{"id":40,"date":"2009-09-23T01:56:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-09-23T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T14:31:41","slug":"liberal-gay-classy-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Gay = Classy&#8230;. Not So Much."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Liberal%20Gay%20%3D%20Classy....%20Not%20So%20Much.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Though I haven&#8217;t been following this much, and I&#8217;m not sure why anyone would, recently there was a fundraiser \/ auction to raise funds for Sarah Palin. The prize for the highest bidder? A dinner date with the ex-gov of Alaska. The woman who won the contest is a grandmother type, probably in her late 60&#8217;s, and, of course, conservative. Her bid was $63,500. That&#8217;s pricey, but hey, she got what she wanted &#8211; a dinner with Sarah Palin.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not one of the admirers of Mrs. Palin, but I&#8217;m still civil in my conversations and writings about her. The same can not be said of many on the left, especially the gay left. On the blog Towleroad, a popular forum concerning gay issues, they created a post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2009\/09\/meet-sarah-palins-dinner-date.html\">featuring the winner of the auction<\/a>. Lets just say it&#8217;s less than flattering. Here&#8217;s the entire line written for the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies paid $63,500 to have dinner with Sarah Palin, because she wants to get her to run for President. Let&#8217;s hope she succeeds!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I probably don&#8217;t have to hint the direction the comments go, do I? Here&#8217;s the opening comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s the future of the Republican party for ya: An old white lady from Alabama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s all down hill from there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>i hope they both choke. and not in a good way. if that old lady can afford $63,500 for dinner, she better not be taking any socialist money for SS or Medicare. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Granny&#8217;s gonna have rug for dinner. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I said, classy.  It&#8217;s one thing to go after politicians, who more often than not deserve some ridicule. But a grandma who won a silly contest? And people wonder why it&#8217;s so easy for Rush and others to demonize gay activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Liberal%20Gay%20%3D%20Classy....%20Not%20So%20Much.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Though I haven&#8217;t been following this much, and I&#8217;m not sure why anyone would, recently there was a fundraiser \/ auction to raise funds for Sarah Palin. The prize for the highest bidder? A dinner date with the ex-gov of Alaska. The woman who won the contest is a grandmother type, probably in her late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}