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Chambliss office investigating allegation of hate speech
The office of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) is investigating whether someone using an office computer posted a threatening Anti-gay comment on a Gay culture blog that was reporting on the failed legislative effort to begin the Repeal of the Military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy Tuesday. We have seen the allegations and are moving quickly to understand the facts. This office has not and will not tolerate any activity of the sort alleged,” Chambliss spokeswoman Bronwyn...

Anti-Gay Slur On Joe Jervis' Site Traced To Senator Saxby Chambliss' Office
Someone named “Jimmy” posted “All Faggots Must Die” on the popular site Joe.My.God , and it was traced to the office of Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss. U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss confirmed Tuesday that he investigating whether one of his Staffers left a threatening slur on an Internet discussion of the right of gays and Lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. Military. We have seen the allegations and are moving quickly to understand the facts. This office has not...

Did Saxby Chambliss aide leave threatening slur against gays?
After a Democratic effort to Repeal the Military’s dont ask, dont tell policy faltered in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, someone, possibly from Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ office in Cobb County, posted a blog message saying “All [gays] must die.” Political Insider’s Jim Galloway reports the Republican senator’s office is now investigating the message on Joe.My.God ., a blog dedicated to gay and Lesbian issues. The office targeted is located off I-75, near...

Did Saxby Chambliss Aide Leave Threatening Anti-Gay Slur?
The hateful comment was left today by “Jimmy” on a Joe.My.God post about the DADT cloture vote. Joe gave his geek readers the commenter’s IP address and told them to get busy! The geeks complied quickly. The AJC’s Jim Galloway takes it from there : U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss confirmed Tuesday that he investigating whether one of his Staffers left a threatening slur on an Internet discussion of the right of gays and Lesbians to serve openly in the U.S....

Senator’s office investigating anti-gay blog comment
(CNN) - Staffers from the office of Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss are investigating whether or not a profane Anti-gay comment posted on a gay blog originated from one of its offices. The comment -"All F**gots must die" [without asterisks]- was posted Tuesday afternoon by a user identifying himself as "Jimmy" in in response to a blog post about the Senate's cloture vote on a Defense bill that included the Repeal of the Military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The vote to allow...

Did Saxby Chambliss aide leave a threatening gay slur?
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss confirmed Tuesday that he is investigating whether one of his Staffers left a threatening slur on an Internet discussion of the right of gays and Lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. Military. More Georgia politics stories » “We have seen the allegations and are moving quickly to understand the facts. This office has not and will not tolerate any activity of the sort alleged,” Chambliss spokeswoman Bronwyn Lance Chester said. “Once we have...

Did Saxby Chambliss aide leave threatening slur?
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss confirmed Tuesday that he investigating whether one of his Staffers left a threatening slur on an Internet discussion of the right of gays and Lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. Military. We have seen the allegations and are moving quickly to understand the facts. This office has not and will not tolerate any activity of the sort alleged, Chambliss spokeswoman Bronwyn Lance Chester said. Once we have ascertained whether these...

Chambliss office drags feet on investigating source of homophobic slur
If you're just tuning in now to the story about the Saxby Chambliss homophobic slur, here's a recap. Yesterday afternoon after the GOP Filibuster of DADT, a commenter named Jimmy left a comment on the blog Joe. My. God. proclaiming that "All faggots must die." The thing that separated that comment from the typical example of Homophobia is that it came from an IP address belonging to the U.S. Senate. Moreover, it was located in the same Atlanta office park shared by Georgia's U.S. Senators...

Saxby Chambliss investigating whether staffer left gay slur
A slur against gays left on the blog Joe.My.God was traced back to the Atlanta office of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) on Tuesday . Chambliss has confirmed to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that he is investigating whether one of his Staffers left the comment, which suggested that all gays "must die." Blog readers helped trace the IP address of the commenter to either Chambliss' office or the office of Sen. Johnny Isakson, nearby. "Among the fields in which gay people are over-represented is...

CONFIRMED: Sen. Saxby Chambliss Admits "All Faggots Must Die" Comment Came From His Atlanta Headquarters
I've just gotten off the phone with Atlanta Journal-Constitution political writer Jim Galloway who says that Sen. Saxby Chambliss has confirmed that the "All faggots must die" comment left here on JMG earlier today did indeed come from his Atlanta office. Galloway reports that Chambliss told him his office is conducting an internal investigation. For now Chambliss' spokesperson has issued a preliminary statement: We have seen the allegations and are moving quickly to understand the...

Is It Lady Who's Gaga or the Senate?
The sight of the overexposed Lady GaGa addressing a rally in Maine urging Repeal of the Militarys Anti-gay don’t ask, don’t tell policy might seem merely another step on our societys downward spiral, something akin to the surfacing of videos revealing Christine ODonnells dabbling in witchcraft. But I believe that there is another message embedded in this meeting of the political and the pop: a stark illustration that we currently live in two worlds that operate...

The DADT Repeal Repertory Theater
When we first reported on three American Anti-gay Activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than two hundred posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward Gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue...

Chambliss' Office Says It 'Appears' to Be Source of Slur
A Staffer in Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ Atlanta office is being accused of writing a derogatory comment about Gays and Lesbians on a blog Tuesday, shortly after the Senate blocked Legislation that included a Repeal of the Military’s ban on Openly Gay service members. A statement released by Chambliss’ office Wednesday said it “appears to be the case” that the comment “All faggots must die,” which was written on the Gay Rights blog Joe.My.God., came from the Georgia...

Someone in Sen. Saxby Chambliss' Atlanta office posted 'All Faggots Must Die' comment @ Joe.My.God
A U.S. Senator, Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has someone working for him that is trolling gay blogs. This person stops at Joe Jervis's pad , specifically Joe's post about the DADT cloture vote . What intellectual disagreement did this guy "Jimmy" share with JMG readers? All Faggots Must Die. Now this is something a Staffer should be canned for. Joe's readers became sleuths and checked out IP 156.33.20.72 and lo and behold, it tracked it down to an Office Building in Hotlanta that is home...

Saxby Chambliss says gay slur originated with his office
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss office has determined it was indeed the source of a highly publicized Homosexual-bashing slur on an Internet site. But in a statement, Chambliss office said it has not discovered exactly who was behind the slur, and has turned the matter over to the Senate Sergeant At Arms. The (Sergeant at Arms) has worked side by side with our personnel to determine whether the comment in question emanated from our office. That appears to be...

A traced slur in the aftermath of a debate over 'Don't ask, don't tell'
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss confirmed Tuesday that he investigating whether one of his Staffers left a threatening slur on an Internet discussion of the right of gays and Lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. Military. We have seen the allegations and are moving quickly to understand the facts. This office has not and will not tolerate any activity of the sort alleged, Chambliss spokeswoman Bronwyn Lance Chester said. Once we have ascertained whether these claims are true, we will take the...

Report: Homophobic Comment on JoeMyGod Came from Inside Senator's Office
A commenter who posted “All Faggots Must Die” on the popular gay blog JoeMyGod has been traced to the Offices of Sen. Saxby Chambliss , a Republican from Georgia. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Chambliss is investigating who left the comment in a post about the vote on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. We have seen the allegations and are moving quickly to understand the facts. This Office has not and will not tolerate any activity of the sort alleged,...

The GOP Gay Outreach Continues at Top Speed
You stay classy, Wingnuts: I’ve just gotten off the phone with Atlanta Journal-Constitution political writer Jim Gallaway who says that Sen. Saxby Chambliss has confirmed that the “All faggots must die” comment left here on JMG earlier today did indeed come from his Atlanta office. Galloway reports that Chambliss told him his office is conducting an internal investigation. The entire GOP is motivated by hate, fear, and greed. *** Update *** From the comments: To be fair,...

Chambliss Investigating Whether Staffer Posted Gay Slur on Blog
In this Oct. 22, 2009, file photo, Sen. Saxby Chambliss takes part in a news Conference on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo) Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss is investigating claims that a gay slur posted to a blog Tuesday may have come from a worker inside his office.  Chambliss' office told FoxNews.com that the Senate sergeant at arms is also conducting an internal review. "The SAA has worked side by side with our personnel to determine whether the comment in question emanated from our office,"...

"All Faggots Must Die"
The above comment was left today by "Jimmy" on my post about the DADT cloture vote . The IP address *appears* to resolve to the neighborhood of GOP U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss' Atlanta office. The ISP is "United States Senate." I'm confident that the JMG Internet sleuths can get to the source. Here's the IP: 156.33.20.72. Get busy, geeks! UPDATE: According to a friend of JMG reader Sean Chapin, the comment appears to have actually come from the Atlanta office of Sen. Johnny Isakson, the...

Family Research Council's Tony Perkins Revels in Don't Ask, Don't Tell Defeat, Celebrates New Marine Commandant
It seems Arizona Sen. John McCain was pretty amped up even before he went into the Senate session debating a Cloture vote on the National Defense Authorization Act, which contained an amendment to Repeal Dont Ask, Dont Tell. McCain warmed up for that Tuesday afternoon session with the morning Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to confirm Sec. Gates pick to be the next commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Amos. McCain used questions of him to attack the Pentagons survey...

Cranky John McCain wrong about "don't ask, don't tell"
Here is John McCain , yesterday, after voting to block the defense authorization bill from reaching the floor of the Senate because it contained language that would allow Gay and Lesbian Americans to serve openly in the Armed Forces: McCain, questioned by reporters from The Advocate and Metro Weekly , flat-out denied any active searches for Gay people in the Military since "don't ask, don't tell" was enacted. In reality, as documented by Nathaniel Frank, there have been more than a thousand...

The Little Picture: The Gaga-McCain Twitter War.
Lady GaGa in front of the Capitol for the National Equality March. Today, the pop star confronted Sen. John McCain on Twitter: "@senjohnmccain the language in the defense bill says it will not enforce DADT Repeal until pentagon review + president signs. Why block debate?" Posted by Gabe Arana on September 22, 2010 4:41 PM | Permalink | Post a comment (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it...

DADT Repeal Languishes in Senate
A bill that would have repealed "Don't Ask Don't Tell" was blocked yesterday in the U.S. Senate via a John McCain-led Filibuster. The vote to halt Repeal was 56-43. Here's the video from the Senate floor: The controversy and Debates surrounding the portion of the National Defense Authorization Act that would Repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell" seem like a non-issue to me, at least to some degree, and there is one element here of which I might actually agree with some Conservatives, but for a...

Are you pissed about yesterday? Let them know it.
I’m pissed. Boy am I pissed. Yesterday, Lincoln and Pryor both joined with the Republicans in filibustering the DREAM Act and the Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. It could have been a straight Republican vote that could have energized the base into fighting mode, but no, Blanche Lincoln has to be an asshole every time we turn around. And of course Pryor has to be her patsy. And there doing great work to contribute to the enthusiasm gap and depress Democratic Activists...