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Rogers Tried To Blackmail Senator On Alito Vote

More of the gay activist Mike Rogers' handiwork, from the time of the Senate vote on Alito.

From his site, BlogActive:

Michael Rogers

Mister Senator…

Monday, January 30, 2006

This post will be read by thousands and thousands of people… It's directed at ONE person.

Mr. Senator:

Tomorrow you will be faced with a vote that may have the longest aftereffects of any other you have cast in your Senate career.

Tomorrow you will decide if your political position is worth more than doing what is right for others like you. For others like you, Mr. Senator, who engage in oral sex with other men. (Although, Mr. Senator, most of us don't do in the bathrooms of Union Station!) Your fake marriage, by the way, will NOT protect you from the truth being told on this blog.

How does this blog decide who to report on? It's simple. We report on hypocrites. In this case, hypocrites who vote against the gay and lesbian community while engaging in gay sex themselves*.

When you cast that vote, Mr. Senator, represent your own…it's the least you could do.

Michael Rogers
blogACTIVE.com

* While votes on many matters are considered, votes "FOR" either the Alito nomination and the Federal Marriage Amendment are enough to qualify legislators for reporting on this site.

Ladies and Gentlemen…. if they want a cultural war, I'll give them a fucking cultural war. Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy 2006.

UPDATE: Some of you have asked if he will be outed tomorrow. No. The blog will report on this closeted Republican Senator between tomorrow and a time when it may most impact the reelection effort of the Senator. Just because the Democratic establishment has given up the fight for our Nation, doesn't mean this site will…

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Notice the spike in traffic this got Rogers’ site then, and how it tracks with the spike he is getting now — probably from the same circle of linkers:

And as we know, Mr. Rogers is claiming that Foley is not the end. That others will follow.

This is how the Democrats work — through blackmail and intimidation. Just like their heroes the terrorists.

They are nothing short of political assassins.

  Update!

Some more on our hero’s brilliant career as a gay Democrat "activist."

From Page One News Media:

Michael Rogers

blogACTIVE.com
PageOneQ.com
PageOneEarth.com

Michael Rogers is the Publisher of blogACTIVE– the web site that reports on hypocrites in the government who work against the interests of the gay and lesbian community. Via Page One News Media, Rogers operates PageOneQ — a lesbian and gay news site — and PageOneEarth, an environmental news service debuting in early 2007.

Rogers’ work exposing hypocrites in positions of political power has earned him national recognition. Prior to his current work, he was a fundraiser and non-profit executive for a variety of progressive causes.

Rogers’ fundraising career began in 1988 when he joined the staff of Communicating The Future, the capital campaign of a four-station public broadcasting association. At the station, he worked with the station’s programming department to launch a five-night lesbian and gay television film series in celebration of gay pride month, the city’s first.

Rogers then served as the first Development Coordinator at New York’s Hetrick-Martin Institute and Harvey Milk School, a social service agency and high school for lesbian and gay adolescents. While there, Rogers developed the agency’s first major gifts program, managed two major motion picture premiere events, launched a direct mail acquisition program, expanded the agency’s annual awards program and wrote the organization’s first corporate solicitation grants.

From 1992 to 1996, Rogers managed the development and fundraising programs at the Funding Exchange, a national network of fifteen community-based foundations supporting social change. Rogers coordinated fundraising for the foundation’s general operations, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, OUT Fund for Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Saguaro Fund.

In 1996, Rogers moved to Washington DC to become Director of Development at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the nation’s oldest lesbian and gay civil rights organization. In addition to his work at the Task Force, Rogers directed marketing, fundraising and corporate sponsorship for Gala Choruses Festival 2000, an eight-day convention of 5,500 singers, representing over 200 lesbian and gay choruses from around the world.

Rogers also served on the staff of Greenpeace, the international environmental action organization as the Senior Manager of Major Gifts, where he managed the group’s portfolio of donors at the $5,000 and above level.

In addition to managing BlogACTIVE.com and PageOneQ.com, Rogers is heading the effort to create a association serving lesbian and gay fundraising and development professionals, The National Association of Lesbian and Gay Fundraisers. The association will provide training, scholarship and education programs.

Concurrent with his career positions, Rogers has been an activist since the mid-1980’s when he was involved in campaigns supporting divestiture from South Africa as a tactic to help bring about the end of Apartheid. Following relocation to New York City, Rogers was an acive member of ACT-UP, Queer Nation and Lambda Independent Democrats, a lesbian and gay political group.

In Washington, Rogers has continued his activism, including his mounting a succesful effort against McDonald’s when the multinational tried to displace workers. Rogers has also been a neighborhood activist and tenant organizer.

Rogers has been appeared on CNN’s NewsNight, Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, National Public Radio, at New York University, and on numerous other television and radio programs. Rogers’ work has been reported on in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune; he was profiled in GQ Magazine. Rogers was named as one of Genre Magazine’s Men We Love.

One wonders how these organizations with which Rogers is or has been affiliated feel about his blackmailing tactics?

Did they make him resign? And, if not, shouldn’t their leadership be made to resign?

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34 Responses to “Rogers Tried To Blackmail Senator On Alito Vote”

  1. 1sttofight
    October 4th, 2006 at 1:33 pm

    I am not a lawyer but I have spent some time in a Holiday Inn.

    This sure appears to me to be Blackmail.

  2. robinboyd
    October 4th, 2006 at 2:00 pm

    Certainly there has to be some type of law against blackmailing a member of Congress for their vote. BTW keep your eyes on Internet “news” on Charlie Crist - he’s next on Rogers’ list.

  3. wirenut
    October 4th, 2006 at 3:04 pm

    Certainly there has to be some type of law against blackmailing a member of Congress for their vote.

    I’m sure there are , and for bribes too.

  4. wardmama4
    October 4th, 2006 at 3:16 pm

    Guys you are missing the key point here - if the DNC does not bring these lunatic fringe people under control it will destroy the Dem party. Even though there is some repub damage - in the end it will destroy the DNC. They can’t let their party be run by the anti-war/gay rights activists. They finally learned that the feminazis and their abortion uber alles platform sent them into land even the liberals didn’t like and couldn’t defend. Then they let the anti-war mouth foamers force a democrat’s democrat out of the party and they will probably lose that Dem seat. Now they are letting this lunatic gay outer/basher run the agenda.

    Can’t win on a platform or ideas so let the lunatic fringe promote their goals? That is the guarenteed fast track to the Dems losing every race but in MA which I believe they’ve figured out a way to not count a single repub or indy vote there.

  5. SG
    October 4th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    An update from the AP:

    Aide says he reported Foley 2 years ago

    By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer

    A senior congressional aide said Wednesday that he alerted House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s office in 2004 about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages — the earliest known alert to the GOP leadership.

    Kirk Fordham told The Associated Press that when he was told about Foley’s inappropriate behavior toward pages, he had “more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene.”

    The conversations took place long before the e-mail scandal broke, Fordham said, and at least a year earlier than members of the House GOP leadership have acknowledged.

    Fordham resigned Wednesday as chief of staff to Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-N.Y.

    Fordham spoke to the AP after ABC News quoted unidentified GOP sources as insinuating that he had intervened on behalf of Foley, his former boss, to prevent an inquiry into Foley’s conduct.

    “This is categorically false,” Fordham said. “At no point ever did I ask anyone to block any inquiries into Foley’s actions or behavior.”

    The longtime Capitol Hill aide said he would fully disclose to the FBI and the House ethics committee “any and all meetings and phone calls” regarding Foley’s behavior that he had with senior staffers in the House leadership.

    “The fact is even prior to the existence of the Foley e-mail exchanges I had more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene when I was informed of Mr. Foley’s inappropriate behavior,” Fordham said.

    http://tinyurl.com/rsrnm

    Well, I’m back to thinking that Fordham might have had a hand in this after all.

    This is a very peculiar statement.

  6. 1sttofight
    October 4th, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    Yeah,Yeah, Yeah, When does his book tour start?

  7. rocketman
    October 4th, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    After he has his gig on Oprah’s show :)

  8. groovygrl
    October 4th, 2006 at 4:45 pm

    OK, Senior Staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives….does that automatically mean Hastert? Or does it mean Hastert in the same way Plame’s outing by Armitage means Karl Rove did it?

  9. suek
    October 4th, 2006 at 5:50 pm

    This link at American Thinker is interesting - it’s a concise form of the full article on the Hotline blog, and has a link to the full article if you’re up to it. Worth a read…

    http://tinyurl.com/p8j3o

  10. SG
    October 4th, 2006 at 6:42 pm

    Some hilarity from the AP:

    Democrats Not Charging Ahead

    By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
    Wednesday, October 4, 2006

    (10-04) 14:35 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Usually out front in force, national Democrats expressed outrage over the Mark Foley scandal and its aftermath but largely let their candidates and allied groups do the tough talking.

    Party leaders showed restraint as Republicans beat up each other amid accusations of a less-than-agressive initial response into flirtatious e-mails the GOP congressman sent to teenage male pages.

    “There’s no need for Democrats to drive this,” said James Ruvolo, a former state Democratic Party chairman in Ohio, a state with hard-fought House and Senate races.

    Foley abruptly resigned last week as reports surfaced of sexually explicit instant messages he had written to boys, setting off infighting among House Republicans about whether they did enough to address the tawdry situation.

    The scandal continued to unfold Wednesday when Kirk Fordham resigned as chief of staff to Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., and later disclosed that he told House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s office more than three years ago about worrisome conduct by Foley.

    In the minority, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are known for setting the tone for their rank-and-file by hammering Republicans on the issue of the day, even when Congress is not in session.

    Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean have issued a handful of written statements. The topics: Congress has a moral obligation to protect children, Republican leaders covered up Foley’s behavior and investigations are warranted.

    For the most part, the leaders have avoided commenting publicly. Pelosi, D-Calif., has been the exception. She introduced a resolution on the House floor Friday and has spoken about the scandal when asked at public events on other issues…

    http://tinyurl.com/qws63

    What a joke. The Dem leadership has called for everyone in the GOP to resign, for a special prosecutor to be named and God knows what else.

    What more could they have done? Started lynching people?

  11. rocketman
    October 4th, 2006 at 7:18 pm

    “What more could they have done? Start lynching people? ”

    Well SG, that seems to be the view of a number of folks on the site. The mantra has been “he’s guilty, he’s guilty - throw him in jail”. Most here and on other blog pages I visit agree that this is a demo hit job. Unfortunately it seems to be working because everyone is so hung up on this creep Foley. He is history. He resigned. Folks need to get over it and wake up to what is actually happening.

    /rant

    Sorry friends, I have to close down - am in the middle of one hell of a thunderstorm, with hail…..later

  12. doingwhatican
    October 4th, 2006 at 8:05 pm

    Yawn.

    Broken glass, people.

    Broken glass.

  13. Chickenhawk Express
    October 4th, 2006 at 8:43 pm

    FoleyGate and the Gay Fatwah Link O’Rama…

    Rather than rehash the points and facts uncovered by my friends around the blogosphere, I’m gonna do what I did earlier this week and list some of the hot links. We’ve got breaking news, the name of one of Foley’s IM partners, Harry Reid’s use of F…

  14. SG
    October 4th, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    Here’s yet another example of Mr. Rogers’ noble efforts, from Raw Story (where he is or used to be an editor):

    GQ Magazine inks major spread on gay Republicans

    Sat Mar 19, 2005 15:53
    By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor

    http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=189

    GQ Magazine details the outing campaign of gay blogger Mike Rogers (also editor of RawStoryQ) in a 3,100 word spread in this month’s issue, now on newsstands in New York and Los Angeles, RAW STORY has learned.

    The piece, which includes a first-ever denial that the chairman of the Republican National Committee Ken Mehlman is gay–a fact contested by many reporters and others close to the Mehlman himself–is sure to spark a new firestorm of debate over whether outing those who oppose gay civil rights is appropriate.

    Included in the piece are fresh new hints about Rogers’ future outing campaigns, such as a senator who had an indiscreet encounter in a Union Station men’s room. These are also accompanied by a fresh attack on Rogers’ approach.

    “Ken Mehlman is not gay,” Steve Schmidt, a senior official of the Bush campaign and a friend of Mehlman’s told Jake Tapper, an ABC News correspondent who wrote the piece for the magazine. Schmidt who refers to Rogers as a “bottom dweller.”

    Mehlman has not responded to previous requests for comment on his sexuality from any publication.

    RAW STORY previously reported that during the Republican National Convention in New York, Schmidt intimidated two New York newspapers from printing a story questioning Mehlman’s sexuality. Schmidt also allegedly called the sources that had spoken to Mike Rogers, who had been ready to go on the record about their experiences with the then-Bush-Cheney campaign manager. Mehlman was also outed by a progressive radio talk show host late last year.

    AmericaBLOG’s John Aravosis, who is gay and publicly questioned whether Mehlman might be gay last year, said he was surprised a Bush campaign official would deny Mehlman was gay.

    “If he’s now heterosexual, I’d like to know why he’s single at 38,” Aravosis told RAW STORY. “Because we’ve heard nothing about girlfriends, we’ve heard nothing about marriage, we’ve heard nothing about nothing–and he’s bashing [us] about gay marriage? Because he doesn’t seem like much of a defender of marriage himself.”

    Rogers finds Mehlman’s attack on gay marriage ludicrous.

    “How can we amend the constitution to protect marriage from single, heterosexual men like Ken Mehlman who decide never to marry?” he remarked to RAW STORY Thursday. “Isn’t Ken Mehlman as much a threat to heterosexual marriage as I am?

    “With all those eligible, beautiful Republican activist women at his beck and call,” he added, “you would think one would have been handsome enough for that Harvard-education, handsome lawyer.”

    Republicans in Congress appear as ghosts in the piece saying they won’t fire staffers who are outed as gay. Rogers began his campaign outing some staff members of prominent congressmen who voted against gay rights.

    “One person related to me a story of Republican congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois joking that if he ever ran into Rogers, he’d punch him in the nose,” Tapper writes. “Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina reportedly told her staff they had nothing to worry about, should any of them be outed. With the exception of Senator Inhofe parsing between his personal and committee staffs, no one has said anything to distance himself or herself from a gay staffer Rogers has targeted.”

    Inhofe, senator from Oklahoma, has said he would hire gays for his committee staff in Washington but not at his district office.

    Barney Frank, a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, comes to Rogers defense. Frank is one of three openly gay members of Congress.

    “There still is this official doctrine that we’re immoral,” Frank told Tapper for the piece. “But the Republican attitude is that they have now moved to the point where they accept the fact that you’re gay as long as you act somewhat embarrassed about it.”

    One staffer tells Tapper a fact known inside the beltway but not widely reported–that some members of Congress posture as being more anti-gay than they actually are to please constituents.

    “We’re a representative democracy,” the staffer told GQ. “And while members may not have personal problems with having gay staff, they vote the way their constituents want them to.”

    Tapper also interviews Daniel Gurley, former National Field Director for the Republican National Committee, who acknowledged to RAW STORY and Rogers that he was gay in a phone interview last year. Gurley blames liberals

    for a mailer he sent to Southern states that said liberals would ban the bible and allow gay marriage.

    “I would rather it not have been done,” Gurley told GQ. “But if the left had pursued civil unions as a positive affirmation of legitimate gay relations as opposed to calling it marriage, it’s highly unlikely a mailing like that would have existed.”

    A gay staffer also weighed jocularly into the article, saying that the number of gay Republicans in Congress is not small.

    “There’s clearly a gay Republican mafia,” one gay staffer whom Rogers has targeted told Tapper. “There’s one in every office.”
    63 Comments »

    The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/wp-trackback.php/189

    http://www.apfn.net/Messageboa.....i.150.html

    The original of this appears to have been disappeared from the Raw Story site.

  15. DW
    October 4th, 2006 at 9:07 pm

    Granted, as a right-wing conservative I am automatically: judgemental, morally superior, devoid of compassion or empathy and really not a very good dancer, but I am getting seriously tired of people like this @sshole. Maybe it’s because homosexuals are threatening their way into legitimacy in my country -and I really don’t take well to being threatened, but I can’t help but think that people like this do more to promote gay-bashing than any anti-gay extremist groups ever could. How the hell after all this nonsense are any reasonable people supposed to think that homosexuals have any place in positions of responsibility?
    This individual needs a good beating. Repeat as required.
    There -now I feel better. I await the judgement of those who would bash me for being too judgemental.
    (or a drive-by slapping. whatever…)

  16. robinboyd
    October 4th, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    DW - No bashing from me! I second your emotion!

  17. esthier
    October 4th, 2006 at 9:49 pm

    I’m sure you’re right, DW. The Phelps make themselves look ignorant and ugly and make homosexuals appear as practically martyrs.

    But with Foley, you’ve got people claiming now that just because congressmen knew he was homosexual that for that reason alone they should have been suspicious when he asked how a former page had handled Katrina and if he would send a picture of himself.

  18. DW
    October 4th, 2006 at 10:24 pm

    Thanks rb.
    esthier, the thing is, everything that involves anyone who is homosexual always seems to turn into such a complete clusterf*ck -why should we be putting up with this?
    Never mind the horrendous effects (IMHO) that homosexuals have on society (sorry, I refuse to use the word “gay”) but they don’t seem to be able to manage a seat in congress, the senate, hell -the local 7-11- without turning it into a huge controversy. Let them get their sh*t together, then come and see us about being taken seriously.
    (I realize that you and I are likely in complete agreement on this esthier -this is a huge battle happening up here -one that conservatives are losing bit by bit- so I kinda need to rant. Bear with me….and I was having such a nice day out in the forest today, on my camera hunt -not worrying about all this crap…sigh)

  19. robinboyd
    October 4th, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    You guys need to check out these posts over at FreeRepublic. Seems a FReeper had dealings with this Edmunds fella that is one of the IM messengers. Not a nice guy. Also had this little tidbit - as a page he was sponsored by Duke Cunningham… HMMMM

    http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....p;page=201
    esp posts 223 and 390

  20. SG
    October 4th, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    An update from Mr. Rogers:

    Please Help…

    Wednesday, October 04, 2006

    As you can imagine, I am overwhelmed. Sean Hannity used me as a punching bag all afternoon, World Net Daily and Free Republic have posted articles full of lies.

    Here’s the truth: I never withheld anything. They are desperate for someone to attack. I say you’ve attacked my community for years!! All I can add on that front is BRING IT ON!!!!

    I’ll be on Nancy Grace of an hour tonight on CNN letting those that hate gays know we are not going to take it any more.

    Please help me with this effort. We have five weeks to save our nation from these right wing homophobes in the closet — and there are more in Congress!

    Sit tight… this is just lovely to watch from atop my Washington apartment building.

    http://www.blogactive.com/

    Gosh, that was quick slide from vaunting to victimhood, wasn’t it?

    And he doesn’t even know where it’s coming from. (LOL)

  21. SG
    October 4th, 2006 at 11:16 pm

    “Here’s the truth: I never withheld anything.”

    “UPDATE: Some of you have asked if he will be outed tomorrow. No. The blog will report on this closeted Republican Senator between tomorrow and a time when it may most impact the reelection effort of the Senator.”

    He’s a bit of a liar, isn’t he?

  22. BillK
    October 5th, 2006 at 1:52 am

    Those who say that the Democratic party will be destroyed if they don’t bring the fringe under control are the very definition of naïve.

    The moveon.org crowd, as well as people like Michaels Rogers and Moore, ARE the modern Democratic party, and damn proud of it.

    While Republicans continue to play by rules and by a sense of decorum, fact is the new Dems know what works and their friends in the MSM will gamely play along.

    In many ways, there are more similarities than differences between the new Democrats and terrorists. They know they are right and will destroy their opponents using whatever methods they have to, no matter who or what may be harmed as collateral damage. Even those who profess to have a conscience ignore the methods if the results are those they desire.

    It’s like fighting by “rules of war” against guerilla fighters; we either have to adapt our strategies or just give up now.

    Given how we’ve been prosecuting the war in Iraq, I don’t have any faith that Republicans willl fare any better in the world of politics.

    The lynch pin of the Democrats’ success will be Republicans’ willingness to live by a moral code. We’ve seen time and time again where mere charges will bring a Republican resignation, where actual convictions don’t make Democrats blink (and as seen in Washington D.C., will do NOTHING to deter their future political careers.)

  23. navycopjoe
    October 5th, 2006 at 2:37 am

    ‘The moveon.org crowd, as well as people like Michaels Rogers and Moore, ARE the modern Democratic party, and damn proud of it.’
    This is pure crap. As the resident board democrat, I find it insulting that you feel that we are too blind not to see that these idiots are tools that are just out there for the money. The thing that is killing my party is that the national leadership is composed of ultra libs left over from the carter era. My party is screwing up in huge ways but the is a conservative base up and coming but alas, as they come in and the senate and house get taken over by dems, NOTHING WILL GET DONE. Then we as a country lose.

  24. esthier
    October 5th, 2006 at 9:06 am

    sorry, I refuse to use the word “gay”

    I don’t blame you on that one. The word has been hijacked, that and the rainbow.

    And don’t worry, rant away. I sure did yesterday.

    I’ve noticed the same about the controversies as well. When I was younger it seemed like there was always something in the news about homosexuality, how it seemed that they kept wanting exceptions to be made for them.

    It bothered me to the point where I misunderstood a sign I had read and told my mother, “Great! So now they get their own milk?”

    My mom looked at the sign I had read and said, “No, dear, that’s homogenized milk.”

  25. esthier
    October 5th, 2006 at 9:22 am

    Speaking of the whole scandal, Coulter’s column is out today. WHO KNEW CONGRESSMAN FOLEY WAS A CLOSETED DEMOCRAT?

  26. esthier
    October 5th, 2006 at 10:49 am

    Any chance Rogers moved to Royal Oak, Michigan?

    Look at comment #24

    A possible clue to the StopSexPredators’s IP address

    Domain Name wideopenwest.com? (Commercial)
    IP Address 69.14.20.# (WIDEOPENWEST)
    ISP WIDEOPENWEST
    Location
    Continent: North America
    Country : United States (Facts)
    State : Michigan
    City : Royal Oak
    Lat/Long : 42.5055, -83.1526 (Map)
    Language English (United States)

    You’re thinking sounds solid, SG. Considering some are saying Foley had the nickname of FFF, it would stand to reason that Rogers knew his secret.

  27. SG
    October 5th, 2006 at 11:59 am

    The site stopsexpredators.blogspot.com is just a freebie Google blog. So any trace on them will just get you to Google servers.

  28. esthier
    October 5th, 2006 at 12:16 pm

    Oh, I thought (though will never claim to have any knowledge on the subject) that IP addresses can be used to track the person on their particular computer.

    Is it impossible to do that when going through another site?

    The only thing I really understand is that my husband and I cannot play poker at the same online table since we’ve both used the same computer for each of our accounts, so it understands that those accounts at least know each other.

    But it’s possible we won’t be able to play poker at all anymore online unless Bush changes his mind.

    Eh, Oklahoma is only an hour away.

  29. SG
    October 5th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    Sorry Esthier, I just skimmed the LGF post. I see what you (and the poster) are saying.

    They traced somebody’s IP from their site, who they thought might be behind the SSP site.

    I guess it’s possible. But I still think it is Mark Rogers, and he lives in DC.

  30. SG
    October 5th, 2006 at 12:42 pm

    “sorry, I refuse to use the word “gay””

    You know this was famously the position of the (believe it or not somewhat conservative) editor of the New York Times, Abe Rosenthal.

    He refused to allow the word “gay” to be used for “homosexual” in The Times.

    He was hated by The Times (mostly gay) staff and eventually booted out for this crime against humanity.

    If you do a search for the word “gay” just on The Times’ online site you will now get 604,000 hits:

    gay site:nytimes.com - Google Search
    http://tinyurl.com/jhmne

    That is progress!

  31. SG
    October 5th, 2006 at 1:07 pm

    Lest we forget, Mike Rogers fortold all in this March 2005 post on his BlogActive site:

    Mark Foley: Another closeted anti-gay GOPer

    Tuesday, March 22, 2005

    blogACTIVE.com has confirmed with three separate sources that, in fact, US Rep. Mark Foley is a gay man. Foley has voted to support discrimination against gay men and lesbians on more than one occasion.

    In addition to the hypocrisy of Foley’s vote for the Defense of Marriage Act, Foley also refuses to acknowledge the role his being in the closet played in his lack of support for his run for the US Senate. Equating being gay with some disgusting secret, Foley said it was ‘repulsive’ to talk about sexual oritentation.

    A source has confirmed with blogACTIVE.com that Foley lives a practically an out life at his Florida residence, often seen entertaining gay men, some of whom the source described as “close to underage.”

    “Well entertaining men does not make someone gay,” I said. “Mike, please, I lived across from his house, I watch his parties, he’s gay, gay, gay.” Since I know the source and his work in the community quite well, I am going to give him full faith.

    Another source has told me about his being approached on two occasions in what was “definitely an approach in a sexual way,” a 27 year-old man told me. “Once it was at a large poltiical event and once at a party in Florida.”

    I’ve thought hard about what kind of TAKE ACTION would work, but there is really is none right now. Everyone already knows Foley’s a self hating closet case. When we get closer to the mid-term elections, I am sure more will surface.

    http://www.blogactive.com/2005.....i-gay.html

  32. dhimminever
    October 5th, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    kucharsk: Your post of 5 October 0152 said what I have been trying to say to some here for two days.

    There is no morality in war. That’s what makes it so horrible and why it is necessary to end one with all due haste. You made a wonderful transition to how this applies to American politics.

    Well done.

  33. BillK
    October 6th, 2006 at 2:08 am

    navycopjoe, you may BE a Democrat, but as I said, moveon.org, Michael Moore, and the screeching Air America crowd ARE the modern Democratic party. I’ve yet to see anyone at the DNC even give lip service to the notion of decrying their tactics. “The Path to 9/11″ is a horrific lie to the American people, but “Fahrenheit 9/11″ is a solid documentary. It’s “wrong to fictionalize events involving real people,” but the tickets for “Death of a President” showing the assassination of George Bush are already for sale.

    There are many Republicans who feel the party has left them, and many of them are vocal about saying just that (of course to big splashy coverage in the MSM.) But Democrats complaining their party has become too extreme are few and far between.

    I don’t believe that Democrats are necessarily blind to what’s going on, but many are content to remain quiet about what is going on on the assumption that whatever works is fine, no matter how distasteful it may be or how destructive to others or America in general those tactics are.

    Here’s a simple litmus test: find ONE Democratic member of Congress willing to admit that Cindy Sheehan’s perpetual denigration of our troops while overseas is not exactly helpful to our efforts in Iraq.

  34. retire05
    September 4th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    This is all about three things: Mike Rogers’ second 15 minutes of fame, destroying Republicans and cold, hard greenbacks.
    Check out Rogers’ Ebay offering:

    http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpageonenews

    This has nothing to do with hypocracy. It has everything to do with Rogers’ hatred of Republicans and his wanting to make a name for himself through the politics of personal destruction.

    Navyjoecop, I will tell you this: I was a dedicated Democrat from a family that though FDR and Truman could walk on water. Democrats were for the little guy. They were the patriotic bunch who were the flag waving, “Oh, say can you see” singing, heart over hand types. But that party doesn’t exist any more and I can’t stand the current crop of anti-American, Gramsci reading socialists who believe in collectivism more than they believe in their own nation. Maybe you can hang in there with them. I couldn’t.

    The MoveOn, DU, DailyKos bunch are what is now representing your party. You, and true Democrats, are being rapidly pushed to the side. You no longer count. You simply represent the segment that has not been fully indoctrinated. But they will continue to work on you, and if you don’t cave, they will push you out.

    Rogers is a slug. He has always been a slug and remain a slug long after he is in the dirt where he belongs. But he is the voice of the left. If you don’t agree, tell me one Democrat blog that has come out against him.


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