Monday, January 26, 2009
Portland's gayor in trouble
Sam Adams was recently elected gayor of Portland; supposedly this was an Advance for Diversity because he's openly and brazenly homosexual in the mold of Barney Frank. Unfortunately a Portland 'gadfly' newspaper found that Adams, while in the state legislature, had been diddling one of the interns who was not yet 18 at the time. (The intern is named Beau Breedlove! Sounds like a perfect porn-flick stage name, but apparently his real name.)
What makes this story unusual is that the Portland homosexual community is calling loudly for Adams to resign. I think this is a first: normally the political advocates for a privileged group work hardest to keep one of their members in office regardless of scandal. The homosexual community is quite properly angry because Adams betrayed them ... in previous years they had defended him against quiet rumors, and now they find he was lying to keep them working on his side.
What isn't unusual: the national media haven't touched the story yet, and probably won't touch it. The cable channels love scandal, but when the scandal involves a solid leftist politician, it's not a story. Didn't happen. Nothing to see here, move along.
[Later: No, I take it back. Rick Sanchez at CNN is covering the story fairly and evenly.]
A few years ago Spokane had an almost identical problem with a gayor diddling youngboy interns, and the national media gave it considerable airtime because this particular gayor was a Republican.
More story here. ¶ 9:03 AM
What makes this story unusual is that the Portland homosexual community is calling loudly for Adams to resign. I think this is a first: normally the political advocates for a privileged group work hardest to keep one of their members in office regardless of scandal. The homosexual community is quite properly angry because Adams betrayed them ... in previous years they had defended him against quiet rumors, and now they find he was lying to keep them working on his side.
What isn't unusual: the national media haven't touched the story yet, and probably won't touch it. The cable channels love scandal, but when the scandal involves a solid leftist politician, it's not a story. Didn't happen. Nothing to see here, move along.
[Later: No, I take it back. Rick Sanchez at CNN is covering the story fairly and evenly.]
A few years ago Spokane had an almost identical problem with a gayor diddling youngboy interns, and the national media gave it considerable airtime because this particular gayor was a Republican.
More story here. ¶ 9:03 AM
