Wonkette pointed me to this anti-Obama screed by Major Gen. Jerry R. Curry (US Army Ret.) Ph.D. promising that it broke new ground in senseless wingnuttery. It didn’t, but this comment on the article did:
There are stories all over the internet about Obama being bi-sexual. That he lived with his gay partner in college. There is a picture of this man and Obama sitting side by side. Stories of homosexual men from Obama’s church being murdered before he ran for president, men he’d had affairs with.
I have never heard that Obama was gay before. Is this like the Amero, where I’m the last to know?
Update. I guess my gaydar was just broken:
Sleaze charge: ‘I took drugs, had homo sex with Obama’
Amanda in the South Bay
I doubt Obama’s Islamist co-religionists are going to be happy with this revelation!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Really? You don’t remember Larry Sinclair? Warning: Link goes to No Quarter. The PUMAs loved Larry Sinclair.
dmsilev
During the campaign, there was a nut, Larry Sinclair by name, who in the words of World Net Daily: “Sleaze charge: ‘I took drugs, had homo sex with Obama’ “.
So yes, you’re way behind the times.
dms
Steve V
Yeah, um, hello, Larry Sinclair. They were saying this crap about him being bisexual back when Sinclair was doing his thing.
C Nelson Reilly
Does this mean Michelle is a man?
freelancer
@dmsilev:
and thank you Jim and dmsilev for remembering the name that escaped me while I was trying to crank over who was so crazy in ’08.
Pangloss
Over at Landover Baptist Church the latest Obama-is-Gay thread is titled “Taxpayer Dollars Used by Obama’s Amtrak to Promote Homosexuality.”
Hob
Doug, we didn’t want to tell you because we didn’t want you to be sad… Barry’s just not into you. He told us that last year when we all slept with him.
Sarah in Brooklyn
those arms are suspicious.
Suffern Ace
You weren’t paying attention. Very Clintonian “So Many People Around Him Mysteriously Murdered” plus a Hillary – “She was caught in a lesbian tryst with the family vet.”
There was a press conference last year with accuser Larry Sinclair and a lawyer wearing a kilt. Press didn’t pick it up, since as, you know, when you are lying off your keister, it’s best to have a lawyer wearing a suit.
Chad S
OMG, sitting next to a man makes you a gay?
Chad S
@Suffern Ace: Dave Weigel wrote on it and it bounced all over the intertubes. His lawyer was recently disbarred and talked about how big his dick was. I’m sure it was a high point in the history of the National Press Club.
Interrobang
Even if Obama were bisexual, isn’t the correct response “So what?”
freelancer
@Chad S:
You been sleeping with them, huh? Whaddya, some kinda social conservative religious leader? UR doin it wrong.
DougJ
@Chad S:
So it was all a big JournoList conspiracy, right?
Splitting Image
According to Sullivan, Obama is a closet homophobe who has a secret agenda to combat the country’s embrace of gay rights, part of which involves elevating to the Supreme Court the closet homophobe Elena Kagan, who has been allowing rumours of her own homosexuality to persist in order to throw people off the track.
That’s pretty much all the proof you need that Obama is gay, but the news of the murdered men at his old church is new. Presumably they were ritually sacrificed by Jeremiah Wright in an Islamic Satanist ceremony on a granite altar.
But yeah, you must have missed the Larry Sinclair rumours. If they weren’t true, it wouldn’t be out there on the internet.
Beauzeaux
@Suffern Ace:
I could be wrong about this, but wasn’t the lawyer arrested on unrelated charges at said press conference?
Duke City Roller (fmr Tank Hueco)
How can one be a ghey homosexxxor and a head chopping Mooslin at the same time?
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Hob:
{awards you the internets, with oak leaf cluster}
dmsilev
@Chad S: Ah, now I remember. The lawyer said he wore a kilt because there was no way that he could wear pants due to his enormous dick.
Why this was relevant to the press conference, I do not know.
dms
Zandar
So…Obama killed Bill Cosby less than two blocks from Ground Zero after having ghey sex with Bill Ayers and then killing anyone else who saw him do that so he could have Michele become the Socialist Food Police and deport all white people back to his native Kenya.
Got it.
Boy, Les Kinsolving will get that front row WHPC seat after he breaks this one!
Scott
@Beauzeaux: Nah, I think it was Sinclair himself who was arrested, either at the press conference or very soon afterwards.
moops
I’d like him better if he were bi, but I doubt he is. Bi males are unelectable and it would be pretty easy to find a reasonable source for such a rumor for a Presidential candidate.
we’ll have an atheist President before we have a bisexual President.
Cacti
Didn’t some toothless crackhead from Minnesota claim he was Obama’s lover once upon a time, and the wingnutosphere was all over it?
HumboldtBlue
I am not gay and just because over the past 30 years or so I have at times, taken a man’s cock in my hands and massaged it until orgasm does not, in any way, MAKE. ME. GAY.
freelancer
@moops:
We’ve already had an atheist president, and probably more than one. Just don’t tell Glenn Beck.
Anne Laurie
Yeah, well, the rumor’s back again because — as ever — Wingnut Projection in action. If they had the awesome almost-unlimited power they project the POTUS as having, they would totally crush their enemies, have the black helicopters rendition Rush Limbaugh to Gitmo, order the Secret Service to seize Glenn Beck right off his tv soundstage and ‘disappear’ him to the super-sekrit black-ops facilities hidden under Denver Intl Airport. The fact that Obama has failed to act upon these no-doubt-highly-enjoyable impulses doesn’t mean he’s not the Antichrist — it just means he’s not a “real” manly man.
And that’s soooo reassuring… sure, the Teabaggers sharing this delicious tidbit may be broke, unemployed, and miserably unsuccessful by all those metrics at which ‘Barry’ has excelled, but at least they’re not gay!
DougJ
It’s a phase anyway. Bi now, gay later.
Stefan
He’s thin, tall and neat. What more do you need to know?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
Beauzeaux
@Scott:
You’re right, it was Sinclair himself that was arrested at the conclusion of his own press conference. But it’s worth noting that the kilted lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, had recently been suspended by the Florida bar for three years.
Zifnab
@Splitting Image:
Oh! So close! But thanks for playing.
Cacti
Larry Sinclair!
That was it.
BGinCHI
Did that guy invent Jerry Curl?
Genius I tells ya.
General Stuck
Mickey Mantle was also too a switch hitter.
Cacti
@freelancer:
We’ve probably already had a gay President as well.
James Buchanan
Martin
What’s more, he’s in it with the aliens. He’s building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God.
fucen tarmal
i think the photograhic evidence of obama in those crappy shoes, overrides any photographic evidence of him with his arm around a dude.
but a retarded major general with a playahatin degree what could go wrong?
BGinCHI
It’s like the scene in Repo Man where the creepy mechanic tells the story of how he knows John Wayne was gay.
zoe kentucky in pittsburgh
So Obama is a secret homosexual, Muslim, socialist/nazi/commie, born in Kenya, who is both too mean and nasty (Chicago-style thuggery) and too weak (bowed to foreign leaders), and he he’s so high-and-mighty that he dared to go on a low-brow weekday talkshow that is hosted entirely by women and whose audience is (nearly) all women. What’s next? We haven’t seen any pictures of Bo Obama lately, have we? Maybe he’s a puppy kicker too.
Jeezus, one might begin to think that the wingnuts’ talking points are written by an unmedicated schizophrenic person.
At the end of the day none of it really seems to be sticking other than the fact that Obama is not a magician and cannot wave a wand and heal the economy.
wobbly
And guess who just stood up for the 14th amendment?
mentthttp://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/reid-on-birthright-crowd-taken-leave-of-their-sens
Milktoast Harry Reid!
Tom Hilton
Isn’t that the guy who testified against ending DADT? The one who said Teh Gay caused the Srebrenica massacre (I shit you not)?
hal
I didn’t believe this story at first, but if there is a photo of Obama sitting next to another man, well, then he must be gay!
That’s all the proof I need.
Zifnab
@Cacti: I thought Calvin Coolidge was also gay.
I mean, we’ve had what? Something like twelve gay Popes? A cross dressing head of the FBI? One Senator toe-tapping and at least one Representative under aged twitter soliciting busted in the last two years? And that’s not even touching the rumors surrounding Charlie Christ and Lindsey Graham and god only knows what the hell David Vitter does in his free time. Is “gay President” really that far outside the realm of reason?
Tom Hilton
Shorter Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Curry: because Obama is African-American instead of African-American, he isn’t really African-American.
Chad S
@DougJ: I bet it was Ezra Klein who told Dave to ask if Sinclair could describe Obama’s penis.
@Beauzeaux: Sinclair was. A couple states wanted him on fraud charges…shocker.
@dmsilev: He just volunteered the info without being asked.
Chad S
@Cacti: Not probably. The Junior Senator from Alabama at the time was his lover. I believe there’s even primary source confirmation of this.
slag
@Splitting Image: Did you know that Jeremiah Wright’s name anagrammatizes into “harm rightie Jew”? Coincidence?
Tom Hilton
@Tom Hilton: my mistake, that was General (Ret.) Sheehan. Can’t tell your retired military wackjobs without a scorecard.
Mark S.
Well, then these guys must be gay.
SiubhanDuinne
@DougJ:
*Bi now, gay later.*
Wicked clever. Or a terrible groaner, one.
Bob L
So Obama is;
a bi-sexual, homophobic, atheist, Nazi, corporatist, Communist, Islamic, Radical Christian, socialist, druggie, warmongering, isolationist, racists, angry black, misogynist, sekret Keyan, elitist homicidal wimp.
Okay, so were does Obama find the time to be president with all that going on? More to the point why doesn’t Obama’s body simply explode from all the contradictions contained in it?
Tom Hilton
@SiubhanDuinne: not either/or; and, also.
moops
I guess we have already had atheist and gay presidents.
I’ll up the bet.
we’ll have a Muslim president before we have a bisexual president.
Silver
@Zifnab:
Vitter isn’t gay. He’s kinky as hell, and has a diaper fetish, is maybe into age play, but it was with women, dammit. Just the way Jesus intended.
Svensker
Why does everything the Right does have to be about guns? Don’t they ever tire of thinking about guns? What is it with them and guns? Fondling the guns. Dreaming about the guns. Holding and loading the guns, cleaning the guns, ramming the… Oh, wait, I think the gaydar alarm just went off…
Mpls
@C Nelson Reilly:
Michelle’s got awesome, almost manly deltoids.
Stillwater
@moops: Bi males are unelectable…
Because they’re all flip-floppers.
Splitting Image
@Zifnab:
If the counter top has been consecrated, it’s an altar. And if I’m keeping score properly, it’s been consecrated by Muslims, Satanists, atheists, secular-socialists and the wrong kind of Christians.
mak
That’s nothing. I just heard that Mary Carillo is straight and has two kids.
She mentions her kids in this funny rant about badminton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZDn0U0w78k
tatertot
No, McInsane is just inhaling the gorgeous pheromone-loaded scent of Bush’s underarms, acknowledging the dominance of the Bush-chimp
humbert dinglepencker
Back when I was a kid we used to joke that if you joined the John Birch Society, you could find a communist under every xmas tree. Now, join the modern GOP and you can find a homosexual under every door mat. These people are idiots.
Comrade Dread
Go with transsexual instead. It’ll make for better headlines.
The rule is you have to leave one empty buffer chair between you and your pal. Otherwise you’re a flaming homosexual.
Same applies to urinals in the men’s room.
No, no, no. The murderer was President Obama in the Lincoln bedroom with the giant dildo.
Citizen_X
@BGinCHI: I don’t know, but “Jerry Curry” sounds awfully close to Jerry Curlan.
The Other Chuck
Intelligent, well-spoken, good-looking, and thin.
Yeah, must be gay. He certainly doesn’t look like the average Republican.
The Other Chuck
@Zifnab:
Not to jump to J Edgar Hoover’s defense, but wasn’t that pretty much a single-sourced rumor that was never substantiated?
BGinCHI
@Citizen_X:
Angry Samoans!
And thus, the GOP theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHAHUZgn_A&feature=related
Turn it up!
asiangrrlMN
@Hob: Oh my god! Was that you? Sorry for poking you in the eye with my boob. I hope no permanent damage was done.
@moops: Ahem. As I plan to take over the world, I fit the bill quite nicely (agnostic, bi, Asian, and a female!).
@mak: Well, she doesn’t mention a husband, so do we know for sure it wasn’t a turkey baster? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
JWL
Even if true, Obama would definitely not be the first gay POTUS.
Remember what Bush said to the male aide of Canada’s prime minister? Something like, “You’ve got a cute mouth”.
dmsilev
@Splitting Image:
How exactly does an atheist consecrate something?
I confess to being curious.
dms
chopper
so, according to teabaggers he’s a gay kenyan muslim communist, eh? any i missed? manchurian candidate? space alien?
Malron
Wow, I had forgotten about that guy. I knew his lawyer wore a kilt but I never knew his reasoning why until now.
Damn, I miss the insanity of the 2008 election. Good times…
r€nato
Obama gay? That’s nothing. He turned me into a newt! IMPEACH!!!
Tsulagi
@Svensker:
That’s because they’re gun/fun-filled kinda guys.
There’s an old instructional verse for newbs in training that’s been around for a while: “This is my weapon, this is my gun. This one’s for shooting, this one’s for fun.”
So, to answer your question…
No, they never tire of thinking about their little guns nor dreaming of others equipped with substantial guns. RS’s EE once wrote a post about dreaming of gun-toting rough men at the ready. It’s all about the guns.
asiangrrlMN
@chopper: Fascist. Don’t forget that hes a fascist sockulist, or a sockulist fascist, depending on how you look at it.
flounder
I still think of that kilt-wearing “lawyer” and break out into laughter at random points of the day. People think I’m weird.
Cain
@HumboldtBlue:
No, it just makes you a pig! You’re supposed to let the man have the orgasm, not you! PIG!
cain
DougJ
@SiubhanDuinne:
I didn’t make it up. It’s a common saying.
Fax Paladin
It was on the cover of one of the goddamn supermarket tabloids a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t read it, so dunno if it was Gilbert or some other guy — actually, ISTR the headline claiming the guy was killed.
Hob
@asiangrrlMN: I still can’t see so well on that side but it was worth it.
Darkrose
You know, if Obama was gay or bi, don’t you think that he could do a lot better than Larry Sinclair?
Martin
I love this site. This page is over half gay dating ads now. We need to find a way to make a game out of fucking with the gizoogle ads.
DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective
I haven’t read the thread (busy), so if this has been mentioned, then I guess my public flogging is at dawn tomorrow, but …
The supermarket tabloids have been running these “Obama and gay sex” stories for a while. Which of course tells me that they are nonsense. Between the stories of Jesus’ face appearing in a bag of Fritos, and insemination by aliens from a flying saucer, it’s a little hard to take their articles seriously.
We are in the phase of the Obama presidency that lines up with what was done to the Clintons years ago, with the murder of Vince Foster, the drug running and murders in Arkansas, and all of that horseshit.
Look, there are people out there who seriously believe that the white trails behind jet airplanes are chemicals being sprayed by the government to control our minds.
Once you have done chemtrail duty for a few years, arguing with these people on Usenet, you sort of get a feel for the absurdity of their notions, and more importantly, how marginalized and completely irrelevant they are.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective
Just as a follow, if you are interested in rubbing elbows with the chemtrail crowd, for fun … go there and suggest that the white vapor trails are in fact water droplets, condensed from the products of combustion taking place in the jet engines.
Listen to the howls. What’s really cool is that the white trails are in fact water vapor, frozen droplets that condense from the water vapor coming out of the engines as product of combustion.
Davis X. Machina
@DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective:
Which is precisely what they want you to think….
See, it all fits together.
SiubhanDuinne
@DougJ #75:
*I didn’t make it up. It’s a common saying.*
Well yeah, *now* it is.
kommrade reproductive vigor
You also apparently missed “Obama had an affair with a pedophile when he was a boy, ergo he’s teh ghey!”
The word “affair” to describe the alleged relationship is the fRreichtards’.
That just shows how psychotic and confused and scary he is!
Completely unlike the lovers of le coq who keep belly flopping out of that closet on your right.
Splitting Image
@dmsilev:
To be honest, I’m not sure either. I think it involves taking the blood of Christ out of Christmas and pouring it over gay aborted fetuses. I think you also have to turn wine into water at some point, but I’d have to check with my ex.
Mike in NC
Count your blessings. At least he didn’t turn you into Newt.
melathys
@Martin: my god, i loved that song. thanks for the memories.
A Guest
@Splitting Image: Inscribe S=k ln W
Jager
@Mark S.:
A friend in Phoenix said when that picture was on TeeVee, the papers and the internet was the day people realized McCaine was a phony son of a bitch…he went on to say if Bush had done that much bullshit to Goldwater in the primaries, Barry would have gone on stage kicked Bush in the nuts!
muddy
Just like Lincoln!!!
Comrade Kevin
@BGinCHI:
Miller: John Wayne was a fag.
All: The hell he was.
Miller: He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress.
And then there’s this shocking story about Burt Reynolds.
nepat
@Bob L:
Did someone already cover Malcolm X being Obama’s real father?
DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective
@Davis X. Machina:
Yes, it all makes sense now …..
Zuzu's Petals
Curry, Curry … oh you mean THIS Curry?
Seems to have left quite a trail of wingnuttery over at Hemorrhoid Events.
Up in Canada
Curry didn’t get along the first Bush. Wanted a position as head of FAA and when he didn’t get it cried tears. Don’t really know how old Jerry is, but generals can be recalled to active duty, and a court martial would give CNN something to cover. Other than that, not really worth the coverage he has gotten. His five minutes of fame is more than enough.
Zuzu's Petals
@Up in Canada:
Hey, Article 88 applies even if you’re retired.
Watch your step, Jerry.
Bubblegum Tate
@Beauzeaux:
This is such a delightful sequence of words.
rickstersherpa
Bob Somerby points out that a lot of the stuff being said and done to Obama by the wingnuts is pretty similar to the stuff done to the Clintons. If the House goes Republican in November, I am sure we will see lots of hearings and subpoenas. The issue that I expect that will try to make Obama’s “Whitewater,” will be the relationship wiht Tony Rezko and the purchase of his house and associate property in Chicago. The fact that it has been investigated up the wazoo, by Patrick Fitzgerald (the Chicago U.S. Attorney who was appointed by Bush) prior to Obama’s run for the Presidency will not keep WaPo from running “serious” sounding editorials about the need for a special prosecutor and that character Alexander will write about how the WaPo and other mainstream media about the need to do root canals on all these wingnut urban legends. Whether the wingnuts who initiate and spread this stuff actuallyl believe it, or just think they are useful lies to get back in power so as to promote the interests of the CEO class and the families like the Wylies, the Mellon-Scaifes, the Waltons, and the Princes (or the heirs of Katherine Graham at Kaplan)who inhabit Richistan, is besides the point.
To some extent from their Neo-Liberal convictions and also from some part foolish sense that if they just concede and appease the right it would moderate its ferocious opposition, both Clinton and Obama have bascially made decisions to implement a policy that would probably be called “Center-Right” in a sensible country. It is essentially pro-business and protective of the financial interests. Geithner is already pounding the “austerity” drum, unemployment be damned. And neither, at least initially, seem to realized that there is no appeasing these barbarians and greedheads. I hope Rahm has Robert Bennett on hot dial because he and Obama will be needing him after November.
Tone in DC
@rickstersherpa:
These brain donors most likely will attempt to impeach Obama. They are that ridiculous.
I only hope that when the charges made are shown to be entirely scurrilous, the Prez has the cojones to tell these right wingers what Cheney told Leahy.