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[font color=blue]>> So picture me surprised when I see some of these screwball theories that are new to me. I thought I got them all. <<[/font]
Here's some from the current issue of the progressive publication, The Nation (theNation.com) which I have been continuously subscribed to since 1998 or so. The excerpts are mostly "gay theories" about Obama (I bold-faced some phrases to highlight some of the more amusing wording). But most of the rest of the article (beyond the excerpts) is how mainstream conservative pundits try to paint Obama and male Democrats in general as (gasp!) effeminate, and have been doing so since the 1950s at least. A lot also on the voting patterns of the white male demographic.
For those not familiar with The Nation, it is not into conspiracy theories (neither presenting them or debunking them) or salacious stuff, so this article is unique (in my 14 years of reading the magazine) in this respect. Though like I say, the purpose of it is part of the background and explanation for the more serious relentless RepubliCON efforts to paint the Democrats as "the mommy party".
Anyway, when I read the article, I wondered how much of this was new to you -- almost all of it was new to me until a few days ago when I ran across that Mother Jones chart in the OP.
[] The GOP's Macho Posturing, The Nation, 11/12/12
http://www.thenation.com/article/170787/whats-behind-rights-obama-gay-conspiracy
(Online the title is "What's Behind the Right's 'Obama Is Gay' Conspiracy", by Neal Gabler
You probably know by now that President Obama is a Muslim who professes socialism and that he was born in Africa, which makes him ineligible to occupy our highest office. But here is something you may not know: Obama is gay. Not only is he gay; he frequented gay bath houses in Chicago along with his former chief of staff and current Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel. And not only did he frequent those bath houses;
he was under the influence of a “transgender nanny” when he lived as a boy in Indonesia. Plus, he was “married” to his Pakistani roommate while attending Occidental College (one theorist says that the ring he wore at the time was a
“homosexual symbol for ‘women stay away’”); had a cocaine-fueled romance with a right-wing activist and ex-convict named Larry Sinclair in 1999 (who, of course, wrote a book about it); and orchestrated the murders of another gay lover and two gay associates from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church just before the Iowa caucuses in 2008—
all of which helps to explain why he married, in the words of one Obama investigator, a “mannish wife with big, muscular arms.”
... conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, one of the original Swift Boaters, who interviewed a man who knew Obama at Occidental and described the future president’s relationship with his roommate as a “close, intimate emotional attachment,” even though the only evidence for that attachment was the fact that “I saw them standing very close to one another.” Or a blogger named Kevin DuJan, who reports that Reggie Love, the former basketball player who served as Obama’s “body man,” was actually the president’s lover, and that it is “quite clear that in the years ahead
Barack Obama will replace Elton John as the reigning party queen, gay icon.” (DuJan also says
he expects that Obama will retire to Honolulu after his defeat by Romney, where, “draped in colorful muumuus, with a retinue of hunky shirtless Secret Service studs around him, Barack Obama will find himself in a new kind of paradise no doubt.”)
Or right-wing journalist Wayne Madsen, whose eponymous newsletter is the source on Obama’s visits to the bath house and who revealed how Obama used basketball pickup games to pick up men. Obama, Madsen says, had homosexual trysts with Representative Artur Davis, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Senate majority leader Bill Frist! Who knew? Meanwhile, Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, another right-wing organization dedicated to protecting the country from the likes of Obama, told a radio audience on VCY Crosstalk that while “I’m not sure about the claims by various people who have reported that Obama has at least participated at times with them in homosexual acts, this {support of gay marriage} certainly lends some credence.” Case closed.
Citing a remark by Fox News host Greg Gutfeld that “Obama is now out of the closet” after the president announced his support for gay marriage, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum blogged at the Daily Beast, “You cannot ‘get’ Gutfeld’s joke unless you ‘get’ that
a large part of his audience ardently believes that Obama is in fact gay, that his marriage is a sham, and that Mrs. Obama leads a life of Marie Antoinette–like extravagance to compensate for her husband’s neglect while he disports himself with his personal aides.”Oh, thanks for the "TruthOrFiction.com" website - I haven't seen that before.
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