Found this with a google search ("pete Stark" foul mouth statements)
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I was reading over on the right side of the blogosphere, and was intrigued by what Dustin Frelich had to say about the recent fracas in the House of Representatives, when Rep. Pete Stark (D of California) called Rep. Scott McIniss (R of Colorado) "a little fruitcake". I hadn't paid a lot of attention to this story of childish politicians until Dustin pointed out that if a Republican had made an anti-gay remark at a Democrat, there would have been a huge outcry, whereas no-one even mildly liberal has called Stark to task for this.
An anti-gay remark? Fruitcake? Sure, I thought, it can mean that, but usually people mean it as a synonym for "lunatic" or "idiot".
Wondering what other people thought of this, and if I was somehow behind the times in my knowledge of slang, I searched around and found an intriguing article from Fox News. Now, Fox News is hardly a liberal bastion or much of a friend to gays, but what they wrote is significant:
While no cameras recorded the event, a stenographer took down every word Stark uttered. Republican Rep. Kenny Hulshof recited them back on the House floor.
"'You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake,'" Hulshof, R-Mo., read from the unofficial transcript.
Stark directed the word -- considered by some to be a gay slur -- at Republican Rep. Scott McInnis, who is married and by all accounts not gay.
Republican sources also claim that during the chaotic scene in the committee, Stark fired another gay slur in the direction of Chairman Thomas. The word is too vulgar to print in full, but the last half of it is "sucker."...
Stark has a long history of making outrageous remarks. He once called Republican Rep. Nancy Johnson "a whore," and said former Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan is "a disgrace to his race."
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