Gay bashing on Kos?

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 11:34 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 11:34

I've found dailykos to be a source of strength and hope over these past few months. Today, I came here hoping to find more of the same. Instead, I have read a disturbing number of posts that blame gays/lesbians for Kerry's loss. I find it very disheartening that homophobic rants have found there way here.

I cannot state things more eloquently than Andrew Sullivan, so I will simply take some quotes from his current blog and share them here.
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You gotta love the tv coverage-if you're Kerry?

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Wednesday October 27, 2004 · 7:41 AM PDT

2004/10/27 · 07:41

If you're Kerry, you gotta love the coverage
Tim Goodman

Wednesday, October 27, 2004Tim Goodman from today's SF Chronicle

People with working brains long ago gave up on polls, unreflective punditry and those headline-grabbing "new studies" that pop up every other weekend. There's always a flaw in the mechanism, a disregard for contemplation or something suspect in the methodology.

And yet they persist. And yet again -- follow the narrative flow here - - sometimes a trustworthy organization comes up with real thoughts and dangles them before us like bright lights and eye candy. Result: mesmerization.

The latest such study, "The Debate Effect: How the Press Covered the Pivotal Period of the 2004 Presidential Election," was released today and comes from the respected Project for Excellence in Journalism and so, despite the annoying alliteration, it deserves attention.

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 7:25 AM PDT

2004/10/25 · 07:25

Well, there is no shortage of bad news from Iraq, but sitting down with today's San Francisco Chronicle I was struck by the non-stop headlines:

1.Rebels Massacre 50 Iraqi Troops
2.Iraqi Children Must Work for Families' Survival-Forced labor predated the war, but many younsters lives are now more grueling.
3.Removal of Iraqi detainees criticized.
4.Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished from Site in Iraq
5.A top official call for Army contract probe.

Of course it's the SF Chronicle, but still...the drumbeat just gets louder.

The "forced labor" story is here:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/25/MNGED9FNH91.DTL

Lynne Cheney's Racy Novel

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Thursday October 14, 2004 · 4:56 PM PDT

2004/10/14 · 16:56

From USA Today 4/3/04

ooooh, and the novel features a "lesbian" character.....gosh!

New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), was going to reprint Sisters, a historical romance published in 1981 that includes brothels, attempted rapes and a lesbian love affair.

"We felt interest was growing because it was an election year and we decided it could be a timely book," Liz Perl, executive director of publicity at New American Library, told The Associated Press on Friday.

But according to Cheney's attorney, Robert Barnett, she did not even know about the reissue until receiving calls last week from the media. Barnett then contacted the publisher, which agreed this week to pull the novel.

"I told them that she did not think the book was her best work," said Barnett, who represents numerous political leaders, including former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"If there is a serious demand for this 25-year-old book, I am confident that America's used bookstores will be able to satisfy it," Barnett said.

Perl and Barnett said no legal action was threatened. Although New American Library had the rights to reissue the novel, Perl said, there was no desire "to put out a book that the author was not happy with."

Liberals have often mocked Sisters, noting that Cheney is a longtime conservative and that President Bush supports a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Her novel was the subject of a recent satirical performance at the New York Theatre Workshop, with actors reading such passages as, "Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl."

Sisters has long been out of print and is not mentioned in Cheney's biography on the White House Web site. In 2001, she told a New York Times reporter that she couldn't even remember the plot.

Regis Corporation drops ads

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Thursday October 14, 2004 · 3:50 PM PDT

2004/10/14 · 15:50

Letter we received at www.boycottsinclairbroadcasting.com

Regis Corporation is listed on your website as an advertiser on Sinclair
Broadcasting Group stations, along with 118 other companies. We have
received numerous emails from individuals, some threatening to boycott our
company, and some encouraging us not to buckle to this threat.

Regis Corporation does not participate in political or religious
activities. Simply put, we cut hair. We employ over 53,000 people, many
of whom are paid on commission, and rely on that income to support their
families. By boycotting us, you are hurting individuals--our employees and
their families.

We have notified Sinclair Broadcasting Group not to air our advertising
during or adjacent to any political programming (copy attached). That is
the right thing to do. To take any further action would be inappropriate,
and not in keeping with our responsibilities to our employees and our
stockholders.

In return, we are respectfully asking you to remove our name from your
boycott list. In the event this reasonable request is not respected, we
will hold your organization responsible for any damages we sustain.

Sincerely,

REGIS CORPORATION
By Eric A. Bakken, General Counsel

Letter sent to Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Mary Cheney

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Wednesday October 13, 2004 · 11:05 PM PDT

2004/10/13 · 23:05

I'm sick of the crap about how Kerry shouldn't have brought up Mary Cheney. I'm a lesbian and screw the Republicans and Ms. Cheney.....they are hypocritical and viscious. They bash gays and lesbians every chance they get. It's fair game. Cheney wasn't in the closet....she even worked for Coors, I believe, as liason to the "gay community." Jeeeeze.....her Mom should get real and say screw it to all those HATEFUL gay-bashing Republicans......

GRRRRRRRRR

Civil Rights Report Critical of Bush Delayed Until After Election

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Saturday October 09, 2004 · 10:28 PM PDT

2004/10/09 · 22:28

Civil Rights Record Is Criticized, Silently

October 10, 2004
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AP) - The United States Commission on
Civil Rights voted on Friday to wait until after next
month's election to discuss a report critical of the Bush
administration's civil rights record. Republican members
had objected to the report's timing.

The report remains posted on the commission's Web site
(http://www.usccr.gov/), despite objections from Republican
commissioners.

The report says Mr. Bush "has neither exhibited leadership
on pressing civil rights issues, nor taken actions that
matched his words" on the subject. It finds fault with Mr.
Bush's funding requests for civil rights enforcement; his
positions on voting rights, educational opportunity and
affirmative action; and his actions against hate crimes.

The report said, however, that Mr. Bush is committed to
help people with disabilities and praised him for "a
commendably diverse cabinet and moderately diverse
judiciary."

A White House spokesman, Ken Lisaius, said, "President Bush
is fully committed to making a real difference in the lives
of all Americans, and his record reflects that goal."

The commission chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry, who lists
her political affiliation as independent, said that the
report's timing had nothing to do with the election, a view
disputed by a Republican commissioner, Jennifer C.
Braceras.

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