September 11, 2007
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Tap Three Times With Your Loafer if You Want Me
The article below about Larry Craig (the toe-tapping menace), was in the Huffington Post the other day. I haven’t written anything about the Craig case yet, because the blogosphere, as well as the late night comics have been doing a pretty good job (not to mention Craig himself, and his self incriminations.). Arianna is right though! I’ve met some of my best friends by tapping my feet!
I’ve heard that the Minneapolis airport men’s room has become such a popular place for sex that there’s now a line to get in! One guy was overheard saying, “Who do I have to blow to get a stall around here??” 
Seriously folks, of course Craig is a huge hypocrite, but who knew that the people in charge of keeping our airports “safe” had the same job as security guards as Nordstroms?
Larry in happier times with his pals Trent Lott & John Ashcroft. Note the great mouth formation.
It’s funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Last week Craig told the press, “I am not gay and never have been gay”. And it stands to reason. He’s against gay marriage, equal rights for gays and pretty much everything on the gay agenda. In fact, as Jimmy Kimmel noted, about the only thing he’s “pro gay” on is sex!
Isn’t it interesting though that he’s been making these claims for 25 years? Check out this vintage footage from ABC news of then Congressman Craig from Idaho, proclaiming not to be gay after being “fingered” in a sex & drug scandal with (gasp) Congressional pages in 1982! (Paging Mark Foley, Mark Foley to the men’s room in Terminal 3.)So in the end, Larry Craig did what most people in that position would do. He lied. (Paging Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton to women’s apparel, Aisle 8.) He may have a “wide stance”, but he’s a closeted gay man who happens to be an elected official with a wife and (adopted) children, and feels he has no other outlet for his natural (yes I said natural, would you prefer “God given”?) urges than anonymous sex in a public men’s room. Newsflash to straight people, it happens ALL the time; in every airport, in every mall, in every campus library in every city in the world, on every single day. Just think about that, and if you think I’m lying let me know.
The Post article below states:
It’s unsettling that more people here in the land of the free aren’t at all discomfited at leaving it up to the prognostication skills of Sgt. Karsnia [cute cop] and his crack team of B-men to determine what crimes people might have committed if not for the mind-reading and daring-do of Minneapolis’ Special Forces Bathroom Unit.
In fact, had Craig not been so freaked out and taken the guilty plea (his hometown newspaper was already conducting a 5 month investigation about him having sex with a man in Washington’s Union Station (very cruisy)),
there’s a high probability that he would have never been convicted of the “crime”.It’s so interesting to me that people’s feelings on these issues usually depend on whether they are Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives. But what’s even more interesting is that, more times than not, it’s the Republicans who start the scandal. God love puritanical America! (By the way, the Bible is the single most shoplifited book in the world.)
In a Wednesday post about Craig’s arrest on his blog at www.sexed.org, sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein, author of “The Erotic Prism: New Perspectives on Sex, Love, and Desire” and other books on sexual matters, wrote, “What we should be asking is, why is it against the law to offer a quickie to a stranger? What kind of sick country criminalizes an adult’s non-coercive, non-commercial offer to another adult – just because it’s about sex?… The proper response to a single, non-coercive invitation to do something – anything – is ‘no thank you,’ not ‘you’re busted.’ That’s the lewd, obscene, disgusting behavior: busting someone for an invitation.”
And, Klein added, “Our nation has again exposed its horrendous ambivalence about its own erotic impulses. In doing so, it has shamed itself, and explained its obsessive concern with enforcing ‘morality’ – i.e., limiting sexual fantasy and behavior. Yes, Senator Craig should be thrown into the Potomac – not for expressing his sexuality, but for preventing the rest of us from doing so.”In the Age of Terror, Isn’t Busting Toe-Tappers an Insane Use of Our Law Enforcement Resources?
In the consensus judgment of America’s 16 intelligence agencies, the terrorist threat to our homeland is “persistent and evolving,” placing our country in “a heightened threat environment.”
Toe-tapping, eh? Is that the same as guys that wear Prada?
I like the bad naughty boy video haha…. ^^
If Larry Craig was a Democrat, we’d be hearing a lot from liberals in the media about how he was bravely exploring his sexual identity. We would hear indignant objections to this policeman who, obviously having nothing better to do with his time, was doing surveillance in airport bathrooms in search of innocent people to harass and victimize. The ACLU would be right in there, asking about Craig’s right to privacy and wondering why such ambiguous evidence (he placed his bag in front of the door, he tapped his foot) was enough to warrant arrest and prosecution. Even Craig’s guilty plea would be employed in his favor: look, the man is at least being honest about what he did, and why should he be ashamed of being who he is? If Larry Craig was a Democrat, the system, not Craig, would be on trial.
Unfortunately for Larry Craig, he is a Republican and a conservative to boot. We’ve been hearing a lot about conservative hypocrisy in the past several days: turning on CNN, I saw anchor Soledad O’ Brien, correspondent Candy Crowley and legal pundit Jeff Toobin all having a great time with the subject. None of them saw fit to comment on the Himalayan hypocrisy of the liberals, undoubtedly because they embodied it.
So where is the liberal hypocrisy? Consider: the cardinal values of today’s liberalism are the right to personal freedom, the right of consenting adults to do what they want as long as they do not trespass on the rights of others, and the right to privacy. Larry Craig’s conduct may have been unseemly, but he did not violate any of the liberal values. He wasn’t assaulting the man in the other stall, he was approaching him to seek his consent. Whatever he was doing, he wasn’t doing it in the Oval Office like Clinton but in a men’s room stall. Notwithstanding the obscure “signaling” that was apparently going on, Craig didn’t actually engage in any kind of sexual activity. No cigars were inserted into any private orifices. Craig’s home, in contrast with Barney Frank’s apartment, was not used as a full-service prostitution venue. Craig hasn’t figured out, like Gerry Studds, that you don’t have to forage in airport restrooms when there are pages to be turned over on Capitol Hill itself.
In all those cases–Barney Frank, Gerry Studds, Bill Clinton–liberals rushed to the defense of their guys and proceeded to attack their critics as the real threat to civil liberties and social freedom. (Bill Clinton’s approval ratings on the left actually rose when his sexal misconduct came to public light.) Therefore in the Larry Craig case, liberal indignation stands exposed as largely opportunistic. Here is a chance to hoist the conservatives on their own petard, to hang another scandal on the necks of the GOP, and to undermine the case for moral standards in society under the pretext of upholding them.
Now THAT’S the type of discourse I’m talking about!!
Very well stated…D’Souza….let the witch hunt begins!
ryc: I suppose you like “Wicked”! ryc: No cable needed…just regular Channel 18 from 9:45pm after the news every Monday and Tuesday. English subtitles too! Enjoy the show tonight! ^^
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