The Gist

The Larry Craig Story Explodes

----The Washington Post put it on the front page today, and discussed Mike Rogers have previously outed him. Rogers, of Blogactive, will be on the show today to discuss it all, at 3:30 ET. There's a mention in the WaPo story of the possibility of Barbara Boxer and the Senate Ethics Committee investigating this. Let's make sure that happens.

----The Idaho Statesman blows the story further out of the water, documenting its investigation into Craig -- which I'd mentioned being contacted about in the post below and which includes other first-hand sources. In an extraordinary bit of reporting, Craig and his wife are presented with a tape recording of a man saying he had sex with Craig in the Union Station men's room in DC. Suzanne Craig starts crying and then gets angry calling it all "trash" while Craig says "I'm not gay and I never have been."

Mind you -- after that interview months ago, which never became reported until now, Craig still took the risk of trolling an airport bathroom! Reporter Dan Popkey also goes back to the page scandal surrounding Craig in 1982 (on Blogactive there is some fascinating tv news footage from the time), in which he bizarrely denied being involved before his name was even revealed.

----Here is the police report from the airport arrest in June. Pretty hilarious.

----Craig's marriage to his former staffer Suzanne Thompson is shrouded in mystery, and it's difficult to find out when they got married. One report I found says 1987, when Craig was 42 -- his first marriage -- and he adopted her children from a previous marriage, the two having conceived no children together. Of course, this was after the rumors of his sexuality, from the 82 scandal, would reach a fevered pitch. It gave him a ready-made family. Notice in this release on Mitt Romney's campaign site it mentions how many years the other supporter, the Idaho Lt. Governor, has been married, but mentions nothing of the length of Craig's marriage.

---Craig voted yes on amending the Constitution to ban gays from marrying, no on a gay-inclusive hate crimes bill, yes on the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

---Some more stellar hypocrisy, as if you didn't have enough: Craig chastised Clinton for the blow job, calling him a "bad boy, a naughty boy." Maybe instead of "naughty" we should call Craig "Naugley." Just a thought.