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Saturday, July 27. 2013

New York Times: Anthony Weiner Unqualified to be Mayor of New York, Qualified to be President of the United States

There are deep subtleties in the sexual peccadillo qualifications for public service. It's difficult to keep track of the changing rules. I think gay peccadillos are OK now, but it's difficult to be certain anymore. I think it all depends on R or D, or where you fall on the D spectrum.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 19:06 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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NYT, untrustworthy in print.

#1 Sam L. on 2013-07-27 20:32 (Reply)

The NYT is clearly anti-het. If Tony Weiner and Bill Clinton had been photographed brushing each other's teeth Weiner would have a straight shot at the office.

#2 vanderleun on 2013-07-27 23:52 (Reply)

"Bonfire of the Fanny-Tease"

(apologies Tom Wolfe, and decent people everywhere, groan)

#3 buddy larsen on 2013-07-28 10:08 (Reply)

Examples of this sort of hypocrisy abound. One I think that was at least as egregious was when Mark Foley was caught sending suggestive emails to underage male pages in September 2006. The Demoncrats had a field day with that!

But the SAME Demoncrats who excoriated Foley in particular and Republicans in general lavished praise on ex Massachusetts congressman Gary Studds at his funeral in October 2006. You may remember that Studds was openly gay and censured for actually having sex with an underage male page (he was re-elected six more times after he was censured).

My my... What a difference a month (was it even a month?) makes... Or is it that Studds actually did what Foley only suggested? Or is it because Studds was openly gay?

Or is it because Demoncrat hypocrisy knows no bounds?

#4 mudbug on 2013-07-28 13:03 (Reply)

Foley was probably a plant. And he changed history --vis the 2006 midterms he delivered to the Dems, he may have brought down the USA --jury's still out on that.

#4.1 buddy larsen on 2013-07-28 14:48 (Reply)

If you are right (and it wouldn't surprise me), that just ratchets up the hypocrisy quotient on Demoncrats.

Brought down the USA... Let's say accelerated it. The American Experiment has been sliding downhill for a long time but it is sliding much faster now!

#4.1.1 mudbug on 2013-07-28 21:03 (Reply)

Today's news that 4 out of 5 Americans face poverty, living on welfare or prolonged unemployment is certainly sobering, but I doubt the light bulb will go on for people that this economic destruction has occurred since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, and then the presidency in 2008.

#4.1.2 Jim on 2013-07-29 03:51 (Reply)

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