Matt Sanchez
 In case you can’t tell, Sanchez is on the left. |
Claims to fame: Hardcore right-wing, pro-war blogger; U.S. Marine reservist implicated in the Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy; self-described “Hispanic, a Marine, a nontraditional … Ivy League student and a 100 percent flag-waving red-blooded Reagan Republican”; gay-porn star and male prostitute with a female wife; amnesiac
Add to “claims to fame”: Professional whiner. Notes Wikipedia:
In 2005, while a junior at the Columbia University School of General Studies, Sanchez claims he was harassed by students during the Fall 2005 ‘Activities Day.’ According to Sanchez, he was approached by members of the International Socialist Organization, an anti-war campus group. Sanchez said that they called him ’stupid.’ He made formal complaints to the university which investigated, but found no grounds for punishing the three accused students. The three accused students dispute Sanchez’s account of the events. In a Columbia Daily Spectator editorial titled ‘The Conservative Witch Hunt,’ Zach Zill, one of the accused students, disputed Sanchez’s allegations, saying that while he did state that he found on-campus military recruitment offensive, he had done so without using epithets or derogatory language.“Sanchez and others in the student group MilVets, an organization for on-campus veterans, had also voiced their frustration at what they perceived to be a lack of regard for veterans on the campus. In February 2006, the university amending its non-discrimination policy to include ‘military status’ as a group to be protected from harassment. …
“On December 4, 2006 Sanchez wrote an opinion piece for the New York Post, titled ‘Diversity ‘Double-Talk Ivy’s “Inclusion” excludes military’ and this led to him being invited onto various conservative talk shows in January 2007, such as Fox News’ ‘Hannity & Colmes’ and ‘The O’Reilly Factor,’ to talk about the alleged harassment incident. Sanchez also received support from conservative leaders such as Michelle Malkin and Newt Gingrich.
“On March 2, 2007, Sanchez was awarded the Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). …”
And that’s what blew the lid off Sanchez’s lurid past: “A featured speaker at the conference, Ann Coulter, made some controversial remarks at the event, referring to presidential candidate John Edwards as a ‘faggot.’ This sparked public attention and controversy, during which Sanchez’s earlier career as a star in gay adult films was brought to light. Subsequently, the revelations were reported in major media, such as MSNBC’s ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ and the Marine Corps Times.
“In response Sanchez wrote ‘Porn Free,’ a Salon editorial in which he notes comparisons were made to another Marine in gay porn films Rich Merritt, who authored Secrets Of A Gay Marine Porn Star and was on active duty when the New York Times Magazine included him in a cover story about gays in the military under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.”
In the rambling, disjointed and syntactically-challenged “Porn free,” Sanchez whimpered about the “abuse” he suffered “when gay and liberal bloggers posted ancient pictures” of him from his porn days (”ancient,” according to Sanchez, meaning about 15 years old — but we’ll get to Matt’s convenient amnesia in a moment):
…[I]n the age of Google, when any stray personal factoid may be lodged somewhere on the Internet, it’s impossible to have privacy. We have all done things we don’t want advertised, and many of us may have identities we’ve outgrown…. . .
… But some issues are complex, and some really are simple. People complain of a lack of depth in public discourse and the way complicated debates get compressed into meaningless sound bites. Well, porn is just … porn. …
. . .
Porn reduces the mind and flattens the soul. I don’t like it. That’s not hypocrisy talking; that’s just experience. I sometimes think of myself, ironically, as a progressive: I started off as a liberal but I progressed to conservatism. Part of that transformation is due to my time in the industry. How does a conservative trace his roots to such distasteful beginnings? I didn’t like porn’s liberalism. In porn, everything taboo is trivialized and everything trivial is magnified.
Being in the adult entertainment industry was sort of like being in a cult, and like all followers of a cult, I have a difficult time figuring out when I stopped believing in the party line. I can tell you, though, that by the time I finished my brief tour of the major studios, I was pretty disgusted with myself. …
Why did I become a conservative? Just look at what I left, and look at who is attacking me today. Let’s face it: Those on the left who now attack me would be defending me if I had espoused liberal causes and spoken out against the Iraq war before I was outed as a pseudo celebrity. They’d be talking about publishing my memoir and putting me on a diversity ticket with Barack Obama. Instead, those who complain about wire-tapping reserve the right to pry into my private life and my past for political brownie points.
Wikipedia also observes: “Sanchez also noted comparisons to Jeff Gannon, whom he met at the CPAC convention and had also advertised as a gay escort and was later outed as part of a media scandal.”
Hey, wait a minute! Sanchez openly gay and he serves in the U.S. Marine Corps? what gives? It sounds to us as though Sanchez is trying to pass himself off as a former “gay for pay.”
In the meantime, the USMC doesn’t know what to do with him.
So, what’s this about “convenient amnesia”? Either he’s got amnesia, or he’s a shameless liar:
On the Alan Colmes radio show in 2007, Sanchez claimed that it had been “15 years” since he’d made any gay porn movies or engaged in “massage” (which he admitted was male prostitution). However:
• At the time of the interview, it had only been eight years since Sanchez (as “Rod Majors”) had made a gay porn movie.
• Colmes found a print ad for Sanchez’s outcall “massage” service current as of three years earlier. Sanchez denied that the ad was his, or that the phone number in the ad was his — which is funny, since the phone number in the ad was the phone number Colmes used to call Sanchez to arrange the interview.
You can listen to an incriminating six-minute audio excerpt of the Colmes interview here, on YouTube.
In a March, 2007, Radar Online interview, Sanchez claimed:
“Look, I know I am going to get bashed for this, but I don’t remember doing a film called Touched by an Anal.”
And:
“I know how many [gay porn] films I did — roughly seven, not 40.”
Try 38, Matt — not including compilations or anything else released after 1999.
“And I know the time I did them in — 1992 through 1993.”
Wrong again, Mattie. Try 1993 through 1999.
“I thought they would bring out Montreal Men, which is what I’m most recognized for.”
Well, we won’t fault you on this one, Matt — even though all the gay-porn aficionados we’ve heard from say Jawbreaker was your most memorable effort.
“Okay, there is a current of homophobia involved here or at least self-loathing from the gay community. This is horrible.”
Mattie, can you say “projection” — you self-loathing, internalized homophobe, you?
“They are taking a situation and saying, ‘You’re horrible because you suck cock’”…
No, dummy. We’re saying you’re horrible because you’re a self-loathing homophobe in denial about your gayness, who’s Uncle Tom’ing to the Rabidly Radical Right Wing (which, we’ll remind you again, at the risk of bursting your gossamer-thin bubble of cognitive dissonance and sending you into a full-blown psychotic break, would like to stone you to death).
“…and frankly, I don’t ever remember sucking cock on film…”
Now, that’s some convenient amnesia.
“…and it is not something that I ever enjoyed.”
Which is it? You don’t remember doing it, or you do remember not enjoying it?
In any case, if you never enjoyed it, then you’re a greater actor than Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Meryl Streep, and Sarah Bernhardt, combined.
“[The left wing] is trying to discredit me because of these sexual acts.”
No, Mattie: You’ve discredited yourself, and no one on the Left gives a fart in a jar about your “sexual acts.”
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.
(Uh-oh, are you gonna sue us for calling you “stupid” now?)
Q. “Matt, are you gay?”A. “What’s that?”
Q. “Are you gay?”
A. “No. I know this keeps coming up. I don’t consider myself gay or a member of the gay community.”
. . .
Q. “Have you ever been gay?”
A. “Have I ever been gay? …”
How many times are you going to repeat the question, or pretend you didn’t hear it, before you think of an answer?
“… No. Have I had sex with men? Obviously.”
OK, we’ll give you a pass on that one, Matt. There are gay men, and then there are sad, self-loathing homosexuals.
Q. “Are you not attracted to men anymore?”A. “I never said I was in the first place. Gay men are like fundamentalist Muslims. If you leave their religion they have to send out a fatwa and demand your execution.”
Mattie, Mattie, Mattie. First you say you’re not gay, and then you say you “left” being gay. (Don’t blame us, girl; that’s how it reads.) So, which is it? Are you gay, or are you an “ex-gay”?
Q. “Have you ever enjoyed sex with men?”A. “Did I enjoy sex with men? [Hesitantly] Sure.”
Wow, it probably took all of sixty seconds for you to contradict yourself, Mattie. First you say: “I don’t ever remember sucking cock on film, and it is not something that I ever enjoyed.” Then you say: “Did I enjoy sex with men? … Sure.”
Of course, you could be trying to split hairs here — so finely that we’d need an electron microscope to see the distinction between “sucking cock on film … is not something that I ever enjoyed” and “Did I enjoy sex with men? … Sure.”
“You know, there are societies out there that don’t define people by who they have sex with.”
You know, there are a lot of down-low homos who use that old “I hate labels” schtick in order to avoid a direct answer — but don’t want to lie for fear of going to Hell.
Q. “It wouldn’t be an issue if you hadn’t been given an award by a major conservative group.”A. “Yeah, well, I don’t want to paint myself as a victim.”
Bwahahahahaha! Have you read your own op/ed on Salon.com?
Q. “How do you handle the angry left?”A. “The angry left should be dealt with like a dog on a chained leash, so it can only lunge at you so far before it hurts itself.”
Thanks for the concern, Mattie. Now, why don’t you do what you do best and go hump something for money?
Fun fact: Among the more interesting titles of Sanchez’s porn films we dare to print here (you can find a much… longer list at cplsanchez.info):
• Beat Off Frenzy (1994)
• Bi Conflict (1995)
• Built Tough (1995)
• Come and Get It (1994)
• Conflict of Interest (1994)
• Down On It (1994)
• Forever Hold Your Piece 2 (1994)
• Guest Services (1995)
• Hot Springs Orgy (1995)
• Jawbreaker (1995)
• Laid to Order (1993)
• Lunch Hour 2: Sweating Grease (1994)
• Northern Exposures (1993)
• Power Trip (1995)
• Secret Sex 2: The Sex Radicals (1994)
• Size Queens (1995)
• Taste of Leather 2 (1994)
• Tijuana Toilet Tramps (1994)
• Touched By An Anal (1997)
Moral apex: There are just so many unsavory things about Matt Sanchez to choose from, we’ll leave the “apex” up to you, dear reader.
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Sanchez:
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.— Proverbs 24:7
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