faggot”.
You, sir, are a bald-faced liar. Typical of the Left and such nonsense is precisely why your side is held in such disdain. Very few conservative blogs supported Coulter’s remarks, none of the major ones I’m familiar with nor this or any other conservative gay blogs such as this one. Meanwhile folks like you keep equating being gay with liberalism which not everyone agrees with. TFB if that doesn’t sink into that thick noggin’ of yours.
Syntax: Most of the leaders you idolize have won their elections based upon treating people like you like the lowest form of scum on Earth and you suck up to them?
Some indeed have been, while many of those you cherish have said pretty words while stabbing gays in the back the first change they get.
Syntax: Grow up! You live in the most Liberal country in the World.
Only by stretching the common usage of the word so far it nearly breaks. No, this country is more moderate, slighty to the Right, with hardliners on both sides relegated to the fringes. Sure they get into power now and then when the public is frustrated with the other party, but are quickly cast out if they do not moderate their tone (unless of course the other party is seen as even worse and unrepentant).
Comment by John — March 9, 2007 @ 4:54 pm - March 9, 2007
-Tell us, Carl, would you object if a man were thrown out of the armed forces after he posted on his AOL profile that he was gay — or would you claim that he had it coming, because he posted that?-
Yes, I would, NDT. He knew the rules of DADT and he violated them. He deserved to be thrown out if he posted on an AOL profile that he was gay.
-Did Joe forget to post this supposed comment by Sanchez, because try as I might I just cannot find it in the interview found on his blog.-
It’s right here:
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2007/03/matt-sanchez-responds-sort-of.html
“So, they start off with the term hypocrite and work their way backwards looking for signs of deviant behavior in hopes of discovering some type of bastard kinship.”
Why are gay men here trying to make a martyr out of a man who thinks you are deviant?
Comment by Carl — March 9, 2007 @ 5:11 pm - March 9, 2007
Yes, I would, NDT. He knew the rules of DADT and he violated them. He deserved to be thrown out if he posted on an AOL profile that he was gay.
Look up “Tim McVeigh” and “AOL”.
And go tell Tim that he deserved to be discharged because he posted his sexual orientation on AOL.
And as for your quote, the “they” he is referring to are gay people. GAYS are looking for signs of behavior THEY deem “deviant”.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — March 9, 2007 @ 6:39 pm - March 9, 2007
#50:
Why are you suddenly supporting DADT?
Comment by Attmay — March 9, 2007 @ 6:50 pm - March 9, 2007
Carl:Why are gay men here trying to make a martyr out of a man who thinks you are deviant?
“Martyr”? Please, cut the drama. This snippet is what you are referring to? Give me a break. Perhaps context isn’t your forte or you sensitivity quotient is set on hyper. This wasn’t a generalized condemnation of gays as you claim, but a criticism of what I call the ‘professionally queer’ who seem to enjoy taking offense to everything. Frankly, Robbie over on The Malcontent nailed this one right when he wrote:
Comment by John — March 9, 2007 @ 7:30 pm - March 9, 2007
Robbie cares more about being contrary than about the real point of the matter, and he himself makes comments that are about playing the martyr, like the one that gay conservatives’ real enemy is other gay men, not the religious right. Comments like that just point out how often gay conservatives love to play the victim, even as they castigate other gays for doing the same. It isn’t gays that pass laws against domestic partnerships, or adopting children, or who want to restore sodomy laws, or reclassify homosexuality as a mental illness, etc.
The military is investigating whether Sanchez violated any of their codes:
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-begins.html
-This wasn’t a generalized condemnation of gays as you claim, but a criticism of what I call the ‘professionally queer’ who seem to enjoy taking offense to everything. -
I don’t think that someone taking offense to everything makes them “deviant”. That’s a very loaded word and yet he threw it out there anyway.
Comment by Carl — March 10, 2007 @ 3:06 am - March 10, 2007
Carl: Robbie cares more about being contrary than about the real point of the matter, and he himself makes comments that are about playing the martyr, like the one that gay conservatives’ real enemy is other gay men, not the religious right. Comments like that just point out how often gay conservatives love to play the victim, even as they castigate other gays for doing the same.
Carl, give me a break. You can characterize Robbie however you wish, I really don’t care. He’s a big boy and far more capable of defending himself than I can do for him. The Malcontent is one of the blogs besides this one that I regularly read and I know exactly what you are referring to. He was pointing out the hypocrisy of the Left and without being as dramatic as you claim, that liberal gays do indeed treat conservative gays as badly if not worse than the extreme Right at times.
It isn’t gays that pass laws against domestic partnerships, or adopting children, or who want to restore sodomy laws, or reclassify homosexuality as a mental illness, etc.
Too true, hence why such folks are in the extreme Right. If you do read Robbie’s comments than you’ll see he takes them to task a number of times as well. Such does not make him a liberal anymore than critiquing the professionally queer makes him self-hating. What the “homerati” do do is treat those gays who refuse to hew some absurd liberal political line as being traitors, or self-hating, or whatever other assinine thing they care to come up with. If someone is gay they are expected to be part of the declared “groupthink” upon pain of being cast out as not being gay enough.
The military is investigating whether Sanchez violated any of their codes:
Not surprised. There’s a good chance he may lose. It’s hard to say. If you expect me to be happy about that, wrong. I lived under DADT and before anything else for gays want to see this discrminatory policy revoked.
I don’t think that someone taking offense to everything makes them “deviant”. That’s a very loaded word and yet he threw it out there anyway.
Yep, just knowing that people like you would take the bait. Frankly your comments sustain his criticism.
Comment by John — March 10, 2007 @ 4:34 pm - March 10, 2007
It isn’t gays that pass laws against domestic partnerships, or adopting children, or who want to restore sodomy laws, or reclassify homosexuality as a mental illness, etc.
I don’t see how they could; they’re too busy digging through peoples’ pasts, publishing smear to the Internets and other places, and calling up peoples’ bosses, trying to get them fired from their jobs.
Or telling conservative gays to commit suicide.
With your obsessive hatred of Sanchez over a picture, Carl, you and yours make a good case for homosexuality being linked to mental illness. Do you really think normal people set out to destroy someone personally and professionally because this person had a picture taken with someone they don’t like? Do you think that normal people go digging obsessively through other peoples’ pasts, publishing and publicizing anything that could be remotely salacious, to get even? Do you believe that it’s “normal” to call up the boss of a person you don’t like and harass and harangue them, trying to get them fired, like JoeMyGod, Andy Towle, and others are doing - or telling them to commit suicide?
Obviously, there are some of us out here whose sexual orientation does not make them think these actions are normal. But unfortunately, there are far fewer of us than there are of you, Carl; that is why many people have serious reservations about allowing a population like gays, who regularly demonstrate this sort of behavior and claim their homosexuality makes them do it, to have access to children or to legal benefits and protections.
In short, Carl, military service, marriage, and adoption require that you be of sound mind — and the vast majority of gay Democrats and liberals who endorse the sort of behavior we’ve seen used on Sanchez fail on that count.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — March 10, 2007 @ 8:41 pm - March 10, 2007
LOL
That says it all.
Comment by Calarato — March 11, 2007 @ 10:54 am - March 11, 2007
GREAT column at Townhall.com, fellow homocons! Let’s all join Sanchez and REPENT!!
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/KevinMcCullough/2007/03/11/why_christians_embrace_gay_porn_stars?page=full&comments=true
Why Christians Embrace ‘Gay’ Porn Stars
By Kevin McCullough
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Diabolical liberals are once again showing their disdain for homosexuals, and their lack of love for those who struggle with sexual sin. They are adverse to truth about sexual behavior. And when a sexual sinner is brave enough to say so, liberals become the most homophobic mouth foamers the universe has ever seen.
Take the case of Marine Cpl Matt Sanchez. (Also affectionately known as ‘the other CPAC scandal’.)
Following his acceptance of the Jeanne Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom award he was “outed” by homosexual bloggers (bloggers who write about and engage in homosexual behavior) as being a “Gay Porn Star.”
The reason so many of these homosexual bloggers knew this is simple. They are rabid consumers of homosexual pornography and have spent days, months, possibly years in front of their television screens acting out on the urges within them. They have been enslaved by the unforgiving voices that have told them since birth to act upon every sexual urge they have. The thought of personal sexual restraint is foreign to these bloggers. Thus they have near cataclysmic system failure when someone they believed was homosexual turns a corner in his life and leaves that filth behind.
Click here to read the rest.
Comment by Jesussaves — March 11, 2007 @ 3:41 pm - March 11, 2007
Kevin McCullough is one of the more harsher voices. But so what.. he’s commenting on his own for his own reasons. I dont pay attention to what he says, he’s a blowhard.
Comment by Vince P — March 12, 2007 @ 12:44 am - March 12, 2007
I recommend those baffled by the Lefts continued civic breakdown should check out this speech.
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev030507a.cfm
Evan Sayet has been a top Hollywood writer and producer for more than 20 years. His credits range from “The Arsenio Hall Show” to “Politically Incorrect.” After the Sept. 11 attacks, Sayet decided to step from behind the camera and speak out in his own voice – that of one of the nation’s top political satirists. At Heritage, his entertaining yet quite serious lecture will examine the modern liberal “mindset” and how it can lead to siding with evil over good and behaviors that produce failure rather than success
here is a summary about it:
Liberals Have the Mentality of Kindergarteners, Comedian Says
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
March 06, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - Liberals are wrong about everything and have the mentality of kindergarteners, in the view of conservative comedian and commentator Evan Sayet.
“The Democrats are wrong on quite literally every issue,” Sayet said at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on Monday. “They are not just wrong. They are as wrong as wrong can be.
“It’s not just domestic policy. It’s foreign policy. It’s every policy,” he said, adding that liberals are “diametrically opposed to that which is good, right and successful.”
“The modern liberal will invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success,” Sayet said.
“How could you possibly live in the freest nation in the history of the world and only see oppression? How could you live in the least imperialist power in human history and see us as the ultimate in imperialism? How can you live in the least bigoted nation in human history … and see racism lurking in every dark shadow?” he asked.
The comedian attributed the trend to a “rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency.”
Sayet also argued that liberals “have the mentality of five-year-olds.”
He said the 1986 Robert Fulghum book, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” “reads like the bible of modern liberalism and the playbook of Democratic Party policy.”
“‘Don’t hit’ has just become ‘War is not the answer,’” Sayet said.
“If we’re going to save America, we must take back the schools, the universities, the media, [and] the entertainment industry,” he said.
Comment by Vince P — March 12, 2007 @ 12:47 am - March 12, 2007
-I don’t see how they could;-
The point is that they wouldn’t, not that they could. One group of people is actively working to take away the rights of gays and lesbians. One, for all the talk here of how evil and awful they are, is not.
-In short, Carl, military service, marriage, and adoption require that you be of sound mind -
Actually, it doesn’t. The military is desperate to get just about anyone these days. And anyone can marry a person of the opposite sex. That’s the joke of all this. Straight people can basically do what they want even if they are deeply flawed and made a lot of mistakes. Gays, even if they are perfect, cannot come out and serve in the military, or marry the partner they love. And all this on and on about poor Matt Sanchez and how dare anyone point out that he did gay porn for years doesn’t change that.
Comment by Carl — March 12, 2007 @ 2:00 am - March 12, 2007
Really? When was Same-Sex marrage established that you can say that it is being actively taken away?
Comment by Vince P — March 12, 2007 @ 9:32 am - March 12, 2007
The military is desperate to get just about anyone these days.
No, they are not; they still will gladly turn down people with a history of psychotic behavior, such as you and your fellow leftist gays are displaying in your attempts to destroy another person personally and professionally over them having their picture taken with someone you don’t like.
And anyone can marry a person of the opposite sex
Wrong answer again, Carl; as that link specifically says, you MUST be of sound mind.
And again, what would you call someone who set out to maliciously harm a person professionally and personally because that person had their picture taken with someone the other person didn’t like?
Gays like you would be a danger in the military, Carl; you’ve demonstrated that you will stop at nothing, absolutely nothing, to harm another person over the most trivial things, and you expect us to give you a rifle and hand grenades? You’d be fragging other soldiers for going to a Republican political rally.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — March 12, 2007 @ 1:34 pm - March 12, 2007
Sounds like ol’ Carl is a typical liberal bigot to me. Apparently he’s of the understanding that to be gay is to be better than straight. Sort of like the people who are decrying the “straightening” of the Castro in SF.
Tell me Carl - do you use the word “breeder” and if so, why?
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 12, 2007 @ 3:30 pm - March 12, 2007
-When was Same-Sex marrage established-
Massachusetts.
-No, they are not; they still will gladly turn down people with a history of psychotic behavior,-
Wow. So they will take anyone as long as they aren’t psychotic? That’s reassuring.
-And again, what would you call someone who set out to maliciously harm a person professionally and personally-
Pointing out that Matt Sanchez made gay porn for years was not “malicious”. That was his life, and the choices he made. I would say “malicious” is more like what happened in New Hampshire recently, where a Republican made a claim that a gay man who was about to become the head of the state Democratic Party had once possessed child pornography. The attorney general (also a Republican) said that was absolutely no proof of this claim, and exonerated the Democrat, but now this man is always going to be suspected of having child porn.
-Tell me Carl - do you use the word “breeder”-
No. My question is why do you use it? The fact that you have nothing more to say about the matter, and instead need to try to put down gay people (oh, they must think they’re better than straights), suggests you don’t have much to say about Sanchez at this point. No wonder.
Comment by Carl — March 12, 2007 @ 9:13 pm - March 12, 2007
Carl, I have never used the words “breeder,” “nigger,” “kike,” or other epithets like that. The only one I have used is “bitch” for obvious reasons. Which I have used successfully for both women and men - mostly gay men.
That being said, I figured someone as mean-spirited and as superficial as you would enjoy employing an epithet to those with whom you fear and loathe. So go enjoy your mean little existence and stew in your own self-pity and hate.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 13, 2007 @ 10:20 am - March 13, 2007
About Matt Sanchez and Redemption…
Many of Scott Beauchamp?s (and TNR?s) defenders are attempting to discredit Matt Sanchez?s reports by using his pre-Marine past against him and that past is a doozy: Sanchez admitted months ago that he used to be a gay porn star….
Trackback by baldilocks — August 3, 2007 @ 6:59 pm - August 3, 2007
Mr. Sanchez should be commended for his service in Iraq, as should any other veteran. His opinions as a student and a soldier are just that, opinions. His past is his own but is unfortunately shared with a sub culture that he professes to understand just enough to bash. His participation in this culture far exceeds the daydreams and reality of most peoples straight or gay. Forgiveness, acceptance and understanding are all commendable virtues but are too often dispensed only on those we are partial to or have interest in. This new poster boy for the war and the right wing has already done some posters. And some videos. The forgiveness and acceptance of this man by the right is truly a beacon of hope for us all. That we can hope to look past ones tainted past and vulgar appetites and come together as Americans. To go beyond forgiving our differences but learning to accept and perhaps even respect them. War is metaphorically described as something we must engage in to hold on to the things we love. I have never met a porn star. I’ve never even met a prostitute. I certainly have never been photographed with one. But if all these far right figures can put their arms around one, stand up for him and do it all in the name of war, freedom of speech and forgiveness, maybe there is a middle ground for the left and the right wing to live in and be proud of, right here in this country we all share.
Comment by David Dorcich — September 29, 2007 @ 6:12 pm - September 29, 2007