--- title: "Kerry Didn't Gay-Bait" date: '2004-10-16T09:34:11-04:00' permalink: /kerry-didnt-gay-bait/ tags: - media - politics --- The key argument is in the subtitle: [He used Mary Cheney *to shame Bush* for gay-baiting](http://slate.msn.com/id/2108318/). On Slate, by Timothy Noah. (Via [Unfogged](http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2004_10_10.html#002476).) Now, for the love of Jon Stewart, can we get back to something that at least *pretends* to be actual political discourse? Please?