Wingnut Logic: Dan Lungren Interview

Dan Lungren is a right-wing California congressman, opposed to gay marriage and feverishly angry about the California Supreme Court decision on marriage for gays. I interviewed him on the floor of the RNC in St. Paul(we played the interview last week on the show) about that and about Ballot Measure 8, which would ban marriage in the California Constitution. He said could not even have the discussion about the outcome of the ballot measure because the "liberal" court decision was flawed, with "activist judges" writing something into the constitution. He would not concede that it's over if the ballot measure doesn't pass, though didn't really spell out what on earth they'd do next. On, and he was very testy.

Going Back Inside

We got close to a certain closet case member of Congress last night in the Xcel Center, but he slipped away from my grip. We'll be back today, and of course broadcasting from inside. Here's a pic of the stage -- so bad, and dull, compared to the DNC. Oh and angry Dan Lungren, right-wing CA congressman (I'll play that interview on the show today). Regular show, 2-6 EST


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A Kid in a Candy Store

We weren't in the Xcel Center at the RNC for more than five minutes when I ran into Senator Orrin Hatch. We talked about various issues and then wound up getting into it over Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy, which he said was "terrible" to bring up. By that point several other reporters had gathered around, and they wouldn't let him back off it or silence the discussion. I'll play the interview on the show tomorrow.

Then I ran into Gary Bauer -- had quite an interesting discussion with him about "sinners" and Ballot Measure 8. I then headed for the floor of the convention, where they were only doing limited business (because of Gustav), and I got into quite a scrap with rabid right-wing California Congressman Dan Lungren, over the issue of marriage and the "activist judges" and the liberals who are destroying America. He did not like me!

I went to the Alaska delegation and spoke with a woman who is in Palin's cabinet. She assured me that Palin is not in favor of giving any rights to gays and didn't want to give domestic partnership rights to government employees but that she had to veto the bill that would have rescinded such rights because of the Alaska Supreme Court ruling. So can we please cut this crap Log Cabin and the McCain campaign have been trying to put out: Palin only vetoed an antigay bill because she had to, by law. This woman, Annette Kreitzer, who serves in Sarah Palin's cabinet in the Department of Administration, said, oh, well, it was the law -- drat! -- or something like that. I'll play it tomorrow. (Kreizter, by the way, is one of the officials who are focused on in the probe of Palin, now under investigation for firing a man who wouldn't fire her brother-in-law, who had broken up with her sister; Kreizter is portrayed as a loyal soldier who did Palin's bidding.)

I also caught up with the anti-tax conservative activist Grover Norquist, and asked him about the rumors that he is gay -- there was a silence before he answered (said he got married recently) and then explained why people think he's gay. (I will play it on the show, and I'll post some audio and video here too). Interesting stuff, and we've only been here a couple of hours!