Rove smears Obama advisor as advocating for NAMBLA

By David Edwards
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 -- 11:37 am

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Karl Rove and Sean Hannity are connecting an Obama advisor to a controversial organization in an attempt to force his resignation. On Hannity's Fox News show Tuesday, former Bush adviser Rove claimed that Kevin Jennings has engaged in "high-profile, in-your-face advocacy of things like NAMBLA and gay rights and queering elementary school curricula." NAMBLA is the North American Man Boy Love Association that works to remove age of consent restrictions.

At issue are remarks Jennings made praising gay rights activist Harry Hay at the GLSEN Mid-Atlantic Conference on Oct. 25, 1997. "One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay," said Jennings. It's no secret that Harry Hay has been connected to NAMBLA.

Since Glenn Beck has been credited with the resignation of Van Jones and crusading against ACORN, Hannity has felt the need to replicate Beck's success.

The first segment of Hannity's Tuesday and Wednesday shows were devoted to Jennings. In his most sensational voice, Hannity opened Wednesday's show: "Tonight -- shocking new allegations about President Obama's safe schools czar. Does Kevin Jennings support the group NAMBLA?"

Hannity and Rove never offered any evidence directly connecting Jennings to the controversial organization. Media Matters reports that Jennings' praise of Harry Hay had nothing to do with NAMBLA.

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Jennings reportedly said he was inspired by Harry Hay, "who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America ... the Mattachine Society." Peter LaBarbera, president of a group that seeks to "expos[e] and counter the homosexual activist agenda," published a transcript of Jennings' 1997 remarks at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's mid-Atlantic conference that LaBarbera said was reprinted from The Lambda Report. In that speech, Jennings reportedly said, "One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay, who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. In 1948, he tried to get people to join the Mattachine Society." Jennings' remarks include no mentions of NAMBLA.

The blog Zomblog chronicles Hays' connection to the group and calls on Jennings to release a statement condemning the activist.

Kevin Jennings, we know you do not support this kind of statement, and you are not "inspired" by the kind of activism Harry Hay exhibits here. For the good of the gay community, PLEASE condemn this publicly and emphatically.

This video is from Fox News' Hannity, broadcast Oct. 6, 2009.

This video is from Fox News' Hannity, broadcast Oct. 7, 2009.

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tomofmd

One of the rules of Psy-ops is:

Always accuse the opponent of what you are doing,to cover what you are doing.

michaelmcleary

Karl Rove needs to explain his connection to Jeff Gannon. The male prostititute he put in the White House Press Corp in the Bush Admin. to ask softball questions of Bush regarding the Iraq War, and whose job was to criticise Democrats in Congress. Do a Google search of Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove, Karl got him a job at fake news website Talon News (owned by Karl's texas friend), and Jeff Gannon's other career was male protitute for Republican gay men mainly from military. Secret Service White House records show Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove stayed over at White House the same night on several occasions. This was never explained from karl rove.

terrymo1

All you have to do is look at rove,and you can see that he is a child molestor and gay boy lover.Of course hannity has to do as rove does,so you can say his gay fixation is of the same ilk!
hannity's lips do look a little chap'd

Ben

What he said, Bongo, was that he admired Hay for some pretty specific stuff with absolutely no mention of NAMBLA. Does everyone who says they like a Roman Polanski movie has to follow it up with "But I condemn, in no uncertain terms, the having of sex with strung-out 13-year-olds"? Can I say "I admire O.J. Simpson's football skills" without an immediate "But I in no way support knifing white women and Jewish guys to death"?
This is the worst kind of joke, dredged up by the worst kind of "journalists" to distract people from things that actually matter. This guy said a sentence 12 years ago (I'd like to note this was before South Park, The Daily Show and the Internet made NAMBLA a household name) about the founding of the country's first lasting gay rights group and now people want him to clarify that he doesn't agree with boy-buggering.
I'll end by saying one of the people that's always inspired me was William S. Burroughs, author of "Naked Lunch." However, I strongly condemn in no uncertain terms sex with 14-year-old boys (and/or being pooped on by 14-year-old boys).

simon4

Thanks Ben. So many people "hear" something and immediately take it as gospel without taking the time to research it. Harry Hay was a pioneer for gay rights, but he did not belong to NAMBLA, he just did not like that they were excluded from the gay movement at the time and advocated that they be a part of it. It is a bit more complicated than a sound bite, especially one from the lying lips of Rove/Hannity who are playing politics as usual.

Savantster

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virtually all things in life are much more complicated than sound bites, but that's all Americans seem to pay attention to these days. It's part of the systemic dumbing down of America..
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robertinbeirut

Anything Karl Rove says has to be taken with a politcal grain of salt.

Savantster

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and antibiotics.. or a good stomach flushing or shower.

jhair

Licking ass? That's nothing, George and Kornel Karl played cowboy and horsey, Karl would lead George (the horsey) to water, but couldn't make him drink, So Karl (playing cowboy) put an anvil around George's neck, that eventually caused his head to drop in the water, then Karl went to his rear and SUCKED HIM FULL. So, the old saying "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink, has definantly been disproven.

JPMP

The Repubs, as a matter of strategy, constantly pin their own, self-perceived, deficiencies on their opponents.

decora

fuck it, the left needs to pull its head out of its ass and vaporize all nambla-affiliated 'heroes' they love to 'be inspired by'.

alliance should be made with the andrea dworkin types not the allen ginsburg types.

if not for moral reasons, just plain stupid political reasons. its like you put your face on a tee ball stand and give the GOP a bat and say 'smash my face in please... oh and take my congressional seats and the presidency'.

Dont be all 'catholic church' on this... do not try to ignore the problem, blame it on your enemies, waffle, deny, hide, or minimize the problem. Get a fucking clue.

its not 'witch hunting' its 'not allowing criminals to become influential in your philosophy or your organization'.

if you publically proclaim your love for harry hay.... sorry but... you are too stupid to be in politics.

edwards_com

Your post is one of the stupidest I have ever read.

jlewd

dickora -- I was hoping your absence on TRS would continue. But I see that we are not that easily freed of your trailer trash stupidity. What happened: the rightwing hate sites kick you off? You set the bar really low for posts on TRS a few months back: my guess is that your back to set it even lower. With any luck, you're spelling has improved (since the intelligence of your comments is an impossibility). But I doubt it.

icenine

Karl and Hannity would love to jump each other in some unfortunate closet somewhere. They're both cut from the cloth of Ernst Rohm minus the physical courage.

douvie

I am always amazed at how gay-fixated the radical right is. It goes beyond mere twisted religiosity and weird politics. These people are truly mentally ill. That is what the Republican party has become; a repository for a certain type of psychosis that has destroyed our two-party system and replaced it with Democrats and Psychotics. Normal people don't think along the lines that these people do. Hopefully, someone in the Republican hierarchy will seek help and start a new Republican party, dedicated to dealing with Americas problems instead of their own phobias and illness

kasinca

Why is KKKarl Rove knocking gays? Wasn't he buddies with Jeff Gannon the gay porn guy that had the pass to the White House? I still don't understand why KKKarl isn't behind bars. Everyone knows that he is a thug and a criminal and a traitor.

Ben

This entire thing is ridiculous, not just the allegations that Jennings supports NAMBLA, but that someone (never heard of Zomblog) is calling for him to publicly condemn the group -- basically, they want him to bluntly state "I think pedophilia/pederasty is bad." If he does, I hope he also remembers to condemn Nazis, the KKK, al Qaida, cancer, Dracula, killer sharks and people who don't silence their phones at movies.
EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS THESE THINGS SUCK.

Oy. Vote Cyborg.

edwards_com

Rove & Hannity have vivid imaginations & are desperate.

simon4

As usual, if Roves lips are moving, he is lying. This is pure slander and there is no truth in it.

tazdelaney

the pedophile hysteria has created mass-pedophobia. in 1900, the average age at which an american girl was married was 14. now if you look at someone under the age of 18 you might find yourself in prison and 'sex offender' signs in your yard forever. geoffrey chaucer in his 1300s volume, 'canterbury tales' wrote "if there's hair down there; to romance is fair." and throughout human history and prehistory, this has been the case and can't be legislated away. while states keep raising the 'age of consent' as if this was legislatable, i first gave conscious consent to engage in adult sex when i was 11 and anyone who says that i had no such right or the ability to make a conscious consent is irrational. and anyway, if you google politicians sex ofenders, you'll see that the single most offensive and predatorial group of these in america are precisely teh 'family values' bible-thumping 'moralists.' we're not talking about molesting just adolescents... these guys rape 6 year olds... religious zealot and moralist, ayatollah khomeni liked screwing chickens and one of the GOP guys was caught on tape boasting about his bestial exploits as a teen when he really liked submissive sheep, dogs, anything on legs.



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