Sticking directly to the script (police report) of Senator Craig's public restroom encounter with an undercover police officer, Keith re-enacts (in classic "Dragnet" style) what transpired that fateful day back in June.
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What's behind the right's different response to David Vitter's call girls and Larry Craig's boy trouble? In a nutshell, the boys.
As the old expression goes, you are what you eat. And that imagery, apparently, is behind the growing conservative chorus calling for Craig's resignation.
For the details, see:
"Behind the Right's Double Standard on Craig and Vitter."
Segundo!
Hypocrite Craig!
Say what you want - craig is a hero over at americablog...
keith should win something for this....it was perfect....
enigma4ever @ 4:
Your right...
Perfectly executed....
LOL....
I think its only obvious that The Daily Show staff are going to be having a field day with these re-enactments when they get off their break.
speaking of which: is it my imagination or does the Daily Show go on a break for at least one week out of every month?
Send this to every Repuglican you know. Keith is priceless!
Bleeeeech. I was simultaneously extremely amused and completely grossed out. How old is Craig? That shriveled old closet queen. That poor undercover cop. And in a public bathroom stall. Dear God. I want to feel sorry for the old geezer, but his hypocrisy makes it impossible. Remember how he threw Packwood under the bus? Never mind Clinton.
Bluegal posts an incredible post about Kucinich being censored by ABC and now we're back to this type of garbage. I know it's not my blog... blah blah blah...start my own if I want to post.
Cheney and the rest of his PNAC gang are on the verge of fooling the American public into accepting an inevitable attack on Iran but the media and blogs think this type of thing is worth spending time on.
I'm actually disappointed that Keith would stoop to re-enacting this type of perverted behavior.
told him to go to the exit----NOOOO!
dear henry c. don't be such a prig.
there is no reason to not talk about this most recent clown. you might like a website with one subject but seems the rest of us like to see all the stuff--well except for the britneys and lindsys.
littlebear @ 3:
Some people think Hitler is a hero too. Some people think Geroge W. Bush is the greatest president of all time. Such hero worship means nothing.
sorry, cheney not henry, boy is my face red.
Press Bias
While the Press has created a huge furor over Idaho Republican, Rep. Craig's brush with the law in an airport, there has been another unlawful incident that has been completely ignored by the National Media. Democratic Rep. Filner just last week was charged for his run-in with a baggage clerk, also at an airport. The significance of this is that although Republican Rep. Craig's charge was simply a misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct, Democratic Rep. Filner was charged with Assault and Battery. The severity of these charges are as follows:
Disorderly Conduct
Almost every state has a disorderly conduct law that makes it a crime to be drunk in public, to "disturb the peace", or to loiter in certain areas. Many types of obnoxious or unruly conduct may fit the definition of disorderly conduct, as such statutes are often used as "catch-all" crimes. Police may use a disorderly conduct charge to keep the peace when a person is behaving in a disruptive manner, but presents no serious public danger.
Assault Basics
Assault is an intentional attempt or threat to inflict injury upon a person, coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm, which creates a reasonable apprehension of bodily harm or offensive contact in another. Assault does not require actual touching or bodily harm to the victim. Assault and battery are sometimes used interchangeably, but battery is an unjustified harmful or offensive touching of another. Battery also differs from assault in that it does not require the victim to be in apprehension of harm.
Assault developed in common law, meaning it developed through usage, custom, and judicial decisions rather than from legislative enactment. Modern-day assault statutes closely reflect the ancient common-law definition. An assault is both a crime and a tort. Therefore, an assailant may face both criminal and civil liability. A criminal assault conviction may result in a fine, imprisonment, or both. In a civil assault case, the victim may be entitled to monetary damages from the assailant.
Battery Basics
Simple criminal battery is most often prosecuted as a misdemeanor. Repeat offenses or the specific nature of the offense may warrant more severe treatment. For example, in some states, a second or third offense against the same individual is a felony. In cases of domestic violence, many states do not permit battery charges to be dropped against the defendant, even at the request of the victim, because of the potential for repeat or escalated harm.
Aggravated battery is a simple battery with an additional element of an aggravating factor. This is most often the addition of a weapon (whether use was real or merely threatened), and is almost always a felony offense. Other aggravated batteries include those committed against protected persons (children, the elderly or disabled, or governmental agents); those in which the victim suffers serious injury; or those occurring in a public transit vehicle or station, or school zone, or other protected place. These are all aggravating factors that will enhance simple misdemeanor batteries to the level of felonies.
While Republican Rep. Craig's misdemeanor Disorderly conduct is receiving demands for his ouster, Democratic Rep. Filner's assault and battery charges are getting no attention whatsoever, and are being swept under the rug. With the fact that the Battery on the Airline attendant occured in a public transit station, the battery charge should be considered a felony Aggravated battery.
So, the question is, why is such scrutiny and attention being placed on the Republican misdemeanor while Filner's two charges, 1) assault and 2) battery, which should be considered a felony is being given no news coverage at all? Is the media being biased here? I think definitely so!
JD
where's jon stewart when you need him?
LOL....whats good for the goose....is good for the guy in the next stall.....pervin for certin
Heterosexuals can send all kinds of "mating signals" in public. The problem is not with Craig (except the issue of bringing a disease home to his wife), the problem is that the GOP is stuck in the dark ages.
Craig's situation sure blew the Gonzo-gone news off the radar, didn't it? Mission accomplished for whoever leaked this story.
I Love Dragnet and I Love Keef...Nothing else to say!!!!
Angry One @ 1:
As they say in politics: Never get caught with a dead girl or a live boy in your bed. For theocratic fascists who are Republicans, this is more true than we would like to believe.
JD you are so right. Even Limpballs hasnt mentioned it. Way to go rightie.
littlebear @ 3:
You're joking right?
I guess it'd be safe to say that This is another repug that won't be going to that wedding...The hypocrisy would be funny if it wasn't so disgusting........This guy knew that mensroom was a spot for that kind of thing.....screwem...he can go see Rev Haggard....and get on his knees and beg for forgiveness.....or some such thing.
I just want to know how they get together with a wall
between them - somebody please splain this.
JD @ 14:
It's not the sex, it's the hypocrisy, get over it. And repugs LOVE violence. Torture, war, death...well, they love it when OTHER PEOPLE suffer, they, themselves, can't handle a friggin' hangnail.
Sen... "SLAP THAT ASS"....Craig.......
Nice sound effect following "others were using the bathroom for its intended purpose..."
JD @ 14:
JD,
Actually, this story was on Fox News and Drudge as soon as the incident happened. In fact, Brit Hume even took him to task for trying to use his status as a Congressman as a means to get out of this. So don't lie to me and say that that the "media" hasn't covered the "assault" incident.
We also have to take the two stories in their context. Senator Craig was some how able to hide his arrest and conviction (that's the guilty plea) for quite some time. Something that Congressman Filner was unable to do. Also, Senator Craig is a hypocrite. While voting against equal rights for gays and advocating the blocking of equal rights for gays, he apparently enjoys dangerous, anonymous gay sex in very public restrooms. That is the real story: A "family values" Republican Senator plead guilty to basically wanting to have sex in a bathroom with another male. I am guessing you missed that.
mudshark @ 25:
Um, Muddy, don't go there. Let's just say, I can be a dirty girl.
medlakeguy @ 15:
Remember what it was like when he returned from vacation to discover that Cheney had shot an old man in the face?
It's going to be like that again.
Every Republican I know is like this!
I can't think of a better description. :lol:
wow, i can't wait until some stories come out about bitch McConnell, senate minority leader, who is also rumor to be a closet gay. i hate it when the media obesse over Lindsey lohan and Paris Hilton, but i do love gossip stories about hypocritical republican.
can someone please just out Mitch McConnell already, so that he can get the hell out of the senate office. you must have physical evidence of Mitch McConnell gayness, like Larry Craig.
Strawberry @ 28:
I have to go now....thanks.....don't you go there Strawberry.......
That was awesome...I am going to email it to my Republican brother....
mudshark @ 25:
that sound is more like a slurp!
KO never disappoints me.
"NOOOOOOO" LOL
Barbara @ 33:
mail him some ice too.
He's going to need it after the kick in the nuts this video delivers.
JD,
It must be the liberal media........
Thanks for yet another great video clip!! Historical clip it is and considering how many times I've laughed hysterically while watching clips here at C&L, this clip was brilliant.
mudshark @ 22:
how about rehab? ain't that where the repug pervs go?
I'll bet Craig drives a Hummer....I don't know of any men who don't like Hummers.
mudshark @ 40:
Guys like Craig ride Hummer2's.
Phoenix Justice @ 27:
jealous whiner.
Senator Craig's denials that he is gay reminds me of this classic scene from "Rescue Me".
i thought that was Will Feral who played craig there for a moment! now that would have been really funny.
I've been wondering if anybody else ever heard of doing an "Astaire". That is, tapping your foot to indicated that someone was in the stall.
First there's normally slide bars on stalls to keep others from opening the door inadvertently. But even when I hear the door rattle my response to someone pulling on the door is to say "Sorry, occupied."
Where did this "tapping of the foot" come into use?
So he's a peeping Tom too? I think if someone peered at me
through the doors like that I'd poke their eye. What a creep!
Blaed @ 45:
Too bad he's not on SNL anymore...his portrayal of Craig would have been a hoot!
[...] Check it out on Crooks & Liars. [...]
BaScOmBe @ 39:
He can go to Richard Cohen who beats pillows with a tennis racket while shouting...
"MOM...WHY...DID...YOU...DO...THAT...TO...ME?!!"
And then he can have Cohen cradle him in his arms while lightly
patting his bum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJXWFZz0Qjo
i don't think its either disgusting or funny. the media and blogosphere fascination with this puts them in the bleachers at the ancient roman games, making sport of the pain and contortions or supposed deformities of others. as for the hypocrisy of craig, and the damage and pain he has caused others, what makes that a green light for aping his behavior, and exhibiting cruelty. so much for the enlightened liberal, taking the moral high road.
These are some very sick people.
Priceless!
That's gross - that is so fucking gross.
.
Sen. Craig: "I am not gay. I just plead guilty to soliciting anonymous men in a public restroom for sex. Let me repeat, I am not gay and never have been gay."
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Well JD @27 its like this. There are a lot of people doing all kinds of things not just these two. The difference is that the family values party has some members that think that they are above everyone else and are extremely critical of normal people who do dumb things. When it turns out that they are worse then the people that they criticize so vocally it only seems fair to hang them over the fire.
Read a headline which said: "Senator claims plea was error, denies being gay" - I think it should be re-written to: "Senator's war on error."
Yuk yuk.
harper valley pta @ 51:
Okay...time to come down from your fucking high horse, we wouldn't want you
to get a nose bleed up there. Get over yourself and stop trying to be everyone's
mommy and daddy.
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If he didn't, Olbermann should give a nod to some weatherman or news talking head that did this re-enactment earlier (with sandals).
Uhm.
Couldn't the police be doing more important things? I know it is the hypocrite thing that makes this news. But this is a victimless crime.
Ah the irony. Such laws are most likely on the books because of conflicted assholes like Sen. Craig.
littlebear @ 3:
You are so full of shit you stoopid troll.
http://www.americablog.com/2007/08/desperate-defense-of-values-crowd.html
Don't sound like he's much of a hero, do it?
Jet, I love the post you quoted. Thanks for that. :)
"NOOOOOOO!!!" lol
I really have mixed feelings about this story. I'm giggling with glee for the downfall of another conservative hypocrite. Yet, I feel bad for the REAL PERSON who is so ashamed of himself that he cruises tearooms while spouting anti-gay bull. Furthermore, vice cops are notorious for employing entrapment. This story leaves a bad taste in my mouth. For as much as I love Kieth, I think this video is in poor taste. The story is going to have pervert cops in every small town hanging out in tearooms all over the country just hankering to net themselves a toe-tapping fag. I really feel bad for the guy. It shows that we're still stepping in some very deep puddles of homophobia out there.
All this toilet humor is getting re-dick-you-louse.
:lol:
Max-1 @ 55:
Larry Craig isn't gay.
But his penis is.
(In the interrogation after the arrest)...
Say, Friday...why don't you get us a couple danishes and coffees? I'll just stay here with Sen. Craig, myself, and this little drawer right here....;)
(Ripped from the movie version of Dragnet if anyone recognizes this)
Agree with 63 totally.
It is also true that the more repressive the society the more toe-tapping that goes on.
Fact: There will be a small part of society that is naturally homosexual - they will couple monogomously, couple openly or be single and have fun with others
Fact: There will be another part that wants to get off with homosexuals and be involved with these
Fact: It has gone on for millennia
Fact: It will always go on (whether it be bathrooms, peoples homes, licensed raunch clubs)
Fact: There will always be folk that find that threatening as they have their own vested interests
You can't minimise the public nuisance aspect until you have free flowing conversation where someone who says `I'm gay` is like someone saying `I like tea`. If a society gives respect it gets respect.
As is being shown in the UK there is an overhang as folk can't just change overnight.
My suspicion starts with why this Larry Craig bathroom event which occured on June 11th is being reported now? Why/how was this story squelched for so long?
Why do they have to make bathroom stalls that don't extend all the way to the floor, anyway?
This actually happened to my husband.We were at the mall-just the words shopping and mall make my husband have to "go"-and instead of using a department store bathroom he went into the mall bathroom-fyi-don't. He looked down and saw the foot and the hand.He couldn't get his pants up fast enough.The next thing I knew I saw my husband running down the mall chasing some guy with plaid pants.
Yyyyyyyyyeeeeeccchhhhhhhhh!
Yep, he's gay alright.
I really have mixed feelings about this story. I’m giggling with glee for the downfall of another conservative hypocrite. Yet, I feel bad for the REAL PERSON who is so ashamed of himself that he cruises tearooms while spouting anti-gay bull. Furthermore, vice cops are notorious for employing entrapment. This story leaves a bad taste in my mouth. For as much as I love Kieth, I think this video is in poor taste. The story is going to have pervert cops in every small town hanging out in tearooms all over the country just hankering to net themselves a toe-tapping fag. I really feel bad for the guy. It shows that we’re still stepping in some very deep puddles of homophobia out there.
I agree. Yes, the guy is a hypocrite. Yeah, its all pretty creepy. But its creepier to me that you can get arrested for this in this country. Arrested for tapping your foot? Arrested for sliding your hands along the bottom of a bathroom stall? Yeah, I know his intentions behind these actions were not "innocent." But even then... arrested for quietly, unobtrusively and non-harassingly hitting on another adult?On the one hand this is an example of how being closeted makes some closeted gays have to resort of kind of nauseating forms of code to hit on each other... but on the other hand, it's an example of WHY so many are still closeted.As a straight guy, can I get a woman I'm not attracted to arrested for tapping her foot and making hand motions to me? Would I WANT to?
Keith, you're on fire...LOL...that could well be the most perfect slice of tv that you've ever served up , aside from some of your special comments ....from the beginning right down to the mission accomplished dig and the paper throwing at the end..take a bow all involved..supreme television...perfect timing and pace..look n learn other networks..look n learn...lol...keith olberman, jon stewart and stephen colbert are the three kings of network tv... end of.
Wow, if you'd read the police report, some of you folks wouldn't be so shocked. It was only all over the internets yesterday. And I'm with Keith, the police report can stand alone as a classic comedy piece.
Funniest damn thing I've seen in a long time.
Conservatives are always yammering about how the "homosexual lifestyle" is all about sordid things like rampant drug use, extreme sex acts like fisting, and pedophilia.
I wonder if they now believe that Sen. Larry Craig is a meth-snorting, fisting, pedophile?
JM @ 62:
I completely do not understand this reaction which I've seen quite a lot of on the blogs. It is NOT a victimless crime when it occurs in a public place where others are subjected to enduring this perverted behavior. Come on, it's a public restroom folks! Is it normal, healthy and socially acceptable to solicit sex, regardless of your sexual orientation, in a filthy, disgusting public restroom? Please.
I personally would not want to be worried about being hit on every time I have to use a public restroom nor would I want to see two people go at it in a disgusting public place or any public place, for that matter.
I'm a woman so I don't have to worry about it myself. But I say sting 'em all you want. As taxpayers, we pay for our public facilities to be kept safe and free from such activity.
Sting 'em and bust 'em!
Straight Shooter @ 17:
At least Haggard had the "decency" to hire a prostitute for private sex.
harper valley pta @ 51:
So, I suppose you would like this to be swept under the rug? What are you actually implying? Do you want Craig to go about unmolested and priviledged as he has all these years using his authority as a shield while he practices anonymous gay sex in public restrooms? How libertine of you! Not that there's anything wrong with it, except that some one could try and use his secret life to blackmail him. And what is wrong with a compromised Senator in charge of so many committees?
Steve @ 72:
They're easier to mop out.
I can’t believe it! I saw the toilet that Craig was in on the NEWS, and guess what? I used that toilet once myself! Not only that but I think I may have used the stall the cop was in.
There is also a story that Craig had sex in the toilet at Union Station in D.C., and I used toilets at Union Station!
I can’t believe that I have been this close to the seats of power.
Well, I have to agree with Pine Nut on this point:
Why do people want to solicit sex in a place that smells like piss and shit? What happened to ROMANCE? Ha.
Keith, that's a classic! I'm placing it right up there with Johnny's The Clapper Great job!
Olbermann is going to be bigger that 60 Minutes, Colbert and the Daily Show combined.
And who ever thought that the plain truth could be so lucrative?
Good luck, Keith! You deserve it!
Craig seemed to think that the rest of the world plays by Senate rules, that is "When they ask, don't tell". I'm sick of "leaders" who are such pansies they are afraid to live by their own truths. Why are so many of them Repuglickins?
"I completely do not understand this reaction which I’ve seen quite a lot of on the blogs. It is NOT a victimless crime when it occurs in a public place where others are subjected to enduring this perverted behavior. Come on, it’s a public restroom folks! Is it normal, healthy and socially acceptable to solicit sex, regardless of your sexual orientation, in a filthy, disgusting public restroom? Please.
I personally would not want to be worried about being hit on every time I have to use a public restroom nor would I want to see two people go at it in a disgusting public place or any public place, for that matter.
I’m a woman so I don’t have to worry about it myself. But I say sting ‘em all you want. As taxpayers, we pay for our public facilities to be kept safe and free from such activity.
Sting ‘em and bust ‘em!"
If people are having sex in a public place, bust them.
That, however, is not what happened here. A person was busted for tapping his foot in a public place. For making a hand movement in a public place. A signal that was received positively and met with an encouraging (though false) signal.
People hit on each other in public places all the time. That's actually where MOST flirtation happens. The fact that the place had an odor to it is not a legal issue.
If someone you are not attracted to makes subtly flirtatious signals towards you, you simply ignore them or say no thank you, regardless of your or their gender. You don't have them busted.
HAVING sex in the bathroom is certainly worth busting people for, and if that were a problem in the bathrooms there, they could have had an undercover cop sitting in a nearby stall to bust anyone who started.
But what if people just made a few signals in the bathroom, or restaurant, or public street, or whereever, and then when their overtures are accepted, gave their card and said "meet me in half an hour at this address?" Should that be illegal?
Look, its gross, the bathroom thing. But if you are approached, you just ignore it or say buzz off, or tell security and have the person tossed out. But arrests for foot tapping are a bit much.
Bottom line is, he was busted for being gay in public. Or rather, closeted gay in public.
This IS a CLASSIC.
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All those warmongering neocon homophobes are such hypocrites. Their lives are all about "Do what I say, not what I do". Karma has caught up with Craig at last. I wish I had been a fly on the wall when his wife heard the news. But I bet he'll be back in church on Sunday, thumping his craw and lusting for that cute boy in the next pew.
LMAO! Hilarious. Right down to the police report. Now that is a classic.
[...] I also caught a clip of MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” over at Crooks and Liars; they turned the police report into a parody of “Dragnet.” [...]
That video was INSPIRED! Keith should win some award for that. I hope it's shown over and over. Craig should be forced to join Hypocrits Anonymous.
The thing is, if you can't go into a public restroom or a public park (Memphis's most historic park being one of them) without being pressured to engage in a fleeting perversity, then what to do?
I say, the very least we could do is get the perverts out of government. This has nothing to do with being gay. Senator Craig was correct when he said that he is not gay -- he's actually a big ol' Uncle Perve, and what he does is ruining public venues that should be safe for children. Bottom line, so to speak.
Craig, exactly. This police officer just sat there while he was peeped at. Any non interested party would get irritated and send some "not interested" signals. If I was looking at someone for 2 minutes and they did not signal no -- well that is a signal. Entrapment in my opinion. The police officer was acting in a way that encouraged Craig. Craig while in an awful environment wasn't particularly aggressive or obscene.
I am a woman so I know all about unwelcome advances, and if I engaged in two minutes of exchanged glances with someone they wouldn't be off base to circle closer. But if I was not interested, well they'd know.
For me it is the entrapment that makes this the victimless crime.
Really? But the police officer reports that Craig first peeped into his stall, over the course of a few minutes. In his sexed-up state, Craig did not seem to give a damn who was in the stall - it could well have been a kid (since, after all, airport restrooms aren't adult-only facilities, or something). The peeping in and of itself would be enough to raise an alarm, whether by a man in the men's room or a woman in the ladies room.
But then there's also the cultural taboo connected with privacy when one's trying to take a shit--to put it real plainly. It would be very creepy and abnormal - and would pretty much constitute "abuse," where children are concerned - if you made it a practice even in your own home to peep in, intrude on, or even grope family members or guests while they're sitting on the toilet. You should at the very least be able to take your dick out for plain practical purposes in a toilet without wondering whether an old perv will press his eye to the stall door! Craig is the homophobe's dream, is what he is, a confirmation of their fantasies: the predator & pervert they're always looking over their shoulders for...
Existence in the purgatory of the Closet is one thing; unsolicited peeping & groping in a public place is another. The Closet isn't just a big toilet, where flop-sweat-desperate neurotics (kind of like that character Chris Cooper played in American Beauty) exorcise their pent-up urges in strange ways. This is pop-psych outdated by decades, and more than a little homophobic itself; and it serves only as a handy excuse for a schizoid homophobic pervert like Craig.
That is SOOOOOO creepy.....and it's always seems to be the 'high-button collar-family values' type. Scratch a conservative repug and you'll find a raging pervert most of the time. I smell a forced resignation in the wind.
Was Sen Craig on official business when he did this?
There might be something larger here as far as committing a crime while on gov't business, using gov't resources to do so etc etc
Olbermann is such a fucking god!! He's a god for many reasons other than antagonizing bill, I'm obsessed with man on little girl sex, oreilly. Anyone notice that? How obsessed oreilly is with heterosexual pedophilia?
[...] What? You want stall reenactments, there’s plenty of places you can see those. [...]
Strawberry @ 28:
lol, great job K.O,
That a girl ! Soooo, what are you wearing ? lol.
Don't knock it till you try it mudshark. Just saying.
[...] It seems like Keith Olbermann answered my call... [...]
What did he do that was illegal? Hitting on people isnt illegal and neither is asking them for sex. Offering money for sex or harrassing people is but not gesturing intent.
Was Sen Craig on official business when he did this?
There might be something larger here as far as committing a crime while on gov’t business, using gov’t resources(his flight) to do so etc etc
if I saw a hand appear under the stall I'd shit in it...
What a perfect metaphor! - Religious right-wing "nuts" have been sliding their foot... and open palm ... into the privacy of your stall since ronnie time and voters still keep knee?-jerkin' to their crap.
This lewd behavior is less about sex than a symptom of some self-entitled dementia, ...hmmm, I'm sensing a dominant bible mommy thing going on here.
Please keep anymore of your shit in your own toilet, you've already covered the world with it. At the least, keep it in your own stall, you Grand Old Pervert, you ;-)
To check out the audio transcript of Senator Craig with police after his infamous bathroom incident go to www.thirdrailradio.com
Paul @ 75:
Nope, actually, Larry's probably telling the truth, he's probably not gay.
He has three kids, 9 grandkids
So that would make him more likely bisexual...same thing for his tallywhacker.
This is the worst example of disrespect and stinking police action I have seen. What was the crime? The crime was what this cop did to soil the name of our government for the whole world to see. Good job you louse! This sewer dredging cop went and soiled the garments of a very great man and the whole thing stinks as bad as this dirty cop and his whole stinking force and family. What a shameful day for America.
To this cop. Learn some respect and pray for forgiveness you no good communist.
LARRY CRAIG IS A LYING SON OF A B*TCH THAT HAS PUT A BIG BLACK EYE ON IDAHO. ITS NOT THE WHOLE GAY THING THAT SICKENS ME ITS THE FACT THAT HE HAS LIED TO SOCIETY, HIS FAMILY (EVEN HIS WIFE) ABOUT THIS FOR THE LAST 11 WEEKS. I CAN RESPECT A MAN THAT IS HONEST!!! DON'T LIE!!! WHAT A SCUMBAG!!!! DAMN CLOSET AIRPORT BATHROOM POLE-SMOKER!!!! NOT ALL IDAHOANS ARE BAD!!! ABOUT TIME YOU GOT CAUGHT!!! WAY TO REPRESENT!!! INEVITABLE IMPEACHMENT!!!
Thanks for the education in gay courting tactics. As a happily married drummer I tap my feet everywhere, including bathroom stalls. I had no idea I was making advances to anyone! I wonder what else I need to know to avoid entrapment and arrest by the SS.
Mitch @ 7:
Close to it. They only air 40 weeks per year, 4 days per week.
JD @ 15:
I am confused by the intent of this long tirade discussing the difference between a misdemeanor and assault. Are you defending Craig, defending the party, looking for an opportunity to spin anything that happens into a liberal conspiracy? You have got to be kidding in thinking that the media is biased in reporting Craig's indiscretions. You know as well as I do, that this is just too good for the media to pass up - regardless of their political persuasion.
The reality is that it is twice as big a deal because the GOP has marketed itself as the party of superior morality. And during the last year, we have seen time and time again, that all politicians are human, regardless of their party affiliation. The republicans have provided multiple examples of their humanity lately. The difference is that Democrats don't hang their hat on it. Perhaps the fear is that Americans will realize that all politicians are human and candidates from both parties are going to "sin" from time to time. Doesn't mean we shouldn't hope for the best, but we need to realize we're not always going to get it. NO BIG SURPRISE ! It’s just if the average American voter gets that - then campaigning on morality will be a much less effective strategy.
Thing is. I agree with you to some extent. In the broad scheme of things what Craig did, if he did it, is not much of a crime. At least not the kind of thing that has much impact on the average American. But let's also be realistic that if the cop had allowed things to progress, it would have eventually become assault, (remember battery is non-consensual touching). But this would have been SEXUAL assault. And isn't that the key?
Americans are obsessed with sex. We don't care much if a politician gets in a tiff in an airport with a baggage clerk and some rough housing occurs. But let even the appearance of sexual indiscretion surface and (GASP, GASP) surely the person cannot function effectively as an elected official. The sad thing is that our victorian obsession with these kinds of issues diverts public and media attention from the real issues that really matter to average Americans. I, for one, would like to hear much less about the personal lives of politicians and much more about issues that really matter. (cost of education, healthcare, social-security etc.). This is like squabbling over whose lying about smoking the cigarette that caused the fire while the whole the house burns to the ground.
I doubt seriously that average Americans are buying the proposition that Craig's indiscretions are being blown out of proportion by the liberal media. If Craig were a democrat, the media treatment would be no different.
Federal Judge Edward Nottingham is also a Republican. AP has reported that Judge Nottingham said that he was too drunk to remember how he spent $3,000 at a strip club on 9/5/05 and that the manager of the Diamond Cabaret in Denver said that Judge Nottingham visited the strip club on multiple occasions. His wife apparently found only one receipt for one visit to the strip club so it is unknown who paid for the other occasions. According to the 9 News of Denver coverage, the judge's ex wife also said there were credit card receipts for multiple payments adding up to more than $500 by the Judge for visits to an Internet site that includes pornographic pictures and also offers introductions to local women wanting sex today
Republican judge Edward Nottingham did something similar. He confessed that he was too drunk to remember how he spent $3,000 in a strip club on 9/5/05. AP reported that the interviewed a Mr. Frankel of the Denver Diamond Cabaret strip club, who said the GOP judge visited the strip club multiple times. His wife only has one bill and there is no record who paid for Judge Nottingham's other visits to the strip club. According to 9 news in Denver, Judge Nottingham's wife said he spent over $500 to visit an Internet site from the judge's chambers offering porno pictures and introductions to women wanting sex tonight
VIDEO: Olbermann Re-Enacts Senator Craig Bathroom Scene
[...]Sticking directly to the script (police report) of Senator Craigs public restroom encounter with an undercover police officer, Keith re-enacts (in classic Dragnet
Umm @ 104:
What did he do that was illegal? He was looking through the stall! Would you like someone looking through at you while you're on the can? Probably not! He must have been doing it to a couple of people because someone called in about lewd behavior. That was the bad part and that was not entrapment because at that point all the officer was doing was being in the stall.
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