‘Colbert Report’: Rent Boy Handles George Rekers’ Baggage
What could George Rekers, anti-gay Christian right activist and Baptist minister, have been thinking when he went a'fishin' on Rentboy.com for someone to help him carry his baggage -- or as Stephen Colbert puts it in this clip, "hoist his sack" -- on a European vacation?What could George Rekers, anti-gay Christian right activist and Baptist minister, have been thinking when he went a’fishin’ on Rentboy.com for someone to help him carry his baggage — or as Stephen Colbert puts it in this clip, “hoist his sack” — on a European vacation? Ew, he said “sack”! –KA
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