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According to individuals who investigated George W. Bush's stint in 
the 147th Fighter Group of the Texas Air National Guard (TANG), the 
GOP's top dirty tricksters, notably Karl Rove and Roger Stone, 
interceded to derail the investigation and, instead, have CBS focus 
on Bush's faxed, scanned, and Xeroxed original TANG records -- which 
were later hyped by the right-wing media as fakes.

The reason for the GOP's concern was that the investigation was 
getting dangerously close to exposing Bush's suspected homosexual 
activity with other members of his TANG unit. Given the times and 
culture of the early 1970s, investigators were surprised to discover 
Bush's frequent association with an abundant number of gays in the 
unit, which was nicknamed the "Champagne Unit." Bush's homosexuality 
is the b�te noire of Bush's past for GOP political operatives, 
precisely because of the anti-gay stance of the Republican right and 
its Christian fundamentalist base.

In 1976, the Bush family sent George W. Bush to El Paso's Worthy 
Creations, a Christian gay conversion center. From that time on, Bush 
became a tool of the Christian right and a self-hating homosexual. 
The investigation of Bush's gay activities in the TANG unit would 
have unraveled Bush's new "straight" persona. The GOP went to battle 
stations to prevent Bush's past from being resurrected.

Bush's alleged homosexuality in college was hinted at in Kitty 
Kelley's massive biography of the Bush family, The Family: The Real 
Story of the Bush Dynasty, which was released at about the same time 
as CBS 60 Minutes was investigating Bush's National Guard stint. In 
the case of Kelley's book and the gay charge, the criticism came not 
from the GOP operatives but from their allies in the corporate media, 
including the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, who is married to a GOP 
operative.

While Bush attended all-boys Andover prep school (nicknamed "bend 
over"), Bush, not able to make it as an athlete, instead became a 
male cheerleader. At Yale, Bush, according to Kelley, had a "special 
relationship" (i.e., gay relationship) with Victor Ashe, his room 
mate and fellow cocksucker. Ashe, a former Mayor of Knoxville, is now 
Bush's ambassador to Poland. At the Delta Kappa Epsilon frat house, 
Bush became known as "a jock sniffer."