You know I can't stand this asshat and I loved it when he was crying because he only got one request a day for an interview.

Usually he's on TV cheerleading for more war a la Bill Kristol, but now he's back trying to get some ink and he's turned his attention to gay-bashing.

Glenn Greenwald rips him apart.

Ironically, the highest number of discharges came in 2001, when more than 1,000 people were discharged for being gay. For some strange reason, Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution was on CNN to opine about all of this today, and this is what he said (h/t Michelangelo Signorile):

Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute said the real test will be in the barracks, with the rank-and-file members of the military.

"We can talk about this delicately or we can just be fairly direct," O'Hanlon said. "There are a lot of 18-year-old, old-fashioned, testosterone-laden men in the military who are tough guys. They're often politically old-fashioned or conservative; they are not necessarily at the vanguard, in many cases, of accepting alternative forms of lifestyle."

First of all, O'Hanlon sounds like he just stepped out of a 1981 Moral Majority documentary. Who still talks about sexual orientation being an "alternative form of lifestyle"? That was always a dishonest and propagandistic phrase -- as though gay people intrinsically lead a different "lifestyle" -- and it's rare these days to hear anyone outside of Jim Dobson and Maggie Gallagher use it. And the apparent belief of O'Hanlon that there's an inverse relationship between masculinity and acceptance of gay people ("testosterone-laden men who are tough guys") is ludicrous, though, almost certainly, his saying this unintentionally reveals some disturbing psychosexual undercurrents that are driving O'Hanlon himself...read on

First of all has he done some new polling which finds that these young men are actually conservative? I don't remember army recruiters pounding on the doors of the very rich, but instead hung out in the most impoverished areas looking to entice young men with cash and breaks on college tuition's. What he really means is that those 18 year old neo-Nazis, and White Supremacists that have flooded the military along with the Christianists probably won't dig it because they are homophobes. We even have religion infiltrating our weapons.