On “Hardball” Chris Matthews talks with The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza about disgraced Republican Senator Larry Craig’s arrest, his denials that he is gay and his political future. What kind of political future can he expect if he’s already known as the Bathroom Scandal Senator? Matthews introduces a Meet The Press clip from January 24, 1999 in which the stall-peeping Republican gives a finger-wagging scolding to then-President Clinton:
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Craig: Well, I don’t know where the Senate’s going to be on that issue of an up or down vote on impeachment, but I will tell you that the Senate certainly can bring about a censure resolution and it’s a slap on the wrist. It’s a, bad boy, Bill Clinton. You’re a naughty boy. The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy.
I’m going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.
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So does this mean he was secretly hot for Bill, too?
I bet Craig wishes he had a do over! Waxman!!
No question about it. Probably envied Monica.
Are there any gay men out here who can explain this bathroom sub-culture? the evidence by the cop appears to be quite flimsy.
Having an affair with a woman is much more acceptable and understandable to the general public than having an affair with the same sex.
I wonder what this hate-filled, based on his voting record folks, scumbag thinks about himself? I can hardly wait ’til The Tweetster gits all ‘Aqua-Velva’ about this guy!
PumpkinHaid will probably remain silent out of a concern for Mr. ‘Wide Stall’ Craig’s ‘family’ which he bought wholesale by the way.
Funny how nobody noticed….
‘Til he whipped his dick out.
Does anyone know if Larry was in the vicinity when Bush famously scribbled that note to Condi about a bathroom break?
he says that bill is a naughty boy and needs a good spanking on his bare bottom…then volunteers to personally punish him.
Can’t…stop….laughing….
“A nasty, bad, naughty boy.”
Is that a phrase Wide Stance Larry uses in other, more private contexts, too?
Just asking.
Bad, bad, naughty, naughty! Bailiff, whack his peepee! Er, ah, wait a minute, check that…
The Senator doth protest too much, methinks.
is anyone feeling like the repubes are so wacked that you can not even make this shit up if you tried. just hearing this hypocrite call bill clinton such names if funny beyond belief.
Oh, that is PRICELESS!!! And notice how sleazy creepy this guy looks in that video, like the cat that ate the canary… This clip should be seen by everybody! i remember when Bill Clinton was being drug through the mud over a bj, and I seem to recall thinking, “I know there’s no justice in this world, but these hypocritical sanctimonious Republican assholes deserve an asskickin!!” Looks like they’re getting a karmic ass-kicking, a big sustained one. I just hope the hypocrisy keeps coming out.
The Gospels repeatedly warn of people like Larry Craig.
He just wanted some of that nastiness and naughtiness aimed his way.
He was hot the for the clenis. Craig’s version of censure involved a big spatula and spanking Clinton’s man-ass with it until it was nice and pink. And Craig thought Monica was a fat slut! “I could scratch her eyes out! “
Look at the face on the clip. Just saying “nasty, naughty, boy” is giving him a special tingly feeling.
Funny how the pervs like the GOP. They feel protected there.
“the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.”
This coming from a guy who looks like he would be in a park wearing a raincoat flashing little boys.
They don’t get any deeper red than Idaho and Craig is just another reactionary red state Republican family values hypocrite.
nm @ 4:
I have to agree. Before I saw the re-enactment, I had no idea what it was that this guy was being arrested for.
Yes, we all know how Republicans feel about consensual heterosexual sex.
this guys a prev…..as for BC….even nasty boys need love……well…..alot of women feel that way…..infact……alot of women like em like that!
Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy [who I’d like to blow].
c’mon ladies…admit it……
Dude is an absolute creep. Not a Willy Kristol type of creep, but if I see him walk into a Mens Room I’m on defense mode and heading for the exit.
“Nothing gets me hotter than an Idaho shithouse”
Larry “Widestance” Craig
Larry Craig @ 23:
I have a feeling I know who said this….hehehehehheee
I have no problem with gays or turning down propositions from other men (I take it as a compliment), but if someone did that to me while I was crapping in a public restroom, I think I’d stomp on that foot pretty hard.
Oh fer cryin’ out loud! Most straight guys and gals during Monicagate were like, ‘YOU GO BILL! GET SOME WOOO HOOOOOO!’ Geez. What I wouldn’t do for Bill to be president again. I think the only people that hated Bill were the folks Bill shot outta’ the saddle. Coulter comes to mind… and Craig.
What’s even more sickening is Romney today throwing Bill Clinton’s name into this debate - as though what he did is comprable to this story. These people make me sick!
oh. my. ;-)
Can this guy BE more gay? “Bad boy! Time for your spanking! Mizrahi, Bill, Mizrahi!!”
Tequila @ 1:
UMMMMM???/ yeah
If a Republican even looks at me these days, I get the creeps.
Flimsy evidence? I’d guess that the cops have been clued into the cues of this particular subculture, with its own particular series of signs and symbols. I mean, it’s a furtive sort of thing from the get-go. Sex in public bathrooms isn’t something you can request out loud.
I mean, so I’ve heard.
Beth @ 30:
I just got home from work. Where can I find your reference to Romney and Bill Clinton ?
Thanks.
I’m sure they cut his mic before he added “who needs a spanking”
castanea @ 36:
I wouldn’t touch this one with a 10 ft pole……even if I was lucky enough to have one……..although…..keeping it tame might be a problem….but think of the possibilities…..(straight)
Hell, “naughty bad boy” is about the biggest compliment you could give a guy, straight or gay.
The kind of girls I like won’t even date you if you don’t have naughty bad boy in you.
Every time I hear this I think of the 1997 Bill Murray movie “The Man Who Knew Too Little” and the old couple in the motel room who was mistaken for the “evil Lady Torturer Dr. Kropotkin”
“I’m a very naughty boy…”
Come on, he wasn’t saying it like it was a BAD thing…
I’m sure most of you seen this but considering todays most posted topic, it bears review.
http://www.bettybowers.com/isbushgay.html
http://www.freedomunderground......;aid=22848
http://mindprod.com/politics/bushismsgay.html#GAY
Sounds like Nasty Wide Stance is channeling Mr. Humphries from “Are You Being Served.” (Language, not his humanity.)
nasty boy needs a cleaning. a tongue bath…..slurp slurp.
creepy authoritarian puritan types.
he used to burn witches to get an erection
they are the same people.
reminds of the old man faces in joan of arc
i’m waiting to hear from other men who can claim to have had sex with craig. this won’t be enough to sink him.
he sounds curious about being with men, but has he actually ACTED on that curiosity??
Craig: “Clinton let a nasty, icky girl touch his throbbing manhood!”
Jenny’O @ 7:
You know Craig wants to spank Bubba…
I can’t remember the last time that I ever heard any man call someone ” a nasty and naughty bad boy”. This is just like Jon Stewart says, you can’t even write stuff this good. I can’t wait to se what secrets come out of the closet tomorrow. Shakespeare was right when he wrote” Me thinks, the lady doeth protest too much”. When the Repugs start protesting a lot, you know that they are guilty as sin. Larry, just for the record, we don’t really care about your sexual preference. However, solicitng sex in a public bathroom is a crime and is not acceptable behavior.
When I was in high school, a school bully, a very macho sort, sat down next to me and started talking about how much he hated gays and wanted to beat them up. I told him I didn’t care what other people did. Several years after graduation, he came out of the closet. Since then, I’ve been convinced that the more macho the affect, the more likely that person is to be gay.
He’s a bad BAD clown and now must make balloon animals!
Uhhh, no offense, but anyone who says something like “Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy” is almost certainly gay. Can you imagine Clint Eastwood or John Wayne calling someone a “bad, naughty boy?” :)
Several “people” making comments about this , including the Rep prez candidate Mitt Romney, have included former President Clinton in their remarks. In all this, Mark Foley , Bill Allen, n Craig have a common denominator…..one guess(sic).
Former President Clintons’s indiscretion was with a WOMAN of legal age ……NOT a MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The words he used..nasty, bad naughty boy sounds like more a phrase used by someone familiar with this behavior rather than an adulterer. Naughty???Come on now
Did anyone notice whether he took a wide stance behind the mics today, as he claimed not to be gay, not to ever have been gay, and presumably won’t be gay tomorrow?
The man seems to like his stances.
Nice how Chris brought up Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman” to compare to Craig’s hypocrisy. Lying, yes, but where’s the hypocrisy? Didn’t he have any better of examples of hypocrisy than that?
Oh, right. Most are the Republican side.
So is this why Hastert’s leaving…? Another Foley-esque episode that he’s known about for a month now…?
Bit NOLA @ 53:
Ya gotta stance with the one that brung ya!