To clarify: Like some of the most rabid right-wingers, I think any attempt to make hay from Rudy's cross-dressing tendencies is pretty silly. The NAMBLA thing, on the other hand, is pure political poison. If there's one rule for success in national politics, it's "stay the hell away from NAMBLA."
As a person who's done plenty of dumb things in their life, I can totally imagine the horrible, sinking feeling in the stomach of the staffer who scheduled him for the appearance in that parade.
"Oh SHIIIIIT. I'm never getting another job again."
If I remember correctly from my Pride parade days (in DC, never NYC), there are a few groups of people who are part of the official parade and then the rest is pretty much open to anyone who congregates and paints a banner.
I think NAMBLA's pretty awful, but the attempt by ultra-conservatives to paint anyone gay as a pedophile is not new and this whole smear reads as an extension of that.
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To clarify: Like some of the most rabid right-wingers, I think any attempt to make hay from Rudy's cross-dressing tendencies is pretty silly. The NAMBLA thing, on the other hand, is pure political poison. If there's one rule for success in national politics, it's "stay the hell away from NAMBLA."
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As a person who's done plenty of dumb things in their life, I can totally imagine the horrible, sinking feeling in the stomach of the staffer who scheduled him for the appearance in that parade.
"Oh SHIIIIIT. I'm never getting another job again."
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I think NAMBLA's pretty awful, but the attempt by ultra-conservatives to paint anyone gay as a pedophile is not new and this whole smear reads as an extension of that.
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