Posted on 03/08/2007 1:21:06 AM PST by ajolympian2004
Porn reduces the mind and flattens the soul. I don't like it. That's not hypocrisy talking; that's just experience. I sometimes think of myself, ironically, as a progressive: I started off as a liberal but I progressed to conservatism. Part of that transformation is due to my time in the industry. How does a conservative trace his roots to such distasteful beginnings? I didn't like porn's liberalism. In porn, everything taboo is trivialized and everything trivial is magnified.
Being in the adult entertainment industry was sort of like being in a cult, and like all followers of a cult, I have a difficult time figuring out when I stopped believing in the party line. I can tell you, though, that by the time I finished my brief tour of the major studios, I was pretty disgusted with myself. It was an emotional low, and the people who surrounded me were like drug dealers interested only in being with the anesthetized in order not to shake off the stupor of being high.
Why did I become a conservative? Just look at what I left, and look at who is attacking me today.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The past of Cpl Sanchez
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/07/the-past-of-cpl-sanchez/
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He appeared on Fox News channel recently -
Hannity & Colmes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jy6CJvEmCs
O'Reilly Factor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYSmjIUrY0
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With Ann Coulter at CPAC -
(L) Matt Sanchez, CPAC honoree, corporal in the Marine Corps Reserve, and a junior at Columbia University; (R) USAFR Major Eric Egland, author of The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help Them Win From Your Living Room
http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2007/03/in_defense_of_matt_sanchez.php
Thank you so much for posting this here.
No problema.
It'll be interesting so see if the Marines Corps takes any action against Corporal Matt Sanchez. Maybe they'll take into account that he appears to be a reformed man.
IMHO, it shows alot of character to look at your life and change it.
The man has Kahoanees - not to be obvious.
I give me credit - stepping out and owning it takes guts.
Ann Coulter?
Well - she could use a little........
The man has Kahoanees - not to be obvious.
I give him credit - stepping out and owning it takes guts.
Ann Coulter?
Well - she could use a little......
Ann has all the Kahoanees she needs!
Excerpt -
Last night, hate-filled liberals on MSNBC attemped to smear Marine Corporal Matt Sanchez and conservatives who honored him at CPAC for his support of the military at Columbia University. They gleefully showed photos of Cpl. Sanchez at the event--including ones I took--in mockery after his gay porn past was outed by left-wing blogs. They cackled "Semper Fi."
I said the other day I thought CPAC organizers would be justified in being embarrassed if the rumors about Sanchez's porn star past 15 years ago turned out to be true. Well, the rumors are true. But it is neither CPAC nor Cpl. Sanchez who should feel embarrassed.
It's the nasty, gloating liberals who claim to stand for tolerance, privacy, human rights, and compassion. I predicted the other day that left-wing bigotry would rear its ugly head. I was right. The e-mail I've received is more disgusting than anything Ann Coulter stupidly said at CPAC. And I can imagine the vitriol Cpl. Sanchez is enduring.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007013.htm
Right on count 1. Hope we weren't right about the rest.
(follow-up on Matt Sanchez - this is his response)
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Michelle Malkin ping list...
Matt Sanchez Responds, Sort Of
(excerpt:) SANCHEZ: I'm a registered Republican, although I will admit that I voted for Hilary the first time around at Senate, following 9/11. I have donated money and time. There's a Ric Santorum pic running around somewhere, I'm sure your little elves will find it at some point.
What happens now? Will he be able to stay in the military?
Yeah, whaddya mean, Ann Coulter could use a few cojones
She NEVER backs down from ANY of her public statements.
I don't know whether Matt Sanchez has "come clean" before today, or whether this piece,dated today, is in response to this "breaking ""scandal"".....a cursory inquiry shows that this story is ALL OVER the LEft blogs as another good example of how the overzealous rightwingers like Ann, Michelle and Horowitz were somehow "duped" by this guy, and gleefully are USING him in his current identity as a Columbia U. student who has something to say about anti-military bias on campus/Once again showing the enormous blind spots for which they are justly famous, the Left apparently assumes that Mr. Sanchez CANNOT have reformed, CANNOT be conservative, and so he winds up being "outed" redudantly by the LEFT (ironic, huh?) because they still think all Blacks and Gays should stay on that part of the Democrat plantation reserved for them. Study some of these blogs and see the Left mindset in action. Tell you what---I didn't have to read past the first paragraph to feel good about this guy-----he writes "in porn, everything taboo is trivialized, and everything trivial is magnified"---I remember saying to my wife, when we first met, about THIRTY years ago, that the thing most troublesome about television to me was that television " "magnifies the unimportant, and trivializes the important". Hence, the problem is in the medium itself, that it started out as a piece of furniture in the living room, with the mission literally of "selling soap", and the idea of "quality television" has been fighted for over 50 years with that original "reputation that preceded it".
ANYWAY, interesting to see how AC, MM, and DH respond to these implications that they have been duped by a "homosexual hypocrite".
By entering the public arena, with all the risk that entails, I feel I've already achieved a major victory. Columbia University is expanding its outreach to veterans and will build a memorial to alumni who have fallen in battle. Columbia veterans have fought in every conflict since the American Revolution. The rest of it is just a bunch of blips in the blogosphere.
This is wonderful!
ping
Ambivalent about the porn bit?? This guy had sex on camera with men for money. The lefty blogs didn't "out" him--it was those 2 dozen or so gay porn films that did that.
That being said, I never was against gays in the military. Not all gay men are flaming sissies, and the military has always been a home for men who didn't want to be with women. What the hell--Sanchez looks like a fine Marine to me...
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