Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Gannonother Thing...

As the Bulldogyssey continues, I thought I should bring up two things to keep in mind before we get too totally carried away with gaydenfreude and glee:

1) If the blogosphere or (snicker) mainstream media cannot breach the walls of deniability, this will remain a tawdry but minor scandal, a tempest in a teabag. Unless and until someone finds a financial and/or sexual (please let it be "and") link between James Garvin, Male Prostitute and someone big, the administration will successfully spin this as merely an embarrassing lapse of security, something along the lines of "Well, our buddy Eberle vouched for him so we thought he was okay," and those who want to believe in BushCo's pious Christian virtue will cheerfully continue to do so. We need something inescapable and unspinnable, like photos, videotapes, stains, or receipts, so please, for the love of all that is good and holy, keep digging.

2) Assuming that we do breach the walls of deniability, we must also remember that Bulldog is merely the narrow end of the bullhorn. The Democrats must do everything they can to use this to start spreading the message that for all their talk of family values, the Republicans are sleazy, immoral hypocrites. Monicagate was arguably the largest single contributor to the fall of the Democratic party, for even though the Republicans lost the impeachment battle, they won the electoral war by successfully using it to paint all Democrats as amoral, hedonistic sleazehounds.

And that image has stuck, even as we have run two of the most squeaky-clean, bolt-upright presidential candidates imaginable against a sneering, mean-spirited fratboy. It is not enough to be satisfied with smearing some Gannon dirt on Bush's shining armor, we must use it to paint the entire Republican elite (yes, elite - let's start using that word for what it really means) as something out of Eyes Wide Shut, a secretive, decadent cabal that preaches virtue and self-reliance, but practices vice and opportunistic, back-scratching greed. Hammer home that this is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a whole narrative of divorce, adultery, corporate malfeasance, class warfare, lies, dirty tricks, fraud, torture, and murder.

Also, when referring to this scandal, we need to keep the emphasis on "prostitute" rather than "gay". Prostitution is sleazy and illegal, homosexuality is not. And those who do think gayness is evil will not need any reminders, nor do those who cynically use this opportunity to accuse us of homophobia need any help.

5 comments:

Aloysius said...

Mmkay, I'm an ass, it took me all this time to realize you'd started blogging. Couldn't you have sent out electronically engraved invitations or sumpin'?

Good lyrics. Danceable. I'd give it a 10.

Eli said...

Hey, I did a little blogwhoring, but you know how modest and shy I am.

Anonymous said...

Also, when referring to this scandal, we need to keep the emphasis on "prostitute" rather than "gay". Prostitution is sleazy and illegal, homosexuality is not. And those who do think gayness is evil will not need any reminders, nor do those who cynically use this opportunity to accuse us of homophobia need any help.I wish someone could convince Incognito of this... he's really getting on my last nerve with the martyr complex.
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Aquaria said...

Eli:

Honey, you make some great posts, but my dirty mind noticed some of your terminology, real fast. Still, I agree that the focus has to be on Gannon as a GIGOLO (a term which is both prurient AND one people will recognize for what he was).

Eli said...

Thanks, I was kinda going for that. I'm especially proud of "tempest in a teabag"...

I'll have to mull over whether Gigolo works for me (I associate it with romancing rich old *women* and a certain degree of suaveness not found in your average verbal, aggressive top), but it *does* have the alliteration thing going for it, and it heightens the implication that he was fucking someone *really* high up there. Or I could go with "Gigolo Jim" if I thought more than four people had seen AI: Artificial Intelligence...