Nothing like a good gay sex scandal, eh?
On Tuesday, the station that airs local conservative bloviator Lars Larson spliced together the commercial where Larson spewed forth something along the lines of (I don’t listen to Lars Larson because, you know: dull and tedious. I do listen/hear parts of Michael Savage because, I don’t know… amusing despite myself. That is where I heard the commercial):
“Portland Mayor Sam Adams says he is the First Queer Mayor of a Major American City. He has now admitted to having lied about having had sex with an 18 year old former intern (of state legislature). If he lied about that, what else has he lied about? Sam Adams must resign.”
Now, hearing that, I had to do a weird back-track. I assume Larson was referencing the possibility that Adams had lied about age, or some other item in the news story (though I doubt that). But the problem is, in this clip, Larson mentions two items of which Adams has claimed: that he is the “First Queer Mayor of a Major US City”, and that Adams has now admitted to having had sex with Breedlove. The problem: I don’t believe Adams’s claim of being gay is in dispute by anyone. But somehow Larson has to snip that into the conversation, and it comes across as rather stuffed.
City Hall has, for the past week, been surrounded by the Media. It’s a strange sight, and one I don’t envy for anyone working in it. Protesters are waving signs, denouncing and supporting Adams — an inevitable sign, which I think could have made more clever by someone more talented. Adams is reportedly holed up at his house, deliberating away — I imagine his fence is far enough from anywhere to keep the Media Malestorm away.
For the record, Prezhilton.com, and I say this by dent of looking through google photographs and seeing a photo of Adams with the word “Boo!” written over it, opposes Adams. And wonkette.com supports Adams in his hour of shun, as you see from their posting a picture of a shirtless 18 year old (Note that wonkette changes the headline of various papers from “Sex with Teen” to “Sex with Adult”). Because prezhilton.com and wonkette.com matter in this. (Of course, reading down the comments for things like this, I have that question, “If a politician can’t lie about sex, what can s/he lie about?”
I suspect that the greatest cleavage of difference of opinions (for Portlanders, which is in the end the only people whose opinions matter here) comes from one of the great dividing lines of political and sociological attitudes in America — people with children versus people without children, which has an affect of placing attitudes of perspective and where one can identify oneself in this storyline. Both make sense, I have to say.