As I was driving back from a school event late last night, I was flipping through the AM dial. Passing Mark Levin, Michael Savage, and James Dobson, I stopped at the one "liberal" channel. Randi Rhodes was talking about how the Republicans have tried to stall the defense appropriations bill because it contains a (unrelated to defense spending, and constitutionally dubious because it punishes thought and not action, but
whatever) hate-crimes provision. In the midst of her "the Republicans hate gays more than they love troops" rant (probably true, but also, whatever), Rhodes played an audio clip from Representation Louie Gohmert (R-Tx) in which Gohmert
did the usual song-and-dance about how "sexual orientation" means all sorts of things, many of which are criminal, and if we give civil rights to criminals where will it all end?
Rhode's reaction was priceless, though. "My God, what is it with these Republicans and their obsession with kinky sex? I'm starting to have respect for
John Ensign, at least he had ordinary sex. Not with his spouse, but okay.
It's like, you google for 'necrophilia' and 'bestiality' and you get more hits on Republican speeches than you do Japanese porn!"
I had to turn it off at that point or I was going to run off the road laughing.
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