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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Look, We're Being Non-Partisan!

Apparently Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is having trouble gaining the all-important wingnut vote (except for the J-Lo K-Lo vote, of course), largely because he isn’t sufficiently anti-gay.

Renew America (you know, the web site headed by noted wingnut Alan Keyes, the guy who disowned his gay daughter) pointed us to a press release from the virulently anti-gay group “Americans for Truth” (“a Group Devoted Solely to Countering ‘Gay’ Movement”) which demands that Romney’s web site retract a factual article about super wingnut Brian Camenker, head of Article 8 Alliance. (Yes, the same Article 8 Alliance that was savagely harassed by a dust message left on a table by a gang of roving gay activists). Anyway, here’s part of the American’s for Truth and Against Butt Sex’s press release:
Americans For Truth President Peter LaBarbera expressed dismay at former Republican Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s public attack against Brian Camenker, the head of Mass Resistance and “an American hero in the fight against the radical homosexual agenda.”
In a web posting by Romney’s presidential exploratory committee, ominously entitled, “Meet the Real Brian Camenker,”
It’s ominous because it says “real” in the headline, and reality is scary!
Romney uses liberal media stories to portray Camenker as an extremist troublemaker.
Which is very wrong of Romney, because he failed to mention that Camenker is also a noted nut case.
Camenker is widely respected among pro-family advocates nationwide for his untiring efforts to expose pro-homosexual indoctrination of public school students.
Which tells you all you probably need to know about pro-family advocates nationwide.
Romney is desperately trying to discredit Camenker’s publication of the “Mitt Romney Deception,” detailing the Republican politician’s past liberal record.
Well, I imagine that the web site posting was actually written by some low-level staff person who is young and naive enough to feel that he or she needs to respond to charges made on third-tier wingnut sites, but if it makes Brian and the Americans Against Truth feel important to believe that Romney is actively plotting against them, then who am I to destroy their cherished fantasy?

But hey, let’s skip to Romney’s most dastardly defamation of Brian:
Romney’s release even uses a clip from Comedy Central’s pro-homosexual “Daily Show,” notorious for its attempts to make social conservatives look like rubes and wackos, in a crude attempt to disparage Camenker. (The Daily Show tricked Camenker in one of its “ambush interviews,” to mock him and opponents of “gay marriage.”)
Um, yeah, since “The Daily Show” is known to be pro-homosexual, and is notorious for its attempts to make social conservatives look stupid, then you can see why Brian would be eager to be interviewed by them, and would fail to realize that his interviewer was not being entirely serious when he asked Brian if gay marriage had caused a spike in the rate of homelessness or a decline in the air quality in Massachusetts.
“Brian Camenker is a bona fide American pro-family hero,” LaBarbera said. “Brian, who is Jewish, has refused to sell out his religious beliefs like so many around him in Boston. Now comes along a politician — who once boasted that he was better than Ted Kennedy on ‘gay’ issues — to trash him as an extremist gadfly. This is establishment Republican attack-politics at its very worst.
Well, it was actually the Associated Press who called Brian a “conservative gadfly” – which was a mistake on their part, because the truth of the matter is that Brian is a “far-right wacko.”
“Romney’s use of a deceptive Daily Show set-up interview to smear a pro-family warrior like Brian says much more about Romney than it does about Camenker,” LaBarbera said.
Yes, linking to an actual clip from “The Daily Show” was very deceptive on Romney’s part, and I hope it opens people’s eyes to just what a snake he is –the kind who watched hip TV shows!
He urged Romney to retract the anti-Camenker web posting and apologize to the pro-family advocate, noting that Camenker has done nothing wrong in “reminding the American public that Romney has flip-flopped from being a very committed pro-abortion and pro-homosexual-activist politician.”
While Mitt has done everything wrong by reminding the American public that Brian made a fool of himself on Comedy Central.

But, as much as it pains me to do it, I have to offer Romney some valuable political advice. I note that his web site includes this accusation against Brian:
Camenker Admits He Used To Be “A Social Liberal.” “For much of my life I thought of myself as a social liberal. I voted for John Anderson for president and Michael Dukakis for governor.” (Brian Camenker, “How A Good Jewish Boy Joined The ‘Religious Right’,” The Jewish Advocate, 12/25/96)
True enough, but what you should be saying, Mitt, is that Brian wasn’t just a “social liberal,” he was a dedicated Marxist who read Mao’ Little Red Book in the original Chinese ! And he also used to frequent gay bars!
Here’s part of what Brian told the Boston Globe in July 2000:
[Carmenker] was once so enamored of Marxism that he studied Chinese so he could read an original edition of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.
[…]
But the experience that spurred Camenker’s current crusade was yet to come. While working as a computer consultant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1980s, Camenker says, he became friends with a group of gay men.  He said that they ”hung around constantly,” often going together to gay clubs on Cambridge Street.
So, who’s the real flip-flopper, Mr. Peter LaBarbera of Americans For No Gay Cooties?

And Mitt, call me if you want to hire me to do opposition research on your wingnut foes. I’ll work for cat food.

Posted by s.z. on Saturday, January 20th, 2007 at 3:36 am.
 
17 responses to "Look, We're Being Non-Partisan!"
 
“Daily Show,” notorious for its attempts to make social conservatives look like rubes and wackos
They appear to be already well served on that front, actually. It also makes you look like morons, though, that you accepted an invitation to discuss your cause with The Daily Show without, um, knowing what it is they do, which is make fun of just about everyone.
But, really, let’s see if I understand this. Americans For Truthiness kicked off this mess by an unprovoked bunch of lies about Mitt, who, conservative dumbass or no, was minding his own business, at least on this front. And now they’re upset that his campaign has retaliated with an article of provoked truths about them? Good Lord, when will the brutality cease?
And since the Romney article appears to consist almost entirely of direct quotes from, and statements made in public by and about, Mr Camenker, it seems pretty defensible against any legal action except, perhaps, a copyright SLAPP. And I’m not sure why they’re bothering, really, since this is the sort of thing that cuts into Mr LaBarbera’s “research” time in gay bathhouses.
So, how long before we read about Mr. Camenker’s torrid relationship with his gay escort drug dealer? He seems to fit the closeted-gay-wingnut profile pretty well…
S.Z., just please promise me that you were KIDDING about offering to help out that douchebag Romney in any way, fashion or insinuation.
I know, I know, it’s the less-moronic of two evils, but STILL — it’s MITT ROMNEY. Or is it Wilbur Romney? At any rate — don’t even joke like that, it makes my heart stop at very inconvenient times.
Romeny, Hillary, Barack, Jeb, LIEberman, it does not matter. Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between” Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like “America Deceived’ from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason. Look at the bright side, when we have to vote the Democrats out, we’ll have no choice but to vote for a Third Party.
Support indy media.
Last link (before Google Books bends to gov’t Will and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0
You know, it’s getting close to the point where I’ll write a nice, polite letter to G00gle B00ks asking them to please, pleas not carry “America Deceived” any more. I tell ya, it’ll take about, oh, I dunno, one more mention about it in any way, shape, or form to do it. And, I really, really mean this. If you’re attempting to do a sales job on that “book,” you’re really doing pretty much the opposite.
Why would the government ban a book from one particular distributor? That’s like locking the door but leaving all the windows open.
Is this what it looks like when a book is banned from amazon? Those evil bastards.
Are you sure you meant J-Lo? Possible typo, but hey, if he’s got the goods….
“Brian, who is Jewish, has refused to sell out his religious beliefs like so many around him in Boston.
Is Boston a particular hotbed of Jewish belief mongering? Has Smilin’ Shmuley Boteach been popping down weekends and luring away the devout with promises of shapely Lady Rabbis and on-demand marital butt sex? How, exactly, does a Jew “sell out” his religious beliefs, there being at least twenty-three centuries of diverse intellectual traditions to choose from? All I can think of off-hand is endorsing a chain of BBQ pits or, more to the point here, allying oneself with a bunch of bigoted backwoods snakehandlers out of political pique.
On the other hand, I can imagine how Peter Labarbera might project the claim of steadfastness in the face of a mass rejection of faith in Beantown, since many thousands in that locality only recently learned their archdiocese was in fact a front for an illegal mushroom farming operation.
Yeah, I dunno, Marq. I’d settle for not saying “final link” unless it’s the last time I have to see it.
Camenker and the Holy Bigots scored a strikeback in da Cultcha War by jihading Macy’s into removing gay mannequins from their “tolerance” themed pre-Christmas store window display.
T’was a great victory for heterosexuality though I must confess that I’ve wondered if those mannequins are now tied up buck nekked in the Camenker basement.
I’d bet cash money on it, TF-MA.
(Y’know, if I had any.)
I’d bet they’re tied up because he’s worried they’ll escape otherwise.
He used to frequent gay bars?! I think we have another Ted Haggard on our hands. It seems to me any of these men who are overly focused on what gay people are doing must have a reason that they do not share with others. The bottom line on equality is that it is everyone’s right, and if one person is going to accuse another of harm, they have to prove it. If anyone has not seen the interview that is referred to that aired on Comedy Central’s Daily show, check it out on YouTube.com.
(”a Group Devoted Solely to Countering ‘Gay’ Movement”)
So was Bob Fosse, but he didn’t get any further than these cretins and he worked from the inside out…
I gotta admit, I hope that Brian succeeds in discrediting Mitt with the religious right. Romney was an absolutely appalling governor, and he’ll make an even worse preznit.
Isn’t that often the case with the Rs? If they;re a crappy Governor, with the smallish toys that state government allots them, LOOK OUT if they’re elected preznit and get the mega-huge toys that national government provides. That’s a way easier call to make than whether a Senator or a Representative is good or bad, since Congress Critters can only do a limited amount of damage on an individual basis. And, yes, I am keeping “earmarks” in mind.

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