Republican Hypocrisy
ABCNEWS.com : Memo Rips GOP Hopeful for 'Lewd' Actions
First it was the Jack Ryan scandal, and now it seems that another "potential Republican candidate for the Senate seat from Illinois" has withdrawn. Something about "'lewd and abusive behavior' while she served as a top official in the White House drug policy office."
ABCNEWS.com : Memo Rips GOP Hopeful for 'Lewd' Actions: "The lewd and abusive behavior finding stemmed from a Dec. 19, 2002, staff gathering. Barthwell made comments about a staff member's sexual orientation after the staff member misspoke in an earlier conversation, the memorandum said.
'Dr. Barthwell made reference to this staff member sitting on men's laps. A kaleidoscope pointed upward was placed on a chair by Dr. Barthwell as the staff member was about to sit down,' it said.
'Dr. Barthwell suggested that the staff member would want to cut the cake available for the gathering because the knife was 'long and hard' and he might 'enjoy handling it.' When the cake was cut, Dr. Barthwell referred to the pieces as 'most' or 'beefy' and she said to the staff member, 'I know you like it big and meaty.''"
You know, ya gotta wonder about the gay bashing covertly endorsed by the Bush administration. There's this Barthwell woman, and then the following from Dennis Miller at a fundraiser for Bush (to keep this in perspective two weeks from now when this is all old news, Dennis said this almost immediately after Whoopi Goldberg got "fired" from a Slim-Fast campaign after make a "Bush" joke at a Dem. Fundraiser. Further proof that Republicans are WIMPS and can't take a damned joke). From the Washington Post:
Speaking of celebrity endorsements: Dennis Miller, a big backer of Bush, was in Green Bay, Wis., yesterday to warm up the crowd before the prez spoke. Miller made a glancing reference to Whoopi but promised, "In deference to George W. Bush, I will try not to fall to depths that some would in this case."
Then he went on to imply a homosexual attraction between Kerry and Edwards.
"Those two cannot keep their hands off each other, can they?" Miller said. "I think I have a new idea for a new campaign slogan -- use the bumper sticker 'Hey, Get A Room.' "
The Post's Dana Milbank also reports that Miller riffed on other noted Dems. "Asking Bill Clinton to write an honest book is like asking Britney Spears to sing a capella," he said.
And he called strategist James Carville "a muppet who accidentally was washed on hot" and a "Satanic Chihuahua under a strobe light" who has "more nervous ticks than a Belfast parking valet."
All in good fun, of course. Bush thanked Miller "for joining us" but made no mention of his warm-up act.
With Anne Schroeder
Now...Republicans are "family values" yet they have affairs and get busted for sexual harassment. They can't take a joke directed at them, but it's OK gay-bait at one of their fundraisers. Hypocrites.
First it was the Jack Ryan scandal, and now it seems that another "potential Republican candidate for the Senate seat from Illinois" has withdrawn. Something about "'lewd and abusive behavior' while she served as a top official in the White House drug policy office."
ABCNEWS.com : Memo Rips GOP Hopeful for 'Lewd' Actions: "The lewd and abusive behavior finding stemmed from a Dec. 19, 2002, staff gathering. Barthwell made comments about a staff member's sexual orientation after the staff member misspoke in an earlier conversation, the memorandum said.
'Dr. Barthwell made reference to this staff member sitting on men's laps. A kaleidoscope pointed upward was placed on a chair by Dr. Barthwell as the staff member was about to sit down,' it said.
'Dr. Barthwell suggested that the staff member would want to cut the cake available for the gathering because the knife was 'long and hard' and he might 'enjoy handling it.' When the cake was cut, Dr. Barthwell referred to the pieces as 'most' or 'beefy' and she said to the staff member, 'I know you like it big and meaty.''"
You know, ya gotta wonder about the gay bashing covertly endorsed by the Bush administration. There's this Barthwell woman, and then the following from Dennis Miller at a fundraiser for Bush (to keep this in perspective two weeks from now when this is all old news, Dennis said this almost immediately after Whoopi Goldberg got "fired" from a Slim-Fast campaign after make a "Bush" joke at a Dem. Fundraiser. Further proof that Republicans are WIMPS and can't take a damned joke). From the Washington Post:
Speaking of celebrity endorsements: Dennis Miller, a big backer of Bush, was in Green Bay, Wis., yesterday to warm up the crowd before the prez spoke. Miller made a glancing reference to Whoopi but promised, "In deference to George W. Bush, I will try not to fall to depths that some would in this case."
Then he went on to imply a homosexual attraction between Kerry and Edwards.
"Those two cannot keep their hands off each other, can they?" Miller said. "I think I have a new idea for a new campaign slogan -- use the bumper sticker 'Hey, Get A Room.' "
The Post's Dana Milbank also reports that Miller riffed on other noted Dems. "Asking Bill Clinton to write an honest book is like asking Britney Spears to sing a capella," he said.
And he called strategist James Carville "a muppet who accidentally was washed on hot" and a "Satanic Chihuahua under a strobe light" who has "more nervous ticks than a Belfast parking valet."
All in good fun, of course. Bush thanked Miller "for joining us" but made no mention of his warm-up act.
With Anne Schroeder
Now...Republicans are "family values" yet they have affairs and get busted for sexual harassment. They can't take a joke directed at them, but it's OK gay-bait at one of their fundraisers. Hypocrites.
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