Friday, Aug 29, 2008
As for Gary Bauer -- good heavens, what a walking embryo! It's no wonder he has so fanatical a preoccupation with the unborn. I find Bauer's bulging eyes and pubescent smirk profoundly disquieting, alternately reminding me of German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and of the pre-Stonewall stereotype of the "pansy" or effeminate gay man. Hence Bauer's anti-gay stridency suggests some strange psychic turbulence.
Whatever Bauer's peculiarities and hypocrisies, however, he did not deserve the vicious stunt played on his campaign headquarters by gay writer Dan Savage, who boasts in Salon that he smeared his own saliva over doorknobs and telephones in an attempt to spread the flu. I agree with the outraged letter-writers who pointed out that the likely victims of this act would have been the innocent janitorial staff -- the authentic proletarians who are of course invisible to elitist liberals blinded by their sanctimonious sense of moral superiority.
Furious Salon reader Alex Skovan writes to this column:
Flu is not necessarily a small matter. It can be very serious -- for small children, sometimes even fatal. If someone on Bauer's staff loses an infant to flu in the next month, should this evil little cocksucker Dan Savage be charged with murder?Of course it doesn't come as any surprise that a rabid left-wing faggot-fundamentalist would be capable of doing such a thing. I remember well the story of Kimberly Bergalis, the young woman who was murdered by her gay dentist. He didn't use flu of course -- he used the HIV virus. Maybe that will be what Mr. Savage tries next? After all he would be justified wouldn't he? I mean, anybody who doesn't agree with Mr. Savage on gay marriage deserves to die, don't they?
I don't really hate gays -- but I do find their sameness of dress, sameness of manner and sameness of thought rather creepy. And I have always felt that there is a certain sniveling viciousness to them. The image of Dan Savage: sneaking around Bauer's campaign headquarters sucking on doorknobs, like a horny twelve year old boy sneaking into the laundry hamper to whack off with mommy's dirty panties.
Howard Stern once wrote that gay men were really little boys who didn't want to grow up. Instead of forming relationships with women they just wanted to spend their whole lives hanging around with the boys. So what do you think, Camille?
As an open lesbian, first of all, I must dispute your point that gays look, dress and sound alike. The ones that grate on you (as on me) are the clones, the clubby leftist lemmings with their manufactured attitudes and cheap sneers. Yes, that crew sure does think alike -- from the queer theory claques in academe to the preening hysterics of the ever-declining alternative press.
While your epithets will surely anger many readers, I want to remind them that words, however offensive, cannot compare in seriousness with the actual acts and malicious motivation in this case. And you have a perfect right to focus on the physicalities of gay sex since Savage himself gratuitously inserted his own oral cavity and secretions into the public discourse.
As for Howard Stern's speculations about the origins of male homosexuality, they are in line with old guard Freudian theory about homosexuality as arrested development. That line of inquiry has been shut down by the American psychiatric establishment, which has been hog-tied since the 1970s by p.c. special interests. I'm happy that homosexuality is no longer classified as a disorder, but there was a practical wisdom in the Freudian model that needs to be recovered and updated.
The Savage episode is disastrous for the cause of gay rights in this country since it exposes the bizarre mix of infantilism and fascism in the most extreme gay activism. Savage's sociopathic behavior was a shocking affront not only to basic ethics but to the professional standards of journalism. If I were the editors in charge, I'd fire Savage, issue a public apology to Bauer's campaign, and make restitution of some kind -- perhaps by a donation to a health-related charity.
Elsewhere on the political front, the Clinton administration, with its eyes on the upcoming elections, has made a mess out of the Elian Gonzalez issue. The hapless 6-year-old boy rescued from the sea should have been returned to his father in Cuba immediately after the ruling to that effect by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Women agents, backed up by federal and local authorities, should have removed the boy from enforced captivity in his relatives' home.
The Clinton administration's cowardly inaction has grievously inflamed an international incident beyond all proportion. How revolting to watch Attorney General Janet Reno hide behind the skirts of the boy's Cuban grandmothers, who were imported to whip up popular sentiment for his return. Reno (who was originally promoted to the new President Clinton by Hillary's scapegrace brother) is a continuing embarrassment whose serious health problems alone should long ago have warranted her resignation.
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