Oh give me a fucking break. It's like calling straight people who don't like George Will the 'radical left.'
UPDATE: Andy X says:
He takes "hypocrisy" and tries to define the way it is used in this instance completely differently than the way it actually IS being used. We accuse Sullivan of hypocrisy because of his personal actions being completely hypocritical of his written statements and lectures. The right is trying to define and limit the "hypocrisy" felt by simply as a gay man who doesn't go along wtih leftist politics - some sort of "Uncle Tom"ism that completely ignores Sullivan's very public personal transgressions.
It is very reminiscent in my mind, to the attempt over this summer to change around the meaning of "chickenhawk" to mean solely whether a civilian without military experience can still be an effective military leader, all the while ignoring the current context of "chickenhawk" to mean those who deliberately avoided VietNam in thier youths while clamoring for offensive war now.
I believe that this redefiniing of language is being used to absolve those on the right from the need to take responsibility for their personal actions. The attacks on these people on the left thereby becomes unfounded - "personal" attacks made on the sole basis of ideology and status of being an icon of the right - absolutely nothing to do as a response to the person's actual actions, but merely "unfair" partisan attacks based upon the persons "status". (Maybe they're so familiar with this point of view because that's the way they base their attacks)
Note to Andy X: Adragna considers himself a liberal, but I have a question for him:
What the hell is the 'radical gay left?' People who want the legal benefits of marriage, the removal of legal barriers to adoption, an end to discrimination by the military, and an expansion of existing anti-discrimination/hate crimes legislation to include sexual orientation so, among other things, people can't be evicted from their aparments simply for being gay? That, my friends, is the entire goddamn Gay Agenda? That's RADICAL?
My God. I guess I am part of the radical left then.
