“That's Not How Gay Works”
The first story after a two-week hiatus, of course, was about Larry Craig. It aired five hours ago and yet it's not on YouTube yet. Bummer. Well, when it is, I'll post it, but picture this...
The lights go down. Jon Stewart is front, camera left. Back behind him is a soul singer who's embellishing/responding to the blurbs that Stewart gets out, which are actually just portions of audio from Larry Craig himself.
They get through the now-famous bits like “our feet touched” and “I tend to spread my legs when I drop my pants (and how do they get down, then?)”, then:
- Jon Stewart: ...pled guilty to the crime...
- Singer: …technically a misdemeanor…
- Jon Stewart: …he said he regretted the plea…
- Singer: …he could have easily contested the charge of interference to privacy; it's Law School 101…
[…] - Jon Stewart: …anyway, he still says he's not nor has he ever been gay!
- Singer: That's not how gay works.
Holy shit, that shit was funny. And blithely, cheerfully, simply true. Comedy really is a sublime form of communication, far surpassing spoken word and I might even say it surpasses music and lyrics as well.
Proof? How many times have I written about it? Enough. And how many tedious, homophobic bloviators—you know, like the misnamed barking moonbat and women who are reason enough to bring back quilting bees—are there out there repeating the same ill-formed, irrational abuses of logic and humanity? Far too many. So many in fact, that I'm thinking of starting a pool: when it finally becomes not-ok to treat homosexuals like a distant-second-class caste, what group will it be and when will that become prevalent enough to make the news? I feel bad for that next group, because, like all kinds of violent types, like standing armies without an external target, they'll turn on their own with a bitterness even worse that what we are enduring because folks like those can't be out-and-proud racists anymore.
All the liberal blogs and “liberal” media outlets out there tilting at big gay windmills (I know!) would have nothing gay (sorry, “homosexual”) to talk about if they finally just believed “that's not how gay works”.
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Ugh...you found The Opine Editorials, eh? My condolences. Those folks desperately LOVE the clickity-clack of their own keyboards. Had one of them attempt to argue with me on my blog once. I had to shower afterwards.
That's a very good and interesting point. For a while, I had solid money riding on the Muslims as being target 2.0, since--as with homosexuals--they meet the standard targeting criteria of being large enough, omnipresent enough, and faceless enough so that one can paint any face on them, and technically--by definition of diversity--it'd be somehow "correct."
A recent quip on the Iraqi government's situation felt like the first salvo, when someone (forgive me; I didn't write the name of the speaker down) went so far as to proclaim the new government decadent and lazy, since they weren't resolving their own issues in a timely fashion.
Good grief.
I suppose the next charge will be "and you are totally barbaric, immoral bottom-feeders, and Jesus warned us about you people."
That aside, maybe Larry Craig will find redemption under his sofa cushions the way Michael Vick did, or maybe he'll reinstall his copy of SuperStraight XP, just like Ted Haggard. You never know.
I agree: each new gay scandal emerges with such drama and hysterical velocity that it's difficult to consider that the day may come when we won't be Object of Hatred #1...if that's even a possibility in this country. Yet "That's not how 'gay' works," both the line (composed by the Daily Show writers) and the audience's wild reaction to it, show that there are People Out There who "get it." Sometimes comedy offers a glimmer of hope of social change, or even that it IS changing...
BTW, I don't know how long it takes for the DS segments to show up on YouTube, but Crooks and Liars has been very good about posting segments just after noon eastern the following day, especially in this first week back.