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You are here: Home / Politics / Republican Stupidity / I Would Like a Wetsuit and Four Blank Videotapes

I Would Like a Wetsuit and Four Blank Videotapes

by John Cole|  April 14, 200810:55 am| 41 Comments

This post is in: Republican Stupidity

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Speaking for Ron Jeremy

Whee:

For days, Bruce Barclay’s political career hung in the balance. The Republican commissioner of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, had been accused of rape — by a man, no less — and the police were bearing down. Barclay’s lawyer issued a strong denial (“This accusation of rape is ludicrous It will be defended forever and is wrong.”). But it was clear things were looking pretty dicey. Until… vindication! Well, sort of.

On March 31st, police, investigating the allegation of rape by the 20-year old Marshall McCurdy, obtained a warrant to search Barclay’s home. They didn’t find evidence of rape. But they did find videotapes of hundreds of sexual encounters with men that Barclay had filmed on high-tech surveillance cameras. The cameras were hidden inside AM/FM radios, motion detectors and intercom speaker systems, among other places. There was also one at his business office.

None of the subjects were aware they were being filmed and no permission had been obtained, Barclay admitted. According to a second warrant issued on April 9th, Barclay also admitted to hiring prostitutes on a weekly basis from the now-defunct website harrisburgfratboys.com.

I predict this will be bad news for Democrats. Particularly bad for elitists who go to SAN FRANCISCO.

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  1. 1.

    D0n Camillo

    April 14, 2008 at 11:06 am

    I bet Mr. Barclay isn’t bitter about police finding his porn stash. From the sounds of it, he wouldn’t have the time to be bitter even if he were so inclined.

  2. 2.

    Jen

    April 14, 2008 at 11:07 am

    investigating the allegation of rape by the 20-year old Marshall McCurdy,

    Reputable papers don’t typically identify alleged rape victims unless they have specifically asked to be, as I’m sure Paul L. could tell us, does anyone know why he was identified here?

  3. 3.

    jake

    April 14, 2008 at 11:09 am

    Whee indeedy. I was going into Republican Sex Scandal withdrawal.

    I particularly enjoyed this flop-sweat soaked quote from the lawyer:

    “This accusation of rape is ludicrous It will be defended forever and is wrong.”

    Translation: Please God, don’t let them find the tapes!

    “It is clear in my client’s private life he has made an error of judgment. What is striking is this very same lack of judgment exonerates him from a rape allegation that wasn’t going anywhere.”

    Translation: Damn it! Well, maybe if I talk enough no one will mention the prostitutes!

    And of course the bastard looks like Drew Carey after a reverse liposuction.

    Dear Republicans,

    Please drop the pork rinds and do some sit ups, you fat slobs.

  4. 4.

    RSA

    April 14, 2008 at 11:10 am

    Cumberland County is on the ball. Their Web site:

    Commissioner, Vice-Chairman: Vacant

    Google hasn’t caught up, yet.

  5. 5.

    shera

    April 14, 2008 at 11:10 am

    Am I the only one still recovering from http://www.harrisburgfratboys.com?

  6. 6.

    jake

    April 14, 2008 at 11:12 am

    You may be the only one who clicked on it. I assume it is NSFW.

    Detailz plz.

  7. 7.

    Zifnab

    April 14, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Mother of god, I am not hitting that link.

  8. 8.

    AkaDad

    April 14, 2008 at 11:14 am

    Am I the only one still recovering from http://www.harrisburgfratboys.com?

    Recovering from the name of the site, or from all the gay sex you’ve been having?

  9. 9.

    nightjar

    April 14, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Commissioner, Vice-Chairman: Vacant

    Yep, but the NSA just signed up a star snoop.

  10. 10.

    demimondian

    April 14, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Mother of god, I am not hitting that link.

    Wise choice, I think.

    Very wise.

  11. 11.

    Dug Jay

    April 14, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Interestingly, this Barcklay scumbag had endorsed Obama. Go figure.

  12. 12.

    demimondian

    April 14, 2008 at 11:20 am

    NSA just signed up a star snoop.

    NSA nothing — RSA should be expecting a call from MSNahoo! any moment now…

  13. 13.

    Caidence (fmr. Chris)

    April 14, 2008 at 11:23 am

    “This is exactly why we need to curtail First Amendment rights and wiretap all outgoing communications: to stem the spread of wayward Republicans that have caught Teh Ghey” — President Bush, remarks 12:05 PM, Ukrainian torture laboratory.

  14. 14.

    Jen

    April 14, 2008 at 11:25 am

    I Would Like a Wetsuit

    Yeah, I don’t know what you’re going to do with just ONE..

  15. 15.

    airmail

    April 14, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Wow! Just wow! At least he’s not Teh Gay.

  16. 16.

    demimondian

    April 14, 2008 at 11:27 am

    I don’t know what you’re going to do with just ONE..

    John’s a Democrat now. We’re not…creative…like the Republicans are.

  17. 17.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 14, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Being a Republican means that Barclay is automatically granted a Diminished Capacity defense – just like a “W” sticker on your SUV allows you to park in the Handicapped spots.

  18. 18.

    cbear

    April 14, 2008 at 11:40 am

    Here’s a blockbuster headline from the future:

    Republican Nabbed in Sex Scandal:
    Prominent Conservative Caught Fucking His Wife

  19. 19.

    Tsulagi

    April 14, 2008 at 11:40 am

    Mother of god, I am not hitting that link.

    Well, maybe you should. There is a photo there of Barclay together with a happy Karl Rove. Karl seems pretty satisfied. Maybe one of the hundreds of tapes could speak to that.

    Also like that Barclay appears to be wearing some sort of lapel pin. I’m beginning to think Republicans wear lapel pins as some sort of signal to other happy warriors in their party. Secret code. Depending on type of pin and positioning, let’s other Republican manly men on the hunt know whether they’re looking for a Haggard bottom, a Sanchez top, or maybe just a voyeur to witness their climbing on the double wetsuit and dildo express.

  20. 20.

    shera

    April 14, 2008 at 11:50 am

    I didn’t include link tags in my original post, but I guess typing in the website address automatically generates a link. Is there a way to avoid this?

  21. 21.

    shera

    April 14, 2008 at 11:51 am

    I didn’t include link tags in my original comment, but I guess typing in the website address automatically generates a link. Is there a way to avoid this?

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    April 14, 2008 at 11:53 am

    harrisburgfratboys.com

    Which frat was it?

    Wow, looks like freshman initiations have gotten really tough lately…

  23. 23.

    jake

    April 14, 2008 at 11:53 am

    I’m beginning to think Republicans wear lapel pins as some sort of signal to other happy warriors in their party.

    They’re too elitist and out of touch to use bandanas. Someone light up the Duck Signal and alert Hillary!

  24. 24.

    Paul L.

    April 14, 2008 at 11:54 am

    Nice to see he used the Elliot Spitzer “private life” defense. Progressives will be rushing to his defense like they did with Elliot Spitzer.
    In particular Spitzer’s greatest defenders Scott Horton and Glenn Greenward.

    Jon Stewart Eats Up Spitzer Scandal

    If only the media would spend more time investigating the suspicious details of the complaint and less time reporting the salacious — and entirely inconsequential — details of the man’s private (albeit hypocritical) life.

    I blame the Patriot act.
    I guess to guys are right about George W. Bush turning the US into a police state when a man can not have multiple hidden high-tech surveillance cameras concealed in his home.
    Keep your laws out of my bedroom!!!!!11!!!

    Reputable papers don’t typically identify alleged rape victims unless they have specifically asked to be, as I’m sure Paul L. could tell us, does anyone know why he was identified here?

    I guess that there is a double standard for male and female alleged rape victims.

  25. 25.

    jrg

    April 14, 2008 at 11:55 am

    I wonder if Bruce Barclay agrees that rural Pennsylvanian men are “bitter”?

    As far as the rape allegations go, Barclay is innocent until proven guilty. After all, the 20-year-old was hanging around with a GOP politician – he may claim that he was not interested in butt sex, but what did he expect? Doesn’t this kid read the newspaper?

    Hanging around alone with an elected Republican is like dressing in drag in a maximum security prison. His words say he did not want anything to happen, but that might just be the guilt talking.

  26. 26.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    April 14, 2008 at 11:58 am

    AkaDad Says:

    Am I the only one still recovering from http://www.harrisburgfratboys.com?

    Recovering from the name of the site, or from all the gay sex you’ve been having?

    April 14th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    The room’s startin to spin… cause of all the gayness. Cal… I love you.

  27. 27.

    Jen

    April 14, 2008 at 11:58 am

    I guess to guys are right about George W. Bush turning the US into a police state when a man can not have multiple hidden high-tech surveillance cameras concealed in his home.

    I’m not sure how, yet, but this is funny.

    You read this blog pretty religiously, doncha Paul?

  28. 28.

    cbear

    April 14, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    I’m beginning to think Republicans wear lapel pins as some sort of signal to other happy warriors in their party.

    I’m beginning to think that every male gooper I meet would just as soon blow me as shake my hand.

    For safety’s sake, I’ve taken to wearing an athletic cup (front and back) whenever I leave the house.
    You never know when you might run into one of these sex-crazed goopers, and I want to have a fighting chance at escaping with my “innocence” intact.

  29. 29.

    jake

    April 14, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    I guess that there is a double standard for male and female alleged rape victims.

    Well let’s see what the article says, shall we?

    On April 10th, the rape charges were dropped. One of the videos found during the search showed Barclay and McCurdy engaging in apparently consensual sex.

    No charges, no restriction on releasing McCurdy’s name, no double standard. Now get these damn jackalopes out of here.

  30. 30.

    ThymeZone

    April 14, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    After a couple years of PaulL material …. does anyone have any idea what his actual positions are on any subject? Any subject at all?

    Tastes great v. Less filling?

    Anything?

  31. 31.

    Punchy

    April 14, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    For safety’s sake, I’ve taken to wearing an athletic cup (front and back) whenever I leave the house.

    Fuck you very much for the most unpleasant visual….

  32. 32.

    shera

    April 14, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Recovering from the name of the site, or from all the gay sex you’ve been having?

    As a woman, I can’t have the gay anal sex, so Harrisburg frat boys are definitely not my thing. Which brings me to the inherent inequality in the availability of frat boy sex partners in smaller American cities.

  33. 33.

    D0n Camillo

    April 14, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    “For days, Bruce Barclay’s political career hung in the balance.”

    And how amazingly well hung it’s turned out to be.

  34. 34.

    Dork

    April 14, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    As a woman, I can’t have the gay anal sex, so Harrisburg frat boys are definitely not my thing.

    /consults anatomy textbook

    Yeah, actually you can.

  35. 35.

    jcricket

    April 14, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    This is Hi-larious. I think on April Fool’s Day the Onion should just post actual news summaries of GOP shenanigans like this and see if anyone notices the difference. C’mon, you can’t beat the “Conservative GOP politician exonerated of charges of rape by discovery of videotapes of that encounter, and hundreds of others with male prostitutes. Film at 11” headline.

  36. 36.

    Cyrus

    April 14, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    No charges, no restriction on releasing McCurdy’s name, no double standard. Now get these damn jackalopes out of here.

    It’s like religious faith. For Paul L. and many people like him, it seems like straight white males are cruelly and gratuitously persecuted from all sides. Any evidence that to you or I seems to contradict that only looks like another sign of the complexity and pervasiveness of the plot.

    Paul L.: “Newspapers don’t publish the names of rape victims, but they publish the names of the accused. That means reporters and editors hate men.”
    Sane people: “Don’t you realize that getting raped often causes a strong but irrational sense of shame? Being accused of rape is no picnic either, of course, but at least in that case there often are valid fears for the safety of others, and it’s generally easier to find out the name of the accused by other means, so it would get out eventually. The same isn’t true of the alleged victim.”
    Paul L.: “In this one instance, they published the name of the alleged victim, and it’s a man. If they don’t hate men, why aren’t they protecting this guy the same way, HMMM?”
    Sane people: “The accused rapist in that instance has practically been exonerated. There’s nothing to the rape charge. I think you’ll find that the names of female alleged victims are often released in other cases that go nowhere.”
    Paul L. a month from now: “Hey, all the charges were dropped in this alleged rape of a 15-year-old, but they haven’t published her name. Why does the left hate people who are old enough to drive?”

  37. 37.

    Tsulagi

    April 14, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    Which brings me to the inherent inequality in the availability of frat boy sex partners in smaller American cities.

    Well, there could be sorority girl sex partners. Sorority girl sex would be much hotter than frat boy. Make sure like Barclay you tape it. And then….link please?

    ;)

  38. 38.

    DougJ

    April 14, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    The timing of this, coming just seven moths before the presidential election, is mighty suspicious. Were Scott Beauchamp and Dan Rather involved? Howie Kurtz wants to know.

  39. 39.

    Blue Raven

    April 14, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    As a woman, I can’t have the gay anal sex, so Harrisburg frat boys are definitely not my thing.

    /consults anatomy textbook

    Yeah, actually you can.

    Not without either a sex-change operation or a strap-on. Please to note the adjective “gay” modifying the noun phrase “anal sex.”

  40. 40.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    April 14, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    I wonder if Bruce Barclay agrees that rural Pennsylvanian men are “bitter”?

    Actually, he seems to find them pretty sweet.

  41. 41.

    Jess

    April 14, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    Not without either a sex-change operation or a strap-on. Please to note the adjective “gay” modifying the noun phrase “anal sex.”

    You forget…Jen is actually a man.

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