GOP Sen. Craig resigns over sex sting... Is the media patting itself on the back??

Question

Seems to me Senator Craig was tried and convicted by the media. Any thoughts???
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20070901/us_time/craigisgoneleavinggopbruised

Answer 1

Let me see if I can sum up my understanding of the politically correct angle on this.

Gay people are just as good as anyone else and should be able to marry and adopt children and should be given special rights so no one can bother or discriminate against them and if a straight person beats up a gay person who makes a pass at him perhaps in a public rest room, that is a federal hate crime. Anyone who says anything bad about a gay person is a homophobe and guilty of hate and could lose their job.

But.

If you are a republican and are caught doing something that could perhaps be interpreted as the beginning of a gay overture it is PC for everyone to point their finger and ridicule you and hound you out of your job. You are an awful contemptuous pervert and can't possibly hold public office. You will find that you haven't a friend in the world. Your republican friends abandon you, the democrats want to stone you in the town square for maybe being gay.

I think this guy has as much right to be gay as anyone else. But unless some gay lovers come out of the woodwork I'm not sold. In which case we just witnessed a media assassination.

But isn't the left hounding Craig for maybe being gay kind of like the right hounding Barney Frank for maybe reading the bible?

Answer 2

Well, many if not most public figures and so on are always tried and convicted by the mass media.

Guilty after proven innocent. Guilty even before or even not given a trial.

The mass media seems to be a moster that can do almost do anything they, insult anyone they like and then act as if there's something wrong if people are upset.


Nevertheless, Senator Craig main's motivation for resignation doesn't seems to be mass media motivated, since I think it's more probable that he prefered to be defamed worldwide than to reject his plea for innocence.

His main motivation though seems to hint that there's a bigger and more powerful entity than the USA government and even the mass media, this entity probably threaten to do harm to a lot of people.

He probably realized IF he tried to be very defiant to defend his innocence, a lot of innocent people might get hurt.

In short, like the guilty plea he did before to avoid big troubles, this resignation is also another way he choose to avoid big troubles.

Everywhere and every point of time, there are a lot great leaders who resign or even do 'questionable' things in order to protect their people, they might be written as bad leaders by history books, the mass media, and so on, but in reality they are truly leaders who want to protect their people.

Both Bush and Craig knew on who Craig is really facing, so they just play along in order to prevent anymore troubles to their people.

Answer 3

GOP SENATOR KNOB JOB CRAIG?
No better for him. He was both a idiot and a fool
The Fool had a good job
money
power
and in essence the American Dream

But that wasn't enough.....He wanted to have a sexual encounter with a stranger in the men room of a public building.

Do we really want people that stupid making decisions that affect our every day lives?

Whether he in search of man milk, wanted boy bean or to bean a boy the issue is not only morality but " WHAT HE DID IS ILLEGAL

HE SHOULD BE RAKED OVER THE COALS FOR BEING STUPID

Answer 4

A little more publicity on this sort of conduct is needed to bring this to the attention of the public. We have no right to interfere in personal actions and sex affairs of people except when they go public.
Many actions by depraved people and unacceptable actions
of people in public life is fair game.
In my home town the city hall rest room was a sex meeting place!!!
The biggest critic of the actions of Sen. Craig is that he berated the gay community to please his constituency
Politicians are FAIR GAME the public needs to know about who represents them . We have "gay" politicians in Massachusetts without a problem when they are up front.

Answer 5

Well he pleaded guilty....so no trial is necessary seems to me.

What part of "guilty" don't you understand here?

All the media did was expose him for the liar and hypocrite he was. He saw the handwriting on the wall, saw the photo of his hand in the cookie jar (to put it politely) and bailed out.

Tough tittie.

Answer 6

When you have way more money than you can spend, Power,
Females when you want them life becomes a boor and you try to fill your life with something. Him being religious just adds to his problems. Life of guilt and make believe stories.
The religious right has been trying to legislate morals and guilt for years and IT DOES NOT WORK. I hope he can keep his family together and go on with he life.