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Published Thursday, 09-Nov-2006 in issue 985
“This is an election unlike any other I have ever participated in. For six years this country has been totally dominated – not by the Republican Party, this is not fair to the Republican Party – by a narrow sliver of the Republican Party, its more right-wing and its most ideological element. When the chips are down, this country has been jammed to the right, jammed into an ideological corner, alienated from its allies, and we’re in a lot of trouble.”
Bill Clinton speaking in Las Vegas Oct. 12, according to The Associated Press.
“Madonna … I just think she’s a vile, hideous, horrible human being with no redeeming qualities. There’s nothing nice about her. I’ve never heard anyone say anything nice about her at all. And anyone that’s ever met her she’s been vile to. Vile, full of herself – so unspiritual. How has this woman got away with it for so long?”
Boy George in a new British Channel 4 documentary, as quoted by The Independent, Oct. 15.
“I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.”
Actor T.R. Knight, who plays Dr. George O’Malley on “Grey’s Anatomy,” to People magazine, Oct. 19.
“[S]ome gay teenagers, having seen one extremely flattering press photo of me (I wish I looked like the picture on my Wikipedia page), send offers, along with pictures or links to MySpace pages. And what do I do with these e-mails? I delete them. … I have to admit to having been tempted – some of these guys are hot and, like [former U.S. Rep. Mark] Foley’s pages, above the age of consent. But it would be professional and personal suicide for me to respond to these e-mails. Imagine the shitstorm if a parent found flirtatious e-mails from the middle-aged, openly gay author of America’s sleaziest sex-advice column on their kid’s computer. And I’m just paranoid enough to suspect that some of these e-mails – particularly the ones from very young boys who attach photos that look a little pornified – are setups. Ruining Rick Santorum’s good name hasn’t exactly endeared me to the knuckle draggers on the far right.”
Syndicated columnist Dan Savage in his Oct. 10 column. (To understand the Santorum reference, see Savage’s www.spreadingsantorum.com.)
“That this [the Mark Foley scandal] happened to the GOP is too, too much. … It was the GOP that cozied up to churches and preachers who likened homosexuals to the vilest people of all time and called on them to cease their wicked ways, go from homosexual to heterosexual, which everyone knows they can do but will not because, apparently, it is easier to be gay and reviled than it is to be straight and comfy about it.”
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, Oct. 17.
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