MSNBC Countdown drops the 'real' gay bomb
MSNBC's Countdown on Tuesday recalled the dropping of the first atomic bomb 62 years ago and then reported that "the Air Force has been considering a new ultimate weapon that won't drop on our enemies from the Enola Gay, it will just make them gay."
As RAW STORY recently reported, a 1994 Air Force proposal, obtained by the Sunshine Project, suggested using "strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior" as a battlefield weapon.
Rachel Maddow of Air America Radio was then introduced as "our own gay bomb to drop on this story." After commenting "that is absolutely the best introduction I've ever had on television," Maddow pointed out that the proposal was offered in 1994. "That was right in the throes of the debate about 'Don't ask, don't tell,'" she noted, suggesting that somebody "decided just to let this idea and this argument spin out to its logical extreme."
"In American culture ... where the iconography is about men in physical environments, in close proximity, straining together ... you end up being very close to homoeroticism in the iconography that comes with those sorts of endeavors," Maddow continued over footage of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" event. "To make those things seem manly, and not just homoerotic, they often have to be paired with a real overt anti-gay stance. ... But it's only so that we don't think that they're just the gayest things on two legs."
The following video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast on June 12.
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