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So, where do you come down on the "should he" or "shouldn't he" be outed questions when it comes to (1) National Politicians, who, likely as not (if they're a Republican), (2) harangue against all things gay?
Tuscaloosa News Columnist Tommy Stevenson opines in the most recent case where this question presents:
". . . it is strange to me that that New York Times columnist David Brooks apparently is not aware of this basic rule of his own profession. For last week on a talk show on MSNBC Brooks recalled how he "'sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time.'"
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I agree with Stevenson that, "[Brooks] owes it to those who have not grabbed the inside of his thigh to exonerate them." Heh.
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See Stevenson's full column/blog where he makes his complete argument in favor of outing this "Republican Senator".
Here's the "money quote", though, as they say:
"Myself, I think reporters in every state with GOP senators should ask Brooks one simple question, a question I will ask right now:
"'David, was it one of Alabama's two senators, Richard Shelby or Jeff Sessions, who fondled the inside of your leg at dinner?'
"And if it was me, I wouldn't let him off as easily as O'Donnell and Harwood. If he said he's 'not telling,' I would then ask him if he was therefore 'refusing to deny it was Shelby or Sessions who felt you up?' And I would print his answer, in an effort to perhaps get him to clear the whole matter up."
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I've written about something akin to this before, about Gay Republicans in DC. In sum, according to a friend of mine in DC, who's gay (so he kind of knows the scene), "Capitol Hill would shut down" if all the gay Republican staffers were outed. He didn't mention actual Gay Republican Congressmen and/or Senators. I suspect because although my friend is middle-to-upper-middle class for DC, wherever it is such Members cruise is either much "higher end" or much seedier than my friend's and his S.O.'s favorite restaurants and night spots.
So, David, was it Sessions?
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