FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009 -- from Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters site:
Latest smear against Kevin Jennings revisits familiar lie - 'Little Black Book'
Gateway Pundit continues to tell its Mass Resistance fueled lies on Obama appointee Kevin Jennings.
This time the site is claiming that Jennings and the organization he founded to help lgbt children, GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network), passed out a guide encouraging children to have sex with strangers in public parks.
It's the latest in the plethora of lies pushed against Jennings.
Let's look at the list of lies before hitting on the new one:
Gateway Pundit falsely claimed that Jennings and GLSEN were encouraging students to read explicit books. This was a serious misrepresentation of the facts.
The site brought up the Fistgate lie irregardless of the fact that this story had been refuted
It propagated a lie that Jennings had led the way to the passing out of "fisting kits" to children. The kits had nothing to do with "fisting" and they were created by Planned Parenthood.
Gateway Pundit made the false claim that Jennings and GLSEN passed out an explicit sex guide "Little Black Book" to students at a conference in 2005. This was another falsehood. Fenway Community Health officials said they accidentally left about 10 copies of the ''Little Black Book" on an informational table they rented at the conference. Furthermore, no students actually got copies of the book.
That last lie is important to remember because the new lie Gateway Pundit is pushing is linked to it.
You see, the guide that Gateway Pundit is claiming that Jennings and GLSEN distributed to children encouraging them to have public sex with strangers is "Little Black Book:"
Right-wing site removes post calling Kevin Jennings a pedophile.
Post also falsely claimed that there were videos of Jennings teaching children sex acts.
Today comes the news that some on the right have thrown a slur at Kevin Jennings which may have scared even them.
From Media Matters comes the news that the right-wing group Accuracy in Media (pardon me for laughing) has thrown a very ugly slur at Jennings. So ugly in fact that the site backtracked like a dancer doing the moonwalk:
In attacking the media for allegedly insufficient coverage of Obama administration official Kevin Jennings, a blogger for Accuracy in Media, which purports to "set the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage" -- and which has a record of antagonism toward gays -- smeared Jennings as a "pedophile" and falsely claimed that "[v]ideos have surfaced of Jennings teaching 14-year-old boys the dangerous sexual practice of 'fisting,' and discussing with them the particulars of oral sex." In fact, Jennings did not conduct that seminar and, in fact, reportedly criticized it when he became aware of its content.
It appears that the anti-gay hate group, Mass Resistance, Gateway Pundit and The Washington Times have all joined forces in their headlong charge to lead the Republican Party over the cliff.
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accidentally left about 10 copies of the ''Little Black Book" --CJP
WTF?? Never heard of this one, but CJP, seriously, how do you "accidentlly" do something like that?
Jennings did not conduct that seminar and, in fact, reportedly criticized it when he became aware of its content.
so in other words, this guy is inept...
Poor Kevin Jennings...he just has all of these big mean conservatives that are out to get him!
Why CJP? Why are these people going after this perfectly innocent man? Homo-phobia only goes so far---again, why pick someone with this much baggage? Why so controversial?
You can't just CREATE a smear out of thin air, CJP. There has to be something to work with. There shouldn't BE anything to work with here, but there is.
Surely, Casey, you've heard of the Big Lie. Simply start with one tiny grain of truth and then extrapolate on that and turn it into a mountain.
Yes, someone at that conference in 2001 did discuss "fisting" with some students. There were 50 different events going on at the same time, and this conversation apparently happened at one of those events.
So, suddenly, Kevin Jennings is "inept", a "pedophile", etc.
If one is involved in as many excellent activities as Kevin Jennings has been all his life, someone is bound to mess up somewhere along the way. Only a Right-Wing homophobic organization like MassHysteria (which should be its name) can turn such an incident into a vicious attack on Kevin Jennings, and only very gullible people would believe them.
As long as Obama is trying to run a gay-friendly administration, organizations like MassResistance, Punditgate and The Washington Times will say anything they can to rally our anti-gay citizens into the Republican column.
Jennings' organization, GLSEN, has done a superb job of bringing straight and gay students together, and overcoming much of the anti-gay prejudice that used to exist in schools (although plenty still remains). Jennings has never engaged in or condoned discussions of "fisting" or other topics that would be inappropriate for students.
However, the Right-Wing homophobes think they see an opportunity to destroy an Obama "Czar" and they leap at the opportunity. Hopefully, they will be hoisted on their own petard. I'm glad to see there are other sites on the Internet which are hurling this gauntlet right back at them.
It is a very interesting post. I wait future coments.
Great article, i was reading something similar on another website that i was researching. I will be sure to look around more. thanks...
Thank you, cp.
I'm glad you found this Site. I hope you'll stick around and make some more contributions -- which I'll be glad to post on this Site.
After all, cp, you have the same initials that I do.
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