If he were interviewing a guy married to another guy who allegedly groped a female staffer the question “are you straight?” (or maybe “are you bi?”) would make just as much sense.
Think that’s bad? Here in Ontario, there are judicial officials whose official title is “Master” (they rank below judges and deal with certain types of motions, scheduling and the like); and the official form of address to such a person is “Master [last name]”.
No end of hilarity ensues when a Black lawyer is in attendence, given that much of the dialogue in such procedures consists, basically, in variations on “Yes, Master [Smith], I will certainly follow your Orders”. 
It would be just as funny if the Master himself were Black, giving orders to White lawyers, but generally Masters I have seen have all been grumpy old White guys (I’d be grumpy too if I did scheduling all day).
Right — well maybe I’ll give you 3 viable answers. No, yes, or GFY. It seems he hit none of them here (or, as someone said, kinda tried to hit all 3).
And yes “If you think I’m gay, ask my friends in the Navy” isn’t a Perry Mason kinda argument.
To be fair, it could just be force of habit – maybe he’d dance around the question “Does the Sun rise in the east?” just as perplexingly.
Massa wasn’t on Anderson Cooper in person last night but they played clips of him and in one he mentioned a ‘Navy ritual’ of tickling other guys. David Gergen, who served in the Navy during the 60s, said this was news to him.
Of course Massa also may or may not have terminal cancer, may or may not be the subject of a Left Wing conspiracy* due to his objection to health care, may or may not be under ethics investigation for playing grabass with male employees and may or may not be under ethics investigation for financial improprieties, it depends on the moment and what story he’s telling. (When Glenn Beck and Nancy Pelosi both agree somebody’s a sad pathetic unreliable nutcase attention must be paid.)
*As if the Left Wing could conspire- it’s the worst thing about them. Most couldn’t manage to play grabass with themself unless they had a committee meeting first. Then they’d probably hit themself in the nuts.
Somebody on Morning Joe* made a tagline out of it and went around rasping in a high obnoxious voice, “ARE YOU GAAAY?! ARE YOU GAAAY?!”
*An early morning show on MSNBC, an obscure cable network.
Gwine away? I thought he was in de cold, cold ground!
De verdict was de blue-tail fly.
etc.
Naturally, some will say that Pelosi payed off the navy boys for dishing dirt on Massa.
Well there’s the added question here. If you’re a man, and when drunk at a party you say to another man “I should frack you”, you’re fairly likely a latent homosexual?
He didn’t serve on swiftboats, perchance?
OK, now that gives me a lot of respect for him. Ladies and gentlemen, a politician elected to high office has actually used Battlestar Galactica slang, and been reported in the news as doing so. My nerd brothers and sisters, we have arrived.
Oh, and he’s apparently gay, too? Who gives a frak about that?
Not me, but he should stop playing games and just cop to it.
I have some respect for that right winger in California who got busted outside the gay club because he at least didn’t try to deny it, or weasel it, or qualify it, or dance around or prevaricate, or blame the alcohol or anything else politicians (or mega-church pastors) do when they get caught with teh ghey. He just straight up admitted he was gay without qualification. His career is probably still over (at least as a Republican), but he kept a lot of dignity by not playing games. The “wide stance” kind of bullshit never fools anybody anyway.
Oh, you silly punster!
Man, this guy is some kind of crazy. He’s all over the frackin’ map, contradicting himself about every other minute.
Cue the chorus: In the Navy!
I think it was over anyway, because of term limits or some such. At any rate, he was not running for re-election before the gay bar event.
Like I said, saying “ask the 10,000 guys I served with in the Navy” was a very bad idea.
I dunno if he’s gay or not, but after reading this thread I really, really want tamales.
Please-you get in a few tickle fights and undo a few guys’ pants and they label you a homosexual?
It seems to me that Massa is not so much denying it as just having a meltdown. I know some of his supporters personally, and was planning to attend one of his fundraisers (prior to all this stuff). He seemed like a fairly principled guy based on what I heard about him and his vote on healthcare reform. I think that he’s just overwhelmed and won’t be a reliable source of information for the next few weeks.
He might be gay or bi, probably is, but the Democratic leadership has every reason to want him out. He’s a progressive who refused to compromise, and he’s in a hotly contested district for 2010.
Am I gay? Ask the guys down at the leather bar. Ask the guy fellating me under the table as we speak.