Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Boy Fogle's disco balls


From the New Palmetto Scoop's Photo section, this offering-

-and from last Bastille Day, his obligatory disclaimer:

Note: The first loud-mouthed New Englander that has never lived in Columbia and had their car broken into, their house robbed, their friends attacked at gunpoint and on and on because there aren’t enough on-duty police officers who comes on here calling me a bigot or homophobe is banned for life.

Certainly the mixed Abba-BeeGees metaphor suggests Boy Fogle's incipient career remaking the Columbia arts scene as the critic who knows nothing about the Columia arts scene is off to a fine start and fulfilling every bit of his disclaimer.

Which brings this artsy submission of BoyFogle's back to one reason for posting: he's scared to death of gays.


How, then, to interpret his comment on a Peachpundit blog post about same-sex marriage on December 12, 2006?

Adam Fogle // Permalink to this comment">Dec 12, 2006 at 3:12 pm

Gay marriage is a lost cause for the GOP and, until we can flush out the theocratic wing of the party, it will unfortunately remain on the agenda.

It’s sad because the more moderate, Goldwater conservatives who are the true heart of the party could mostly care less about this issue and would rather just let the people decide and move the hell on to more important matters.

But this is the mess we got ourselves into by bringing in the theocratic crowd… I guess that’s what happens when you make a deal with the devil - pardon the pun.

I feel bad for guys like Jack Kingston, who are all around great representatives but have to defend the anti-gay marriage “crusaders” or face political turmoil in their districts.

If anyone saw Kingston on Bill Maher a few months back, he was a hit and had a great outing. He was funny, witty, and generally came off as the better man on every issue (granted that isn’t hard when placed next to Maher and Alec Baldwin).

But then Maher brought up gay marriage, and Kingston had to give the cliche, “marriage is between a man and a woman.” He looked like a fool and Maher slammed him - again, pardon the pun. You could tell he would rather just not discuss it, but again, he must defend theocrats lest he upset his constituents.

Only one logical conclusion: he's homophobic now because it pays his salary. And we've not even recapped his famous gay tourism jihad. Or his diatribes against lesbian congressional candidate Linda Ketner. Or his surrealist associations of funding gay pride events with public disorder and discontent of every stripe.

But let him explain, if he will, what he thinks the value of the image of Barney Frank is.


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