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In a moment as predictable as it was despicable, the pundits on the Diane Rehm Show's Friday news roundup just joked about the gay-bashing ad in Montana. I believe it was E.J. Dionne who referred to it as mainly showing how awful the fashions of the 80s were. Missing was any sense that the use of questions about someone's sexuality as a political weapon by the Democratic Party is outrageous and a smack in the face to a group that they claim to champion. When nuts blow up a government building in Oklahoma City we are told it is because talk radio is anti-government. When a black man is dragged to death in Texas we are told it is because George Bush didn't sign a hate crimes bill. The next time some gay kid is beaten to death will we hear that it is because the Democratic Party has made gays into objects of derision? Yeah, right... Posted by Orrin Judd at October 11, 2002 12:21 PM