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YOU PEOPLE ARE AT IT AGAIN.

He first started achieving major public notoriety in early 2007, when he made complaints of harassment at Columbia University, against students who allegedly called him a ""baby killer"" for being in the military

No, he first made his complaints in early 2006. This gained him attention at Columbia. Then he wrote articles for a student newspaper, a military newspaper and on some right-wing blogs. That got him noticed by national right-wing media, i.e., Fox News. In late 2006, left-wing students publicized his pornography background. It was largely ignored.

Then he got the CPAC award on the same day that Ann Coulter made her comment about John Edwards. That caused the gay blogs to dig up what had been reported in late '06. The story of CPAC applauding Coulter while honoring a gay porn star and hooked spread to non-gay liberal blogs, and then to MSNBC's Countdown. That's how it became a national story.

In the ensuing controversy, it became public knowledge that Sanchez himself had been a performer in homosexual/bisexual[4] adult films in the early 1990s. The story became popular in the blogosphere, especially among homosexual bloggers who insinuated rumors about the details of Sanchez's past.

Sanchez appears in 38 gay porn movies. About 15 of them are originals, the rest re-compilations. Of the 38 videos, one is titled ""Bi Conflict,"" but in that video Sanchez performs homosexual acts. Sanchez has never had anything other than gay sex on film. These are not ""homosexual/bisexual films."" He is a gay porn actor who appeared in gay porn films for gay viewers.

There has been no ""insinuation"" of ""rumors."" Rather, there has been reporting of solid evidence. Sanchez prostituted under the name Excellent Top between 1999 and 2002, and operated the No Regrets Massage service, a front for prostitution, in 2004. He directly admitted prostitution in an appearance on the Alan Colmes show on March 8, 2007, and in an article published the same day on Salon.com

Sanchez revealed that Countdown never bothered to contact him before running the television report. Countdown sourced several gay blogs to complete the report, as well as committed left-wing ideologue Max Blumenthal who claimed that Sanchez was apart of a greater ""an underground railroad"" for fallen gay right-wingers.

Calling Bluemental ""a committed left-wing ideologue"" is straight out of an O'Reilly Factor script. It is an outrageous violation of Wikipedia's purported neutrality. So is saying that Sanchez ""revealed"" that Countdown ""never bothered"" to contact him.

Critics charge that Sanchez has given conflicting statements about rumors from anonymous bloggers.

The use of the phrase ""rumors from anonymous bloggers"" is straight out of an O'Reilly Factor, an is an outraegous violation of Wikipedia's purported neutrality. First off, they are not rumors. Remember, the so-called ""rumors"" have proven true. Secondly, most bloggers are anonymous. This does not by itself indict them or the information they provide, any more than a newspaper story without a byline indicts the newspaper that prints it.

In an op-ed piece in Salon.com, Sanchez likened porn to prostitution, he subsequently said he wanted to draw that same analogy on his first appearances on Colmes Radio show.""[24]

First off, whatever he claimed that he had ""wanted"" to do on Colmes is immaterial. The Colmes interview stands on its own. Secondly, he made the claim about what he ""wanted"" to do on a blog. But this time, it was on a right-wing ""ex-gay"" blog. Since when does Wikipedia elevation right-wing ex-gay blogs to a superior status? Some ""neutrality"" you people show!

A later report by the same writer appeared on April 1, 2007, indicating that Sanchez was also being investigated by the Marine Corps for fraudulently soliciting funds from two organizations, the United War Veteran's Council and U-Haul, in order to fund a deployment to Iraq which he never actually made. Sanchez has denied the charges; saying that he never collected money from either organization.[25]

Excuse me, but Sanchez's denial of fraudulent solicitation is a non-denial. In fact, Sanchez admitted soliciting the money. Whether or not he collected it has no bearing on whether or not he solicited it. Those are two separate issues. Extortion doesn't have to succeed to be extortion.

There is a larger point to be made here, which is that Sanchez's various explataions have been a circus of multi-contradictions. It is not ""neutral"" to split the difference. Facts are neutral. So report the facts. How hard is it to report the facts?"