Cerebus ([info]sorceror) wrote,
@ 2007-08-28 17:58:00
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Current mood: exhausted

Dear Internet...
...I understand and appreciate your interest in Senator Larry Craig's recent escapades, really I do. But as a personal favour to me, could you please learn the correct spellings of the words "hypocrite" and "hypocrisy"?

Thank you so much.

[And as an ironic side note — apparently the Senator started his most recent press conference with the phrase "I'd like to thank you all for coming out". Bwahaha!]


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[info]forthright
2007-08-28 10:32 pm UTC (link)
My favourite part about this episode is how he is now saying that he didn't really mean to plead guilty, and that he really should have sought legal counsel. Uh, yeah ... 25 years of national-level political service and you can't even think to call your *lawyer*? Duhhh ...

So as I count it this makes three prominent Republicans in the past year who have been outed for inappropriate gay escapades ... plus one who went in for diaper play in the company of prostitutes. Or am I missing someone?

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[info]sorceror
2007-08-28 10:38 pm UTC (link)

That apparently is a lie, too. I've heard the police report (or trial transcript, or something) mentions that he did in fact consult a law firm.

If I'm not mistaken, something similar happened with the British Tories in the mid-nineties... they tried to position themselves as the "family values" party, and then several of their MPs were caught in brothels dressed in French maid outfits while being whipped by Mistress Demona.

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[info]forthright
2007-08-28 10:43 pm UTC (link)
One thing I'll give our bunch of conservatives: they don't appear to all be a bunch of hippo-crits in this particular regard!

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[info]sorceror
2007-08-28 10:45 pm UTC (link)

What is it they say? "There are no sex scandals in Canada, because Canadian politicians are so repulsive that the idea of them having sex is profoundly disturbing."

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[info]forthright
2007-08-28 10:51 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, but anyone who would say that obviously hadn't seen Larry Craig. ;P

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[info]thegodofwar
2007-08-29 01:52 am UTC (link)
I swear its some kind of psychological freudian thing where these guys just seem to have it out for anything sexually lewd and then, having passed laws making it forbidden fruit to everyone (including themselves), they absolutely MUST engage in it from that point on.

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[info]lightcastle
2007-08-30 09:50 pm UTC (link)
I think it is exactly the reverse of that. They know they are tempted by these things, so they feel compelled to pass laws to prevent them, because obviously the law needs to stop them from acting on these horrible desires.

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[info]thegodofwar
2007-08-31 12:09 am UTC (link)
Ya see I'd buy that except THEY KEEP ACTING ON THEM! All the law does is permit everyone out there who isn't interested in having sex with pumpkins on Halloween to think on why there is a law against having sex with pumpkins on Halloween. THEN Halloween comes around and they see the news and they go "Ohhhhhhh that's why!"

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[info]sorceror
2007-08-31 12:27 am UTC (link)

Ah — but what does the Bible say about Pumpkin Love? Nothing, as far as I know. So nobody cares anyway.

Figs, of course, are a different matter.

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[info]thegodofwar
2007-08-31 12:55 am UTC (link)
Well admittedly, I borrowed the pumpkin thing from the daily show's take on the whole affair. I like the godhatesfigs thing, it reminds me of the other parody I saw, "godhatesmaggots."

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[info]sorceror
2007-08-31 12:25 am UTC (link)

I'm sure such people do indeed have a huge amount of internalized homophobia. But obviously this approach doesn't work

In this Senator's case (assuming he's is indeed lying), at least, I think his motivation for his voting record may be even simpler: it was the only way to continue to secure his party's nomination. And (from what I've heard, anyway) only a Republican could have any hope of winning a Senate seat in Idaho. Craig's junior colleague (the amusingly named Mike Crapo) is also Republican. And a Mormon, to boot.

Not that I want to cast aspersions on the state, but... "Idaho" doesn't exact rank up there with "San Francisco" or "Fire Island" when it comes to tolerance on gay issues, you know?

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