As'ad AbuKhalil (of Angry Arab fame) plucked out this bit of necessary context for the Foley scandal from a nugget buried deep in a long Newsweek examination of
the affair. This is especially pertinent now that the right-wing has
decided to divert the outrage of their "base" over the Republican
leadership's coddling of a known sexual predator into a good,
old-fashioned gay-bashing witch hunt, just like Mother used to make for
Uncle Joe McCarthy when he used to come around for dinner with his
little friend Roy Cohn:
Sexual
orientation has nothing to do with sexual predation, and to suggest
otherwise is to dredge up ugly stereotypes that are factually wrong
(according to a 2000 Justice Department study, 97 percent of adults who
sexually assault 12- to 17-year-old children are male—and 90 percent of
their victims are female).
Of course, those stats are from a study in 2000, during the wild Walpurgisnacht of
the Clinton interregnum. No doubt Al Gonzales' Justice shop could whip
out some figures in the opposite direction – or else maybe just declare
statistics on heterosexual male predation a "state secret." After all,
he would doubtless be preserving a large number of our top government
leaders from unnecessary distractions as they fight the never-ending
war on terror.
As'ad AbuKhalil (of Angry Arab fame) plucked out 
