i think you are secretly gay

The Martin Luther King, Jr. of The Digital Age

You joke, but I bet that's not far from how he sees himself.

Not reported: Cheney and Poe had to fight off attack dogs and stagger past water cannons just to get to the White House front door.

i think you are secretly gay

I take issue with the word "secretly."

Homo.

So instead of celebrating the fact that Cheney and her partner are invited openly to a White House function, Sully is outraged that they aren't treated as a married couple. Like the administration's policy on gay marriage has suddenly been unveiled through this subtle slight. If only he had known this policy earlier, he could have changed his vote to Kerry. Oh wait, he did and he did.

Look, if Hollywood has taught me anything, and I like to think it has, its that conservatives and military types-well, really anyone who is not big on the whole gay thing- are really the gay ones.

Beavis once said that the whole point of independent films is to make the suburbs look bad. Well, film like American Beauty also to point out that the only non-gay people are the openly gay.

dammit, I wish there was a way to edit my half assed comments

Look at how pathetic this has gotten: Andy is actually at the point where he's looking up White House seating arrangements to find something new to get (publicly!) offended about. The guy is a "drama queen" in every sense of the word.

This is like the blogging equivalent of a stalker going through his target's garbage cans in the middle of the night looking for discarded panties.

Well said, Joe. As for geoff's point about Mary Cheney being invited to the WH in the first place, I'm sure Sully would wave that off as something Bush had to do because of who her father is. But now I'm wondering: has the White House invited any openly gay politicos/celebrities to state dinners in the past who weren't related to someone in the administration?

There's probably a list of guests out there somewhere that we could check.

Something's definitely up with Sully. The contrast in quality between his blogspews and the stuff he was writing not that long ago for TNR is downright painful. However, I don't think we can blame it on the E. That stuff gives you an upbeat, positive outlook; everyone you meet seems like your friend. Or so I'm told.

"Secretly gay"? With that new Larry the Cable Guy beefcake in the sidebar, you might as well put a pink triangle on the Ace O' Spades logo.

do I make an issue out of your hobbies, dude?

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

I can't tell that the two women are married but this seems a stretch to get worked up about. They don't have the same last names, and they're both women. So the omission of "guest" would have to most people--i.e., those who don't obsess over who is sleeping with whom--would likely not have assumed any relationship at all.

For example, is this couple married?

Ms. Elizabeth L. Cheney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State

Mr. Philip J. Perry, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Beats me.

Hobby? I thought you were only experimenting.

What do you expect from the Vice President of torture, the man who approved of Abu Ghraib?

I would expect that if he really was the vice president of torture he would have gotten his kid and her lover better seats.

Before reading the comments today, I didnt know or think of the cable guy ad as beefcake.
And I hope the Vice Prseident approves more of the same for Abu Ghraib and those secret prisons too. ooorah

By the way, re: Sullivan's possible brain damage, as of two days ago he's on record that the U.S. has become "a rogue state."

Guys who like to stick their weiners inother dude's butts are better than MLK and Jesus Christ combined. It's a fact, you theocons.

I need to go on record that I highly approve of beagles.

Guys who like to stick their weiners inother dude's butts are better than MLK and Jesus Christ combined. It's a fact, you theocons.

Uh, thanks for setting us straight.

Married couples need no "(guest)" attached to their spouse's name. It's a trivial slight, of course. But so, from one perspective, is a bus seat.

Let's not get distracted from the real issue, people. Who is this "Henry Hager" fucker? I know absolutely nothing about him except that he's not good enough for Jenna. He'd better think carefully before he gets too comfortable with the idea of being her "guest" in the future...

Bush = Bull Connor

Sully and any other dude who craves man-love is better than Rosa Parks, Christ and MKL.

You theocons make me sick!

Who is this "Henry Hager" fucker?

Cause you can never have too many Naked Spidermen at a state dinner.

Cause you can never have too many Naked Spidermen at a state dinner.

Best method of discouraging a terrorist attack ever.

Great post! Really agree with you! Andrew Sullivan has ecstacy-related dementia!

...as of two days ago he's on record that the U.S. has become "a rogue state."

Fuck me.

You're kidding, right?

You're kidding, right?

Am I?

Allah = Hitler

Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick.

I really must laugh when queers like Sullivan try to compare our “struggle” to the civil rights movement.

Oh yes...drag queens, diesel dykes and circuit party boys seeking the right to marry whilst riding a Wet Lube "pride" parade float on the taxpayers dime is just the same as little black girls wanting the right to pray in church without getting blown to bits.

Silly bitch, is right.

I hate him.

Mary Cheney and Heather Poe's relationship has been pretty invisible. But if that's perceived as a problem, then the blame falls squarely on the media.

Dick Cheney sticks up for his daughter. It's called "family values". Mary chose Heather, and so Heather is part of the family. She's almost always there at the big events where the VP's family is expected to attend. The media just never identifies her.

If Andrew Sullivan wants to go on a big crusade about how Mary and Heather's relationship is being seen as second-class, he should blame the media, not the White House. This has been the most tolerant administration we have ever had in this country.

If he's referring to the White House dinner list, all non-spouses were listed as guests. Watch what you say about Andrew. I suggested his meds were interfering with his thought processes and got a very nasty email. I thought I was being kind and giving him an out instead of saying flat out that's he's gone batty.

I'm sure the protocol is correct, but the guest list went like this:
Mr. John Smith, his titles and Mrs. Mary Smith, her titles.

I always thought Mrs. Mary Smith meant that John was either room temp. or they were divorced.

The Ugly American: very well said. Needs to said more often.

Allah = Hitler

Yes, you can really see the resemblance when Ace gives Allah a 'dirty Adolph.'

Well, people are generally invited by name. Ask Miss Manners (Judith something, I can't remember her real name) about this hideous invention. Married couples can be invited as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith or Ms. Mary Smith
Mr. John Smith.
(names on separate lines)

Sending an invite as Mr. Single Man and Guest is crass. If the person is attached, you find out the name and give them an invite:
Ms. Girl Friend
Mr. Boy Friend

Or send invites under separate cover. I'm sure the White House can afford the postage.

Widows may use their husbands first names still, if they wish. Divorcees have to use their own first name is they want to use the Mrs.

Sending an invite as Mr. Single Man and Guest is crass.

Does the guest list (referenced here) necessarily reflect the form of address on the invitation?

The invitation would go out as Mr. Ace of Spades and guest. When rspv'd., the seating chart, and place settings would have the individuals's name and no mention of guest, etc.

What's really ironic is that Sullivan and his ideological allies in the "push gay marriage through the courts" gang did more to set gay rights back than anyone in the Bush administration.

San Francisco's mayor and the Massachusetts legislature's activism pissed off a lot of voters who signed petitions that put anti-gay marriage legislation on the ballots last year.

His answer? To go even more moonbat crazy on the need for activism lately.

I hate to think what Andrew Sullivan's exes must all have endured--the man simply has no 'lukewarm' valve--he's either scalding hot or freezing cold. There's just no getting out of a relationship with a man like that on a 'lets be friends' level--I suspect Sullivan's not on speaking terms with a single old boyfriend. And whether or not Sullivan ever decides to settle down for good with the current boyfriend (which, by MA law, he can do if he cares to), he's certainly not about to marry any particular idea and settle down with it any time soon, or accept responsibility for any idea after he's fallen out of love with it--the man's an intellectual Casanova.

It's one thing to be a genuine iconoclast like Sullivan's hero Orwell--that is, to have consistent, strong personal beliefs which simply don't fit neatly into any one prepackaged ideology. It's one thing to have one major life-changing 'conversion' experience a la Christopher Hitchens. It's another thing entirely to exist with one's beliefs in a constant, unexplained, unrestrained, and uninterrogated state of flux.

Sullivan's hardly politically consistent--he reliably self-defines as conservative, but seems to expect the term to bend to his own ever-changing definition--for Sullivan, 'conservative' (like 'Catholic') is defined as 'wherever and whatever Andrew Sullivan now is'.

Sullivan isn't even especially consistent on the gay marriage/gay rights issue--another of Sullivan's personal heroes is Reagan, for whose gay-friendly bonafides one searches in vain--and who has even been blamed for the slow initial response to AIDS, a far worse sin on that score than Bush has ever even been accused of. And could Sullivan ever have argued with a straight face that his once-beloved Bush was likely to do any better, or any other than he, in fact, did with regards to the FMA, gay rights, and gay marriage? Hardly--so why the sudden outrage? Or for that matter the initial support? but Sullivan's avowed beliefs 'bloweth where (they) listeth, and no man knoweth whence (they) cometh and whither (they) goeth.' Which could even be a reasonable position for an inveterate skeptic, perhaps--but Sullivan's never skeptical--not about his own beliefs, at least--in the moment, he's always absolutely sure of what he believes at that moment. Not to mention dripping with moralistic disdain and condescension for anyone who dares to disagree with him, even if they're arguing the exact same position Sullivan himself was pushing just months earlier.

Give the poor guy a break. He's "catching" this month.

Mary and Heather are Uncle Tom sellouts to Andy.

Is there anything quite so hysterical as as having a sphincter attack over the wording of a guest list? If this is the best Sully can do, I guess every irrational substantive butch he had is taken care of.

Uhh, I meant "bitch." Of course the butches were taken care of. Geez!

It's clear that Ace needs to flirt more with the women on this blog.

Then those ugly rumours would never start.

;-)