Reading the late and not too-informative NYT piece on gay Republicans, I stopped in my tracks at this piece of news:
As president, Mr. Bush has appointed several openly gay people, including James C. Hormel, the ambassador to Romania, to high-level jobs…
Huh? Hormel is a Democratic party fundraiser and was appointed by president Clinton to be ambassador to Luxemburg, a position that some Republican homophobes opposed. In fact, it was a pretty famous cause celebre at the time. How the Times’ reporter on gay issues could have gotten this wrong is simply beyond me. How fact-checking didn’t correct it is also unbelievable. You know, it really is that bad at the “paper of record.”
The Dish 