So apparently there's some people crying foul over an attack Bill Clinton made towards Arthur Finkelstein. Here's how Salon.com summarizes it:

"Clinton's attack on Finkelstein occurred Monday at a Harlem press conference to announce his initiative to deliver AIDS drugs to children in Africa. Clinton was asked what he made of Finkelstein's plan to launch a multimillion-dollar, Swift Boat-style ad campaign to derail Hillary Clinton's 2006 Senate reelection campaign, and stop her likely run for the White House in 2008. Clinton answered by referring to another bit of recent Finkelstein news -- reports that Finkelstein, who is gay, had legally married his partner.

"I was sad," Clinton told reporters. "I mean, there were two stories. One is that he went to Massachusetts and married his longtime male partner, and then he comes back here and announces this [anti-Hillary campaign]. I thought one of two things: Either this guy believes his party is not serious and is totally Machiavellian in its position [on gay rights], or you know, as David Brock said in his great book 'Blinded by the Right,' there's some sort of self-loathing or something. I was more sad for him.""

Now even the reporter at Salon who wrote the article I lifted the above from is puzzled by what Clinton said and is calling it "gay bashing." I on the other hand do not find it to be gay bashing nor do I find it out of line. I think it was perfectly acceptable and a fantastic way to answer the question he was asked (what do you think of Finklestein's new Swift Boat-style ad campaign against your wife). To put his response in plain English, "I find it funny that a man working for a party who's obviously against his interests either doesn't take his party seriously or he's a self-hating gay man." Frankly that's the way I look at any minority who sides with the Republicans, they're either idiots or they're self-hating, either one should be frowned upon, and we shouldn't be chastising our former president for saying as much. I'm of the mind that we should start handing out Political Darwin Awards to those who commit political suicide which keeps them from prospering.

I say all this not as a leftist, but as a bisexual male and I see people like Finklestein as being the Uncle Toms of the gay community. They should all be banned from clubs, drugs, and Will & Grace for all eternity! Go Bill!