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IN-08: Bizarre Hostettler Radio Ad Says Dems Will "Advance Homosexual Agenda"

By Greg Sargent - October 24, 2006, 12:57PM

This is a good one. GOP Rep. John Hostettler, who's floundering in the polls against Dem Brad Ellsworth, has just launched a radio ad claming Dems are plotting to advance the "homosexual agenda." As music sounding like something out of a Clint Eastwood movie soundtrack plays in the background, a narrator who's meant to be spoofing Dirty Harry intones about what will happen if Dems take the House. "Speaker Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda, led by Barney Frank, reprimanded by the House after paying for sex with a man who ran a gay brothel out of Congressman Frank's home," the narrator says. "I know what you're thinking. Is this true? Well, do you feel lucky? Go ahead, vote for Brad Ellsworth. Make Nancy Pelosi's day." Listen to the ad here.

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The "homosexual agenda" being equal rights, yeah. How dare they accuse Democrats of actually having the gonads to stand up for what they believe is right! Unfortunately, such an accusation is completely unfounded and baseless.

Posted by El Bruce
October 24, 2006 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
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The 'homosexual agenda' - if there is such a thing - is a lot more about finding a sofa to match the curtains than it is converting your children to their 'lifestyle'.

The GOP - the party of 'smear and fear the queer'.

Posted by renato
October 24, 2006 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Cafe Now

The "homosexual agenda" started with the movie, "The Gay Divorcee", it was then followed by the Lassie movies (a cross dressing collie), and then, let's not forget the Enola GAY.

Posted by CafeNow
October 24, 2006 1:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Nothing says strong in the stirrups like man talking about gay brothels over cowboy music. Whoo-ee.

Posted by dbt
October 24, 2006 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Huh? I thought we Dems have no agenda!
Suddenly there's a nefarious plot to turn Capitol Hill into Brokeback Mountain. Make up yer minds and let us know, GOPhers. Send pervy Jeff Gannon over with yer final answer.

Posted by Poindexter
October 24, 2006 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
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So is Hostettler for or against the reverse cowgirl? Inquiring minds want to know.

[They also want to know why the comment rating system has been bOrken for the past several days. Is this also part of San Francisco (gay) liberal (gay) Nancy (nancy boy) Pelosi's (sarcoma) radical liberal (homosexual) homosexual (liberal) agenda?]

Posted by apodaca
October 24, 2006 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
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It's not just gay people they're attacking:

"Detroit liberal John Conyers" -- sounds like they want to keep dem dere colored people in their place.

What trash. I can't believe there's still overt racism in US politics...

Posted by eightball0
October 24, 2006 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Indeed, if the comment system were fixed I would have up-rated your post...

Posted by eightball0
October 24, 2006 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Won't this almost obviously backfire by reminding voters of the Mark Foley congressional page scandal?

The reverse ad would be easy: "Speaker Hastert, who lives together with his Chief of Staff in a D.C. townhouse, covered up for Republican congressman Mark Foley while he continually had inappropriate contact with boys who had served as House pages."

"I know what you're thinking. Is this true? Well, do you feel lucky? Go ahead, vote for John Hostettler. Make Denny Hastert's day."

Posted by ohiomeister
October 24, 2006 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Oh man, can we get those guys to come do some campaign radio ads for Hastert?

Posted by Carolyn
October 24, 2006 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
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OM, Speaker Dennis Hastert live in a menage a trois with his chief of staff, Scott Palmer, and his deputy chief of staff, Mike Stokke. Sorry but I don't know how to do accents grave.

I don't know anything about Mike Stokke but I'm pretty sure Scott Palmer is gay. Palmer loves shopping, gardening and the opera, according to one profile.

Posted by mrs panstreppon
October 24, 2006 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
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You're on the trail of something with the last. Herman Kahn once told the SAC targeters "Gentlement, you do not have a war plan. You have wargasm."

Need I mention that the "Little Boy" was the...cough...gun-type bomb dropped by Enola Gay? As opposed to "Fat Man" used on Nagasaki, it was a long cylinder...

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Howard

*equal opportunity offense to both extremes*

Posted by hcberkowitz
October 24, 2006 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
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I'm still trying to think how the agenda would be written consistently with Robert's Rules of Order. Alternatively, since we have been touching on Congress, Jefferson's Rules.

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Howard

*equal opportunity offense to both extremes*

Posted by hcberkowitz
October 24, 2006 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink

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