Sergeant: “You are sitting here lying to a police officer.” Do you pick up stray pieces of toilet paper from the floors of public restrooms? Was your palm down or up? I could tell it was your left hand…
Craig: “I sit down, um, to go to the bathroom and ah, you said our feet bumped. I believe they did, ah, because I reached down and scooted over and um, the next thing I knew, under the bathroom divider comes a card that says Police. Now, um, (sigh) that’s about as far as I can take it, I don’t know of anything else. Ah, your foot came toward mine, mine came towards yours, was that natural? I don’t know. Did we bump? Yes. I think we did. You said so. I don’t disagree with that.”
Sergeant: “Okay. I don’t want to get into a pissing match here.”
Seems that Larry doesn’t know what hand his gold ring is on…Sadly, No! has more…
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Just, DAYUM!
Gives new meaning to the phrase “How low can you go?”
Resign already….;-p
This should be juicy and the final nail in his gay coffin.
CNN is stunningly unprofessional. Right now they are doing a long piece on Larry Craig essentially defending him and saying his behavior was all logical because he was hounded by the Idaho Statesman. They are totally ignoring the part that in order for that to be true, the police officer would have to have made it all up. This is absurd.
“I don’t recall” The Republican’s should make this their motto for the “08″ campaign!
Tweety is doing a pretty great job of ripping DeLay on “Hardball” today as the latter tries to defend Craig
Don’t cops have anything better to do then pretend to take a shit for 5 hours?
Entrapment is wrong. What if Craig really was just trying to go to the bathroom?
He didn’t go to the airport to get a blow job he was there to catch a flight.
Seems to me that the cop was a little to concerned about his gay sex quota.
The Delay/Tweety thing is pretty good. Hope you get some video of it. Delay is so delusional.
Would I pick up a piece of toilet paper off a public restroom floor? Dude, I refuse to sit DOWN let alone TOUCH anything. Oy. The part I liked was the wide stance to keep his pants from falling down. Huh? How do you get your pants down with a wide stance, unless you’re wearing really baggy M C Hammer pants.
Did he really say the cop solicited him?
lol what a dumbass.
classic To Catch A Predator-esque audio
marco @ 6:
That mensroom has a problem.
and the problem is that men have sex in it.
marco @ 6:
Marcos, how would you feel if your 8 year old son was using the stall right next door to two guys having sex. I can’t go into a men’s bathroom and my boys are too old for the ladies room.
How did this go from Jewel to craig?
Jewel was a sweetheart. RIP
Drudge is a piece of shit. He walks around with that hat pretending to be a 1940s detective. He got lucky with the Monica story and made this his meal ticket.
BTW — If craig is not guilty why did he plead guilty? Also why was he peeping into someone else’s stall? Give it a break with the wide stance and he’s innocent bs, he likes nasty dirty airport sex. Period.
“I have a wide stance!” Indeed!
One of the first things Craig says is “entrapment”. Seems you wouldn’t use that word unless something had happened that had enticed you to do something that you shouldn’t have done.
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Enjoy.
Someone post a link to a transcript if they find one, for those of us stuck at work with no audio.
CD @ 11:
Hard to argue with that, no matter what flavor you like. When I’m in a rush to catch a plane and I have to squat in a public men’s room to take a dump, the last thing I want is to listen to anyone having sex in the next stall. I don’t care if it’s too pixies from the planet zordon, get a freaken room!
On the other hand, this has never happened to me. So I have to wonder if it really is a problem, and why in Minneapolis, I city I never visit. But I’m thinking, if I don’t hear other guys having sex in the stall next to mine in LA or New York then it just ain’t happening anywhere? Is it? BUT, if it is - cut that out and get a room!
Couldn’t believe that Chris treated his BFF DeLay the way he did tonight. It was great. Best part was when DeLay brought up Ted Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy and one other person using them as examples of elected officials the Dems didn’t kick out. Chris said so they are the party of forgiveness? It was classic.
Oh my bad.
Strawberry @ 8:
lol…
where’s Chris Hansen when you need him.
Stick a fork in him… he’s done.
The transcript is posted on the MSNBC site.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/ms.....script.pdf
Matthews yucking it up with D-bag Delay is more sickening than than this tape they are playing now.
I’ve got your wide stance, right here.
marco @ 6:
if he had his hand “palm up” perhaps he was expecting a pay-off or bribe and he just happened to be sitting next to the wrong person– no cameras would see and who would watch money being exchanged under a bathroom stall?
Strawberry @ 8:
CAN touch this
marco @ 6:
I could buy that, but you don’t plead guilty for something you don’t do. And there were many other times he’s been accused and ample evidence has pointed to his sexual preference in the past. This was the best outcome for this TURD.
maybe he was expecting to get his palm greased???
Until now I thought the wide stance thing was how far apart his feet were when he was peeing. Now I learn it means how far apart his feet are when he’s sitting on the john with his pants around his knees or something. There’s something that would have never crossed my mind. I have learned a ton of stuff this week that I sure didn’t need to know.
I agree, Strawberry. You don’t touch anything in a public stall and for god’s sake not a piece of tissue that is on the floor. I’m a neat freak but I don’t pick up stuff off of public restroom floors. Jesus, I get grossed out just thinking about it.
About Craigs fascination with the TP…
For the record, I made the exact same observation somewhere on the Internet yesterday or the day before. You can check my NSA file for proof. I wondered at the time why nobody (the PRO reporters) asked Senator Craig about his fascination with those odd bits of tissue in public bathrooms. Glad to see it’s finally an issue of focus. I’m going to look for my original snark and post a link here when I find it as proof of serendipity.
Enjoy.
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I’m just picturin’ the Senator turnin’ about 15 different shades of red durin’ this interview, drenched in flop-sweat.
The dumbass shoulda called a lawyer. The lawyer might , at least, have gotten Craig’s plea heard by a judge who would have sealed the record. But now not only does everyone know that Craig got busted, they know why- and they know how desperate the Senator sounded.
And I just loved the cops final comment: “No wonder this country’s goin’ down the tubes.” Perfect! Ya couldn’t write it any better.
Dire Lobo @ 18:
Be careful on the Jersey Turnpike…Ask Former Gov Mcgreevy
ooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NASTEY!
I’m with Marco. Who gives a shit how he touched the bathroom stall? Having to use an airport bathroom is uncomfortable enough without having to worry now that if I stand the wrong way I’m goin to get arrested.
To whomever said “what if your 8 year old walked in and two guys were having sex”… first of all– I’ve NEVER seen anyone having sex in a bathroom (?!!!!!) at an airport.. But apparantly it happens. Okay fine, great. Then arrest people who are having sex in bathrooms. What’s up with all this crazy foot-tapping code, palm-up or palm-down BS?!!
I felt sorry for the guy, if only because if I was taking a dump and got questioned minutes later over what angle my feet were at, etc. I’d have no idea. Not saying he’s innocent- I don’t think I’ve ever “bumped feet” with anyone in a toilet stall (which he admitted to), but if it happened I don’t see how that’s a crime in and of itself.
/rant over
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Then again maybe he is gay and it wasn’t just his stance that was stretched out.
But the truth is they got nothing on him. no glory hole or anything.
Liar, liar, pants on fire . . .
Why the hell, on a charge like this, would Craig agree to talk to the cops without an attorney? It doesn’t make sense. Then he waited several days or weeks before he plead guilty. Did he talk to an attorney during that time? If he did, his attorney must have advised him to plead guilty to whatever charges were held against him. If he didn’t talk to an attorney during that time, he is too stupid to be outside by himself.
To my way of thinking, the only three items I’d like answers to are:
Is there a record at police headquarters/airport security as to lewd behavior occuring
in this particular restroom in the past?
How long had the “bathroom sting” been in place or underway?
Was anyone other than Craig arrested?
It’s disgusting that he is even wearing a wedding ring when he certainly proved he loves nasty, dirty men.
Mr. Craig, do all of us a favor and JUST GO AWAY.
Marco,
You must not live in a highly populated area where this sort of thing is a problem and police are actually there to prevent these types of activities, such as what Sen Craig pled GUILTY too. Keep in mind, he pled to a lesser charge. These types of meetings happen all too often in big cities and they have these things called laws, which are designed to restrict such activities. If it weren’t a problem, the police would not have to be doing this kind of shit detail, pardon the pun.
pissed off patricia @ 40:
Well the thing is…he was trying to catch a flight. Maybe he just wanted to pay the fine so he could get the hell out of there. Like he really wants to call his lawyer and wait for him to get there so he can go to court and be in the papers.
At first, this little entrapment story was fun. Naughty, nasty Larry.
Now, it’s becoming Entertainment Tonight…and Always.
And when you think about it, what in the hell was the “lewd” crime here? Bumping a foot? Rubbing a hand on a partition? Peering through the crack of a door in a public place? Not lewd, in my book.
I agree with those who say cops should have bigger fish to fry.
It has been reported that Craig had given the policeman a card which read United States Senate and asked the policeman “What do you think about that?” That would certainly seem to be an intent by Craig to have the policeman, by the influence of Craig’s position, drop the charge.
Still, any LAWmaker with a brain, KNOWS to never plead guilty to something he did not do - if he was innocent, he should have fought it and skewered the police and the D.A. instead of continually saying, “I’m not gay” Guilty dog barks the loudest. He also had a stipulation in his plea agreement that he could not proclaim his innocence, odd that he would agreee to that if he was not guilty
transcript
If he plead guilty, he’s guilty. No other outcome. I sure as hell wouldn’t have plead guilty if I wasn’t guilty. And, I wouldn’t have needed an attorney to tell me that.