God, where to put this story!!!

I could have put it in this threadalong side the bullshit stories about war protesters spitting on soldiers. Or I could have put it in this threadalong side Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a faggot at the CPAC conference last week.

But this story is just too fucking juicy to share the stage with either of them!


For those who don't know, CPAC is the conservative conference where Ann Coulter made her "faggot" comment last week. They really nailed it this time.



http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archiv ... t_sanchez/


CPAC’s Gay Porn Star Honoree Matt Sanchez
By James Joyner

Max Blumenthalpasses on word “several gay blogs revealed late yesterday” that Marine Reserve Corporal Matt Sanchez, winner of the Jeanne Kirpatrick Academic Freedom Award at this year’s CPAC, “was known during his halcyon days as Rod Majors, a majorly well-endowed gay porn star.” In his spare time, he was “a $200-an-hour male prostitute who advertised himself as an ‘excellent top.’”

Assuming this is true (frankly, this is one time I have no desire to click through the various links involved), it is rather funny. While John Hawkins is right to note that people can turn their lives around and that “conservatives should be proud to have a guy like Matt Sanchez attending CPAC,” somehow I don’t think he’d have been so prominently featured had his past been known.

Indeed, Michelle Malkin, a major Sanchez booster, observes, “Should CPAC organizers be embarrassed if the rumors about his alleged porn star past are true? Well, yes. Next time, they should do more extensive background research before handing out an honor with Jeane Kirkpatrick’s name on it.”

Don Surber calls Blumenthal out as a “homophobe” for his insinuation that gays can’t be conservatives. But, surely, Blumenthal is right that there is a faction of the conservative movement that “exploits anti-gay sentiment for political gain.” It’s not unreasonable to point that out.

Scandals, real or imagined, simply have more resonance when they go against type. And it’s not just conservatives who feel the sting of such hypocrisy. The recent flap over Al Gore’s ginormous, energy sucking mansion would not have made the news had he been a Republican booster of the oil industry. When anti-gay evangelical ministers turn out to be gay, that’s news. When Congressmen in charge of protecting kids from child molestation are having gay affairs with teenagers, that’s news.



*EDIT* BTW, that Don Surber guy is an idiot. Read his piece. In addition to making all sorts of unsupported and unsupportable claims that liberals are racists and homophobes, he says that liberals have "pounced...at Alberto Gonzales for being the son of a Mexican immigrant." Haha.

First of all, Alberto Gonzalez is not a son of a Mexican immigrant. He is HIMSELF a CUBAN immigrant, but I guess to this dipshit, all spics are the same. Secondly, the only time I've ever seen anyone "pounce" on Gonzalez for his ethnicity was not because he was Cuban, but because he was an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT when he and his family first came to America, and he is therefore a hypocrite for so zealously enforcing immigration laws against the illegal immigrants of today.

*EDIT EDIT*

Turns out I'm the dummy. Mel Martinez is the illegal Cuban immigrant (head of the RNC) who has pushed so hard for immigration crackdowns. Gonzalez is a third generation American of Mexican descent. I guess they all look the same to ME.

The pictures are pretty funny