Did Newt Gingrich Threaten To Out Brit Hume's Gay Son & Spur His Suicide?

Gawker is reporting on explosive speculation from the Miami Herald that has apparently been a decade-long rumor in the DC press corps, even though it's not seen much print.

The rumor, in brief, is as follows: In the summer of 1997, the Hill's Sandy Hume—the then-28-year-old son of Fox News' Brit Hume—broke a blockbuster story about four GOP congressman who plotted, and failed, to overthrow Newt Gingrich as Speaker. One of those men was Bill Paxon, a New York Republican who was married to fellow Congresswoman Susan Molinari. Another of the plotters, Majority Leader Dick Armey, scuttled the coup when he learned that Paxon, and not he, would replace Gingrich. Armey later disavowed the whole attempt and claimed not to have been involved.

A few months later, in February 1998, Paxon launched an attempt to unseat Armey from his leadership position. Just days later, Sandy Hume killed himself with a gunshot to the head. Just days after that, Paxon suddenly and inexplicably resigned and never returned to public life. Almost immediately, rumors began flying that Hume and Paxon had been having an affair, and that Armey had threatened to out them. Hence the suicide and the sudden resignation.

Further down in the Gawker piece is what's new in the Herald story: "But Caputo adds a new wrinkle to the tale: 'Some' blame Gingrich, and not just Armey, he says, for the threat to go public with information about Hume and Paxon's alleged relationship."

Wow. Definitely hit both links for more.

I Am A Sexual Anarchist

In addition to being a terrorist, apparently I'm also a sexual anarchist, whatever that is. This, according to Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber, who is continuing his campaign of excising JMG comments whenever he thinks they suit his Christofascist means. From his column about the public's reaction to Fox News anchor Brit Hume calling on Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity:

While the mainstream media’s rage was clumsily managed (or masked), unbridled hate boiled over in the left-wing blogosphere. On the sexual anarchist site, “JoeMyGod,” poster “QScribe” suggested that Brit Hume’s deceased son had been “gay” and viciously accused Hume of being responsible for the young man’s suicide: “Brit Hume still hasn’t ‘repented’ for trashing his gay son and driving him to suicide. When I want moral guidance from a pig like that, I’ll be sure to ask. Until then, he really ought to STFU.” (Hume has publicly shared that his son’s heartbreaking suicide played a large role in his acceptance of Christ.) The next commenter went so far as to cruelly imply that Hume had sexually molested his own child and further mocked the tragic suicide, writing: “Dead victims don’t tell on their molesters.”

Seriously, what would a sexual anarchist do? I mean, it sounds kinda hot - I just wouldn't know where to start. Barber, of course, is still steaming at us for "sabotaging" his recent book of republished online columns, for which JMG readers provided Amazon with scathing reviews and about 150 hilarious keywords.

An especially delicious side effect of your reviews was that all of your Amazon histories pushed several dozen deviant and perverted homo titles into Barber's "Customers who bought this item also bought" list. If you haven't read or reviewed Matt Barber's The Right Hook, here's a link farm to every single chapter. Check that out and post your honest reviews to Amazon and maybe Band Fags and The History Of Gay Porn will again headline that buyer history list. Do it in the name of sexual anarchists everywhere! Whatever that means!

Note To Matt Barber: Do you think you'll be charged as a conspiracist to the illegal kidnapping of Isabella Jenkins? You've got no time to respond to multiple press inquiries about her whereabouts, but you've got time to read this here sexual anarchist website thingy? What are you afraid of Miss Barber?

Olbermann: Brit Hume Is A Holier Than Thou Cliche Come To Life

Dan Savage On Brit Hume

Dan Savage appeared on Keith Olbermann's show last night to rebut Fox anchor Brit Hume's claim that if Tiger Woods had only been a Christian, he wouldn't be the cheating pussy hound that he is. Classic Dan Savage.

Fox News: If Tiger Woods Was A Christian, All This Wouldn't Have Happened

Brit Hume says that Tiger Woods wouldn't have been cheating if he'd just been a Christian. Like non-adulterous Christians such as Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Tom DeLay, Sen. John Ensign, Gov. Mark Sanford, Ted Haggard, etc, etc, etc, etc.

O'Reilly: Whites Frightened By Obama

Not in those exact words, but O'Reilly and Brit Hume say that since "America is overwhelmingly white," of course there were very few non-whites at Saturday's teabagger event.