did you notice that I didn’t write anything about Foley-gate?

(edited and updated with a link )

I wouldn’t know where to begin to describe my feelings about this Foleygate and I’m afraid this particular scandal will get “-gate” status even without all that extra pushing from the Democrats. It’s looking uglier by the hour. John Podhoretz gets right to the point that I want to emphasize: “outing” is McCarthyite. And vile.

But maybe my age is showing, because Matthew Yglesias detects a generational bias at work here:

I’ve always found there to be something of a generation gap among liberals in this town on “outings” with younger people saying go for it, and our elders being more hesitant. Certainly, I’m all for disclosre.

I’m troubled by his equating outing and disclosure. Outing is the involuntary exposure of a person’s sexual orientation, which, last time I checked, was a private matter in which we don’t want the state, or our neighbors, or our employers, or our family, or our colleagues, or—God forbid—our political enemies to interfere.

I don’t really understand how endorsing outing can be considered in any way liberal.