UncleBuck
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he set off cher's gay-dar.
just watch him in this clip! (go to 0:35):
[video=youtube;ADMgWXBzPwQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMgWXBzPwQ[/video]
articles galore floating around out there. in fact, #marcusbachmannissogay was recently a trending topic on twitter!
for the record, i don't care if he is gay or not, nor do i think it is an important issue. i do, however, find much entertainment value in the speculation. yes, i am evil.
just watch him in this clip! (go to 0:35):
[video=youtube;ADMgWXBzPwQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMgWXBzPwQ[/video]
articles galore floating around out there. in fact, #marcusbachmannissogay was recently a trending topic on twitter!
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/07/michele-bachmann-marcus-bachmann-problem-counselingThe problems don't end with the therapy, though. Marcus' fiercely anti-gay language has itself spawned the predictable, unsubstantiated "takes one to know one" backlash. It's taken less than a week for political observers and random celebrities on Twitter to develop their own theories about what's really driving the candidate's husband. Here's what Cher (yes, Cher) tweeted on Friday, via the City Pages:
"But boys please utube this asshole & tell me what you think Cause my Gay-Dar is GOING OFF !!!"
She then pondered purchasing some sequins for Marcus and strangling him with her boa. That's a representative sample. Gawker's Lauri Apple rounds up some others:
Kids in the Hall comic and television actor Dave Foley, asked via Twitter: "How can Michele Bachman be opposed to gay marriage when she is married to gay man." Foley...tweeted out a few other lines about Bachmann, using the hashtag "#MarcusBachmanIsSoGay."
Keith Olbermann referred to Bachmann as a "bizarre-sounding man who's calling gays 'barbarians'" and wondered how you can "hide" him without putting him in some sort of closet.
And so on. Apple also finds Andrew Sullivan (who is gay) referring to Marcus as the "ssuper-sserial hunter of gays." This echoes something Bachmann's loudest critics in Minnesota have been hinting atwithout any basis in factfor a while now. The writers of Dump Bachmann, who are the source of much of the most incriminating material on the couple, refer to Marcus as "the fabulous Marcus Bachmann" and enjoy noting that he has a keen fashion sense; on Tuesday, City Pages straight-up asked, "Marcus Bachmann: Gay or Straight?" David Joseph DeGrio, chair of the Minnesota LGBT group Stonewall DFL, has pushed back on the whisper campaign, writing that "I believe that perceived sexuality was being used as an attack on Marcus Bachmann, and I find it unacceptable to use perceived sexuality as an attack on anybody."
Crude caricatures of candidate's spouses are as unfair as they are inevitable. Teresa Heinz Kerry was foreign, Michelle Obama was "Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress," and Cindy McCain was a Stepford wife. In a world where Elena Kagan's softball career was considered a legitimate national news story, the glare of the national spotlight is shaping up to be a very uncomfortable one for the would-be first couple.
for the record, i don't care if he is gay or not, nor do i think it is an important issue. i do, however, find much entertainment value in the speculation. yes, i am evil.