There are a bunch of reasons I enjoyed my CNN appearances with John Aravosis, founder of the lefty AmericaBlog, and one of them is that I figured he was a guy who expected political leaders on his side of the aisle to keep their word. Right now, President Obama isn’t, and some members of the gay community have had it:
It seems the Obama folks have gotten to the mainstream media – you’ll note that practically none of the corporate media are covering the growing rupture between Obama and the gay community other than on their blogs, even after HRC [Human Rights Campaign, not Hillary Rodham Clinton] sent probably the first chastising letter to a Democratic president since 1996 (and reporters always have told me in the past, it’s not a story until HRC weighs in – well now they have, twice). Guess that means we’ll just have to ramp up the pain.
…Oddly, we’ve heard nothing in four days, since the DOMA brief scandal broke, from gay congressional leaders – Barney Frank, Tammy Baldwin, and Jared Polis – all of whom are hosting this rather ill-timed and inappropriate Democratic effort to milk money from our community at the same time Democrats are equating us with incest and not lifting a finger on any of our legislation priorities in Congress or the White House. It’s not awfully clearly why any gay person would give a Democrat a dime ever again. Check back, we’ll be updating you daily on whether Barney, Tammy and Jared ever decide to say boo about the hate brief and their role in this fundraiser that is quickly turning into a major fiasco for the Democratic party.)
(Complaining about the mainstream media covering for a Democratic president? Man, he’s starting to sound like me.) This will be a story keeping an eye on — many gays and lesbians who voted for Obama were already irritated with Obama over Rick Warren’s appearance at the inauguration.