How Did Reporters Miss the Craig Arrest?
Interesting discussion from the Minneapolis Star Tribune about how it was that they didn’t report on Larry Craig’s airport arrest at the time it happened: How did reporters miss the Craig arrest?
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September 6th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I think the answer is fairly obvious: two factors (two big ones anyway)
One being the arresting officer was as good as his word. He kept the Craig arrest quiet (I hope he didn’t break any rules to do so). If you read the entire transcript, it is clear the officer says he’ll keep it out of the papers if Craig stops lying. And the officer did keep it out of the papers.
Two being the bridge collapse. That disaster pretty well pushed everything to the background.
I hope Larry Craig fights teh gay and drags his battle out thru the ‘08 election. The transcript only tells part of the story. What convinced me Senator Craig is a towering mass of conflicts and hypocrisy was a separate blog article about why the police were running the sting in the first place. There were numerous complaints about lewd, noisy sex in the mens room. So the police sent an undercover officer to check it out and he arrested some 35 to 40 individuals over a period of a week or two. The vast majority of the arrested guys engaged in exactly the same foot tapping/touching and under the stall hand gestures as a way of signaling or soliciting puyblic (restroom) sex. And I would also wager the vast majority whined they were set up! Entrapped into a ‘lifestyle choice’ of teh gay by super hunky Officer Crumpky! ;-)
I have never come across guys having sex in the men’s room. Or any of this foot tapping, finger wiggling, dinky diddling derring doo (doo). But if I went into an airport restroom with my sons and heard two guys (or girls, or one of each) noisily having sex in a stall, I would find the nearest cop and have them arrested. Get a room.
A padded one for my dear crazy (don forget black + teh gai!) friend LB.