Conservative luminaries now apparently agree that the financial crisis is all the fault of teh gays because Barney Frank once co-habitated with a Fannie Mae exec. (Get the round-up as only Roy can give it.) This gold nugget from the original Fox News story seems to sum up the argument:

“If this had been his ex-wife and he was Republican, I would bet every penny I have – or at least what’s not in the stock market – that this would be considered germane,” added Gainor, a T. Boone Pickens Fellow. “But everybody wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.”

Yes, Dan Gainor, all American institutions and by God especially the mainstream media are chronically easy on gays, especially those who also happen to hold public office. THANK YOU for being a moral and intellectual revolutionary by calling a gay a spade and THANK YOU TWICE for keeping your money in the poor sick little stock market Republicans could have continued to protect if only monsters like Barney Frank hadn’t attempted to, you know, help low-income families afford housing in the 90s.