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The GOP Senator Who Refuses To Come Out

To prove he's not gay Senator Graham opposes LGBT rights in the new immigration bill.

To prove he’s not gay Senator Graham opposes LGBT rights in the new immigration bill.

Republican Senator Lindsay Graham repeatedly denies he’s gay. In that case he should tell his penis, and the guy he lives with. Two years ago the New York Times reported…

During a South Carolina Tea Party rally this spring, one speaker created an uproar by postulating that Graham supported a guest-worker program out of fear that the Democrats might otherwise expose his homosexuality. (Graham smirked when I brought this up. “Like maybe I’m having a clandestine affair with Ricky Martin,” he said. “I know it’s really gonna upset a lot of gay men — I’m sure hundreds of ’em are gonna be jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge — but I ain’t available. I ain’t gay. Sorry.”)

On today’s show with Howie Klein we talk about why Senator Graham’s sexuality is germane to the immigration debate.

via Lindsey Graham, This Year’s Maverick – NYTimes.com.

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Meet World’s Greatest Heckler

Medea Benjamin heckled President Obama’s big national security speech. Here’s what Amy Goodman said President Obama shot back with.

AMY GOODMAN: She repeatedly interrupted President Obama’s speech Thursday in an exchange that ended with him saying, quote, “The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to.”

via “That Woman Is Worth Paying Attention To”: Medea Benjamin Explains Why She Disrupted Obama’s Speech | Democracy Now!.

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Joan Rivers’s Not So Secret Shame

Without writers nothing comes out of that hole.

There is power in the union. Ned Rice writes for our show and he is one of the leaders of the strike. He talked about this on our radio show last month. From The Wrap…

Nine of the 12 Los Angeles-based writers for “Fashion Police” have been on strike since April 17, protesting what they see as E!’s unfair labor practices and violations of California wage and hour law.

I wonder who the three writers are who haven’t joined the strike…

Writers on the highly rated show, who lack health care and pension benefits, are demanding to be covered by a Writer’s Guild of America West contract.

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Striking ‘Fashion Police’ Writers Picket E! Headquarters (Updated) | TheWrap TV.

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US Military Attacks Its Own

President Obama has not let down his gay constituents.

We had Kirby Dick on our show this year. He directed The Hidden War which chronicles the epidemic of rape in our military. The numbers are staggering. They have been staggering for decades. If you’re a woman and you enter our military there is more than a one out of three chance you will be raped or assaulted. But let’s worry about gays in our Armed Forces. The pentagon was so worried about gays joining their ranks they completely ignored all the heterosexual rapists.

To be fair a lot of male servicemen have also been sexually harassed and raped by other male servicemen.

A Pentagon report released earlier this month used anonymous surveys to assess that as many as 26,000 service members were assaulted in 2012 alone.

via Obama Condemns Growing Sexual Misconduct In Military | TPM LiveWire.

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