Tonight, Tonight
Feb 28th, 2006 at 11:01 am by Susie
Tonight is the other Drinking Liberally - at Tangier, 18th & Lombard, Philadelphia. (Monday night is Johnny Brenda’s.) Here’s the email I got this morning from Will Weltman, our new organizer:
Special Drinking Liberally Meet the Press Roundtable tonight featuring John McCain (Maverick Senator from Arizona), Joe Lieberman (Republocrat from Connecticut), Mary Matalin (Wicked Witch of the West), and Ken Mehlman(Ace of the Ambiguously Gay Duo).
Featured Topics:
1. Even though everything in this country is controlled by Republicans, why are the Democrats leading us in the wrong direction?
2. Even though the Democrats are leading us in the wrong direction, why can’t they come up with any ideas?
Will’s Note: None of the above mentioned guests have actually been contacted or confirmed for tonight’s roundtable, but like a good Bushie, if you repeat it enough, it will become true.
We do have two confirmed guests tonight returning from that Socialist Bastion of Evil run by that Evil Hugo “I am evil because I give gas away for free to the poor” Chavez.
Richard Cranium and Somegirl make their return to Tangier tonight, for some good Capitalist hot wings.
Hope to see you tonight,
Will
Why do you and a variety of other liberal bloggers persist in thinking that calling someone gay, with an implicit snigger attached, is some kind of political criticism? That kind of bullshit is completely unacceptable. Please stop it.
Eli, I strongly disagree. Why wouldn’t I make fun of a closeted gay man who’s fighting so hard for the right-wing agenda that discriminates against so many gay citizens - and whose beloved party implies they’re doing God’s work while they’re stomping on their civil rights? Mehlman’s a joke and should be treated as such.
Where are you meeting tonight?
Tuesday, Marti Gras?
Since neither I (nor, I presume, you or Will) knows that Ken Mehlman is gay, sniggering about his being gay is nothing more than anti-gay bigotry, whatever his hypocrisy level is. Surely his hypocrisy and venality is no greater, and no less despicable, than any other member of the administration or anyone else who supports an anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-people, pro-war agenda. Call him a “pompous ass” if you like. Call him a “blithering idiot,” or a “goddamned hypocrite,” or a “dangerous right-winger,” or any of a hundred other things. But calling him gay, when you don’t even know that he is, is just out of line. And, worse, it feeds the common perception that there really is “something wrong with that,” no matter what you (or Jerry Seinfeld) says.