THE CONDI RUMOR: Richard Blow has an article on TomPaine.com this week (picked up by Page Six and other places) asking a provocative question that had previously only been discussed in whispers: is Condoleeza Rice a lesbian?
The occasion of the piece is, oddly enough, a comic strip. An installment last week of Aaron McGruder's radical but periodically funny "Boondocks" strip had the teenaged characters suggesting that someone find the unmarried Rice a boyfriend, so that the nation's first black and first female National Security Advisor would thus not be "so hell-bent on destroying the world."
More than one hundred newspapers, including the Washington Post, declined to run the strip, mostly citing what Blow calls "idea that a woman just needs to get schtupped to be happy." But from the Post's decision, and also citing "Washington scuttlebutt," Blow infers that perhaps there's something about Rice's sexuality that the Post knows but isn't sharing.
I have no idea if Rice actually is gay; it is of course nobody's business other than her own. Bloggers such as Andrew Sullivan and Asparagirl have raised the subject before but I've gotta think that if it there were any hard evidence of such a thing, Michelangelo Signorile or someone like him would've exposed it by now. Now that Blow, a former George magazine editor who wrote a controversial bio of JFK, Jr., has brought the subject into the forefront, perhaps now the Bush Administration will have to answer questions about it- and we know they're just dying to.
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Posted by: Mickey Nosbod at January 21, 2005 03:35 AM