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July 2008
- Edwards 'Love Child' Story Shows Press Double Standard
  
  Slate | Jul 24, 08 11:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The press jumped all over Larry Craig’s bathroom dalliance not because he was gay, it was claimed, but because he was a hypocrite with an anti-gay voting record. But no one is piling on John Edwards, whom the National Enquirer says it caught visiting his mistress and love child this week. Jack Shafer of Slate thinks the non-coverage reveals a double standard: Homo-hypocrisy is wrong, but hetero-hypocrisy is OK. More »
April 2008
- Sex Scandal Tees Are All the Rage
  
  Radar | Apr 27, 08 7:40 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Americans love their ironic T-shirts, especially when they make coy references to politicians' sex scandals. The Internet is awash with "Client #9" and "Zippergate '98" gear, but the phenomenon isn't restricted to the digital age. It's version 2.0 of the traditional smear campaign—"as American as apple pie," one political analyst told Radar . More »
February 2008
- Princess Diana's Butler Is Gay. Who Cares?
  
  Independent (UK) | Feb 26, 08 1:20 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A British tabloid had a field day this weekend outing Princess Diana's butler Paul Burrell, who has parlayed his notoriety into hosting a TV show on etiquette called "American Princess." But for one columnist, the allegations that Diana's married-with-children confidant trawls saunas for sex demonstrate a sea change in public perception: Increasingly, being gay isn't shameful, but lying about it is. More »
- Senate Scolds Craig Over Bathroom Sting
  
  CNN | Feb 13, 08 9:14 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Senate Ethics Committee had stern words for embattled Idaho Sen. Larry Craig today, issuing a "letter of admonition" that rebukes him for his arrest in a Minneapolis airport sex sting last June. The letter accuses Craig of committing actions that reflected "discreditably on the Senate," CNN reports. It chides Craig for seeking "special and favorable treatment" upon his arrest by pushing his Senate credentials. More »
December 2007
- Porn Pioneer Vows to Take More DC Scalps
  
  Vanity Fair | Dec 23, 07 5:07 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Hustler publisher and professional muckraker Larry Flynt is “arguably the greatest student of the American underbelly since J. Edgar Hoover"—and now he’s got big conservatives in his sights, writes Vanity Fair . Flynt, who has often offered money for the unmasking of gay or adulterous politicians, insists he’s about to expose the misdeeds of a closeted Republican senator—and that a GOP presidential candidate’s scandal may follow. More »
- 4 Men Detail Encounters With Craig
  
  Idaho Statesman | Dec 3, 07 6:32 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The man who exposed his sexual relationship with evangelist Ted Haggard is now among four men claiming sexual encounters with Larry Craig, the Idaho Statesman reports. Mike Jones, who published a tell-all of his relationship with Haggard, says Craig paid him $200 for sex, while an IT consultant claims the two had sex in a Capitol Hill house in 1986. More »
November 2007
- Gay Groups Want Craig Probe Halted
  
  The Hill | Nov 13, 07 1:30 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Prominent gay rights groups are calling on the Senate Ethics Committee to drop its sexual misconduct probe of Larry Craig, calling the panel’s focus on the senator’s case—combined with the lack of focus on David Vitter’s—“hypocrisy tinged by homophobia.” The two groups say Craig has been singled out because his behavior was homosexual, whereas Vitter’s alleged visits to prostitutes were heterosexual, the Hill reports. More »
October 2007
- Craig to Appeal Guilty Plea
  
  Associated Press | Oct 15, 07 8:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Larry Craig will today appeal a Minnesota judge's ruling that he can't withdraw his guilty plea for disorderly conduct, the AP reports. And he won't resign: “It is my right to do what I’m doing,” Craig told KTVB-TV yesterday. "I'm not running for re-election. I'm no longer in the way. I am pursuing my constitutional rights." Craig and his wife also discussed the arrest in an interview with Matt Lauer to be broadcast tomorrow. More »
- Craig: The Apple of Idaho's Eye?
  
  Spokesman Review | Oct 7, 07 3:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The kerfuffle over Larry Craig's arrest and guilty plea won't keep him from entering the Idaho Hall of Fame next weekend, over the protest of local Republicans. "Maybe in 10 or 15 years we can think of this hall of fame stuff. Now is not the time," says a local pol. "It's a sad day to be a Republican." But organizers say they voted Craig in before his arrest and want to applaud the work he's done. More »
- GOP Lashes Out at Craig Over Decision to Stay
  
  CNN | Oct 5, 07 4:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The GOP is an uproar after Larry Craig announced yesterday that he will serve out his term, CNN reports. Some are criticizing the Idaho senator's decision because it will be a distraction from more pressing issues; others denounce Craig's behavior outright. "It's embarrassing for the Senate. It's embarrassing for our party," said John Ensign. More »
- Craig Won't Resign After All
  
  Washington Post | Oct 4, 07 4:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Despite a Minnesota judge's ruling that he can't withdraw his guilty plea in the bathroom sex sting last spring, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig announced this afternoon that he would not, after all, resign his Senate seat. Craig said he had concluded, in the three weeks he's been back on the job since the story broke, that it's still "possible for me to work here effectively." He vowed to stay through the end of his term next year, the Washington Post reports. More »
- Craig Can't Rescind Guilty Plea
  
  CNN | Oct 4, 07 2:06 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Minnesota judge today rejected Sen. Larry Craig's attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a June men's bathroom sex sting, saying it had been entered "accurately, voluntarily, and intelligently," CNN reports. There was no immediate response from the Idaho Republican, who had said he would resign if he was unable to withdraw the plea by the end of September. More »
- Anti-Obesity Ad Tap-Taps Craig's Bathroom Tryst
  
  McClatchy Newspapers | Oct 2, 07 12:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - “It’s their dirty little secret,” the commercial's voiceover says, as a well-dressed man taps his foot in a bathroom stall. And though Larry Craig’s name is never uttered, his airport indiscretion is obviously the latest target of an unlikely source—childhood obesity advocates knocking congressmen who pump fatty foods into school lunches for campaign contributions. More »
September 2007
- Craig to Stay in Senate 'for Now'
  
  Associated Press | Sep 26, 07 8:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - GOP leaders listened in icy silence as Larry Craig vowed today to stay a senator while trying to change his guilty plea, the AP reports. A Minnesota judge says he will decide the matter sometime next month. "Today was a major step in the legal effort to clear my name," Craig said. But his lawyer admits that the effort to withdraw his plea is "near impossible, and it should be." More »
- Prosecutor to Sen. Craig: No Take-Backs
  
  Washington Post | Sep 24, 07 7:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sen. Larry Craig's insistence that he "panicked" in admitting to a crime he didn't commit doesn't jibe with the fact that he spoke to a Minnesota prosecutor three times in the six weeks between his arrest and plea, reports the Washington Post . Craig's motion "was sought only as a political reaction," writes the prosecutor in a counter-motion filed today. More »
- Craig Is Back on the Job
  
  Chicago Tribune | Sep 18, 07 5:02 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Larry Craig returned to the Senate today, 2 weeks after he announced his resignation and 3 weeks after news broke that he was caught up in a sex sting in an airport restroom. The Idaho conservative cast two votes and had lunch with some Republican colleagues, but others—including John McCain—gave him the cold shoulder, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »
- Senator's John Is New Tourist Hot Spot
  
  Associated Press | Sep 17, 07 7:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Be careful about tapping your foot in Minneapolis’ latest tourist destination. Travelers passing through the airport are clamoring to see the bathroom made famous by Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest last month in a sex sting. “We had to stop and check out the bathroom,” said one jet-set wife. In fact, it was her husband's second visit. More »
- Craig Moves to Retract Guilty Plea
  
  Associated Press | Sep 10, 07 3:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Toe-tapping Senator Larry Craig will file a motion today to retract his guilty plea to charges linked to allegedly soliciting sex in a public men's room. Minnesota law allows convicts to recant pleas if they can prove they were not intelligently made, but such strategies rarely succeed. The legal proceedings could delay Craig's scheduled Sept. 30 retirement and stave off an investigation by the Senate ethics committee. More »
- Craig Will Leave Senate After All: Aide
  
  Associated Press | Sep 6, 07 5:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Larry Craig has reversed course and will resign his Senate seat, his spokesman told the AP today. “The most likely scenario, by far, is that by October there will be a new senator from Idaho,” the spokesman said, after reports surfaced that the conservative Republican was reconsidering plans to resign. Craig met yesterday with Idaho’s governor, who will appoint his successor. More »
- Craig Lawyer Courts Public Opinion, Too
  
  Politico | Sep 6, 07 8:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The man embattled Sen. Larry Craig turned to in his quest to clear his name, DC superstar lawyer Billy Martin, is a master at both legal strategy and managing public opinion, Politico reports. He shepherded the Lewinsky family through the Clinton sex scandal, positioned Wesley Snipes as the "victim of unscrupulous advice" in a tax evasion case, and most recently managed the plea bargain for NFL star Michael Vick. More »