Glenn Greenwald, Guardian CiF.
Glenn Greenwald writes on the strange case of how the US gay republican group, Log Cabin Republicans, took out a full-page ad in the New York Times attacking Chuck Hagel and urging President Obama not to appoint him Defense Secretary.
Why?
Cause he's "anti-gay".
Oh, and cause he's "anti-Israel".
Even though they've supported politicians in the past who have been against equal marriage.
Guess which one is being used as a smokescreen for an attack about the other?
And double oh, LCR are broke, so who paid for the ad?
Greenwald writes; "Andrew Sullivan is right that this is a classic technique of the neo-con smear campaign - recruit progressives to their cause with exploitation of unrelated issues."
Looks like quite a few fell for it again this time.
I wonder if readers can think of any British gay journalists or leading gay activists who've been duped in this way?
I think the technical political term is "useful idiots".
Or Pinkwashing.
PS One of the best homo journo things to happen in 2012 was the American campaigning journalist Glenn Greenwald getting a regular gig writing for Comment Is Free.
He mainly writes about security issues and that, but the fags creep in occasionally.
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"I wonder if readers can think of any British gay journalists or leading gay activists who've been duped in this way?
ReplyDeleteI think the technical political term is "useful idiots"…"
Fatuous analogy; good reach, nevertheless.
Because, with equal marriage imminent it proves it isn't just windowdressing but an actual tangible real world politcal good that can be touched, smelled, and surmounted by a cake topper.
I'm not surprised you devalue such forward momentum because you don't give a damn about gay marriage, perceiving it as a bourgeois sideshow, yet are ever willing to exploit the cynical fuck out of it in order to shore up your own threadbare doctrinaire shibboleths.
As somebody who DOES care about the people who care about the issue, fuck you!
Oh, and happy New Year.
edit: equal marriage "etc"
DeleteI think you may have missed the point rather spectacularly, but happy new year to you, too, sir.
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I do think it's odd that we seem to be living in an ever more liberal society, yet when looked at honestly we're living in a more and more conservative society.
ReplyDeleteThis may be entirely irrelevant to your post, but something about appropriation of liberal goals by right-wing lizards etc etc, there's a point of confluence in there somewhere...