Gay Who-triot?
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I was never a fan of GayPatriot or his website. I found him generally to be a Republican shill and an intellectual lightweight, whose “impressive” traffic stats were merely bought via heavy advertising, especially on Instapundit (reminder: A Stitch in Haste has never, not once, bought an ad on another blog).
As for the current brouhaha regarding his withdrawal from the Blogosphere, I might remind readers that GayPatriot launched his blog for the primary purpose of attacking Michael Rogers. See, e.g., his first few posts, especially the last one. GayPatriot fired the first shot.
Take whichever side you want in the outing debate (my position is simple: private people are entitled to private lives; public people less so; public officials even less than that; but closeted gay politicians who advocate anti-gay policies deserve to be exposed as do all hypocrite politicians when someone catches them in their hypocrisy).
But the simple truth of the GayPatriot saga is, um, simple, regardless of whose side you're on:
GayPatriot declared war on Michael Rogers … and lost.
And now GP is crying “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” on his way out the door?
Um, no. Too bad, so sad, thanks for playing. He may be selling, but I’m not buying.
Meanwhile, I did have a chance to exchange emails a while back with the Luke to his Anakin, GayPatriotWest, and GPW struck me as a far more level-headed chap than GP. So, in the spirit of reciprocal blogrolling and The New Civility, I’m now provisionally adding GayPatriot (the Blog) to my blogroll. This should not be construed in any way as a show of support for GP the Ex-Blogger in his war against Michael Rogers.
All the usual suspects have already chimed in on the incident; I’m late to the party. Start at Christian Grantham. See also Downtown Lad, Rick Sincere, TRL, Lloydletta.
As for the current brouhaha regarding his withdrawal from the Blogosphere, I might remind readers that GayPatriot launched his blog for the primary purpose of attacking Michael Rogers. See, e.g., his first few posts, especially the last one. GayPatriot fired the first shot.
Take whichever side you want in the outing debate (my position is simple: private people are entitled to private lives; public people less so; public officials even less than that; but closeted gay politicians who advocate anti-gay policies deserve to be exposed as do all hypocrite politicians when someone catches them in their hypocrisy).
But the simple truth of the GayPatriot saga is, um, simple, regardless of whose side you're on:
GayPatriot declared war on Michael Rogers … and lost.
And now GP is crying “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” on his way out the door?
Um, no. Too bad, so sad, thanks for playing. He may be selling, but I’m not buying.
Meanwhile, I did have a chance to exchange emails a while back with the Luke to his Anakin, GayPatriotWest, and GPW struck me as a far more level-headed chap than GP. So, in the spirit of reciprocal blogrolling and The New Civility, I’m now provisionally adding GayPatriot (the Blog) to my blogroll. This should not be construed in any way as a show of support for GP the Ex-Blogger in his war against Michael Rogers.
All the usual suspects have already chimed in on the incident; I’m late to the party. Start at Christian Grantham. See also Downtown Lad, Rick Sincere, TRL, Lloydletta.
Posted by KipEsquire on
31 March 2005
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