Disgraced politico Larry Craig’s already starting his second career: self-serving author!
The Republican, who got nabbed last year trolling for sex in an airport bathroom, announced last night that he’s penning a book on energy, for some reason.
Before you get to bored, however, Craig also noted that some of this year’s scandals will grace the pages:
Late Night opening monologue spoiler:
Idaho Senator Larry Craig is currently seeking intern applications for the summer term, which runs from May to August. The application deadline is March 15, however if more time is needed for the application process, please contact Senator Craig’s office for an extension. Craig offers paid internships within the Washington, D.C., office. Preference is given to Idaho applicants attending Idaho schools who are in their junior or senior years of college (including graduating seniors).
‘”Interns have the chance to be an essential part of a working congressional office,” said Craig. “They participate in the legislative process as well as ensure that constituent services run smoothly. For those interested in politics, it is an incredible opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our government functions while serving the people of Idaho.”
Maybe Mark Foley can recommend someone.
[via Queerty]
This week: raronauer catches up with Mike Rogers, the editor of BlogActive and PageOneQ. Mike Rogers is known for outing closeted politicians who vote for anti-gay legislation. Also, he has his own Wikipedia page. To be honest, having a Wikipedia page is one my greatest ambitions.
So what's the deal with BlogActive?
BlogActive is my out of work, volunteer activity in the community where I work to report on individuals who are in the government and hypocritical about gay and lesbian rights. Meaning that regardless of their parties, that they are both anti-gay in their political work and are closeted. So I work to expose that kind of hypocrisy that has no place in government. CONTINUED »
• Daniel Dae Kim racks up another Lost DUI.
• Helen Mirren hates the miracle of childbirth.
• Larry Craig receives an unwelcome blast from the past.
• Notorious B.I.G. gets (yet another) Life After Death.
• A volunteer French firefighter suddenly remembers Princess Diana's dying words.
• Thug contemplates sexual assault, opts to make off with stolen iPod instead.
• Heidi Klum shares the heartwarming story of how she fell in love at first sight…with Seal's tightly spandexed package. Awww, that totally explains why their lovenest is plastered with naked family portraits!
• In light of their new movie's disastrous box office showing, Reese and Jake are officially back "together."
• Steve Martin is writing a book for children. Also of note: "Children" is Martin's all-inclusive word for non-New Yorker subscribers.
• Larry Craig is reportedly using campaign donations to foot his legal bills. Naturally, constituents are outraged! But mainly over the whole "closeted gay" thing.
For those of you who missed Matt Lauer's sit-down with former senator Larry Craig – which aired last night, oh, right around the same time as the Indians/Red Sox game – we figured we'd bring you the highlights, courtesy of our same-sex oriented sibling (who, incidentally, is all about lavatory sex!)
"Sen. Craig to Matt Lauer: "I Didn't Want To Embarrass My Wife, My Kids, Idaho And My Friends."
Jossip To Sen. Craig: "Too Late."
Senator Larry Craig (a.k.a. the "Bathroom stall senator") received some bad news today when his motion to set aside his guilty plea was denied by the Minnesota District Court. The court, apparently refusing to buy Craig's excuse that he was panicky, under extreme stress, and unaware of what he was doing concludes by saying as follows:
Because the Defendant’s plea was accurate, voluntary, and intelligent, and because the conviction is supported by the evidence, the Defendant’s conviction for disorderly conduct occurring on June 11, 2007 in the men’s public restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in Bloomington, Hennepin County, Minnesota, is valid. Accordingly, the Defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea is DENIED.
Despite that resounding denial, however, Larry Craig may well continue fighting the good fight repressing his homosexual tendencies under the pretense of seeking justice, if his remarks from September 26th are still to be believed.
Our advice? Let it go, Larry. Everybody knows you did it. Nobody really cares anymore.* So why don't you just quit stalling** and move on with your life. You can start by being a man of your word and resigning.
*Except probably your wife. And all your Republican constituents.
**Get it? STALLING??
When once-relevant comedienne Margaret Cho started solemnly describing Larry Craig as a "tragic character" at first we sort of thought she was leading up to a punchline. Then we realized, "Nono, she's totally serious." Trouble is, with unfunny people it's sometimes so hard to tell! [Queerty]
Today marks Day 6 of our "NYP Writers Are Homophobes" coverage, and once more there's no shortage of material. A quick look at Page Six reveals the unoriginal staffers continue to gratuitously overuse the phrase "toe-tapper" when describing latent homosexuals, this time in the context of ex-Jersey gov Jim McGreevey.
The idiom first reared its ugly head in reference Larry Craig (who was, presumably, tapping his foot in the men's lavatory in order to send a gay bat signal to his would-be sexual partner over in the next stall) but its continued presence in the Post remains a veritable mystery.
• Britney's comeback performance couldn't be complete without a cameo from her hairless vagina.
• Natasha Lyonne goes from Slums of Beverly Hills to "Homeless In New York" to "Fat and Smoking On Miami Beach."
• Jessica Simpson proves that you can take the dress off the rack, but you can't take the rack out of the dress.
• Despite Kanye West's complaint that MTV is willfully holding back the black man, five of the top seven most popularly streamed MTV videos are currently by black artists.
• Meanwhile, Jennifer Hudson will be appearing in the Sex and the City movie! Hudson's reportedly landed the coveted role as Carrie's personal assistant and The Only Black Person In New York.
Breaking: "Sen. Larry Craig files papers to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport sex sting."
And not as a desperate attempt to save his irreparably tarnished marriage, salvage his already-ruined political career or his alleviate his newfound reputation as a self-hating gay man but merely because he was "under stress" when he "mistakenly" pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct soliciting dirty-bathroom sex. [CNN]
From CNN: "Aides: Craig was going to leave Senate, anyway." Of course he was! In fact, resigning in disgrace was already on Craig's "To-Do" list, just underneath "Get arrested for embarrassing bathroom sex romp."
• Whoever is doing Keith Olbermann’s make-up and teeth whitening, please stop.
• The White House press correspondents are annoyed that the President keeps arranging his “surprise” photo-ops at the last minute.
• Halle Berry is either chubby or pregnant. Underneath all that fat is a baby.
• CBS remains desperate for a top ranked news show; taps Good Morning America’s Shelley Ross to produce the Early Show.
• Larry Craig’s kids would never go all Republican Party on their dad.
• BTdub, there is a giant hole in Union Square.
Can’t get enough gay scandal action? Mike Rogers has more to come.
The blogger who outed Larry Craig in October has more than 30 names on his list of closeted legislators.
After all the MSM attention, Rogers plans on outing more politicians in the coming months. All of the politicians are Republican, and all of them have voted on anti-gay legislation in the past.
In a way, he’s sort of like the Robin Hood of outings, but instead of stealing from the rich to help the poor, he’s destroying the lives of the self-hating and ignoring everyone else.
A former high-ranking congressional staffer who is on the list has a different analogy: A call from Rogers is "a call from Satan himself."
Disney character or embodiment of evil, you know, either way.
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