Rohrabacher: 'I Am Not a Homosexual'  Angry Republican stirs up
OCN  The way to "ward off future attacks . . . so that future
allegations . . . fall on deaf ears," wrote Richard Nixon in his
warped 1962 apologia Six Crises, is to . . . well, attack.
Nixon's cherished strategy--so painfully evident throughout his
political career--came to mind two weeks ago while watching Dana
Rohrabacher on OCN's Politically Speaking. Speaking on the Feb.
1 edition, the five-term Orange County Republican congressman
deflected a softball question about the ongoing criminal
prosecution of his pal Assemblyman Scott Baugh (R-Huntington
Beach), and he leveled the most scandalous allegation of the new
political season. "Michael Capizzi--our district attorney--tried
to plant a story that I am a homosexual," Rohrabacher said.
"Which, oddly, by the way, I am not. This shows you the gutter
level [to which] our district attorney [has] stooped." Rarely
has OCN been so entertaining--a fact lost on the station's
managers. They cut to a com