Last week, during the discovery that a heretofore virtually unknown conservative religious figure was gay, I wrote:

And after the Foley scandal, I suspect the American public is somewhat inured to the now seemingly routine gay outing (which is a tacit form of gay bashing, after all) by the liberal media.

Here's yet another example:

As NewsBuster Brad Wilmouth reported, comedian Bill Maher was on with CNN’s Larry King Wednesday night saying some rather outrageous things. Beyond his derogatory comments about President Bush, Maher told King: “A lot of the chiefs of staff, the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party, are gay.” When King pressed Maher for names, Maher said, “Ken Mehlman” (video here).

King then questioned Maher’s sincerity: “I never heard that. I'm walking around in a fog. I never...Ken Mehlman? I never heard that. But the question is...”

Maher answered: “Maybe you don't go to the same bathhouse I do, Larry.”

Now, according to the Huffington Post – which has video of both segments here – when CNN replayed this show, it cut out this part. Makes one wonder why.

Given that it ran yesterday, I question the timing, as the left is apt to say. If Maher wasn't just pulling a name out of his hat, this would have ran during the run-up to the elections, when gay outing and name dropping is considered more than acceptable by the media and Democrats.

Update: Video here.