The Body Person

As my longtime readers know, I rarely comment on what right-wing blogs do. They're witting tools of the Republican smear machines, they just make shit up. So I ignore them.

But occasionally something comes along that's so outrageous, I have to say something.

The wack job who writes (I use the term loosely) over at Atlas Shrugged is doing her best to pump new life into the "Hillary is a lesbian" rumor, using this dumb quote from the Village Voice's Michael Musto as her foundation:

As I recently said on MONICA CROWLEY's radio show, whisper campaigns are claiming that HILLARY CLINTON is GAYLE KING-ing her aide de camp, the glamorous HUMA ABEDIN, an Indian/Pakistani goddess from Kalamazoo, Michigan. In other words, Hillary may be putting Huma out there in the press and purposely making her more visible as a pre-emptive strike that amounts to her hiding in plain sight. This way, no Republican can later say, "Who is this gorgeous babe who spends so much intimate time with Hillary that the Observer called her Hill's 'body person'?

Well, I just had to laugh. Having just come off a stint as a campaign staffer, I happen to know what a "body person" is. It's someone who travels everywhere with the candidate. The job description is to take business cards, handle followup thank yous, keep the press out of the candidate's face, etc. - basically, the all-around non-strategic staffer. They work 18-hour days, and they're picked on the basis of 1) appearance and 2) how well the candidate gets along with them, since they spend so much time together.

So Musto is a moron, and the rest of the people who ran with the innuendo are morons, too. I especially like how this hack writes, "And if anyone would know, wouldn't it be the king - er, queen - of the Village Voice."

Yeah, because we've never known a gay person with overactive gaydar. Right.

The wack job even links to a picture of Huma Abedin "trailing" Clinton. Hey, dipshit - that's what the body person is supposed to do! It's in the job description!

"Intimate time." "Body person." What a bunch of panty-sniffing creeps these people are.

Comments

[realitytrumpsbull]

Let the propaganda festival begin... I think
Bushererer wants to turn the military loose
on the public in the blogosphere, to try
and reinforce their bullshit, they may have
stealth underwear, but the supporting arguments
for the war are 'resting, and taking fluids'.

9 trillion and counting, no public accountability, runaway pro-war attitudes,
and we're not much closer to being independent
of the oil AND the oil money that brought all
of this B.S. about to begin with. Nationally,
we're being played for stupid by some very
professional hucksters who have NO problem
with running a ripoff game against the
public at-large for as long and as for as
much money as they can manage.

Who are you supposed to vote for, write to,
if you want to see an end to all of this?
Pelosi folded up like a cheap kite, who else
IS there to bend down and pick that impeachment
resolution up off the floor and re-present
it to our representatives?

If you would vote 'aye' on impeachment, do
so at:

http://www.impeachbush.org
or other website of your preference.

[HeresJohnny]

I looked up Huma in Google Image search and all I can say is, WOW. She is a stunning woman. All the innuendo around Hillary is a pile of crap, though. Try cleaning your own house first, republicant's.

[MidnightRambler]

You would think they would be more concerned with the numerous gay repugnacan congressmen and young repugnacan leaders that are being busted on a daily basis.

[thegaygardener]

"Yeah, because we've never known a gay person with overactive gaydar. Right."

Oh, I get it. The real culprit here is the old:"all gay people think everybody's gay!"
Thanks for reminding me!

[Sisyphuss]

So Musto is a moron, and the rest of the people who ran with the innuendo are morons, too."

Musto's humor is characteristically sophomoric in the best (or worst) tradition of Beavis and Butthead. Musto is not a moron -- it's simply his shtick. The people spreading these sorts of rumors are not morons, either. To call them morons is to suggest that they are too stupid to understand what they're doing -- which in many cases is a seriously false assumption.

[Chefrad]

Heaven knows, one can never justify antisemitism, but one can ruefully come to understand why it exists. For the latter, we can thank Alan Dershowitz and Ms. Atlas Shrugged. It isn't hard to envision either serving as David Duke's screensaver.

[Counterglow]

Maybe the Republicans are feeling threatened? They probably see Hillary as a closet homosexual with a big business agenda. And they can't figure out why she's not running for their side.

[drblack]

Hillary is a corperate shill and a sell out to big business. She will not reinstate the Constitution and will grow the nanny state..Big Brother government...but her sexual orientation has no bearing whatsoever on the type of candidate she is.
Kucinich...Dodd Bring complete individual freedom to America.

[OtayPanky]

Every little bit of gasoline helps the fire.

Thank you.

OTAY!

[Qbear]

I don't like the Musto bashing. He does say things unfiltered, and sometimes crosses the line, but that is also part of his job, dancing on the edge.

NO powerful woman has ever not been accused of being a dyke. It comes with the territory, all the feminists I knew of, were labled as lesbians, and in a fair number of feminists it was true....so what?
There were a good number of lesbians in the Clinton administration,,,and again, so what?
Maybe as a gay man, I don't have the baggage straights have about sexual orientation. To me who someone is attracted to, and it isn't me, it ain't my business.

[moderationsmuse]

You can find a blogger who will say any outrageous thing you like regarding any topic whatsoever. My question: why are you writing about this? "They're witting tools of the Republican smear machines...." And are you a tool of the Democrat's smear machine?
Is no one interested in what intelligent, thoughtful Republicans are saying? Or what intelligent, thoughtful Democrats are saying? Why not tell us about those?
Are you interested in how I'll vote, having just returned from a campaign stint, I who voted for Bush last time?
I might be interested in your candidate, who knows? Is there a reason I should be? And, if so, why not tell me that reason.
Am I likely to vote for her after you describe my earlier choices in scatological terms? Hmm?
Respect the voters, all of them, respect your critics, and who knows you might persuade them. Or preach to the choir, and get the same ol, same old.
Maybe this country will get a great president someday when it deserves one. Maybe that day isn't now. You tell me.

[Caddisfly]

Why I'm shocked...shocked I say to hear that a right wing blog would make up batshit crazy things. Like the other night whaen Fux News put out a claim that terrorists might be responsible for the California wildfires. Nah, just a dumb kid playing with matches...reality is so tough for these clowns to handle. LOL

[darkwaters]

I'm really surprised that the party that gives us a seemingly endless parade of anti-gay-crusading closet queens, from Larry Craig to Richard Curtis, Joey DiFatta, Richard Roberts, Lindsay Roberts, Monsignor Alan Placa, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, Bob Allen, Clutzo the Clown, Michael Graham, and Ted Haggard--in addition to all those who haven't been caught (*cough* Ken Mehlman, *cough* Karl Rove)--would have the nerve to say anything about anyone else's sexuality. Then I think of the Catholic Church and I'm not so surprised.

But then, the writer of Atlas Shrugged thinks of herself as some sort of babe, so I guess one could see how Republican men all go over to the gay side.

[middlevillage]

Michael Musto is another snide, gay asshole who gives a bad name to all 'snide
Gay assholes'. If anyone isn't gay or a closeted gay or thinking of being gay then there's not too much they have to say or write about.
By the way it is written into the Gay Queens Manta's to accuse everyone, especially those with a celebrity following, of being the above described.....or haven't you noticed.

[CyrusBeaucephus]

'panty sniffing creeps'-- I love it!