Was Kal Penn Barry's boy toy? This is from Hillbuzz last year.
What was Kal Penn doing at Dupont Circle after midnight?
Posted on April 20, 2010 by HillBuzz // Hillbuzz
This is one of those things that’s just interesting to us, because of who we are and where we live.
It’s neither here nor there, but Kal Penn, who strangely was lifted from Hollywood and given a prominent position in the Obama Administration (where his chief responsibility seems to have been working to illegally use the National Endowment for the Arts to create Obama-praising, Baathist grade propaganda “artworks”), was apparently robbed at gunpoint at Dupont Circle after midnight the other night.
That would be like us reading a story about a guy being robbed at gunpoint, in Chicago, at the corner of Roscoe and Halsted after midnight one night.
What was that guy doing there?
Not scoping hot chicks and chasing skirts, that’s for damn sure.
Dupont Circle is the DC equivalent of Boystown.
Now, all of us are bound to be at Roscoe and Halsted after midnight on many a given night. When in DC, we’re also at Dupont Circle after midnight, and we’re not scoping hot chicks or chasing skirts. If that fact surprises you, then welcome back from your coma, the world missed you. But there’s a lot to catch up on.
It’s just really, really strange Penn was ever picked to be part of this administration. Why him? He had no skills. He’s not even a famous actor, like a George Clooney or a Brad Pitt. Now, Reagan made Shirley Temple and some old western stars ambassadors, because he had a personal relationship with them…and, actually, they were some of our best diplomats ever, because their acting skills and experience with the press and public made them naturals.
But, Kal Penn?
What made him qualified to be part of that NEA scheme? The whole thing is just so strange.
From what we understand, Obama personally wanted this man around in the West Wing, for whatever reason.
Just like Obama demanded his longtime “bodyman”, Reggie Love, work as his “personal aide” in his White House.
Add Rahm Emanuel, and all his untalked about exploits into this mess, and the West Wing starts to feel a lot like Eric Massa’s Congressional frat house or Barney Frank’s basement.
We never thought twice about Penn before, except to wonder why on Earth he was courted by this president…but this Dupont Circle business adds a new light to things.
Yes, straight men traverse Dupont Circle. Straight men also walk down Halsted. Late at night, middle of the day, whatever.
But, taken with everything else, it’s just, well, interesting.
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UPDATE: Here’s a comment we received on this post that is very interesting. Does anyone have any more information on this?
Larry Sinclair pegged Kal Penn as B.O.’s boy toy from Day One when he was brought onboard. He wrote a cute piece about it at the time.
What’s really funny is that Penn would TOTALLY be someone we’d think Obama would date. We joke about him crushing on Justin Beiber, but that’s more Rahm Emanuel’s Tiger Beat dream. Penn does feel like the kind of boy toy the current Commander-in-Chief would enjoy.
All of this will come out someday, forty or fifty years from now, the way all of these things ultimately come out.
But, it doesn’t seem like the White House or Democrats are even trying to hide this stuff anymore. Either they think they can get away with anything, or they really think the public is too stupid to ever figure it out.
But, Liberace went to his grave with millions of women still strangely lusting after him, insisting he was straight. Since Obama’s kind of the razzle dazzle Liberace of politics, we guess that’s appropriate. Miss Thang doesn’t fool us one bit.
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