http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/10/obama-shouldnt/comments/page/2/#comments

“Yes, sad. I don’t know why people think this is some kind of card to play. If you knew the whole story you’d realize it isn’t. And bringing him up not only isn’t relevant, it doesn’t bother me at all. It’s nice to see his name on the Internet, again. That’s where I learned of his death after looking for him for years.”

And:

“Spartan – I’m going to respond to this once, as you are a regular here. First – that quote was posted the day I learned of his death – through a deep search using fucking Google, okay? I tried to get in touch with the man for years.

The conversation at the time was about hate crime legislation. My brother experienced more than one of those in his life. He was sent to reform school as a teen in part for being gay – it was the late fifteies, early sixties. He was ten years older than me. He disappeared. Next I heard of him he was thrown into a commercial clothes cryer in Denver Colorado and burned over most of his body – for being Gay. I only found out about it when the state came looking for money for medical expenses – skin grafts, a year of hospitalization, etc. I saw him after that and then he disappeared again. I got one letter after that sking for money. He lived on social security. All I had was a phone number for him to a pay phone in a hall phone in a San Francisco flop house and no one there knew where he went.

WHen homosexuals go on about discrimination today it’s a fucking joke. They don’t even know what it is. My position is that all people, gay straight, black white should be equal in the eyes of God and the law, so we don’t need hate crimes legislation. That’s all that argument was about.

Now you know more than you need to know about my brother. So how about telling me why your fucking messiah left his Mother alone to die for a year and doesn’t have the dignity to help his peasant brother out. And if you can’t answer it, the STFU.”

He also says he considers his brother a “victim”. The more I read of this, the more it’s clear Dan Riehl is so consumed with guilt over his brother, that he’s internalized it into his rage against liberals.

Riehl’s empathy touches me deeply.
Classy guy … glad I’m not related.

*No, really.

**Not that it’s really practical to do so, since the Batsuit has a catheter. Hey, you can’t stop to take a leak when you spend most of your time on rooftops, especially in a high wind.

There’s an interview with his half-sister in Salon that basically paints him as an ideal big brother, so I guess she must be Liberally Biased or something.

Reihl’s so sensitive he doesn’t seem comfortable with it yet.

I’m sure there are plenty of well-to-do wingnuts who have siblings who are in rough economic straits. And I’m just as sure that they aren’t opening their checkbooks to help them out.

But definitely alone. Although Dan admits to knowing fuck all about the situation, he seems in no doubt about this point. Presumably gay people always die alone for some reason, or perhaps Dan’s perspective is “Well, I wasn’t there, so I assume no one else was either.”

Christ, what an asshole.

Maybe they were really, really hungry….for socialism!

Unpleasant little fucker.

To be fair, it’s likely Robert wanted nothing to do with his piece a shit little brother.

I get the impression the fReichtards aren’t sure what to make of Obama’s poor half brother. Or rather, he’s Kenyan so they don’t give a fuck and some of them are just smart enough to know that we know they don’t give a fuck and the knuckledraggers will get antsy if they suggest anyone should give a fuck.

As for his mom, she did the nasty with a non-Caucasian and so she’s tainted.