I can't add to
Josh Marshall's coverage of the robo-call scandal rocking the Kentucky governor's race. You may listen to the call yourself
here. My only question is this: Are Kentuckians really so stupid -- so numbingly, skull-shatteringly, eye-poppingly capital-S
STOOPID -- that they really believe in the existence of a "homosexual lobby" that
calls itself "the homosexual lobby"?
Offhand, I can't think of any lobby that has ever explicitly named itself the "[fill in the blank] lobby." Which gay rights group can properly be called a "lobby"? The robocaller tells people to go to www.fair.org -- that's Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting -- because no actual pro-gay group sounds sufficiently menacing. (Who'd be afraid of
Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer!?) As a little Googling will tell you, the phrase "homosexual lobby" is used only by people who don't like gays.
Would Kentuckians believe it if I told them that out here in heathenish California, we have a pro-choice group called Babykillers Against Jesus? If I start selling anti-gravity pills at $5 a bottle, will I find buyers in Kentucky?