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From the National Review
Oct. 5th, 2008 04:01 amDon't ask me why I keep reading the Corner on the National Review, a collection of conservative bloggers. Humor, perhaps. But sometimes the humor turns ugly:
Suppose, just suppose, that somehow Barney Frank and his partner really are to blame for the entire mess. (Bill O'Reilly certainly thought so: "You still went out in July and said everything was great. And off that, a lot of people bought stock and lost everything they had"—i.e., investors just hang on Frank's every word.) Even if that's true: introducing the fact, and the Fox story, by talking about a "gay mafia" being in charge is just...despicable. Cut that first paragraph, and you've got a statement that Barney Frank and his sex life are responsible for the collapse of the economy; with it, you've got a statement that Barney Frank and his gay sex life are responsible. It's...words fail me.
Incidentally, the Corner does make clear that things are much better in heterosexualland:
The other day I was lunching with an actress pal in London and she started going on about the "gay mafia" allegedly in control of "Doctor Who" at the BBC. And I involuntarily rolled my eyes, because showbiz types are always going on about this or that field of endeavor being sewn up by some gay clique.followed by a fair and balanced article from FoxNews abot how it's all the fault of Frank's partner Herb Moses. (Disclosure: before correcting the typo, I wrote "fairy and balanced". How much better would Fox be if its news reporting were fairy and balanced?)
But I must say this is impressive: Last week in this space, I made a jocular reference to a global economy "so vulnerable that only the stalwart action of Barney Frank stands between it and ten years of soup kitchens". I tittered too soon. It turns out the entire planetary meltdown is due to Congressman Frank's sex life:
Suppose, just suppose, that somehow Barney Frank and his partner really are to blame for the entire mess. (Bill O'Reilly certainly thought so: "You still went out in July and said everything was great. And off that, a lot of people bought stock and lost everything they had"—i.e., investors just hang on Frank's every word.) Even if that's true: introducing the fact, and the Fox story, by talking about a "gay mafia" being in charge is just...despicable. Cut that first paragraph, and you've got a statement that Barney Frank and his sex life are responsible for the collapse of the economy; with it, you've got a statement that Barney Frank and his gay sex life are responsible. It's...words fail me.
Incidentally, the Corner does make clear that things are much better in heterosexualland:
I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.