Tweet Of The Day - Porno Pete

Damn that Joe Jervis! Always spreading hate by quoting "family leaders" verbatim and posting screencaps of exactly what they are doing! It's an outrage. OUTRAGE!

Trump To Moderate GOP Debate

And the twitterverse is already having a field day.

She's A Bad Ewa Jamma....

Oh thank you, thank you, Crazy Eyes! I knew you would not let me down. Aside from the fall-out-of-your-chair hilarity of never ONCE looking into the right camera, Crazy Eyes has placed her mispronunciation of Iwo Jima into the Twitter hall of fame, where it is now a top trending topic and probably will be for at least the next day. She's a Bad Ewa Jamma, people!

World Net Daily: Homos And The Muslim Brotherhood Have Taken Over CPAC 2011

As part of their continuing campaign to destroy CPAC 2011 for allowing GOProud to participate, today World Net Daily announced that the nation's largest annual conservative conference is being secretly run by the "Muslim Brotherhood." For realz!

With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a homosexual activist group called GOProud and for a financial scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Gaffney, a leader of the conservative movement for the last 30 years, charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to bring America under Saudi-style Shariah law. Gaffney, deputy assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is founder and president of the Center for Security Policy and co-author of the new book "Shariah: The Threat to America." He told WND that Islamism has infiltrated the American Conservative Union, the host of CPAC, in the person of Washington attorney and political activist Suhail Khan and a group called Muslims for America.

RELATED: Among the groups boycotting CPAC 2011 over GOProud's sponsorship are the Concernstipated Women For America and the Family Research Council.

Liberty Counsel: We Are SO Not Doing CPAC If GOProud Is There!

Matt Barber says that if the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) allows Log Cabin Republicans splinter group GOProud to remain as a co-sponsor, he will lead a boycott of the event by anti-gay groups. Oh NOES! Porno Pete breathlessly reports:

Folks, for years religious conservatives have been complaining about getting the shaft from CPAC, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. There is usually only a token panel or two dealing with “Culture War” social issues like abortion and homosexuality (and rarely one explicitly on fighting the “gay” agenda) – as organizers seek to appease the CPAC libertarians, some of whom support goals like homosexual “marriage” that are anathema to socially conservatives.

Now CPAC’s tenuous ”Big Tent” could collapse altogether as social conservatives led by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber threaten to launch a boycott of the conference (scheduled for Feb. 18-20, 2010) unless CPAC drops a homosexual activist group, GOProud, as a co-sponsor. Barber, my good friend, an AFTAH Board Member, and the Director of Cultural Affairs at Liberty Counsel, is leading the charge to keep the CPAC sponsorship list … conservative.

According to LaBarbera, Bam Bam already has a list of anti-groups ready to pull out. Hurray! Now we DO want GOProud to be there. Anything to breed infighting among the bigots.

Another South Carolina GOP Pol Busted

If you're the South Carolina Assistant Attorney General, naturally you flee from the police when they find you in a cemetery with an 18-year old stripper, a bag of sex toys, and a pocketful of Viagra. Filed under: You Can't Make This Up.

Auto-Tune The News: Hillary & Katie

I can't get enough of these.

Deeeeelicous!!!!

Hey, remember when NOM went all copyright on everybody's ass because of those Gathering Storm audition tapes? Check out what you see now when you try to play their new clip featuring Perez Hilton aka Mario Lavandeira.
BWA HA HA HA. Never thought I'd say THIS, but Perez Hilton FTMFW!

Sen.Vitter On DC Madam's Witness List

David Vitter (the married, family values, hooker hiring, gay marriage ban voting, diaper fetishist Republican Senator from Louisiana) may be called to testify on behalf of the madam accused on running a DC-based prostitution ring. Deborah Palfrey is accused of racketeering and money-laundering.

Also on Palfrey's witness list is Harlan Ullman, the military strategist who came up with the "shock & awe" tactic used in the invasion of Iraq. Lawyers are expected to walk witnesses through some "embarrassing and graphic personal details" of their encounters with the ladies in Palfrey's employ.

Vitter has admitted his patronage of Palfrey's hookers, but has ducked all questions regarding the specifics of his appointments, although his hired ladies have not been so discreet, revealing the Senator's fondness for diaper play. Let's hope we get to hear the story in Vitter's own humiliated words. "Senatoh needs a new die-pee, Mommy."

It's A GOP Whoregasbord!

Ho-lee CRAP! The scandal unfolding around Washington state Rep. Richard Curtis (R-DUH) is out-Haggarding and out-Craiging anything we've ever seen from fucked up, self-hating, anti-gay, right-wing Republicans. And that, my tender kittens, is rilly, rilly saying something.

Today's Self-Loathing Menu

(Prix Fixe: One Political Career)

We start with a late-season twink porn prostitute appetizer (NSFW), followed by a main course of cross-dressed role-player john en crout with medical device garnish, served with generous side orders (PDF) of cell-phone photos, X-rated videos, bondage, theft, and blackmail.

Dessert: Cru Anal avec DNA crème lourde.

CHECK PLEASE!

From the police report, via Dan Savage:

Curtis stated both he and the male walked into the lobby together. He told the male gain that he would give the male $100 to help him out but he was not paying him to have sex. Curtis and the male went up to Curtis’ room, which was 968. Once in the room Curtis gave the male $100…. Curtis and the male ultimately had anal intercourse on the bed in Curtis’ hotel room. The male performed intercourse on Curtis and the male’s semen and/or DNA would be on the inside of the condom while Curtis’ DNA would be on the exterior. Curtis said he was the person who received the anal sex. [Emphasis Dan's]

The hooker told the cops:

[Castagna] states [Curtis] was a “freak.” [Castagna] said that [Curtis] dressed in women’s lingerie during sex. [Castagna] said he used a condom and performed anal intercourse on [Curtis]…. After the sex act was completed [Curtis] told [Castagna] he wanted to perform “bareback sex” on [Castagna because Curtis] did not like the feel of condoms. [Castagna] told [Curtis] that he did not do that, that he didn’t know [Curtis], and that “bareback sex” was unsafe sex and was dangerous. [Curtis] asked [Castagna] “what would it take for you to do it.”

According to Castagna, he and Curtis settled on a $1000 barebacking fee, but when Curtis fell asleep after completing the act, Castagna took pictures with his cell phone and left with the Honorable Rep's wallet. He then called Curtis and demanded his fee with a threat to expose Curtis to the press and his wife. Police nabbed Castagna when he showed up (and this is priceless) at the "last flowerpot on the Washington Street Bridge", where he'd instructed Curtis to leave his money.

Castagna has a lengthy criminal record:

The Columbian newspaper in southwestern Washington where Rep. Curtis lives confirmed that Castagna has faced multiple charges in juvenile court in Spokane and King County involving assault, theft, burglary and malicious mischief and that in 2001 he pled guilty to a forgery charge as an adult and was sentenced to two months in jail followed by a year in community custody.

But Curtis has been busy elsewhere too:

Curtis, according to a search warrant unsealed Tuesday, went to the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on East Sprague on October 26th at approximately 12:45 a.m. The store clerk, who had talked with Curtis, referred to him as "The Cross-Dresser" and said that during their conversations he confirmed he was gay and was married with children at home. During his visit to the video store Curtis was observed wearing women's lingerie while receiving oral sex from an unidentified man in one of the movie viewing booths inside the store.

Oh, and after providing the police with exacting details of the whole hookerific shebang, Rep. Curtis suddenly claimed that Castagna had drugged him and that he "was so out of it he really didn’t know what happened." It is to laugh. And here's video of the hooker claiming his (relative) innocence.

As this is all going down in his backyard, stay with Dan Savage's SLOG for updates and more deliciously dishy dirty details. I'm quite anxious to hear Rep. Curtis justify voting against every LGBT-friendly bill in the Washington state legislature, all while taking it up the ass from male hookers while wearing ladies panties. He must have been so out of it he really didn't know what he was voting on!

Pam Spaulding says "I’m living a relatively plain jane lesbian existence simply asking for my civil rights while closet cases like Curtis get all sorts of kinks on while railing against openly LGBT citizens. It makes me sick."

Us too, Pam.

Update via JMG reader Crixi: Cody likes cupcakes.

Update II: Curtis has resigned.
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Larry Craig: I Don't Approve Of The Lifestyle

I watched Sen. Craig's interview with Matt Lauer last night, watching Lauer lob softball after softball and through Craig's denials, I just sat there thinking "Gayface, gayface, gayface." I'm terrible. Here's the complete transcript of the interview. From Tom Shales in the WaPo:

One thing, at least, was made painfully clear by Matt Lauer's interview with Sen. Larry Craig on NBC last night: Matt Lauer is no Mike Wallace. Lauer was anything but hard-hitting or confrontational with the Idaho Republican, arrested in June for alleged homosexual solicitation in a Minneapolis airport men's room.

For Lauer, self-important co-host of NBC's "Today" show, the interview was obviously seen as a potential career- and credibility-builder, but even when he did ask an arguably tough question, he essentially apologized for it. He prefaced a question about whether the senator might be bisexual by saying to Craig, "You're going to have to forgive me for this."

Jeebus, next time give the interview to Barbara Walters.

GOP: Screwing 2008

The logo for the GOP's 2008 convention is causing a lot of blogosnickers. From Daily Kos:

Wide stance? Check.
In Minneapolis? Check.
Prison stripe-wearing? Check.
Starry eyed? Check.

As for the elephant humping the “2008”… Are they going for a “Still screwing the country in 2008” theme, or is it a reference to hypocritical adulterers like David Vitter and just about the entire Republican presidential field?

All of the above? Check!

The comments thread on Daily Kos is a riot.

Larry Craig: Still Guilty

In a 27-page decision, the judge reviewing Sen. Toe-Tapper's case has refused to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea. Judge Charles Porter: "The defendant, a career politician with a college education, is of at least above-average intelligence. He knew what he was saying, reading and signing." Now let's see if Tearoom Larry decides to un-unresign.

UPDATE: Larry Craig responded to the judges ruling: "I am extremely disappointed with the ruling issued today. I am innocent of the charges against me. I continue to work with my legal team to explore my additional legal options. I will continue to serve Idaho in the United States Senate, and there are several reasons for that. As I continued to work for Idaho over the past three weeks here in the Senate, I have seen that it is possible for me to work here effectively. Over the course of my three terms in the Senate and five terms in the House, I have accumulated seniority and important committee assignments that are valuable to Idaho, not the least of which are my seats on the Appropriations Committee, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Veterans' Affairs Committee. A replacement would be highly unlikely to obtain these posts. In addition, I will continue my effort to clear my name in the Senate Ethics Committee - something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate. When my term has expired, I will retire and not seek reelection. I hope this provides the certainty Idaho needs and deserves."

Great news for the Democrats! I can't wait to see the tshirts on the protesters at the 2008 GOP convention. The Craig-mocking commericals are already starting.

Sen. Craig Already In Senate Hotseat

This story is moving quickly. A photo of Sen. Craig's arresting officer is already out. And a government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has filed a complaint with the Senate ethics committee requesting an inquiry into Sen. Larry Craig's tearoom antics. And the Idaho Statesman has already dug up a man "with close ties to Republican officials" who claims to have sex with Craig in DC's Union Station. I wonder if this is the same guy that Mike Rogers referenced on BlogACTIVE last year? [UPDATE: It is. Here's his story.] Craig's spokesman says it's "too early" to decide if the scandal will affect Craig's re-election plans.

There's some great commentary on Craig's arrest popping up:

National Review: "What remains baffling is why Craig got arrested. Short of being caught, ahem, more ferarum, it’s hard to imagine that tapping your right foot in a bathroom stall loudly enough amounts to doing the homosexual hokey-pokey. (“You put your right foot in, I put my … WHAT? WHERE?!”) The fact that Craig was trying to pokey and instead ended up in the pokey only reaffirms that when it comes to sex and politics, context is everything."

Carpetbagger Report: "I realize the circumstances of the arrest must be humiliating for the senator, but fabricating a ridiculous defense only exacerbates the political problem here. Why did he rub his foot against the police officer’s? Because, he said, he “has a wide stance when going to the bathroom.” Why did he wave his hand repeatedly under the stall divider? Because he was reaching for a piece of paper (that did not apparently exist). Why did he plead guilty to criminal charges? Because he was in a hurry. This was bound to be a disaster for Craig either way, but Crisis Management 101 tells us to come clean immediately, apologize, get the facts out, hunker down, and hope for the story to blow over. Bizarre fabrications are only going to make this worse."

And the Washington Post is already speculating about the dispostion of Craig's Senate seat: "Two factors mitigate the damage for Republicans. First, if Craig resigns, Gov. Butch Otter (R) would be tasked with naming an interim replacement until the race for Craig's full six-year term comes about in 2008. Otter would (of course) name a Republican, giving whomever he chooses -- most likely either Lt. Gov. Jim Risch or Rep. Mike Simpson (R) -- a major edge next November."

Judge: Allen's Statements Out

A Florida judge has ruled that since Florida legislator Bob Allen was not read his Miranda rights, statements he subsequently made to the police will not be admissible in his trial, including his stated fear of black men and his (as far as I know) previously undisclosed mention that he had "$800 in his car". Hmm, that seems kinda bribe-ish, don't it? Unless he was planning on blowing 40 black dudes in that park.

The trial will go on, beginning Sept. 19th. The Speaker of the Florida House has stripped Allen of his committee appointments, but Allen has sworn that he will not resign and in fact, plans to run for higher office. Yeah, that'll happen.

Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID): Another Busted Republican Tearoom Cruiser

Stridently anti-gay Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig was revealed today to have been arrested on June 11th for lewd public conduct in the men's restroom of Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. Craig pled guilty on August 8th.

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom, according to an arrest report obtained by Roll Call Monday afternoon. Craig’s arrest occurred just after noon on June 11 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. On Aug. 8, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the Hennepin County District Court. He paid more than $500 in fines and fees, and a 10-day jail sentence was stayed. He also was given one year of probation with the court that began on Aug. 8.

From the police report filed by plainclothes officer Dave Karsina, via TPM Election Central:

Craig then entered the stall next to Karsnia’s and placed his roller bag against the front of the stall door.

“My experience has shown that individuals engaging in lewd conduct use their bags to block the view from the front of their stall,” Karsnia stated in his report. “From my seated position, I could observe the shoes and ankles of Craig seated to the left of me.”

Craig was wearing dress pants with black dress shoes.

“I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, ‘fidget’ with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again. Craig would repeat this cycle for about two minutes. At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area,” the report states.

Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times, and Karsnia noted in his report that “I could ... see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider.”

Karsnia then held his police identification down by the floor so that Craig could see it.

“With my left hand near the floor, I pointed towards the exit. Craig responded, ‘No!’ I again pointed towards the exit. Craig exited the stall with his roller bags without flushing the toilet. ... Craig said he would not go. I told Craig that he was under arrest, he had to go, and that I didn’t want to make a scene. Craig then left the restroom.”

In a recorded interview after his arrest, Craig “either disagreed with me or ‘didn’t recall’ the events as they happened,” the report states.

Craig stated “that he has a wide stance when going to the bathroom and that his foot may have touched mine,” the report states. Craig also told the arresting officer that he reached down with his right hand to pick up a piece of paper that was on the floor.

“It should be noted that there was not a piece of paper on the bathroom floor, nor did Craig pick up a piece of paper,” the arresting officer said in the report.

JMG readers may recall that in October 2006, I blogged several times about the likelihood of Sen. Craig being a closeted pole-smoker, based on allegations reported by Mike Rogers of BlogACTIVE that Craig was known to cruise the restrooms of Washington DC's Union Station. Sen. Craig is married and has voted to define marriage in Idaho as between a man and a woman and voted in favor of the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment. Once again, Mike Rogers has been proven correct.

UPDATE: Republicans are burning rubber as they squeal backwards from Larry Craig. Below (via AMERICAblog) is a screencap of a YouTube video just yanked by Romney's campaign in which Craig had praised Gov Romney. I guess ol' Mitt doesn't wanna feel Craig's love anymore. Not in that way. Craig was serving as co-Senate liaison of Mitt Romney's campaign, but Romney's spokesman says, "Senator Craig has stepped down from his role with the campaign. He did not want to be a distraction and we accept his decision."

HomoQuotable - Matt Sanchez

"I'm honored WorldNetDaily.com has asked me to be a part of such a respectable organization. WorldNetDaily has some of the most talented people I've had the privilege of working with in the media since arriving in Iraq earlier this year." - Gay porn star, prostitute, serial man-rimmer and right-wing darling Matt Sanchez, announcing that he has joined the writing staff of WingNutDaily. Sanchez is also a correspondent for Pajamas Media and RightWingNews.com.

He's sucking his way to the top!
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WingNutDaily: Nuke 'Dem Mosques

Here's the result of a poll on WingNutDaily (via Pam's House Blend), asking their readers, "Should U.S. threaten nuclear annihilation of Muslim holy sites for deterrence?" Frightening. Funny how they characterize Muslims as "religion-driven fanatics", innit? Much as I used to watch 700 Club, I now read WingNutDaily for the pure entertainment value of watching how completely nutso the right wing can get.

Their top story today rails: "Global Warming: 'Hot Air'. And then right below it, "NYC Faces Record-Breaking Cold Today." Not that the two are necessarily related, but still. Funny. And you have to giggle when their "end of times" pieces (usually about how the immorality of America means the apocalypse will occur any minute) are wedged between shills for long-term investment advice books. Jeebus is coming right away, but make sure you trade long, just in case he, you know, doesn't.

Hairpiece Prayer Watch

Washington DC, Sunday afternoon

For unknown reasons, Chuck Norris' exercise infomercial is playing on the TV in our hotel room.

Jerry: Ugh, I can't believe I used to think he was hot.
JMG: I don't think I ever did, but especially not now that he's a right-wing nutjob. He writes a column on some Christianist website. It's mostly about Jeebus. And kung-fu.
Ken: Well, he needs to ask Jeebus for a better wig.

954-828-5004

Things have a little heavy on the news from Fort Naugledale in gay blogland, but as a former resident with many friends living there, I am compelled to persist. Therefore, I can't resist showing you this video from some rinky-dink outfit called Active Christian Media, who ask for support for Nauglepoo. Many are speculating that the Christian right is grooming Naugle for higher office once his lame duck term expires.

I say do as the video asks. Call Toilet Boy and tell him what you think.

RELATED: UNITE Fort Lauderdale does NOT want a gay boycott. Many of our folks' livelihoods depend on the gay tourist trade. Naugle is an aberration in an otherwise very supportive city and county government.