A disturbing event that might have long term implications to American politics happened this week. This week in the White House itself Obama was interviewed by a progressive gay blog that has endorsed and engages in the outing of GOP folks that are gay, bi. or have varying degrees of same sex attraction.
The pattern of the progressive gay left and their repeated breaking of the social contract is now being endorsed more and more.
The action happened this week when Americablog was one of five progressive bloggers invited to the White House. You can read their post on the meeting at Transcript of Q and A with the President about DADT and Same-sex marriage , Joe's report from blogger meeting with President Obama , and Obama meets 5 top progressive bloggers in White House, including Joe Sudbay of AMERICAblog .
Americablog companion blog is AMERICAblog Gay . Both John Aravosis (who runs these blogs) and what appears his deputy Joe Sudbay contribute to both. Joe Sudbay is pictured above.
Now these gay progressive bloggers were very mad at Obama for not delivering to their concerns. This was shown in perhaps a more revealing post than they intended. See here.
Joe and I are upset with Obama, and we, for example, raised nearly $43,000 for the man, According to the White House, our money now doesn’t count. Great, would they like to give it back? I for one, would love the $1000 back that I personally donated to the Obama campaign. Joe gave even more. I suspect a lot of our readers wouldn’t mind their contributions back too, since apparently they’re not appreciated.Then there’s all that work we did for the campaign, all the dirty work they asked us to do – and we did it, gladly, and quietly – none of that counted either, apparently.--Americablog, August 10, 2010.
Well what dirty work is that? Both Sudbay and Arvarosis are part of a group of gay progressive that believe in and have outed of political officials, reporters , and perhaps more shocking GOP Congressional staff. The last is a bit shocking because the unofficial rule in Washington that even in the rough and tumble world of election politics staff is generally off limits.
Now to be fair even among American progressive gays this tactic is controversial and not approved of by all. This is why it appears the WHITE HOUSE itself giving them a voice is so disappointing and significant.
We have recently learned of the tragic episode where a Rutgers student was filmed having gay sex and that incident was filmed and put out to the public. That student killed himself . That was denounced as a hate crime. However what if had been a underpaid, 24 year old GOP staffer that worked for a conservative Senator filmed having some gay liaison. Would that be justified in their view?
The outings of Staff and politicos have been not frequently lately. This is because the DEMS had the White House had ample majorities in both chambers of Congress. That is now likely to change. I suspect the self imposed gatekeepers of what is politically correct of gays in political life will now return to their tactics of blackmail and outing.
That is why the White House meeting is so disappointing. They very could have picked another progressive gay blog to meet with that did not engage in this behavior. They did not. Perhaps as we have seen they had too for their quiet dirty worked they performed.
The White House needs to be asked if they endorse these political tactics now before it we continue to go down a path we will regret. If not then even the opposition to this in the gay political movement might evaporate.
The pattern of the progressive gay left and their repeated breaking of the social contract is now being endorsed more and more.
The action happened this week when Americablog was one of five progressive bloggers invited to the White House. You can read their post on the meeting at Transcript of Q and A with the President about DADT and Same-sex marriage , Joe's report from blogger meeting with President Obama , and Obama meets 5 top progressive bloggers in White House, including Joe Sudbay of AMERICAblog .
Americablog companion blog is AMERICAblog Gay . Both John Aravosis (who runs these blogs) and what appears his deputy Joe Sudbay contribute to both. Joe Sudbay is pictured above.
Now these gay progressive bloggers were very mad at Obama for not delivering to their concerns. This was shown in perhaps a more revealing post than they intended. See here.
Joe and I are upset with Obama, and we, for example, raised nearly $43,000 for the man, According to the White House, our money now doesn’t count. Great, would they like to give it back? I for one, would love the $1000 back that I personally donated to the Obama campaign. Joe gave even more. I suspect a lot of our readers wouldn’t mind their contributions back too, since apparently they’re not appreciated.Then there’s all that work we did for the campaign, all the dirty work they asked us to do – and we did it, gladly, and quietly – none of that counted either, apparently.--Americablog, August 10, 2010.
Well what dirty work is that? Both Sudbay and Arvarosis are part of a group of gay progressive that believe in and have outed of political officials, reporters , and perhaps more shocking GOP Congressional staff. The last is a bit shocking because the unofficial rule in Washington that even in the rough and tumble world of election politics staff is generally off limits.
Now to be fair even among American progressive gays this tactic is controversial and not approved of by all. This is why it appears the WHITE HOUSE itself giving them a voice is so disappointing and significant.
We have recently learned of the tragic episode where a Rutgers student was filmed having gay sex and that incident was filmed and put out to the public. That student killed himself . That was denounced as a hate crime. However what if had been a underpaid, 24 year old GOP staffer that worked for a conservative Senator filmed having some gay liaison. Would that be justified in their view?
The outings of Staff and politicos have been not frequently lately. This is because the DEMS had the White House had ample majorities in both chambers of Congress. That is now likely to change. I suspect the self imposed gatekeepers of what is politically correct of gays in political life will now return to their tactics of blackmail and outing.
That is why the White House meeting is so disappointing. They very could have picked another progressive gay blog to meet with that did not engage in this behavior. They did not. Perhaps as we have seen they had too for their quiet dirty worked they performed.
The White House needs to be asked if they endorse these political tactics now before it we continue to go down a path we will regret. If not then even the opposition to this in the gay political movement might evaporate.
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