Grover Norquist is gay?!?!

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So I just saw this guy interviewed for the first time last night on Alain de Botton "Status Anxiety" and I was somewhat surprised to discover that this guy in addition to being possibly one of the most unpleasant sounding humans I've ever heard speak is also obviously gay (his screaming at his "assistant" "Damon" was very unintentionally funny/gross btw.) So I wonder if maybe I am missing something (because I had never heard this mentioned before) and I do a little web searching and obv I am not the first person who has noticed this (it's mentioned on couple of Republican blogs/sites and McCain alluded to it recently in some shrill shouting match.) Anyway he obviously isn't out (in fact he just got married a year ago) and it doesn't really matter either, but I don't get to gossip that much and this might even qualify as slander (yay!) and I like the idea of that so I decided to post it here.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

he is queerer than a three dollar tax bill!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the big rumor was he's converted to Islam.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

wait, he married his assistant damon?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Asslam more like amirite

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Haha no he married former high school classmate Samah Alrayyes. She had been the director of communications at the Islamic Free Market Institute, which Norquist founded. She is now the Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs at USAID (courtesy of Wikipedia.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

"She is now the Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs at USAID"

ah, my old job. i miss it sometimes. i wonder if habib is still working the copy machine. the little scamp.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Asslam more like amirite

I'll never look at Narnia *quite* the same way again.

"The DEEP magic before time..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Best Norquist article EVAH:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8423-2004Jan11?language=printer

Tuna Fish and Hand Lotion

And yet Norquist's bachelor townhouse bears evidence of a man whose ideological core is hard. The art in his living room is early Ronald Reagan. His Costco-brand shirts hang in a closet under a picture of former Senate leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) signing a no-tax pledge.

He is often described as an eccentric. For a bedside table, Norquist uses a giant green canister for Kraft parmesan cheese. He displays what he hopes will be the world's largest collection of airsickness bags. At staff meetings, employees say, he holds court while variously sitting on a giant red plastic ball, eating tuna from a can, rubbing his feet against a massager and sniffing hand lotion as he kneads it into his fingers. He excuses himself to go to "the ladies room."

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Not to turn this into defend the indefensible, but I did once hear him talking about how strongly he opposed Bush's consolidation of executive power.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

But I guess that's consistent with his anti-govt politics in general

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

i would forward a racist and sexist e-mail i received this morning from a very gay republican, but i don't want to offend anyone. the person who sent it used to be my lawyer. he's a hopeless drunk.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

er, post it, not forward it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

The art in his living room is early Ronald Reagan.

i'm trying to imagine what this could possibly mean.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

i'm trying to imagine what this could possibly mean.

Ronnie as a young boy. Ronnie in his lifeguard outfit. You know.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

For a bedside table, Norquist uses a giant green canister for Kraft parmesan cheese.

this is cool - the rest is gross.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

"My goal is to cut government in half, to get it down to the size where we can give it a nice, sensuous lavender bath"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

heh

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Fabulous, Grover." Mehlman said

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Just to get this out of the way:

http://www.wendyandjoey.com/_photos/killing%20grover.JPG

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

hasn't it been rumored for years that Mehlman's gay as well...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

a man whose ideological core is hard

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

they lunch often

xpost

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

so which of them isn't gay?

~~Bush~~
~~Rove~~
~~Mehlman~~
~~Norquist~~
~~Reed~~

Abramoff?

Cheney and Rummy? UH

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Cheney seems more like yr standard corporate B&D weirdo. God only knows what Rumsfeld's into.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

i did not know that bush n rove were teh homo

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

rummy is a submissive obv

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

search W's utterances of "fabulous"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

For a bedside table, Norquist uses a giant green canister for Kraft parmesan cheese.

There's been one in his office, too! Just the other night I was watching a Frontline thing recapping the whole Abramoff deal, and at one point they kept inserting this stock-type footage of Norquist in his office, and I thought I was totally tripping out: "Why the hell is there a giant Kraft Parmesan cheese thing sitting next to the window???" I was seriously kneeling down next to the TV to try and figure out if it was somehow a regular-sized Parmesan cheese sitting on his desk and creating some bizarre optical illusion of background hugeness.

Sorry, I'm just totally excited to have this explained/confirmed.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

funny

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

the giant Kraft Parmesan cheese thing sounds like something you'd find in Fred Schneider's apartment.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

"you know what else? broadway."

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if he loves the cheese or if he's just into it from a design perspective

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

SHAKE YOUR PARMESAN!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I just don't want to know what's in it.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff Gannon, presumably

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

("bring out the gimp")

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

giant Kraft Parmesan cheese thing sounds like something you'd find in Fred Schneider's apartment.

If it's THE SIZE OF A WHAAAAAAAALE!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Giant Fleshlight?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Giant cheese flavored fleshlight!

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

a full hour with grover

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8149202091509102593&q=Grover+Norquist

does seem a little gay. i could only get through 3 minutes, knock yrselvs out

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

interesting - his wiki page includes a quote that agrees with my take on the influence of the disapperasnce of the Depression generation...

"And we've had four more years pass where the age cohort that is most Democratic and most pro-statist, are those people who turned 21 years of age between 1932 and 1952--Great Depression, New Deal, World War II--Social Security, the draft--all that stuff. That age cohort is now between the ages of 70 and 90 years old, and every year 2 million of them die. So 8 million people from that age cohort have passed away since the last election; that means, net, maybe 1 million Democrats have disappeared--and even the Republicans in that age group. This is an age cohort that voted for a draft before the war started, and allowed the draft to continue for 25 years after the war was over. Their idea of the legitimate role of the state is radically different than anything previous generations knew, or subsequent generations. Before that generation, whenever you put a draft in, there were draft riots. After that generation, there were draft riots. This generation? No problem. Why not? Of course the government moves people around like pawns on a chessboard. One-size-fits-all labor law, one-size-fits-all Social Security. We will all work until we're 65 and have the same pension. You know, some Bismarck, German thing, okay? Very un-American. Very unusual for America. The reaction to Great Depression, World War II, and so on: Centralization--not as much centralization as the rest of the world got, but much more than is usual in America. We've spent a lot of time dismantling some of that and moving away from that level of regimentation: getting rid of the draft."

the draft thing i hadn't considered before - suggests that paternal government just isn't cool any more, even among the left, which seems to me to be a victory for the right

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I suggested to someone at Daily Kos they should photoshop a famous Norquist quote onto a photo of New Orleans post-Katrina.

That's how this happened:
http://www.campusprogress.org/images/632.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

he owns meatspin.com

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

wow, daria. is that thing real?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost - nice one!

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it's real. everybody was pissed off after Katrina and I was reading a lot of news online just incredulous at what was happening & at some point said why not do this image.. "highacidity" at dKos did an awesome Photoshop and then.. I dunno, it got sent around and people decided to create billboards.

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 7 October 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm honestly impressed -- I've seen that around, had no idea you were the one behind it! Very cool. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 October 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Grover Norquist appears to have perpetrated a fraud?!?!

(Lord, let this be true.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

defend the indefensible

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 6 August 2011 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

- he's gay

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 August 2011 20:21 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

LOL

― the late great, Saturday, 14 March 2015 06:08 (eleven years ago)

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