ABC Fawns Over ‘Hilarious’ Sex Columnist Dan Savage Who Railed Against ‘C–ksucker’ Antonin Scalia
Nightline's Yunji de Nies on Thursday offered a laudatory segment on the sex columnist Dan Savage. She has previouisly fawned on Twitter that the writer/activist was “hilarious.” De Nies offered almost no mention of the outrageous statements Savage has made, including referring to Antonin Scalia as a “c–ksucker” and once asserting, “F–k John McCain.” The only hint about the radical nature of Savage came when de Nies explained, “Savage doesn't hide his politics. He famously went after Republican Rick Santorum after the former senator compared homosexuality to bestiality. Savage responded by calling on his fan base to redefine the word Santorum online.” Instead of pressing the syndicated gay columnist about his remarks, she blandly wondered, “Have you had a chance to talk to [Santorum] personally?…Do you have any interest in engaging with him on this?” Amazingly, de Nies didn't even ask Savage about his now infamous 2000 Salon column where he recounted an attempt to “give [then-presidential candidate] Gary Bauer the flu”: Naked, feverish and higher than a kite on codeine aspirin, I called the Bauer campaign and volunteered. My plan? Get close enough to Bauer to give him the flu, which, if I am successful, will lay him flat just before the New Hampshire primary. … I went from doorknob to doorknob. They were filthy, no doubt, but there wasn’t time to find a rag to spit on. My immune system wasn’t all it should be — I was in the grip of the worst flu I had ever had — but I was on a mission. If for some reason I didn’t manage to get a pen from my mouth to Gary’s hands, I wanted to seed his office with germs, get as many of his people sick as I could, and hopefully one of them would infect the candidate.
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