[Tact, grace, and propriety - GWB-Style!]
President Bush has selected Jerry Thacker, a Pennsylvania marketing consultant who has characterized AIDS as the "gay plague" and called homosexuality a "deathstyle," to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS.
Here at Jiveco, our scumbag-alert meters are pinned at full on this guy. Isn't it a bad enough personality affliction that this guy is both a right-wing, Bob Jones U. graduate, homophobe and a Bush insider without adding the insult of his being a marketing consultant? C'mon, George! A marketing consultant?
"Would you have a member of the Flat Earth Society advising the president on space policy?" Coates asked. "Why would you have people advising the president about approaches to public health who don't read the science?"
President Bush has selected Jerry Thacker, a Pennsylvania marketing consultant who has characterized AIDS as the "gay plague" and called homosexuality a "deathstyle," to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS.
Here at Jiveco, our scumbag-alert meters are pinned at full on this guy. Isn't it a bad enough personality affliction that this guy is both a right-wing, Bob Jones U. graduate, homophobe and a Bush insider without adding the insult of his being a marketing consultant? C'mon, George! A marketing consultant?
"Would you have a member of the Flat Earth Society advising the president on space policy?" Coates asked. "Why would you have people advising the president about approaches to public health who don't read the science?"
