OK, I’m not making this up. But it just came out that Rep. Virgil Goode, notorious for leading the protest against Rep. Ellison’s desire to be sworn in on the Koran and for being an outspoken opponent of gay rights, was involved in the making of a soft gay porn film…and earmarked $150K to the writer and producer of the film! Goode’s press secretary had an acting role in the film as well.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The film, Eden’s Curve, for which Goode gets special thanks in the credits, describes it’s plot thusly:
It is 1972 and muscularly handsome blond Peter heads off to an exclusive Virginia university, unsure of what to expect. He joins a fraternity house where he meets William, a classics major who has a strong attraction to him. Despite their flirting the reserved Peter becomes romantically involved in a menage a trois with his roommate Joe and Joe’s girlfriend Bess. When the trio’s social blis is disrupted by a violent episode Peter is taken in and protected by Ian, his poetry professor. Recuperating at Ian’s idyllic country house, Peter soon falls in love with his hunky professor. Of course, their hot and heavy affair which includes skinny dipping, passionate sex and bathing outdoors is taboo. When jealousy rears its ugly head, Peter and Ian’s happiness is threatened.
And this is a film that gives Goode and his wife special thanks in the closing credits. The local paper, The Danville Register and Bee broke the story today, and you can read the entire thing HERE.
The Democratic challenger, Tom Perriello, was closing in on Goode…and my guess is that this will put him over the top. The values issue Southside will be huge (Goode’s first attacks against Perriello were over Perriello not being a strong enough opponent of gay marriage!), but Goode also has a long history of misusing earmarks to help cronies and was involved in the MZM scandal that brought down Duke Cunningham. Interesting times in VA!
posted October 15, 2008 at 1:01 pm
bye bye virgil goode, he deserves it.
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posted October 15, 2008 at 1:24 pm
“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous—and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
~Dresden James, Author
posted October 15, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Anyone who will write in earmarks for porn gets my vote.
posted October 15, 2008 at 2:08 pm
…not that there’s anything wrong with that. Seriously though, demagoguing is bad enough without the hypocrisy on top. Awful and terrible.
posted October 15, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Maybe Rep. Goode can be a guest lecturer at the Larry Craig School of Government….
posted October 16, 2008 at 10:19 am
Isn’t this the blog that week after week after week has been full of hand wringing about negative campaigning, cheap shots, gutter politics. Hasn’t the message of this blog been – oh the Republicans are negative nasty unchristian scum and the Democrats are a Matthew 25 loving incarnation of Jesus.
Well the mask has slipped (again). This blog, like the Obama campaign (the campaign that has spent more money on negative ads than any other campaign in world history), is nothing short of hyocritical nonsense. This blog is unloving and nasty. You accused sarah Palin of damaging her soul – well all the writers on this blog should look at the speck in their own eye.
posted October 16, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I respectfully disagree with frank’s frank critique. The issue here is the hypocrisy of the entire situation. Rep. Goode is one of the most reactionary and bigotted members of Congress. He blames pretty much every problem we have (even the Wall St meltdown!) on either gays or immigrants.
He said that if he could ask one question of Obama, it would be about gay marraige. And his first TV ad was attacking his opponent for not being a strong enough opponent of gay marriage….and then it comes out that he is involved in this film and earmarked tax-payer dollars to support its creation.
It is completely appropriate to call him out on his hypocrisy and misuse of taxpayer dollars to help out his friends and cronies. I think it would have been different, and I would not have written on it, if Goode hadn’t earmarked the funds and began his TV campaign by attacking his opponent on this issue. GOP strategists will not stop their campaigns of fear and division unless they realize they are backfiring politically and that they will be held to the same standards.
posted October 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I am sorry you misunderstood what I was saying. call him out by all means, but don’t go around claiming to be purity itself, calling McCain negative, calling McCain this that and the other. You lack credibility when you do what you criticise others for doing. This site is the most hypocritical bile on the web – and thats saying something
Thats the problem with the liberal elite – they are right all else are wrong – do they not see this makes them bigots? of course not. This blog is just plain bigoted bile written by a bunch of hypocrites