Matt Sanchez (center) as Rod Majors. Tom Bacchus has the unedited versions.

We didn't bring the posts over here from the old version of this blog, but you can review the story here and here and here.

Summary: He appeared as a student/veteran expert/commentator on Fox News and other News Corp. outlets until bloggers noted that he'd once been a gay-porn actor.

He's taken a couple of other jobs in the conservative news biz since then.

This week, he appears as an anti-gay expert and columnist on a site called "Right Wing News" with a piece called "Hypocrisy or Decency? The Left's Dirty Little Secret".

It's a commentary that takes off from the story of Washington's own Dick Curtis. Sanchez seems to have been reborn as an anti-gay expert. His bio at the end of the column:

Columnist Matt Sanchez is currently working on his first novel, Gay Jihad: What the radical homosexual movement has in store for you and your family.

His point in the column seems to echo one that Pat Buchanan made on the Dan Abrams show -- that a politician like Curtis who votes against gay rights legislation isn't hypocritical:

Sanchez concludes:

"I sincerely apologize for any pain my actions may have caused." Representative Curtis said, after stepping down. It's nice to know someone has a sense of decency, or as liberals call it, hypocrisy.

Previously, Sanchez offers this analogy:

When a chain smoker afflicted with cancer votes for anti-smoking legislation, he probably has good reason for at least attempting to shield the public from what he is already suffering. Why would Foley, Craig or the latest, Curtis, be so proud of their wayward behavior that they would want to pass legislation to validate it? Were these men showing hypocrisy and denial or just insight and concern?

Here, and elsewhere, he twists some facts to make his point.

Foley didn't vote against gay-rights legislation during his last couple of terms, after he'd been virtually outed in Florida.

Sanchez also calls Curtis's pick-up, Cody Castagna, a "self-described male escort." Castagna has, in fact, denied doing sex for money except, he says, in this one situation. Unlike in Sanchez's own case where there was pleanty of web evidence that he had served as an escort until he was well into his conservative commentator career, no such evidence has yet been uncovered concerning Castagna.

He's also never described himself -- at least that I've seen -- as a "pornstar" -- whatever the undeniable evidence might be of his amateur attempts at the genre.

And there's another significant instance in the column where Sanchez seems to stretch the truth a bit. He describes himself as "producing and filming adult gay films." Really? And just a few months ago, he described it as a "summer job" over which he had virtually not control. Now he was a "producer"?

I guess, somehow, that might sound more acceptable to his right wing readers.

Matt Sanchez with Ann Coulter via Towleroad

His attempts:

• ...the purveyors of perversion have forced sexual issues onto prime time airwaves like raw sewage into a city water reserve--completely bypassing the filters and waste treatment plant.
• The sexual revolution, as exemplified through the gay agenda, has been molesting the American public for nearly three decades.
• ...the syphilitic liberal brain.
• ...like the rear ends of the senior citizens wearing leather chaps at the fair, there's too much hanging out for the public not to notice the hideous truth.

So, that's the kind of thing we might expect to see more of if Sanchez is successful in this rebirth and repositioning of his spot in the vast right-wing media machine.