# A good chuckle at the expense of the radical right... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255 "2000-10-17T14:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/1 "2000-10-17T14:22:16Z")
First, John Paulk, poster boy of Exodus International (a gay-to-straight “conversion” organization) and chair of its BoD, gets caught in a gay bar in DC, witnessed by several staffers of the Human Rights Campaign Fund (the follow-up story is [here](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/po/20001006/co/20001006009.html), where [PlanetOut](http://www.planetout.com) reports he lost his job as a result - surprise, surprise). Married to an “ex”-lesbian, and how supposedly straight, he claims he went in to use the bar… taking 45 minutes, and chatting up and offering to buy drinks for strangers. :rolleyes: Now Matthew Glavin, best known for leading the charge to disbar President Clinton from practicing law, and also the President and CEO of Southeastern Legal Foundation (who supported the Boy Scounts ban on gays and prevented the City of Atlanta from enacting domestic partnership legislation), is caught not once, but _twice_ in a popular Georgia gay cruising area. To quote the arresting officer: > [@](#): > > “I was working in an undercover capacity in the Medlock Bridge Unit. Matthew Glavin engaged me in conversation on the river trail. Mr. Glavin was masturbating his erect penis through his shorts. Mr. Glavin reached out and fondled my groin in a very sexual and lewd manner.” (The entire story is [here](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/po/20001016/co/20001016008.html), again courtesy of Yahoo! and PlanetOut.) Needless to say, his wife and children are devastated. :rolleyes: You know, it’s ok to be conservative. It’s even ok to be anti-gay. But for God’s sake, at least don’t get _caught_ being a hypocrite! 😃 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/2 "2000-10-17T14:24:27Z")
Er, Paulk is _now_ supposedly straight, and claimed to go into the bar to use the _bathroom_. Sorry. And, of course, they are Boy _Scouts_. Where’s my fucking tea? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/3 "2000-10-17T14:27:31Z")
Sheesh. Don’;t men carry around an empty pop bottle for those purposes? (bathroom relief). You can do it in the privacy of your own car! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/4 "2000-10-17T14:47:35Z")
I love this sort of stuff. Nothing like ridiculing those who beg for it. A conversion organisation? That is, like, SO 40 years ago 😉 And then this gem: “Mr. Glavin reached out and fondled my groin in a very sexual and lewd manner.” I’m thinking here. Other than people in the medical field, I can not think of ANYONE fondling a mans groin in a non-sexual and unlewd manner 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/5 "2000-10-17T14:49:59Z")
Yeah, we do have our fair share of hypocrites and idiots on this side ofthe aisle. It always makes me wonder how little common sense a person has to have to be so blatently for or against something in the public eye and then get caught doing the exact opposite. It’s notlike Glavine was exactly keeping it secretin his bedroom. I guess it helps to remind people that zealots are people too. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/6 "2000-10-17T14:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > I’m thinking here. Other than people in the medical field, I can not think of ANYONE fondling a mans groin in a non-sexual and unlewd manner 😃 You’ve had a lot more success with your dates than I have, I guess. And yet another incident to add fuel to the “anyone who is virulently homophobic is likely wrestling with his own homosexuality”\* argument. What a bunch of idiot hypocrites! But, at least it got Esprix to say that it’s ok to be conservative. [sub]\*And those who were turned on by the thought of wrestling with their own homosexuality are _definitely_ gay. Stop denying it.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/7 "2000-10-17T16:58:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Corrado \* > > And yet another incident to add fuel to the “anyone who is virulently homophobic is likely wrestling with his own homosexuality”\* argument. What a bunch of idiot hypocrites! But, at least it got Esprix to say that it’s ok to be conservative. And there’s [scientific proof](http://www.apa.org/releases/homophob.html) of that one, too. Tee hee hee heee. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/8 "2000-10-17T17:18:40Z")
Oil wrestling, John, or mud? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/9 "2000-10-17T17:25:41Z")
Fortunately for us conservatives, Rush Limbaugh was able to run into the woods and evade capture. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/10 "2000-10-17T17:32:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > **Rush Limbaugh was able to run** I could challenge that. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/11 "2000-10-17T17:56:55Z")
\*\*Scylla wrote: Fortunately for us conservatives, Rush Limbaugh was able to run into the woods and evade capture.\*\* Which raises the question, does Rush Limbaugh shit in the woods? No, just all over the microphone. (rim shot!) ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/12 "2000-10-17T18:27:24Z")
Hey Freyr, I saw GG Allen do that on stage. It wasn’t too shocking coming from him and if since it is verbal scatology that you are talking about Rush’s coprophageous spew surprises me none either. HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/13 "2000-10-17T19:07:29Z")
\*\*SqrlCub wrote: Hey Freyr, I saw GG Allen do that on stage. It wasn’t too shocking coming from him and if since it is verbal scatology that you are talking about Rush’s coprophageous spew surprises me none either.\*\* Honestly, I didn’t know I was stealing material. I’d never heard of GG Allen before you mentioned him (her… er it?). Just this image of Rush running naked thru the woods (yeeeeewwwww, doesn’t that make you want to toss your cookies)… and the old joke ran thru my mind after it… and, völia, humor! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/14 "2000-10-17T19:20:56Z")
Sure, have your laugh now. In this week’s issue of the Right Wing Agenda they announced that work was complete on the new hand held Degayifier gun. John Paulk says his regrettable behavior can be attributed to the gun’s “backwash” effect which caught him unexpectedly during testing. “I can assure you that all of the problems have been, Ahem, …straightened out.” You can read about it here: [http://www.imadethisfakelinkup.com](http://www.imadethisfakelinkup.com) ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/15 "2000-10-17T20:27:26Z")
Add Mike Trout to the list of all-too-human radical right spokespersons. A top radio personality of Focus on the Family, he resigned today after admitting to having an inappropriate relationship with a woman other than his wife. Catch the full story [here](http://wire.ap.org/APnews/?SITE=FRPLM&FRONTID=HOME). Regards, MR ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/16 "2000-10-17T20:31:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > > **Rush Limbaugh was able to run** > > I could challenge that. \*\* I don’t know. I watched Tampa Bay play Minnesota on _Monday Night Football_ and Rush was in the Minnesota owner’s box. He looked like he had lost a lot of weight. Not that I despise him any less, you understand. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/17 "2000-10-17T20:45:40Z")
Rush _has_ in fact lost a great deal of weight, which he attributes to a more healthy diet; namely, he sautees babies before he eats them, rather than his old method of deep-fat-frying them. (Not a dittohead, but I _do_ listen to Rush.) ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/18 "2000-10-17T21:13:52Z")
GG Allin. Murder Junkies. SqrlCub you fuckin rock. I’ll never forget/forgive my brother for taking me to a show when I was younger. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/19 "2000-10-18T03:02:56Z")
John, I didn’t expect a Rush Limbaugh joke from **you**!! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255/20 "2000-10-18T03:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > > **Rush Limbaugh was able to run** > > I could challenge that. \*\* Have you seen Rush lately? I don’t know about his politics, but whatever weight loss plan he was on was something else. I bet he can run a decent 100 now. Certainly faster than an undercover cop with Matthew Glavin locked onto his dork. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-chuckle-at-the-expense-of-the-radical-right/37255.md?page=2)