Posts Tagged ‘Mike Huckabee’

On Quote of the Day: March 13, 2008

13Mar08

In which The Gay Recluse would laugh at government doublespeak (and the media’s reporting of the same) if it were in a novel instead of the real world. Today Jeff Weinstein sent us the following quote from an article in The Times (of London) about the British government’s decision to reopen the asylum case of […]


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On Die Walküre and the American Trajectory

06Jan08

[Note: Click here for our review and revised analysis from opening night.] In musical terms, Friday night’s final dress rehearsal of Die Walküre (and with the understanding that it was just that, i.e., a rehearsal) at the Met seemed problematic; first Jim Morris (Wotan) canceled, which when announced sent the expected sigh of disappointment across […]


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On Our Endorsement of Geraldine Ferraro for President of the United States

31Dec07

With the official debut of the presidential primaries this week in Iowa, we would like to offer — after careful consideration of each candidate and his or her respective platform — our endorsement of the one we think would best be suited to run the United States beginning in January, 2009. Those familiar with The […]


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On the Continuing Failure of the Op-Ed Page of The Times To Accurately Portray Mike Huckabee as a Right-Wing Nutjob Whose Only Destiny is To Destroy Our Lives

11Dec07

Joining Frank Rich today in what can only be described as a Mike Huckabee orgy currently taking place in the editorial pages of the New York Times is David Brooks, who calls Huckabee “socially conservative, but not a partisan culture warrior.” In “Blogging Heads: Politics as Unusual” (The Times’ new — and horribly stilted — […]


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On Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama and Frank Rich’s Decision to Sell Us, His Largest and Heretofore Most Devoted Constituency, Down the River

09Dec07

Of all the political columnists at The New York Times, Frank Rich has always seemed the most comfortable — or perhaps we should say the least oblivious — writing about political and social issues from what could be called a gay perspective. After all Rich, who was perhaps the most feared theater critic in the […]


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