BIG GUNS
It looks like Wayne Lapierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association and board member of the American Association of Political Consultants, has joined the ranks of such legendary conservative hypocrites as Senior Bush Advisor Karl Rove, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Israel Hernandez, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, RNC CFO Jay Banning, RNC National Field Director Dan Gurley, National Republican Senatorial Committee Director Jay Timmons, Representatives Ed Schrock of Virginia, David Drier of California, James McCrery of Louisiana, and Mark Foley of Florida, Robert Traynham (Rick Santorum's Director of Communication), Dirk Smith (CFO of Trent Lott's New Republican Majority Fund), Jeff Berkowitz (President Bush's liaison to the Jewish community), Fox News correspondent Shephard Smith, wingnut columnist Armstrong Williams, media whore Jimmy Jeff Guckert-Gannon, and headline writer Matt Drudge. Yes, apparently, Wayne Lapierre is queer.
Several days ago, this post appeared at BlondeSense:
http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-dont-care-where.html
Monday, November 7
I don't care where a person's compass may point them.
But, it does bother me when someone is a hypocrite in the political arena. The executive officer of the National Rifle Association, Wayne Lapierre, is currently endorsing Jerry Kilgore for governor of Virginia in media ads saying Kilgore stands for the same family values that Wayne had as a child growing up in Roanoke. Well, while Wayne Lapierre was in high school in Roanoke (Patrick Henry High School class of '67) he was my brother's lover. Their affair lasted past graduation and on during the anti Vietnam war protest marches they attended in 1969. Not only is Wayne Lapierre gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) but he marched in protest to the Vietnam war. Now he's touting his high ground morality and family values. That I have a problem with.
Archie Gordon
Roanoke, VA
write to me at blondesense(@)optonline.net for the contact information
Posted by BlondeSense Liz 9:19 AM Discussion thread (20) Trackback (0)
The post has since mysteriously disappeared. The work of the NRA's legal team? Sorry, NRA's legal team - welcome to teh internets.
I suppose we shouldn't really be surprised. "Wayne Lapierre", after all, sounds like the name of an interior decorator from a Doris Day movie. But what, one wonders, will we be prying from Lapierre's cold dead hands?
Jonathan Tolman, Assistant to Senator James Inhofe on
the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works,
from Metro Weekly's "Coverboy Confidential", May 2001
These guys should really form a club. Oh, wait - they have. It's called Our Fucking Government.
Several days ago, this post appeared at BlondeSense:
http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-dont-care-where.html
Monday, November 7
I don't care where a person's compass may point them.
But, it does bother me when someone is a hypocrite in the political arena. The executive officer of the National Rifle Association, Wayne Lapierre, is currently endorsing Jerry Kilgore for governor of Virginia in media ads saying Kilgore stands for the same family values that Wayne had as a child growing up in Roanoke. Well, while Wayne Lapierre was in high school in Roanoke (Patrick Henry High School class of '67) he was my brother's lover. Their affair lasted past graduation and on during the anti Vietnam war protest marches they attended in 1969. Not only is Wayne Lapierre gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) but he marched in protest to the Vietnam war. Now he's touting his high ground morality and family values. That I have a problem with.
Archie Gordon
Roanoke, VA
write to me at blondesense(@)optonline.net for the contact information
Posted by BlondeSense Liz 9:19 AM Discussion thread (20) Trackback (0)
The post has since mysteriously disappeared. The work of the NRA's legal team? Sorry, NRA's legal team - welcome to teh internets.
I suppose we shouldn't really be surprised. "Wayne Lapierre", after all, sounds like the name of an interior decorator from a Doris Day movie. But what, one wonders, will we be prying from Lapierre's cold dead hands?
Jonathan Tolman, Assistant to Senator James Inhofe on
the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works,
from Metro Weekly's "Coverboy Confidential", May 2001
These guys should really form a club. Oh, wait - they have. It's called Our Fucking Government.