Look who’s coming to dinner

Dowd feasting on Sully's brain?

As if we needed any more proof that the press is going to be the real lap dog that Obama adopts as his White House pet, he held court with some “liberal” members of the press recently:

9:45 a.m., in the transition office, President-elect Obama, meeting with: the Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, CNN’s Roland Martin, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post’s Gene Robinson, the Boston Globe’s Derrick Z. Jackson, the one and only Maureen Dowd, the New York Times’s Frank Rich, the Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib, Atlantic political director Ron Brownstein, USA Today’s DeWayne Wickham and columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.

If there was ever a list of more loathsome hacks, I’ve never seen one.   Roland Martin, Gene Robinson, and all the other race baiters were there.   Gay traitors Rachel Maddow and Andrew Sullivan were also in attendance.  And, of course, anti-feminist and CDS poster child Maureen Dowd.  Could there have been a LESS progressive gathering of minds?  And this was the liberal crowd. 

Obama had dinner with the conservative propaganda elite several nights ago:

Politico has a list of attendees at the dinner of conservative writers that President-elect Obama attended last night at George Will’s home.

They were: Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Larry Kudlow, David Brooks, Rich Lowry, Peggy Noonan, Michael Barone, and Paul Gigot.

Even though most of these people actually consider themselves “journalists”, don’t expect them to kiss and tell, especially not Andrew “bareback” Sullivan:

Andrew Sullivan on today’s meeting: “It was totally off the record and I’m a stickler for those rules.

Although he does give us an indication of what it feels like to service the President Elect:

it’s hard to express the relief I feel that this man will be the president soon. I realize that’s what I feel above all else: relief.”

And what I feel above all else is an overwhelming desire to vomit….but at least one person felt like maintaining an iota of integrity:

The Times’s Paul Krugman was invited, but did not attend.

And who could blame him.  What serious minded journalist would want to be seen with that crowd anyway?

Dueling Propagandists

One of the things that sucks about being gay these days is that now neither side wants to have anything to do with us.  The so called “liberal”  Obamists have effectively told us to go to the back of the bus, while the right wing nuts think we’re out to take over the country with our “gay agenda”.  I noticed the propaganda wing of both of these camps reported on the same story today; Obama and “Don’t ask, don’t tell”.  And they couldn’t have come to more different conclusions.

First, there was this CNN.com title:

Obama aide: Ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ must wait”

Meanwhile Foxnews.com is reading it in an entirely different way:

Obama to End Military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy

I think the CNN version is closer to what is really going to happen .  I mean they are basically the propaganda outfit of the Obama regime, so I bet they’re putting out there whatever is being told to them.  However, neither story is concerned with the actual truth about what will happen to the policy.  What is important is getting the message out to two different audiences.  In the case of the CNN article, it is putting forth the Obama excuse of the economy to their gay constituents to conveniently kick the ball down the field, which they will do until they are out of office.  For Fox, it’s all about getting the “culture wars” going again with the evangelicals, because it really helps their ratings.

They both pretty much get the kernel of what happened.  On some youtube video, Obama Spokesman Robert Gibbs comments on DADT.  From the Fox article:

“Thadeus of Lansing, Mich., asks, ‘Is the new administration going to get rid of the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy?’” said Gibbs, looking into the camera. “Thadeus, you don’t hear a politician give a one-word answer much. But it’s, ‘Yes.’”

Fox leaves it at that giving the fundies notice that the culture war is back on…

The startling pronouncement, which could re-open a dormant battle in the culture wars and distract from other elements of Obama’s agenda…

CNN, on the other hand, follows through with Gibbs’ addendum to his statement:

Gibbs on Wednesday expanded on his answer, saying, “There are many challenges facing our nation now and the president-elect is focused first and foremost on jump-starting this economy.

“So not everything will get done in the beginning but he’s committed to following through” with ending the policy against being openly gay in the military.

In other words, not gonna happen gays. not now, not ever. They don’t really believe that DADT has anything to do with the economy.  They’re going to use the “economy did it” excuse for not doing anything that they promised to anyone.  (In fact, I bet the only thing anyone in DC is doing right now is salivating over the nearly one trillion dollars which is about to find its way down the rabbit  hole and into the pocket of every weasel in the city.)  I mean, wouldn’t repealing the ban actually save money?  No more lengthy and expensive trials trying to prove someone is gay or not.  And no more shortages of essential military personnel, such as Arabic translators. But they aren’t going to come right out and tell gays they don’t give a shit about them.  Just like they don’t give a shit about women, or latinos, or black people, or any other member of their coalition except those with gigantic bank accounts.   But they’ll lie through their teeth to them to keep them in line.  And they’ve got CNN to conveniently get the message out there.

In reality this story isn’t really even news at all.  Anyone paying attention should know that Obama’s deflection of yet another campaign promise has been known for months (this is from Nov. 21):

President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military’s decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.

Actually, they’ve even said that it might have to wait until Obama’s second term.  Whatever it takes to keep stringing the gays along.   I guess we’re supposed to be grateful that he’s even talking about us.

The Obama press has simultaneously been promoting the fact that gay Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson will speak at a “pre-inaugural” event, which I guess is supposed to make us feel petty and stupid for complaining about the fact that he’s having a hatemonger and a bigot give a prayer on the actual day of the inauguration.   In fact one stupid gay guy over at the The Washington Blade is in ecstasy:

Obama answers our prayers

After weeks of stinging criticism over his selection of Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation, President-elect Barack Obama has chosen gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to offer a prayer at a Sunday event. Robinson will address a crowd from the Lincoln Memorial at an official inaugural event that Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are expected to attend.

This is a welcome development that gays should applaud. Robinson’s presence will allow fellow gay Americans to see themselves reflected in next week’s historic inaugural festivities.

Of course this is not in response to the Warren invite, in fact it had been planned beforehand, as one of Mr. Naff’s readers points out to him:

Eddie89 on 1/13/09 4:28 PM:
	From what I’ve read, Gene Robinson was ALREADY selected to give a prayer! This was nothing new and was certainly NOT in response to his selection of Rick Warren!

But I’m sure even a good smack of reality like that is still not good enough to get guys like Naff up off of their kness, from their,  er,…praying to the gay messiah and see the truth.

Ah, the truth.  It’s getting harder and harder to recognize these days.  So here’s the actual video of Gibbs, judge for  yourself:

Of course this is a rethorical flim flam.  We don’t want a short answer.  That gives you too many outs later (like we saw with his follow up).  What we want is to be treated with dignity and respect and not just fed political doublespeak.  And until we ALL start standing up and demanding just that, this is all we’re EVER going to get.

SILENCE=DEATH