CNN's Don Lemon: 'Why Are There So Many More Examples of Gay Conservative Closet Cases?'
CNN's Don Lemon on Sunday asked viewers, "Why are there so many more examples of gay conservative closet cases?"
In a segment about homosexual scandals in the Republican Party, Lemon answered his own question saying, "Perhaps the GOP’s own repressive platform is the very thing that forces gay members to live a lie" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
As the segment began, Lemon documented the sexual indiscretions of former Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig as well as former Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley.
Then he turned to Arizona Republican Sheriff Paul Babeu’s recent outing.
After showing footage of Babeu’s press conference on the subject, Lemon said, “To our knowledge, he has never denied being gay, or to our knowledge has he ever pushed for anti-gay measures."
Lemon continued, "He only came out after becoming the subject of an abusive power scandal involving an ex-lover who just happens to be a former staffer and who just happens to be a Mexican national named Jose who says the sheriff and Congressional hopeful threatened to deport him, Jose, if he made their relationship public.”
Following some additional salacious details about Babeu and former Puerto Rico senator Roberto Arango, Lemon said, “To be fair, there are Democrats like Jim McGreevey who were pushed out of the closet. But the question is: why are there so many more examples of gay conservative closet cases? Perhaps the GOP’s own repressive platform is the very thing that forces gay members to live a lie, and wouldn’t it be easier and a whole lot less embarrassing to just come out?”
One might ask why Lemon didn't "come out" until he turned 45.
Also of note, if the Democratic Party is so much more tolerant of LGBT issues, why have so few of its members been openly gay?
In the history of the United States Congress, there have only been three Democrats outed during their service: Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, Jared Polis, and Gerry Studds.
The openly gay Republican Congressmen are Steve Gunderson and Jim Kolbe.
If there are "so many more examples of gay conservative closet cases," wouldn't you imagine that in the history of our Congress, there would be far more outed Democrats?
That's a question the CNN anchor who kept his sexual orientation a secret for the first 45 years of his life chose not to ask or answer.
The original version of this article falsely named Jared Polis as a Republican.
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Do we have any proof that
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:12am.
Do we have any proof that this lemon guy is actually gay? Or is he just pretending so that he can have his own show?
I'm not sure, but I think he
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:14am.
I'm not sure, but I think he had his own show before he came out. Maybe he did it to up the ratings?
He's gayer than the Jack of
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:17am.
He's gayer than the Jack of Hearts, and he's really proud of it too!!! So much so, that he wants EVERYBODY to know about it, and integrate it into their lifestyles. That's why he can't figure out why the gay Republicans aren't like he is...........
The real question is why are
Submitted by kg on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:14am.
The real question is why are so many liberal journalists infatuated with homosexuality.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
^^Like^^
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:24pm.
In lieu of the much-needed like button.
Lemon should have Congressman Eric Massa on
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:33am.
as a guest. I'm sure that Democrat could enlighten him on closeted gays:
http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/eric-massa.htm
It's gay this or gay that
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:16am.
It's gay this or gay that with this idiot. Everything and everyone has a gay component or agenda. Why doesn't he just do the news, who the h*ll cares that he shoves himself up into another guy (or vice-versa)? Why do we have to accept the fact he's gay? Moron.
"One might ask why Lemon
Submitted by forest on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:37am.
"One might ask why Lemon didn't "come out" until he turned 45."
I'm a 40-something white guy and just noticed something recently. Over half of my friends and acquaintances who are black are also gay - both men and women. Why is that?
And how did the amendment prohibiting gay marriage pass in ultra-liberal California, which is also rich in "people of color"? Why is that?
I reckon it's because the "black community" and the "Latin-American community" are less tolerant of gays than the "old white guys" of the Republican party.
It's the elephant in the room that needs to be acknowledged.
Some truth there...
Submitted by Fenwick on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:22am.
I remember a black gay comedian once saying that it's easier to "be black" than it is to "be gay" because, "... When you're black, you don't have to think about how you're going to tell your mother!"
Come to think of it, black Republicans could probably say the same thing!
another issue with Lemon
Submitted by OffTheLows on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:48am.
is that this segment he has about no talking points is slanted with subject matter that is from a liberal point of view being critical of conservatives. It would be interesting the chronicle all of these segments and their subject matter.
So, Don
Submitted by panzerakc on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:08am.
Perhaps there really aren't more "gay conservative closet cases".
Perhaps it's just that when the MSM discovers a closeted gay conservative, they trumpet it across the airwaves ad nauseum. Perhaps it's just the fact that the MSM talks about these closeted gay conservatives so much just makes it seems that there are more of those than, I dunno, closeted gay liberals.
First Axiom
Submitted by CJohnson on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:08am.
Frankly Don, I don't give a damn.
Hey Don, why do you think it's politics?
Submitted by KyWriter on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:48am.
Maybe gay Republicans just don't want to associate with obnoxious, prosetylizing queens like you.
Studds v Foley
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:55am.
It must be said that Studds actually got away with what Foley was only accused of.
McGreevey
Submitted by LaVallette on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 3:31am.
What does the outing of ex Governor Jim McGreevey of New jersey say about the Democractic Party's "own repressive platform is the very thing that forces gay members to live a lie, and wouldn’t it be easier and a whole lot less embarrassing to just come out?".
Maybe because it does not matter in the public arena?
Submitted by octavioj on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:24am.
Perhaps the Republicans think, following their ideology, the it does not matter what they do in the confines of their bedroom? That they, as individuals, not a class of citizens, are the import of the party and not the policies of grievances? Just maybe?
Exactly
Submitted by Fenwick on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:34am.
Plus, the grief that gay conservatives get from people who will never accept them because they are gay is NOTHING compared to the chastisement they receive from their hypocritically intolerant gay and liberal friends who can never accept that they have a different world view (ie. one that does not require that they play the "victim" who needs the big, strong State to look after them).
Money Quote
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:19am.
One might ask why Lemon didn't "come out" until he turned 45.
Point, set, match.
Lemon
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:24am.
Perhaps it's because only the left feels compelled to tell the world what they do in their private lives and conservatives care about privacy rather than publicity about their own personal lives.
Poor Lemon, he sees the world through his privates.
Lemon is living a lie. People
Submitted by Old Europe on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:07am.
Lemon is living a lie. People are not born gay, just like they are not born alcoholics or heavy metal fans. It is a lifestyle choice brought about sexual abuse in childhood and dysfunctional families, i.e. growing up with a missing parent. 85% of black children a born out of wedlock. Thanks, Democrats, for replacing the father with a welfare check.
Check out those testimonies of people who overcame the gay lifestyle; something GLAAD and Lemon don't want you to hear about:
http://www.xpmedia.com/?s=gay
That's an over generalization
Submitted by Fenwick on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:26am.
You can argue the nature vs. nurture thing all day long but no one explanation applies to everyone.
Gonna have to BS on this one
Submitted by T Walt on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:56pm.
"a lifestyle choice brought about sexual abuse in childhood and dysfunctional families"
Most gay people I know absolutely do not fit this profile, including two in my family who were brought up in very caring environments.
And there aint no way in hell you'll ever convince me that a guy can look at another guys ass and think "mmm I gotta get me some a dat" unless he's wired that way.
You can argue all you want about the morality issue and if maybe they should obstain if they want to be "good Christians" or whatever, but the orientation issue is not up for debate.
You''ll have to ignore Old
Submitted by goldwater89 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 4:06pm.
You''ll have to ignore Old Europe. He subscribes to the debunked "born gay" theory.
Liberals are easy to categorize.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:10am.
I just start out assuming that the vast majority of them are homosexual, probably because they think that it is cool.
Then every now and then, one will be outed as a raging heterosexual horn dog, a la JFK, Clinton, and even that old closet massage-a-nist, Algore!
In the interest of full disclosure, I just want to go on record as saying that I am a raging homosapien, and I once dated a girl who was a thespian. We participated in premarital, heterosexual, interdigitation a lot, however, but we eventually found that it wasn't enough to fulfill our deepest needs, so we faced the truth.
Thanks, Don. You're right! It is so much better to be "out."
"massage-a-nist"
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:02am.
Tres bon, Bubba.
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So are you going to tell us
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:52pm.
So are you going to tell us what the 'truth' is, bubba??? Don't be such a tease!! Sometimes the journey is more fun than the destination............
And on another note, I think I had a comment deleted here - I was the first poster on this thread - and I used a word that Ann Coulter used to describe John 'the Breck Girl' Edwards...........but I thought I used it in a context that fit what I was trying to say. Evidently not!!!
Welcome to the club, Killa!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 4:05pm.
You got booted over the Breck Girl? I hope that at least you got a good shot in before they whacked you.
I seem to recall that you went ugly early on this blog, but I don't remember it being THAT bad.
Now ... you want the truth? You want the truth? You can't stand the truth!!
Let's just say that all of that interdigitatin' was making other body parts match the glow of my blue eyes. It was a time and a place when boys were horny and girls were very proper, so I had to move on to someone that was "more cooperative." Someone older and more wise took advantage of me and had her way.
I still love both of them, but for different reasons, and dats duh troof.
You can't HANDLE da
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 4:52pm.
You can't HANDLE da troof!!!!
And, by the way, I think 'thespian' is the way Bawney Fwank pronounces 'lesbian'......................
Only when his mouth is full.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:00pm.
!!
Squeeze
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:40am.
"Perhaps the GOP’s own repressive platform is the very thing that forces gay members to live a lie"
Maybe like Black conservatives they get eviscerated by their own group, eh Lemon? Everyone knows, if your Gay/Black and not a libtard, then you aint Gay/Black enough.
Just look at yourself Lemon, do you think you would have much of a "journalist" career, if'n you weren't Black and Gay?
I think
Submitted by bobsmom on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:45am.
there are probably as many gay conservatives as there are liberals, I just believe conservatives prefer to keep their private lives just that, private. For a group of people who are always screaming about keeping us out of their bedrooms, they surely do their level best to provide us a continual ringside seat.
⇒ How old is the President?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:50am.
I'm just sayin'
Isn't the term "closet" a reference to keeping it hidden?
are you sayin obama is gay -
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:29am.
are you sayin obama is gay - that would explain mooshelle...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
President Mom Jeans
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:01pm.
Let's face it, this is the most effeminate U.S. President in history and I even include Carter who was once scared out of his overalls by an angry rabbit! I think at the very least he's a switch hitter--just look at the way he throws a baseball, and he always seems to swishing and sashaying about...
Wo wo wo!!! Now hold on a
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:04pm.
Wo wo wo!!! Now hold on a minute!! I've read that Boy Barry worked HARD on his 'swagga', with the express purpose of looking manly and macho!!! With that in mind, I can only imagine how he walked before his handlers told him to re-invent his sashay......
It's not that more liberals have been outed
Submitted by John Francroix Jr on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:53am.
It's that more conservatives get caught doing gay things, only to insist that secret airport bathroom toe tapping and texting sexually explicit messages to teenage congressional pages isn't actually gay.
As long as treatment is being pursued.
why are you gay lovers so
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:33am.
why are you gay lovers so obsessed with conservative gays - should we perhaps be more active outing closet pro-lifers in the liberal crowd?
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Those are pretty egregious examples
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:50am.
Way worse than Democrats committing statutory rape on an underage, male Page or having a boyfriend running a male whore house out of the basement of his home.
Well hell, Junior.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:12pm.
Bubba Clinton says that BJ's aren't "sex-sex." Baaney says dat paying for gay escorts isn't willy pwostitution. JFK didn't really cheat with an underage page in the pool. He was just teaching her to "breath through her ears."
So exactly what is the definition of "gay things?"I really don't know anymore.
All I know is that liberal gays are very proud of their "lifestyle," and want to share the details with everyone, while conservative gays seem to want to keep their sex life private, the bastards!
Leave it to the Jr. French
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:55pm.
Leave it to the Jr. French Fry to make some idiotic snide statement............that's his main specialty.............and not follow up with anything of substance.
Got anything from, say, the current decade?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:16pm.
.
Re: Lemon Squeezer
Submitted by richard on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:17am.
Well stated killa.......The main problem with these gay/lesbos is that they just can't be satisfied living their life style as any straight individual does on a daily basis. They have this need to demonstrate an in-your-face attitude with their sexual choice, rather than do what most normal people do, they just live their life in a respectful manner.
Idiots like Don Lemon, just can't be satisfied that they live in a country that allows them to have sex with any cooperative human they choose. Instead, they need to push their agenda down the throats of others, as though that will gain them respect from everyone for their life style. It just doesn't happen that way, Don. Be thankfull for what you've got and feel lucky you don't live in the muslim world, other wise, you'd be standing on the gallows.
Thanks, richard - I'm glad
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:58pm.
Thanks, richard - I'm glad you agree, but apparantly my comment didn't last through the night!!! But I think the NB thread watchers know I'm prone to a little 'animation' once in a while - especially late at night over here in Asia/Hawaii!!!
Just a matter of time before
Submitted by celator on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:58am.
Just a matter of time before CNN does a story on "Secret Vampires In The GOP: When Will They Admit It?"
or
"GOP Continues To Deny They Are All Werewolves"
Just sayin' . . .
Submitted by Lakewood Ed on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:05am.
It's easier to tell your conservative friends you're gay than to tell your gay friends you're conservative.
You'll probably find more 'acceptance' with conservatives than with gays.
so
Submitted by sarainitaly on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:08am.
true!
lemon laws
Submitted by sarainitaly on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:07am.
"One might ask why Lemon didn't "come out" until he turned 45."
I was going to say the same thing! This is insane...
And Paul had listed on his profile that he was an *out* gay. Maybe some people just don't feel the need to wear their sexual preference on their sleeve, or put themselves into a box.
In a box
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:05pm.
Lemon will definitely never put himself "in a box."
⇒ Lemon's a two-fer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:43am.
Like Maddow, Lemon's a two-fer. Really pads the diversity footprint at MSNBC.
Not sure if Anderson Cooper helps out over a CNN, what with him being in sort of a fugue state.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure Lemon makes the big bucks (literally) over at CNN.
Hey, cool, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:00pm.
... do you think that Anderson and Don ever fugue each other?
⇒ You mean
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:03pm.
Drift in and out of each others' moonscapes? Possibly.
The moon???? I thought it was
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:00pm.
The moon???? I thought it was Uranus.
⇒ Not mine, thank you
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:03pm.
there's a tattoo on the left slope that clearly states "Exit Only!"
And for some jaded reason you
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:22pm.
And for some jaded reason you felt the need to admit this??? It's still coffee time here, Cool!!!
I'm beginning to worry about you two.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:13pm.
*
Like I told you earlier, meat
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:39pm.
Like I told you earlier, meat - you can't handle the TROOF!!!!!
"As the segment began, Lemon
Submitted by redfish on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:31pm.
"As the segment began, Lemon documented the sexual indiscretions of former Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig..."
Do we know yet whether the charges against Craig are true?
⇒ As the segment began
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:41pm.
Lemon experienced mild discomfort.
Lemon
Submitted by mmilesll on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:18pm.
There is an old racist joke about a gay black that all of us already know so I don't have to tell it here. All I can say is that not only does his name say it all-Lemon, but if he wonders why most Americans despise "gays" like him. Obnoxious and in your face. That says it all. Of course he is supposed to be a "journalist", but he doesn't have to be because he is a gay black and nobody better bother him. What an a hole.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:21pm.
He's a real newsman!!!
Inside The Mind of a Lemon...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:40pm.
Imagine living a life when everything must be seen thru a lens with a penis drawn on it.
IMO, that's the most demented thing about people like Lemon: something you actually only spend a miniscule amount of doing (having "sex") becomes your whole identity and reason for existing. It's incredibly shallow and frankly psychotic.
Reason For Existing
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:44pm.
Seems like this guy's only purpose in life is to bash the right, be they straight or gay. Everyone knows only one gay can speak ill of another gay, similar to only blacks can use the n-word.
But we all know what it means.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Lemon wants to have a discussion on Gay's living a lie?
Submitted by OxyCon on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:49pm.
Lemon was raped by a homosexual from the time he was 5 years old until he was 13 years old, so let's have a discussion about that. Was Lemon Gay before he was raped by a homosexual as a child? Or is he gay because of the sex abuse he suffered?
Yes, but Olbermann was never actually charged.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:15pm.
.
spayneuterlibs
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 3:55pm.
HA HA HA HA HA
Good one...
We have a closet case in the
Submitted by tobiasdog on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:56pm.
We have a closet case in the White House now, with a body count to boot!
Jared Polis is a Republican!? ROFL!
Submitted by Winghunter on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 3:57pm.
Polis is one of the most infamous multi-millionaire Commies who turned a red state (CO) blue with the treasonous assistance of others just like him.
The Blueprint: How Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)
http://www.redstate.com/nedryun/2010/04/14/the-blueprint-how-the-democra...
"Along with Tim Gill, Jared Polis, and Pat Stryker, Bridges has been named as one of the "four millionaires" responsible for donating large sums of money through 527 groups to Democratic Party-related causes in Colorado. They are credited with helping the Democrats to win control of the Colorado General Assembly in 2004." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutt_Bridges
Simple question gets a simple answer.
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 4:26pm.
'Why Are There So Many More Examples of Gay Conservative Closet Cases?'
Ummm, because conservatives actually believe in privacy.
Duh.
Gays on the Attack and under Attack
Submitted by berlet98 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 5:19pm.
Gays on the Attack and under Attack
Few people would contest the fact that homosexuals have made enormous strides over the last forty years in gaining both acceptablility in America’s straight world, advances unimaginable prior to the Stonewall Riots in 1969.
Those upheavals in New York City’s Greenwich Village in turn led homosexuals to promote the misnomer “gay” and emboldened them to successfully intimidate the American Psychiatric Association into changing its long-standing diagnosis of homosexuality as a deviant mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to a variation on the norm.
Forced re-definitions rarely result in alterating realities.
Still, especially in the last decade, gays have succeeded in changing reality and making themselves very visible, if not normal.
. They have become virtual staples on television sitcoms and have evolved into an almost-obsessive subject on crime shows such as NBC’s “Law and Order.”
. They have won the right to marry in six states and have been integrated into the United States military.
. They have won the right to adopt babies and young children in some states despite evidence those kids are often sexually abused.
. They have a president who has vowed to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and who has filled his administration with more outed gays than you could shake a feather boa at.
. They sponsor Gay Pride Weeks and gay parades in a number of cities, weeks and parades filled with obscene public exhibitionism and campaigns to seduce young people into their aberrant lifestyle.
(All of the above have been detailed and documented in earlier posts on this blogsite.)
When Barack Hussein Obama’s Justice Department announced last Friday that it would not defend a case involving a constitutional challenge to same-sex mariages, the DoJ virtually assured the nation that DOMA will be repealed should Obama win a second term. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=13681.)
Or alternatively, some people should MYOB about sexuality.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:25pm.
Why are you crying, Don? He didn't make a pass at you?
There are a lot of people who believe sexuality is a private matter and not open to discussion with others. These people have diplomacy, tact and dignity--all qualities which are lacking in you, Don. Braying publicly about what you do with your genitals shows you are strictly a no-class act. If you want to be the genital police, become a urologist.