Yeah, but that’s fiction. This is all real reality.
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Well, as I said before, there are a pair of dots way over there belonging to Stephen Gobie and Barney Frank.
Why aren’t you connecting them, praytell?
Well, you’re right, Frank did have a housemate running a gay prostitution ring out of his (Frank’s)home. But given that Frank is openly gay, that part of the scandal doesn’t draw much water. Frank has successfully denied that he knew about the prostitution ring. I personally find that hard to believe – I mean, running a prostitution ring out of one’s HOME and you don’t know about it?
“Steven, why are all these guys sitting in chairs in the parlor?”
“They’ll be gone in just a few minutes, Barney! They have some important, um, meetings to go to. Yeah, meetings.”
Even Gobie makes it clear that he didn’t bring tricks, who by the way were adults, not kids like with Spence, to the apartment when Frank was there. Frank says, whether you believe it or not, that he didn’t know about it until tipped off by the landlord. Perhaps he was willingly overlooking it. But there is no indication that he had actual knowledge even if you believe he should have known the tricks other than Gobie’s claims. Furthermore, Frank fired Gobie after the prostitution gig was exposed. We’ve yet to the Bush Clan fire anyone over these type of things.
Furthermore, and on top of that, it’s the Religious Right and the GOP who campaigns on “family values” and morality issues. If the Democratic Party doesn’t campain on the issue of weeding out obscenity and homosexuality, it’s hardly logical to call them hypocrites when they ignore it. But when you base a significant part of your campaign on the issue of demonizing homosexuals, then you’re found to covort (covertly cavorting) with them, it exposes your hyprocrisy.
Maybe because the thread isn’t about them?
We are talking about connecting those particular dots (Gannon and Spence and the White House etc).
How does dragging in another “scandal” negate the issues at hand?
The “others have done it, so it’s OK” argument doesn’t really fly here (or anywhere, really).