Day: March 7, 2007

Rod Majors: The Latest Rightwing Gay Media Whore – And Porn Star

Jon Ponder

Cpl. Matt Sanchez (left) with unidentifed man at CPAC, inset: Rod Majors

Ted Haggard bought one. Jeff Gannon was one — and now so is Cpl. Matt Sanchez, a U.S. Marine and the darling of CPAC and rightwing luminaries like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly.

What is it with rightwingers and gay prostitutes?

Cpl. Sanchez became a hero to the radical fringe recently when he claimed he’d been called a “baby killer” by liberals on the Columbia University campus, supposedly because he was wearing his U.S Marines uniform.There is apparently no evidence anything of the sort happened — and yet CPAC awarded Sanchez the Jeanne Kirpatrick Academic Freedom Award at its annual creepfest this year.

What they didn’t know is that Rod Majors, the conservative Marine’s evil twin, has appeared in at least a dozen gay porno films and admitted today that he also worked as a male escort who charged $250 for out calls.

Read More:

  • Joe.My.God. broke the story.
  • Andy Towle says he dated Rod Majors a few years ago.
  • Media Matters’ Max Blumenthal writes about the scandal at Huffington Post.
  • And here’s an interview with Rod Majors on a porn industry site. (Not for the easily offended!)

Dogpile Metasearch Engine Pulls Ads Off Coulter Site

Trish

What a relief! I was muy dismayed earlier this week when I found out my favorite metasearch engine, Dogpile, advertised on Ann Coulter’s web site.

If you’re not familiar with a metasearch engine, also known as an aggregator, check it out. Dogpile — and the rest — put your search terms out there on many, many single engines, like the G-site and the Y-site, for examples, and give you the results from all of them, all at once. Plus, there’s a neat little mascot dog that wags its tail while you type in the box. Can’t beat that.

You can see why I was pretty heartbroken about the skank site ads. But before I unbookmarked Dogpile for good, I sent them an email and asked them to pull their ads from Harpy.com. At first, they said they were still mulling it over. I conferred with Jon, who suggested I help them clarify things by asking if they would have so much trouble deciding what to do if Coulter had used the n-word instead of the f-word in a public forum.

Very quickly, I was informed Dogpile had decided to pull its advertising from the Coulter site. Hooray!

The next time you’re trying to find something online, use Dogpile. I wish they had never been on Coulter’s site to begin with, but I applaud their decision to rectify the mistake.

U.S. Attorney Says He Felt ‘Pressured’ By GOP Pols

Jon Ponder

At congressional hearings yesterday into the firing of eight U.S. attorneys by the Bush Justice Dept. last Descember, David Iglesias, who was the federal prosecutor in New Mexico, accused two GOP members of Congress from the state — Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson — of trying to pressure him on investigations in the Albuquerque office.

Asked by Schumer if he felt pressured by [Rep. Heather Wilson’s] call, Iglesias replied: “Yes sir, I did.”

Iglesias, a Republican, said the motivation of both Domenici and Wilson was political.

About Sen. Domenici:

…Iglesias told senators he felt sickened when Domenici hung up on him after being told that indictments in a corruption case against Democrats would not be handed down before the November elections.

“He said, ‘Are these going to be filed before November?'” Iglesias recalled. “I said I didn’t think so. And to which he replied, ‘I’m very sorry to hear that.’ And then the line went dead.”

Iglesias said he received the call from Domenici at home on Oct. 26 or 27 and that it lasted two minutes, “tops.”

“I felt leaned on. I felt pressured to get these matters moving,” Iglesias testified. Asked by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whether such a call was unusual in Iglesias’ experience, the former prosecutor answered, “Unprecedented.”

About Rep. Wilson:

Iglesias told the panel he received a call from Wilson in mid-October in which she asked him about sealed indictments a topic prosecutors cannot discuss. Wilson’s question “raised red flags in my head,” Iglesias said.

“I was evasive and nonresponsive to her question,” Iglesias told the panel, saying he talked generally about why some indictments are sealed. “She was not happy with that answer. And she said, ‘Well I guess I’ll have to take your word for it.” The call ended almost immediately, Iglesias said.

Asked by Schumer if he felt pressured by that call, Iglesias replied: “Yes sir, I did.”

Other testimony revealed that the U.S. attorney in Arkansas was let go only to be replaced by a protege of Karl Rove named Tim Griffin, who has since decided not to stay on in the position because of the “partisan circus” around his appointment.

The committee also released an email from one of the fired prosecutors to his colleagues recounting a phone conversation he’d had with a a senior Justice official in February warning him to keep quiet about the firing or risk becoming the target of a Bush administration smear campaign.