Comments on: Breaking: U.S. Senator Larry Craig busted for lewd conduct in airport men’s room

by: Idahoan

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:08:18 +0100

How will the right-wing talk radio pundits spin this one? I can’t wait to hear how my right-wing friends, who listen to that drool, will somehow make this all Bill Clinton’s fault!

by: ace

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:57:19 +0100

I was browsing freeperland for the hell of it and I found it interesting that most of them who actually thought about the details were unable to defend it.

Most damning comment was something to the effect of “What if you had a young child in the stall next to Craig?”

by: idiosynchronic

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:32:03 +0100

I wish I had known all this bidness when I was in Middle School. I got so tired of having dippy classmates look in the stall and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why they had to do it.

by: louise

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:40:04 +0100

When Ari comes on “Today” show vs Carville regarding Craig and says, “I saw the police report and this is just creepy”, the Reps have a problem. James’ take was that maybe hypocritical incidents like this will start to get politics off the “idiot culture war” of gay bashing.

And just found out that my spouse was in a public restroom stall along I-95 at 6am on a biz trip recently, when a stranger peeked in the door at him, apparently for same reason. Charlie yelled for him to get the fuck out- the guy left without a word. I told him to hit convenience stores from now on. WTF… as he was a Rep for decades and has a penis, should I be worried?

by: Doctor Science, Diety of Leftover Chinese Food

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:28:40 +0100

But what gives with the Dems? No LGBT folks, no taste for public sex, or better luck?

The Dems are less conflicted, closeted, and hypocritical, so they don’t *have* to cruise patrolled public restrooms. Bitter Scribe is right:

Or is it this weird psychosexual thing where sex is “dirty” and can only be pursued in a “dirty” place?

The Dems can cruise gay bars if they want semi-public sex, they can go to places where gays are actively, one might even say Proudly, having a good time.

by: louise

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:14:03 +0100

No one’s civil liberties were violated here. This is yet another hypocritical right-winger deliberately soliciting teh gay sex, and not even the first to use a public restroom for it!

This was no misunderstanding; if ya need TP, you SAY SO. You don’t play footsie and wave “howdy doo”. I tend to dislike and distrust cops (even with some state troopers in my family), but they do know what to look for and where these acts occur.

All this is the usual BS.

by: Gary Denton

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:04:48 +0100

He pled guilty in an attempt to cover up a repeated pattern of behavior. A lawyer could possibly have got him off because of entrapment, borderline, men don’t like to be tapped in urinals, after a huge public outing.

by: Betsy

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:51:33 +0100

Ah, republican sex scandals - the gift that keeps on giving!

by: togolosh

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:01:00 +0100

It’s sort of a grey area between entrapment and just stumbling on the scene - the cop was there to see if anyone hit on him, but he wasn’t actively soliciting.

I rather like the idea that I can use a public restroom without getting hit on by skeevy strangers, but I won’t get real worked up about it until women can use the subway without getting hit on by skeevy strangers. It’s not the homosexuality that’s at issue, it’s the skeeviness, and I’m inclined to think that being skeevy ought not be a crime. Given that women face substantially worse than inappropriate sexual advances (grabbing, touching, public masturbation) while using public facilities, worrying about cruising in public restrooms seems to me like a poor use of resources.

by: Ms Kate, Goddess of Tomato Cultivation

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:10 +0100

These are the same Minneapolis Airport cops who attacked, tazed, beat, and arrested a cyclist who was riding his bike from the airport to his grand children’s house, no?

All for LEGALLY riding on the airport roadway.

Not the first cyclist to be so brutally attacked by these jokers, but certainly the most egregious example!