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Dirty Birds at Huffpo Oggling Republicans on Record?
2010-01-22
Now that a Cosmo centerfold has been elected to the United States Senate, is Rep. Aaron Schock's status as HuffPost readers' Hottest Freshman in Congress under threat?

You be the judge.

See article, and some bitter comments for entertainment at link.
Posted by:GirlThursday

#17  Leeesten, excuse me, Im not done heeere, --A.H.

Famous last words of A.H. God I love to rip on her a little too much. Especially now knowing that she used to bat for the Conservative team and defected.
Posted by: GirlThursday   2010-01-22 21:39  

#16  Common complaint from the men in her life: "After listening to her talk for any length of time, I could no longer get it up" (needs citation)


Okay, I made that up. But you know it's true
Posted by: Frank G   2010-01-22 21:25  

#15  Heres wiki's take, I needed to look up the term 'beard' as slang because I didn't know what it meant. Im not sure, but it does appear that her rich husband was a self professed bisexual.

"Personal life
After graduation, she moved to London and lived with the journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin, whom she had met while the two were panelists on the TV show Face the Music. In 1980 she left Levin and moved to the United States, after he refused to marry her. After Levin's death in 2004, she called him "the big love of my life, [Â…] a mentor as a writer, and a role model as a thinker".[15] During these years and around the time of her involvement with John-Roger's religious group, she was involved with Democratic politician and then-governor (currently Attorney General) of California, Jerry Brown. It was during this time that Huffington (then Stassinopoulos) was first known as a liberal Democrat, the position she returned to once again in the post-90s following the right-wing years of the 1980s to late 1990s.[citation needed]

She met oil millionaire Michael Huffington, a family friend of the Bushes, at a 1985 party hosted by Ann Getty in San Francisco. The couple was married in 1986 at a wedding paid for by Getty, who had declared that she needed to find Arianna a husband. They moved to Washington, D.C., when he was appointed to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. They later established residency in Santa Barbara, California, in order for him to run in 1992 as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won by a significant margin. He was a political conservative on most issues. Arianna campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. In 1994 he narrowly lost the race for the U.S. Senate seat from California to incumbent Dianne Feinstein.[16]

The couple divorced in 1997, and in 1998 Michael Huffington revealed that he was bisexual.[17] The financial terms of their divorce agreement remain undisclosed. Arianna Huffington chose to retain her former husband's surname, although she had been known as Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington during the period of her marriage"


Posted by: GirlThursday   2010-01-22 21:19  

#14  A very handsome family. Scott carried P-Town, and I don't think it's because of his tax policy. Speaking of the gender-confused, didn't the HuffPo heiress make her fortune as the beard for some rich metrosexual?
Posted by: regular joe   2010-01-22 20:50  

#13  May more dirty bird Dem Senators go the way of the dodo bird. Go Massachusetts, lead the way! Woop Woop!
Posted by: GirlThursday   2010-01-22 20:26  

#12  Agree Besoeker, but DAMN that's a fine looking passel of females!
Posted by: AlanC   2010-01-22 14:10  

#11  I personally don't care if the Browns all wear cowboy hats, diapers, and play Dixie on kazoos. As long as he helps stop this insanity in Washingon, he's good-to-go with me.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-01-22 13:22  

#10  Brown's whole family got double helping at the Good Looks genetic station.
Posted by: Beldar Threreling9726   2010-01-22 13:15  

#9  Beavis, they have a picture of Brown wearing a bikini? No wonder all the gay commentary!
What - just the daughters?... (never mind)
Posted by: Glenmore   2010-01-22 11:37  

#8  Geez, the guy's got a good looking family. Let's villify him for it.
I'm sure most Huff Po readers have very nice pictures of all their cats...
Posted by: tu3031   2010-01-22 09:35  

#7  Puff Po now has a video with Scott Brown's wife in it and a picture of Brown and his daughters wearing bikinis.
Posted by: Beavis   2010-01-22 09:20  

#6  There's also the very strong possibility that they are repressed homosexuals who are extremely uncomfortable with their true proclivities. (A sizable number of gay bashers...not verbal, but actual physical bashers...are that way. They are symbolically beating down a part of themselves that frightens them.)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2010-01-22 07:12  

#5  And the Left's authority to use 'fascist' to label their political opponents is Stalin himself.
Posted by: phil_b   2010-01-22 01:52  

#4  The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break

With their love of authority to tell them what to think and do, the Left are the fascists. Of course the real fascists believed they were socialists, and they were right.
Posted by: phil_b   2010-01-22 01:38  

#3  TW, homosexual references are a very common form of abuse from the Left.* Something else they have in common with Islamists.

* I once defined a Liberal as a person who needs someone else to tell him what to think. The homosexual references seems to stem from the general insecurity that characterizes Left Liberals - sexual instead of intellectual.
Posted by: phil_b   2010-01-22 01:18  

#2  It's so they can say vicious things, of course. They use all the horrid anti-gay smears that they'd never get to use otherwise. The fact that this sort of disrespect is verboten to any homosexuals, known or unknown, makes no difference to them. If you pinned one of them down on the issue, your response would be something along the lines of "I don't care! I just like to bash the fascist assholes!" P.C. only works one way, of course.
Posted by: gromky   2010-01-22 01:17  

#1  Why are Puffington Hosters obsessed with the idea that Republicans might be secretly homosexual? I mean, there's the Log Cabin Republicans who are open about both their proclivities for a start -- even I know about them, so why don't the PH-ers?
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-01-22 00:55  

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