Somehow I completely missed the recent Congressional hearings on the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, but was so entertained while reading about them (and watching some of the testimony) yesterday that I just had to share them. (Mom, here's a little more catch-up on what's been going on in the world, since you've been escaping all things media this past week in Idaho!)
Elaine Donnelly, founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness and scourge of gay military personnel everywhere, waxed poetic on her fears about the "exotic forms of of sexual expression" that would result from allowing gays to openly serve in the military and "passive-aggressive actions common in the homosexual community," whatever that means. Even some Republican Congresspeople got in on the act of calling her on her craziness, and many of the Republican Congresspeople that she claims support her failed to put in an appearance at the hearings. What I'm not clear on, and what nobody seems clear on, is why this woman was asked to testify in the first place. She's never served in the military, has no background in psychology, and no apparent expertise in this area whatsoever other than a deep and abiding fear and loathing of gay people. But she loves Sarah Palin!
Here are some more people who just can't get enough of Sarah Palin, which you think would be reason enough for every swing voter to swing our way, no?
And last, here's the ever lovely and entertaining Jon Stewart on the Don't Ask Don't Tell hearings.
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