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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Oh, my, what a memory THAT is. My son had one. Poor kid.
Isn't everyone gay! That's what these creeps try say when it suits them.
After all Judge Roberts is: male, lives within 1,000 miles of gay people; so he must be gay.
That's not ALL they're full of. But, I'll try to be nice.
YES, isn't he wearing a plaid SKIRT in this picture?
How could such a cute little kid grow up to look like a Munster???
Do you think the left would have any problem if this person was nominated to the Supreme Court?
Wait a minute! I went to an all girls Catholic School and took Latin and French......does that mean I'm gay? Yikes! Who knew!! Should I tell my husband, three kids and two granddaughters, or just stay in the closet!!! LOL
What a fine looking, all-American boy. Where did he go wrong?
Thekthy!
As a Peanuts fanatic in my youth, I can tell you: Both Peppermint Patty and Marcie had a crush on Charlie Brown. It was "Chuck" that wasn't interested. He was fixated on The Little Red-Haired Girl.
IMHO, Peanuts jumped in the water and was dragged behind a motorboat on skis when Charles Schulz created the first Peanuts special I didn't like, It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown, in which we finally see and he gets to kiss TLRHG. The shark was jumped with room to spare when Schulz went out of his flippin' mind and wrote It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, which had Snoopy dancing in a tattered shirt like Marine Jahan in Flashdance.
I will apply the same logic I do when people start sticking a rainbow flagpole in the crypts of Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other Washington legends, and claim them as a homosexual; for the sake of argument, let's say it's true. What does this prove? That if you are a homosexual, the sky's the limit for what you can accomplish...as long as you stay in the closet.
"I'm just wondering what Souter's take onthis is?
Thekthy!"
Are you implying something about Souter that I wasn't? I was just wondering what the opinion of Souter is...I always wonder what men who look like elves and who formerly lived in the New Hampshire forest thinks when a dashing new man comes into his life....snigger
Hey, who knows, maybe this development can reorient Souter?
I am talking, of course, about reorienting his jurisprudence....
"My hubby has striped pants on in his 70s pics..."
My husband still wears them. After 38 years I can say, "He's not gay. He's just tired."
Well, that does it. I study French and Latin, swim on the school team, participate in the choir and the drama, and had a lead in my school's musical. I guess I'm a flaming homosexual...
Oh wait, I have a girlfriend... and I wrote an 8 page paper condemning gay marriage, and homosexuality in general... and I am finalizing the paperwork to apply for the rank of Eagle Scout in the BSA... and I'm very active in the LDS church, which also condemns homosexuality in no uncertain terms... I'm a conservative right-winger too... I hate the media.
Anyone who knows Jane Roberts knows that she would not be a "beard" for anyone.
I predicted on the day of his nomination that the left would go after the adoption with some angle. Of course, I was thinking more on the "why not adopt American children?" angle.
I guess this is payback for all the Hillary lesbian jokes and cartoons.
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