John Roberts
Circa 1972ish
La Lumiere High School
Posted on 07/22/2005 6:28:05 AM PDT by John Jorsett
John Roberts
Circa 1972ish
La Lumiere High School
Just a caution for my male readers: if there are any extant photos of you from the '70's in plaid pants, better get rid of them now. And it's not just the evidence of questionable fashion sense. Apparently now that's the goods on being gay.
Call it the Mary Cheney Strategy. Call it desperation. Some on the Left have started a "maybe he's gay" whisper campaign against John Roberts.
It started with Manhattan Offender in a post yesterday asking "How Gay is This Guy?" and then he quoted Wikipedia's entry for Judge Roberts. He zeroed in on some really damning evidence from Roberts' youthful past: the all-male boarding school, studying French and Latin (gasp!), being a wrestler and, oh the horror, participating in choir and drama.
So, it was only one silly post. Today, however, Wonkette picked up the ball and ran with it:
We're not making any conclusions here -- we wouldn't want to comment on an ongoing investigation -- we're just laying out the facts: He is a graduate of an all-boys Catholic school where, as a member of the wrestling team, he regularly grappled with other sweaty, repressed boys. That is when he wasn't the drama club playing Peppermint Patty, for God's sake.
What's that about Peppermint Patty?!? Yes, well, that's where the story starts to get interesting. That's a reference to a point raised in today's New York Times profile of Roberts, "Court Nominee's Life Is Rooted in Faith and Respect for Law," written by Todd Purdum, Jodi Wilgoren and Pam Belluck. In the midst of a very lengthy profile, Purdum, et.al. just throw in the little factoid that Roberts' yearbook records that "he played Peppermint Patty in the production of 'You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown.'"
Did I mention that this was when he was in high school?
So maybe that snarky little bit is just there for a little color? Ann Althouse has picked up the story and she thinks otherwise:
I do think the NYT piece was subtly constructed to plant this idea. Just look at the series of photographs they chose: young John in plaid pants, young John with his boys' school pals, young John in a wrestling suit with his fellow wrestlers, John with footballers, and -- the final pic -- John smiling in an all-male wedding photograph.
I think she might have a point.
Of course it is the height of hypocrisy for the (allegedly) pro-tolerance crowd to start questioning someone's sexual preference. It's a strange and twisted tactic for those who are allied with the gay rights movement to try to make an issue out of someone supposedly being gay.
Who cares?
Well, that's just the point: they think we do. They think that they can undermine support for someone among conservatives if they can dredge up some sort of homosexual connection -- or, in this case, just the manufactured whiff of a question.
If it weren't so cruel and small, it would be funny. (It's not just the plaid pants. Some of the commenters on these other sites have been questioning the Roberts' marriage, and even referencing their adopted children. That's just beyond the pale.)
The Left didn't learn their lesson when they tried this with Mary Cheney and it backfired. John Roberts may have played Peppermint Patty back in the day, but here and NOW, the Left is playing Lucy with the football . . .
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Well if clothing is evidence, than everyone was gay in the 70's.
....I can't believe the left would be this stupid...they are actually projecting their hate towards Republicans on views they actually hold themselves...they got away with it during the Clinton years....but that was then...this is now.
The left will stoop so low to further their cause. Even doing things they constantly accuse the right of doing is fair game for them.
I thought the running joke was that Peppermint Patty liked chicks.
Ugh, I'm a huge Peanuts fan and I can't believe I just said that.
Of course they also scream about advancements for females and minority in politics, that is until Condi Rice came along.
Well just like the libs, when all else fails, let make stuff up...never ceases to admaze me what dumb a$$es they are...but lets not shut them up....keep them talking so everone can see how idiotic they are.....
Has Bill Moyers weighed in on this?.........
Got my new Orvis catalog yesterday. Some very nice tartan trousers in there, thinking about ordering a pair. Sort of a John Roberts support group thing.
IMHO, they're projecting their latent/patent homosexuality on Republicans.
This is just laying the ground work for something even more insidious. In a few weeks, a former gay lover will come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct. Nothing proveable, but all innuendo. The Dems will hope this will torpedo the nomination. Anyone the president nominates will face the worst mud-slinging smear campaign the Dems can conduct. Its what they've practiced and perfected well over the last couple of decades and it's the only amunition they have left. Cheap shots are all they have.
Yep. Every time they open their mouths they distance themselves further and further from mainstream America.
Those are gay pants. But that was a gay era.
Well, then the left should love him shouldn't they?
If this backfires the way it should they will end up with their base demanding that they back him.
The memo, which dated from the 1964 campaign between President Johnson and Barry Goldwater, directed FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to investigate the Goldwater campaign for evidence of homosexual activity. It came after Johnson aide Walter Jenkins had been arrested in a Washington men's room.
Silberman reports that Moyers called him and claimed that the memo was a phony planted by the CIA. Silberman says he told Moyers he would investigate the matter and, if he was right, he would exonerate him publicly.
At that point, Silberman says Moyers backed off saying, "I was very young. How will I ever explain this to my children." Moyers could not be reached for comment.
I had a pair of plaid slacks like that in 1973, 8th grade.
Thank-God the fashion crimes of the 70's are mostly a memory.
Yup..... He was gay in '72, but converted to heterosexual and is now married with kids.
More proof that there is a vaccuum between the ears of American liberals.
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