Posted 10:06 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Enron Collapse: A Gay Plot?
For the past few weeks, the American right has tried to deflect blame from George W. Bush for the Enron collapse. The most popular tactic is to diffuse blame to the Democrats in order to portray it as a bipartisan scandal. The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes has spun the scandal this way to the point of listing canards, such as the one that Ken Lay spent the night at the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton administration. If one depended on getting one's information about Enron from the Rush Limbaugh show, one would be led to believe that Enron is a Clinton administration scandal.

The latest diffusion-method is to blame gays. I'm not making this up. It's bad enough that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said homosexuals were partly responsible for the September 11 attacks, now Warren Smith, editor of a chain of Christian newspapers in the American South, points the finger of blame for the Enron meltdown at gays. Read about it here.