“Do As I Say…”
News today that GOP Senator Larry Craig was arrested back on June 11th at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for lewd conduct complaints. Talking Points Memo reports that on Aug. 8, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. He paid more than $500 in fines and fees, and a 10-day jail sentence was stayed. He also was given one year of probation with the court that began on Aug. 8. I love this bit:
“A very quick check of Craig’s record on gay issues turns up the fact that he voted in favor of an Idaho Constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, and also voted in favor of last year’s Federal Marriage Amendment doing the same thing. Though it should be noted that neither of those votes is directly at odds with engaging in lewd conduct in a public men’s rest room.”
I’m not sure which is worse… that we have yet another “family values” GOP hypocrite in our midst or that the Republican leadership hid the truth from the public (and his constituents) for over two full months. Either way, his behavior was bad enough for Mitt Romney to scrub all mention of Craig’s participation in his campaign from YouTube.
Anyone wanna take guesses about how long it will take Fox News to run a picture of him with a (D) next to his name instead of an (R)? I’m willing to bet you credits to navy beans it happens sometime tomorrow.
UPDATE: Fox News decided to go the subtle route and not display ANY indication of what party Craig belonged to in their miniscule coverage of the event. It’s quite clear that anyone who insists that Fox News is fair or balanced when it comes to how it treats liberals vs. conservatives is fooling themselves.
UPDATE II: Craig is history. Sens. Coleman and McCain have now called for Craig to resign. In addition, a new Idaho poll taken yesterday of 600 adults in the state says that 55% of those polled want Craig to go with just 34% saying he should stay in office.
UPDATE III: Republican Senator Larry Craig has resigned, effective Sept. 30th.
UPDATE IV: Looks like he spoke too soon. He’s now reversed his position and has decided to serve the remainder of his term, much to the dismay of the GOP leadership. Craig is the gift that just keeps on giving.
Republicans have the audacity to condemn Clinton sexaully as if any of them get it right. They condemn all perversion but it seems to be their preference behind closed doors. They vote against but do as if they’re all for it.
I’m totally against Vick & DMX for what they do/did and we expect a certain code of ethics/ loss of job…..
Where are the code of ethics for representation of USA? Are we suppose to allow politicians to mutilate our image before the world. Any other career sexual devients would/lose their job/be ostracized/do time. Don’t we at least expect they stand up to our code
I just watched a Fox News segment on this story. They didn’t misidentify Craig as a Democrat. They didn’t identify him as a Republican either. He was just “a senator from Idaho.”
Roch, ah yes! The “If you have to say something bad about a Republican, better not to say anything at all” strategy.
Utterly predictable.
Craig’s quote from yesterday, “I am not gay.” That’s true. He’s actually bisexual 🙂
What is the definition of “is?”
Here’s a transcript from last night’s “The O’Reilly Factor” with guest host Michelle Malkin:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295005,00.html
Screencap with “Larry Craig (R)” in it. Also, not much on front page of foxnews.com about the story. Currently, the four top headlines are:
1. Katrina Remembered (with pic of Mr. & Mrs. Bush)
2. Report: Clinton Big-Money Donor Wanted for Theft
3. Al-Sadr ‘Freezes’ Mahdi Army
4. Who Killed Beethoven? <— WHAT?!?
Who killed Beethoven? His doctor accidently poisoned him, claims a Viennese pathologist.
I’ve been wondering about that.