Post by discoberry on Jul 25, 2011 17:19:44 GMT -5
The left is attacking her because she is a woman...Now the left is attacking her husband for being gay [sarcasm hat on]
motherjones.com/mojo/2011/07/michele-bachmann-marcus-bachmann-problem-counseling
motherjones.com/mojo/2011/07/michele-bachmann-marcus-bachmann-problem-counseling
That's extreme, and in a post-DADT, Cuomosexual world, it's only going to become increasingly more so (even Focus on the Family has conceded that the younger generations feel differently about things like gay marriage). Because Michele has identified Marcus as her top adviser, he's fair game for the criticism that would undoubtedly pour out if, say, top strategist Ed Rollins had said the same thing. Marcus Bachmann is the kind of character that candidates normally wouldn't think twice about throwing under the bus, or at least keeping their distance from, once they've finally made it. But that's obviously not possible.
The problems don't end with the therapy, though. Marcus' fiercely anti-gay language has itself spawned the predictable, unsubstantiated "takes one to know one" backlash. It's taken less than a week for political observers and random celebrities on Twitter to develop their own theories about what's really driving the candidate's husband. Here's what Cher (yes, Cher) tweeted on Friday, via the City Pages:
"But boys please utube this asshole & tell me what you think… Cause my Gay-Dar is GOING OFF !!!"
She then pondered purchasing some sequins for Marcus and strangling him with her boa. That's a representative sample. Gawker's Lauri Apple rounds up some others:
• Kids in the Hall comic and television actor Dave Foley, asked via Twitter: "How can Michele Bachman be opposed to gay marriage when she is married to gay man." Foley...tweeted out a few other lines about Bachmann, using the hashtag "#MarcusBachmanIsSoGay."
• Keith Olbermann referred to Bachmann as a "bizarre-sounding man who's calling gays 'barbarians'" and wondered how you can "hide" him without putting him in some sort of closet.
And so on. Apple also finds Andrew Sullivan (who is gay) referring to Marcus as the "ssuper-sserial hunter of gays." This echoes something Bachmann's loudest critics in Minnesota have been hinting at—without any basis in fact—for a while now. The writers of Dump Bachmann, who are the source of much of the most incriminating material on the couple, refer to Marcus as "the fabulous Marcus Bachmann" and enjoy noting that he has a keen fashion sense; on Tuesday, City Pages straight-up asked, "Marcus Bachmann: Gay or Straight?" David Joseph DeGrio, chair of the Minnesota LGBT group Stonewall DFL, has pushed back on the whisper campaign, writing that "I believe that perceived sexuality was being used as an attack on Marcus Bachmann, and I find it unacceptable to use perceived sexuality as an attack on anybody."
The problems don't end with the therapy, though. Marcus' fiercely anti-gay language has itself spawned the predictable, unsubstantiated "takes one to know one" backlash. It's taken less than a week for political observers and random celebrities on Twitter to develop their own theories about what's really driving the candidate's husband. Here's what Cher (yes, Cher) tweeted on Friday, via the City Pages:
"But boys please utube this asshole & tell me what you think… Cause my Gay-Dar is GOING OFF !!!"
She then pondered purchasing some sequins for Marcus and strangling him with her boa. That's a representative sample. Gawker's Lauri Apple rounds up some others:
• Kids in the Hall comic and television actor Dave Foley, asked via Twitter: "How can Michele Bachman be opposed to gay marriage when she is married to gay man." Foley...tweeted out a few other lines about Bachmann, using the hashtag "#MarcusBachmanIsSoGay."
• Keith Olbermann referred to Bachmann as a "bizarre-sounding man who's calling gays 'barbarians'" and wondered how you can "hide" him without putting him in some sort of closet.
And so on. Apple also finds Andrew Sullivan (who is gay) referring to Marcus as the "ssuper-sserial hunter of gays." This echoes something Bachmann's loudest critics in Minnesota have been hinting at—without any basis in fact—for a while now. The writers of Dump Bachmann, who are the source of much of the most incriminating material on the couple, refer to Marcus as "the fabulous Marcus Bachmann" and enjoy noting that he has a keen fashion sense; on Tuesday, City Pages straight-up asked, "Marcus Bachmann: Gay or Straight?" David Joseph DeGrio, chair of the Minnesota LGBT group Stonewall DFL, has pushed back on the whisper campaign, writing that "I believe that perceived sexuality was being used as an attack on Marcus Bachmann, and I find it unacceptable to use perceived sexuality as an attack on anybody."
