Roy Ashburn spoke to On Top Magazine and the gay magazine asked him about Ken Mehlman's recent coming out. Taking Ashburn's anti-gay history, subsequent coming out and reformed gay rights stance into consideration, his life in many ways mirrors Mehlman's so his response shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

1. Trash the gays, use them to get elected, run the most anti-gay campaign in history.
2. Use your power in office to hurt us more.
3. Fuck up, lose your job (2006 RNC)
4. Buy the multi-million condo with your ill gotten gains (In the middle of Chelsea no less)
5. Come out
6. Write a book
7. Do a speaking tour

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Beck: 'I expect a miracle on 8-28.' On the July 22 edition of his radio show, Beck stated, 'I expect a miracle on 8-28.' Beck also used a Biblical allusion to encourage his listeners to use the '40 days and 40 nights' before his rally to 'change your life' and 'start all over again.' Beck then asked his listeners to 'witness' the 'miracle' with him on 8-28.

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For his part, Mike Rogers wants to see Ken Mehlman do a LOT of apologizing and public self-flagellation before he will even think about allowing him to be a Socially Accepted Gay:

So, how can Ken Mehlman redeem himself? I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for being the architect of the 2004 Bush reelection campaign. I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for his role in developing strategy that resulted in George W. Bush threatening to veto ENDA or any bill containing hate crimes laws. I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for the pressing of two Federal Marriage Amendments as political tools. I want to hear from Ken that he is sorry for developing the 72-hour strategy, using homophobic churches to become political arms of the GOP before Election Day.

And those state marriage amendments. I want to hear him apologize for every one of those, too.

Also, he should probably be punched on live television by Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, and maybe one of the man-fags from the So You Think You Can Lip Sync While Wearing Wigs or the So You Think You Can Make Pretty Dresses, For Girls, or whatever the hell shows the gays watch obsessively, in groups, while squealing, especially since Mehlman is still giving money to anti-gay candidates! As Joe Jervis said, “hookers call that ‘working both sides of the street.’

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Former Idaho GOP Sen. Larry Craig will be on KBOI-670 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (That's 7-10pm ET) Monday , filling in for conservative host Nate Shelman.

Craig will be joined by Wayne Hoffman, executive director of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, and formerly an Statesman political reporter and spokesman for former U.S. Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho.

Shelman, who will be vacationing, said Craig will field phone calls and focus on politics, elections and the economy.

Shelman said he doesn’t expect Craig to take questions about his 2007 conviction for misdemeanor disorderly conduct in connection with a sex sting in a men’s room at the Minneapolis airport.

“It’s an understood agreement,” Shelman said. “I don’t think he wants to relive it.”

Craig has phoned in to speak with Shelman since retiring in 2009, but Monday's three hours in the Boise studio will be his first extended appearance.

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The episode led to a meeting between McKelway and Bill Lord, WJLA's station manager and news director, that featured sharp exchanges between them, said several newsroom sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak about a personnel issue.

"The issue wasn't what he said in the live shot. It was what he said when he was questioned about it by Bill," said one of McKelway's colleagues. "The issue is insubordination."

Last year, McKelway threatened to punch a local blogger during an interview that McKelway was conducting on NewsChannel 8, the cable station owned by WJLA's parent company, Allbritton Communications of Rosslyn. The blogger, Michael Rogers, described his efforts to "out" politicians who opposed gay rights but were allegedly living gay lives in secret. McKelway took exception to Rogers's tactics, in part because Rogers had targeted several Republican congressmen.

The conversation grew increasingly heated, as McKelway repeatedly interrupted Rogers. At one point, McKelway told his guest: "I'd take you outside and give you a punch across the face. . . . I think you're hurting innocent people."

A day later, McKelway was unrepentant on the air, telling viewers, "An apology? Mike Rogers, you're not getting one. You understand that? Because you're a bully and you hurt innocent people, and you're doing great harm to your movement, the gay rights movement, by doing what you're doing."