{"id":198810,"date":"2007-10-08T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/08\/larry-craig-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T01:47:00","slug":"larry-craig-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/08\/larry-craig-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Craig, the Gift That Keeps on Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, first, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/10\/embattled_idaho_senator_honore.php\">Senator &#8220;Wide Stance&#8221; being inducted into the Idaho hall of fame<\/a>, and then we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/news\/article.aspx?storyid=78595\">the male prostitute who outed Ted Haggard says that he met Larry Craig<\/a>, and finally, Bob &#8220;The Traitor&#8221; Novak says that the Senate republicans knew about his behavior:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I have talked to several of my sources in the Senate, and this came as a surprise to me\u2026They knew about it. They knew that he had this problem, and it was in the closet. And it was not just a homosexual relationship. It was this weird conduct. They didn\u2019t do anything about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z8Hg3O8Vr0A\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><div adblockframe=\"true\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: visible; width: 425px; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: visible; height: 0px; width: 100%;\" align=\"right\">\n<div style=\"border-style: ridge ridge none; border-width: 2px 2px 0px; padding: 1px; overflow: visible; vertical-align: bottom; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; opacity: 0.5; background-color: white; position: relative; top: -19px; left: -5px; z-index: 900; width: 48px; height: 15px; cursor: pointer;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 140%; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; opacity: 1.5; color: black;\">Adblock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><embed adblockframename=\"adblock-frame-n2\" adblockframedobject2=\"true\" adblockframedobject=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z8Hg3O8Vr0A\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, first, we have Senator &#8220;Wide Stance&#8221; being inducted into the Idaho hall of fame, and then we have the male prostitute who outed Ted Haggard says that he met Larry Craig, and finally, Bob &#8220;The Traitor&#8221; Novak says that the Senate republicans knew about his behavior: I have talked to several of my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1030,978,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}