Out Comic Judy Gold Shades Lindsey Graham over his Sexuality
GOP Senator Lindsey Graham was again shaded by a female comic this week over speculation of his sexuality, this time by out comic Judy Gold. On MSNBC's "The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle," the discussion turned to the national ban on abortion that Graham proposed recently. Out comic Judy Gold joined the conversation to bring up that a similar state ban had been voted down recently in Kansas, adding how clueless she thinks Graham is on women's issues by offering a gay innuendo, the Daily Mail reported.
"And the fact that he is telling women what to do with their bodies. He's never seen a vagina," she said. "He's never seen a naked woman and he is telling me."
Ruhle tried to hide her laughter by putting her face in her hands. Fellow panelist and feminist Liz Plank added: "Someone factcheck that," she said. "It's probably true."
The question over the South Carolina GOP senator's sexuality has been in the news since back in June 2020. #LadyLindsey began to trend on social media, according to the Washington Post, and it refers to Graham.
"Every sex worker I know has been hired by this man," gay adult performer Sean Harding tweeted at the time without mentioning him by name. "Replies to his tweet showed that many people understood he was talking about Graham, and several people said they allegedly knew sex workers who were hired by Graham," LGBTQNation wrote last year. "Other people claimed that Graham would insist on being called 'Lady G,' a play on his initials."
Recently Whoopi Goldberg needed to apologize for joking that Graham might be gay on "The View." On the September 22 episode of "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg found herself in hot water after she referenced Graham as gay. The senator has found himself in the news lately after suggesting that there be a national law dealing with abortion. This came after he had said abortion rights should be left to the states.
On the show, the panel was speaking with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Graham's conservative views when Goldberg seemed to make a joke about Graham's sexuality before the show went to a commercial break.
"Senator Graham said maybe about a month ago, in early August, that he believes, when it comes to marriage, when it comes to abortion, it's for the states to decide, so, Senator Graham, what changed?" Jean-Pierre asked, to which Goldberg responded: "Well, maybe he's getting married. Do it quick, because I know people are fooling around with our marriage rights, wherever you stand."
Gold also made a crack about whether or not Graham could even maintain an erection without medical enhancement. "They're men who need Viagra. They don't even operate correctly," Gold quipped.