Shots In The Dark: Headline of the Day

Wednesday, August 29, 2024

Headline of the Day

Larry Craig: Still Not Gay
—The Washington Post

Despite a published report that he once fellated a man in a bathroom in Washington's Union Station, Larry Craig insisted yesterday that he isn't gay.

"I'm not gay," he said.

This despite the fact that in 1999, during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Craig said—and I promise, I'm not making this up—

It's a, 'Bad boy, Bill Clinton. You're a naughty boy.' The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.

Um...senator? You're gay.

¶ 8:27 AM

Comments:

Not a Washington Post headline, Rich -- they don't kid around like that -- but a washingtonpost.com *blog* headline.

# posted by eadw : August 29, 2024 9:13 AM

great reader's comment on the site too:

"Anybody actually buy this "wide stance" defense. Next time you go the the bathroom and pull down your pants check and see just how "wide" you can spread your legs without the top of your pants restricting the movement. Sorry it doesn't work unless the guy sits on the throne sideways."

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 9:18 AM

EADW--

Actually, I thought about that before writing my description, and wrote what I wrote quite consciously, with all that it implies.

RB

# posted by Shannon : August 29, 2024 9:19 AM

Rich - you signed in as "shannon" on that one. ?

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 9:35 AM

Richard needs to get in touch with his feminine side from time to time. And why not "Shannon"? I see her as a "Juicy Couture" kind of a lassie. She can probably tell us about Americans and maps, too.

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 9:44 AM

Put the clip up, Rich. It's even better than the quote.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/08/senator_larry_craig_rid_on_mee.php

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 9:49 AM

Rich, is Shannon your transgender alter-ego? Fess up, dude!

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 9:50 AM

Well, that's embarrassing. But you are a smart bunch, and can figure it out.

# posted by Richard Bradley : August 29, 2024 10:24 AM

Who's Shannon?

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 10:25 AM

Rich's wife - Shannon Bradley?

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 10:26 AM

Rich is married?

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 10:28 AM

No, he's not. But maybe that's his girlfriend. Or he prefers to comment on other blogs using another name as a joke. Who cares? No biggie. I'm not putting my name on this comment either and I have my own blog.

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 10:42 AM

Think Yankees. Here's Rich's other blog

http://www.beingagirlbooks.com/shannon.php

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 10:52 AM

Ohmygod--she does look like Richard.

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 10:56 AM

I just think it's funny Rich wrote "wrote what I wrote quite consciously, with all that it implies" as Shannon. I thought he did it deliberately as a joke until the ensuing comments. But really who cares?

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 12:38 PM

No, no. I just meant that I thought about identifying the quote as from a Washington Post blog, and then I thought, but if the Post is publishing blogs, isn't it really a Washington Post headline? Isn't the distinction between an article and something written on a WashingtonPost.com becoming meaningless?

But I agree, it is funny that I attributed something conscious to myself, then did something entirely accidental.

# posted by Richard Bradley : August 29, 2024 12:58 PM

Whatever happened to?:

ARTICLE I
Section 6

(1) The Senators and Representatives shall ... in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

# posted by Anonymous : August 29, 2024 2:42 PM

Are you suggesting that while in a bathroom in Minneapolis he was "in attendance at a session"? What proposition exactly was on "the floor"?

# posted by Anonymous : August 30, 2024 10:00 AM

No, but (read on) possibly "in going to and returning from the same". Possibly to vote an anti-Iraq war bill?

Hey, it's in the Constitution and it used to be important.

What happened to it?

# posted by Anonymous : August 30, 2024 11:40 AM

Could he have been committing Breach of the Peace? Or just breach of the breeches?

# posted by Anonymous : September 1, 2024 11:24 AM

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