Old Folks Love Gays, Hate Troops

[Jason_Brown]

Believe it or not, this ad is real. (http://www.spectator.org/) Giggle.

http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/aarp.gif

[Jason_Brown]

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Awww. C'mon. Nobody else found this remotely funny?

[jjcourtright]

I just stumbled on this. It's joking about the whole Gannon/Guckert gay hooker in the White House press corp deal.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/agendafinal.jpg

[Dave]

What? there is a gay hooker in the White House press core?

[BAMSS04]

Not just in the tabs anymore.

[Razorback]

That isn't funny at all... it is completely true! /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

[Mighty_Wingman]

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As Jon Stewart said, "in his defence , he is strictly a top. "

[bwdial]

A good friend of mine is a teacher in Tennessee, and he said that they have dropped out of the NEA and formed their own union because the NEA lobbys for gay rights, and other completely unrelated causes.

[DangerSeeker]

Because there aren't gay artists. Riiiiiiight...

Am I the only one who understands why this administration would bring a gay prostitute into the loop as a ringer? I mean, he's used to being paid for lip service and then...

But I digress.

[Dave]

Well, Bush did say on those tapes that he would discriminate against gays, i guess this proves it....

But let me see if i have gotten this straight (so to speak), because i haven't been paying any real attention to the news as of late. This Gannon guy - or whatever his name really is - has worked as a gay prostitute before? Is that right?

[DangerSeeker]

Well, he ran gay porn sites, and had himself listed as an "escort." Also, he was arch-nemesis to Link in the first Zelda game. EVIL!!!

[jjcourtright]

If you want to get up to date, I would recommend going here. (http://americablog.blogspot.com)

It appears that he was infact a gay "escort". He ran, and appeared on websites that featured them. It also appears that he was doing this at the same time that he was sitting in on White House press briefings. After he was "outed," all of his "articles" disappeared from the website of the "news" agency that he "wrote" for. (That has to be a record for most quotes used in one sentence.) He may also be involved in the Valerie Plame/Rober Novak/outing(not as in coming out of the closet) of a CIA operative ordeal.

[jjcourtright]

Apparently USANext didn't get permission from the guys to use their picture in the ad:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 28, 2005

Contact: John Aravosis
john@wiredstrategies.com
Spokesman for Richard M. Raymen and Steven P. Hansen

“USA NEXT” MISAPPROPRIATED COUPLES’
IMAGE FOR ANTI-GAY AD CAMPAIGN
Couple: Image Stolen for Campaign Against AARP

WASHINGTON, DC - Conservative front organization USA Next was accused today of illegally using a gay couple’s wedding photo in an anti-gay ad campaign supporting President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security.

The couple in the photo, Richard M. Raymen and Steven P. Hansen of Portland, Oregon, have come forward through an attorney to demand that USA Next stop using their image, and that the organization publicly apologize for using their image in a homophobic and libelous way. The demand, contained in a letter sent today to USA Next Chairman and CEO Charles Jarvis, references the couples’ right to seek damages for the misappropriation of their image.

In one version of the USA Next advertisement disseminated widely on the Internet last week, and aired repeatedly by television news programs nationwide, the couple’s image, superimposed with a green checkmark, is side-by-side a picture of a US soldier with a red “X” across it. Below the photos is the phrase “The REAL AARP Agenda.”

A copy of the ad can be viewed online here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/21/164929/948

"In 2004, our clients allowed their picture to be taken at their public celebration, as couples getting married do every day,” Christopher Wolf, a partner in the Washington, DC office of the New York-based law firm Proskauer Rose LLP and counsel for Raymen and Hansen. . “They did not volunteer to be models for a 2005 right-wing hate campaign, and never would have consented to having their images plastered in an ad of any kind, much less the one USA Next chose to run. USA Next has violated the law and must take responsibility for the consequences. Tort law is quite clear that USA Next acted illegally.”

“The USA Next ad communicates the false message that gay marriages generally, and our clients specifically, are the antithesis of supporting American troops during wartime,” said Wolf. “Gay marriage, and our clients’ ceremony, have nothing to do with support of the troops. Our clients are patriotic Americans who strongly support our service members.”

USA Next’s ad campaign has generated heated debate about the organization.. Ramen and Hansen have been the subject of hate-filled messages and ridicule as a result of the ad campaign, and have suffered a significant invasion of privacy.

“We never signed up to be Harry and Louise for a hate-mongering group,” Raymen said, referring to the fictional couple used in television commercials to scuttle then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s health care proposal. “USA Next is illegally using our photo to portray us as a threat to American values. How would any citizen like having their image stolen and broadcast for the purpose of tarring our troops and suggesting that you’re un-American?”

On behalf of Raymen and Hansen, Wolf wrote USA Next today demanding that the organization immediately stop using photos of the couple and that it publicly apologize for the ongoing harm it is causing.

“As our clients contemplate their full legal remedies, we are writing to demand that you immediately cease and desist using any photograph of our clients and that you publicly apologize to them for the use you already have made, and the harm you have already caused,” Wolf wrote to USA Next.

Wolf said his clients seriously are considering filing suit against USA Next but, regardless, use of the photo must stop.

[Jason_Brown]

Heh. I think they took the ad down, last week, after just one day. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

[jjcourtright]

But USA Next has now been on FOX News and I assume they will be hitting up the other networks soon. As near as I can tell (and as conspiracy theory as it sounds) is that they, as a conservative lobbying group, are all for Bush's Social Security "reform". The AARP is obviously against it (you know their "crazy" agenda of wanting to help old people). If they can convince some people that the AARP is a liberal group, than those people will quit the AARP and instead send their money to USA Next. This will give USA Next more money to run the next anti-AARP ad. This will, of course lead to more people joining USA Next. The inevitable result will be world domination...by Art Linkletter.

Edit: Had to add this in. This is a guy explaining his dislike for the AARP:

Wayne B from Smithtown Says: Their magazine is full of liberal propagander, making it obvious they have a selfish agenda.

Yes kids, that is right, he apparently said "propagander".

Edit again: Just look at this page. (http://www.usanext.org/voices.cfm) Cracks me up.

[bwdial]

NEA=teachers' union...not the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA (http://www.nea.org/index.html)

[Dave]

From USA Next's website about AARP:

"Their magazine is full of liberal propagander, making it obvious they have a selfish agenda. "

I read that, and immediately though of my departed Grandmother, who liked to go to the K-mark and Wallmark, and hated the motor-sicles.

The AARP does however have thier own agenda, and it's not really looking out for the oldies anymore.

[cberquist]

And that agenda is sweaty, greasy, man-love. All-Anal Action, all the time. THAT should be the new AD.

[jjcourtright]

Make sure there is somebody punching soldiers in the face at the same time...

[DangerSeeker]

See, this is like the whole problem between the World Wrestling Federation and the World Wildlife Federation. Two groups, one set of initials.

They've been referring to "Allah Advocates Rectal Penetration," which they have accurately represented.

[Matt1]

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Those are the guys who took the majority in the Iraqi election, right?