The GOP double-standard

I’m too lazy to do anything but plagiarize August [1], but I’ve been really interested in this story: 

You might remember our good friend Jason Mattera [2], the spokesman for the conservative college group Young America's Foundation, who rudely refused [3] to give press credentials to a Campus Progress reporter at YAF's annual convention because, well, he felt like it.

Well, a writer for the Washington Monthly was gracious enough to use his credentials at the event to write some additional material for Campus Progress. Jason Mattera's response to this was to call the writer a closeted gay and kick him out of the conference [4]. 

Mattera already has a history of inept public relations- for example, his famous helming of a "whites only" scholarship to oppose Affirmative Action, while he himself [5] was receiving a minority scholarship grant. But I think it's very important to consider this concept: it's perfectly fine for a college conservative to be an inept, bigoted coward, but it might actually be a problem when his actual job is media spokesman for his organization. 

For the record, after Mattera's last tantrum with Campus Progress, the head of YAF backed Mattera completely. It's really a perfect example of how conservatives treat the most inept of their lackeys. Mattera's one more act of making a public embarassment out of himself from getting the Congressional Medal of Freedom.

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