Day: April 1, 2007

Gay GOP Ex-Porn Star Cpl. Matt Sanchez Accused of Conning Iraq Donors

Jon Ponder

A Marine judge advocate says Sanchez “wrongfully solicited funds to support [his] purported deployment to Iraq” by coordinating a $300 payment from [a veterans group] and $12,000 from U-Haul Corporation.

Former Marine Reserve Cpl. Matt Sanchez, the darling of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — who once worked as a gay prostitute and in male films under the porn name “Rod Majors” — has been accused by the Marine Corps of conning $12,300 from a business and a veterans group by falsely claiming he was being deployed to Iraq.

On March 22, a judge advocate informed Cpl. Sanchez that:

Sanchez’s participation in porn films was part of the investigation, but that two of the three allegations against him involved lying “to various people, including but not limited to, representatives of the New York City United War Veterans Council and U-Haul Corporation” about deploying to Iraq at the commandant’s request.

“Specifically, you wrongfully solicited funds to support your purported deployment to Iraq” by coordinating a $300 payment from the UWVC and $12,000 from U-Haul, Jones wrote.

In an interview Thursday with Marine Corps Times, Sanchez said the fund-raising allegations are “demonstrably false” and that he never collected money from either organization.

Sanchez recently caught the attention of rightwing media types by claiming he was publicly humiliated by an anti-war group at Columbia University. The incident was reportedly investigated by the university and found to be false. This finding was irrelevant, of course, to conservatives who showered Sanchez with attention. He appeared on “Hannity & Colmes” and “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News, and was awarded the Jeanne Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award at CPAC because of his alleged contretemps with the war protesters at Columbia.

It was at CPAC that Ann Coulter famously called presidential candidate John Edwards a “faggot.” This incendiary moment lends irony to the famous photo taken of Coulter with Matt Sanchez that day at the convention hotel.

Despite quite a large cache of filmed evidence otherwise, Sanchez claims that he is not gay.

When Man-Crushes Go Bad – Former Bushie Has a Change of Heart

Jon Ponder

Matthew Dowd switched parties in 1999 to work on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign. He says he believed candidate Bush’s pledge that he would bring a new spirit of cooperation to politics in Washington.

It is hard to feel sympathetic toward Matthew Dowd now that his eyes have been opened to his colossal self-delusion about George W. Bush.

I remember hearing then-Gov. Bush making those claims back then, and I didn’t buy it for a minute. Bush learned slasher style politics at the knee of his father’s dirty trickster, Lee Atwater. I expected the political divide to be as bad as it was in the Clinton era, although I could have never predicted that Bush would divide the country before sending it off to to war. (Who could have ever expected a president to do something so dastardly.)

Now Dowd has a come to Jesus on the true character of George W. Bush:

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Speak Spanish? Newt Says You Probably Live in the Ghetto

Trish

Jeez Newt, ese danos! Desmadiado!

Newt Gingrich stood before an adoring crowd of Republican women and said Spanish is the “language of living in a ghetto.”

Gingrich: “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country…not the language of living in a ghetto”

“The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. … We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto,”

This will come as big news to all those Cubans down Buck’s way who live in waterfront mansions and could buy and sell Newt several times over without calling an accountant.

Peter Zamora, co-chair of the Washington-based Hispanic Education Coalition, which supports bilingual education, said, “The tone of his comments were very hateful. Spanish is spoken by many individuals who do not live in the ghetto.”