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All right, you can all settle down and stop theorizing now: All shirtless Congressman Chris Lee, who received his MBA from our own Chapman University, was trying to do, was to look for some “pre-op trannies” to have a little cross-dressing fun with. Is that all? I don’t understand why he had to resign so abruptly!
Why couldn’t he have just manned up, dropped the phony anti-gay voting facade, got the divorce if he had to, and proudly announced his proclivities to his conservative rural New York constituents? I have no doubt they would have understood, respected and accepted him, and returned him to office for decades!
What a wasted opportunity! Just think, Christopher Lee could have gone on to be a beloved and respected Congressional hero to the transsexual and cross-dressing community, a sort of Barney Frank of the 2010’s who could have brought pride to the “T” part of the LGBT that is so underrepresented in the halls of power!
Imagine Congressman Lee appearing at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a striking, flamboyant “she-male” on each arm, television cameras cutting manically between his front-row table and a mortified President Obama, who would be stammering through his prepared one-liners while plainly trying to “grapple” with the issue!
Picture the dashing conservative hero sashaying up the aisle at the State of the Union Address in full drag with tiara: Speaker Boehner, his face turning a Deeper Shade of Orange, would have bellowed, “For shame, sir!” And in defiant response, Christopher would have ripped off his sequined blouse and stood there bare-chested, flexing his biceps! OH my.
What concerns me, as an Orange County denizen, is the Chapman University connection – remember, he told “Fiona” that our distinguished and stodgy academy is where he first acquired his taste for newly minted women who are still… “hung” shall we say.
For, bearing in mind that Christopher is a Republican Chapman alumnus who affected an anti-gay persona, we begin to wonder if this is but the tip of the iceberg, the first of many such revelations we will be suffering from anti-gay Republican figures at Chapman?
I worry about John Eastman, for example. John Eastman, the sometime Chapman Law Dean who ran for Attorney General, the fervent Patriot Act apologist and tireless proponent of anti-gay Prop 8. Is it only a matter of months, or is it mere weeks, before we learn that Professor Eastman has long been cruising the disreputable bars of Long Beach in search of the perfect Glory Hole? Is it irresponsible to speculate? As Peggy Noonan memorably wrote during the Clinton days,“It would be irresponsible NOT to speculate.”
And how about the case of Chapman Law Professor and relentless homophobic radio bloviator Hugh Hewitt? I lose sleep over the possibility of his personal ads being uncovered in the West Hollywood sex tabloids – Will he be hungrily searching for “bears?” Feverishly soliciting “bareback rides?” Throwing caution to the winds as Congressman Lee did, and using his own name in cute slogans like “Just Do it with Hewitt”?? Understand that I only ask these questions because nobody else will!
And then there’s the truly tragic case of Chapman Visiting Professor John Yoo, who really deserves life in prison for his role in creating the unconstitutional detention and torture regime of Bush and Cheney. If only he had, at a younger and more redeemable age, come into contact with Chapman’s thriving S&M community, and learned to channel his violent and misanthropic urges in a way that was both consensual and resulted in no permanent injuries or death – whether to innocent individuals or to the United States’ international reputation! All we can hope for in the future is more openness about the true nature of both Chapman University and the Republican Party – and for that we must all be grateful to the Shirtless Congressman Christopher Lee!
Vern, Vern, Vern….
You left one man off of this esteemed list….
Assemblymember Don “Spanky” Wagner (R-70th AD).
There is something about his obsession with spanking that lies beneath the surface. He says that spanking is an effective form of discipline and represents traditional family values, right? Or does he like to switch roles and play the role of the “bad boy” behind closed doors? Hmmmmm…….
If gambling were legal here instead of Nevada, I’d give 3-1 odds.
My bad, “Spanky” went to UC Hastings School of Law.
Spanky has been a busy boy in Sac, leading up the anti-democracy caucus. (They don’t want to ALLOW you and me to decide if we want to continue to have some modest revenues instead of an all-cuts budget.) I’ll have plenty to say about Don’s current activities, approximately two posts from now!
Good stuff Nelson!
Now repeat after me: “Fiala’s concept of free speech has no influence on me, however, there is no blog which will ever match the OJ.”
I would go even lite further for starters and created “After Dark OJ” addition with special Orange Door Splash Screen acknowledging the access age and the fact that you do enter at your own risk.
And behind would be a soft porn mixed with politics.
Sex and politics go together very, very, very well.
The LibOC and Red would bite the dust!
Who knows?…….. maybe Bob Guccione?…… Hugh Hefner? someone must replace these dieing socialite giants.
I hope that you have already reserved AfterDarkOJ.com domain so the Chameleonvsky will not get it first.
LOL.. I’ll get right to it Fiala.
Chapman has an S&M community?
See, now you’re the second person I heard say it today, Paul, besides me. It must be true.
Dear Vern,
I can’t blame you for poking fun at the Grand Old Party but I do think it’s pretty sad for the wives and children of these elected officials when stories like this come out. Can you imagine the pain a revelation like this must cause? For many years I’ve heard rumors about several current and one past O.C. Republican Congressmen along these same lines and always wrote them off as political attacks but now I wonder if they might be true. Why is it that guys like these are drawn to elected office and how is it that they get elected? I’ve also heard of a local judge who left his wife and four kids for the same reasons. Why is it that you never hear of a Liberal Democratic Congressman found out to really be a Pentecostal Minister?
Hugh Hewitt doesn’t place ad’s. He calls his buddy “who wishes he was Catholic” , has him slip into a pair of Laura’s chonies and voila: Panty Boy.
Now Hugh of course is a media personality, so in the meantime fluffer boy is working the steam rooms along Chapman Tustin Ave.
Wow, this is all over my head, but, somehow, I did want to mention that Tom Fuentes, too, spent time at Chapman College, and he’s pretty staunch. Staunchitude and Chapman are, like, married or something. Or at least dating.
He’s Chapman, he’s Repub … but does he bash gays? That is the third telltale sign of the Closet.
A good philosophical question about why there seem to be so many closeted cases among the Republicans.
Why are they successful in politics?
Perhaps it is because they have so much practice in dissembling.
What’s really ironic is that Chapman University just affiliated themselves with the United Church of Christ. The UCC has had a special relationship with the Disciples of Christ, the church that Chapman has had a long relationship with. Both churches belong to a sect of Christianity that would never be mistaken for the megachurches of Greg Laurie and Rick Warren. Or the Opus Dei Catholics for that matter.
If these guys that you mentioned were real closeted homosexual cases, a good percentage of the UCC congregations across the country are “open and affirming” and have an “open table” policy when it comes to their religious practices.
A wee bit unfair to label Chapman University in that light. Even though Donald Rumsfeld is an Eagle Scout, it would be unfair to label all Eagle Scouts as war mongering criminals who love to torture because of one (or in the case of Eagle Scouts, several) bad apples.
Here’s their press release:
“Chapman University recently realized two significant achievements. The university, which is related by covenant with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), also became affiliated with the United Church of Christ Council for Higher Education on Oct. 29. “We are enriched as denominations because of our special partnership relationship,” said Nancy Brink, the university director of Church Relations at Chapman. “We work to create a community of students who not only remain church connected, but leave Chapman ready to be transformational leaders in congregations.”
For more, see: http://www.disciples.org/tabid/58/itemid/767/Chapman-received-as-a-UCC-scho.aspx“
You are ruining my fun, Guy Fawkes. Okay, I’m glad Chapman is a little bit more liberal than I thought. Especially since I used to practice their pianos all the time when I was 19-20 and lived two blocks away, and since I used to play for their dance classes from around 2001-7.
Their choir director is a dick though.
I just found out that Chapman was a United Church of Christ affiliated school on Sunday. Our church’s new youth coordinator is a graduate of Chapman and majored in Peace Studies. The other strange thing I found out about Chapman is that RC Hoiles, the founder of the Orange County Register, and his family donated some serious scratch to Chapman. I think they named their journalism school after him. And he was someone you would NEVER confuse with George Soros.
I took a January term class on Watergate their my junior year as part of some weird exchange program. I was the only one in the class who made a case to the entire class that G. Gordon Liddy was really “Deep Throat.” Despite the strange looks I got from the professor (Fred Smoller, now a political science professor at Vanguard University), I got an “A” on that paper and presentation.
Paul knows all about this stuff- at least the Trannie part
If all the closeted gays and trannies in OC repuglican circles came clean, there wouldn’t be much of a circle jerk left!
An old preacher once told me, as he was warning people about con- artists, to watch out for those who alway talk about a problem. We were discussing another preacher who was always talking about homo’s.( not married and unattactvie also)
And yes the old preacher was also true to his word on this he was a con artist.