Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ben Sargent was arrested in 1998 ” and subsequently convicted of public lewdness stemming from an incident at an Austin adult bookstore near the University of Texas.”
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ben Sargent was arrested in 1998 ” and subsequently convicted of public lewdness stemming from an incident at an Austin adult bookstore near the University of Texas.”
Well it’s true, politicians by and large are a smarmy lot, irrespective of party.
Still, I don’t think American scandals are quite as colorful as British ones. Across the pond they seem to have their fair share of male MPs who dress up in silk stockings and ladies’ garter belts.
We had one that was pretty colorful a few years back.
Congressman Condit was the head of the Democratic Blue Dog coalition. He was investigated after an intern from his office disappeared. (The remains of Chandra Levy’s body were found much later.)
Congressman Condit, after treating his district to an emormous amount of flag waving, apple pie, and small-town morality, was discovered to have a quirk of his own.
He had a fondness for gay Caribbean bikers (now that’s specificity) — how can I put this delicately? He enjoyed being involved sexually with a girl while the gay Caribbean biker tended to his needs from the other side, as it were.
It developed that he had some of these people living in his Washington house with him.
As Democrats generally do, he lawyered up and tried to fight the scandal, but to no avail. Republicans gerneally resign pretty quickly as has Senator Craig.
We also have a long history of Congressmen doing jail time. I don’t have a list, but right now Democratic Congressman Trafficante went to jail for his misdeeds. Actually, there has been quite a list of politicans who have done time.
One waits in vain for some similar action in respect to mob connections in the Chretien and Martin administration, alas; this does not seem to be forthcoming.
Just came back from our walk around downtown Victoria, a very interesting walk considering my post way up top. On Government Street there were, I counted them, 34 idiots with signs protesting everything under the sun. Of the 34, 9 were men and ALL had beards, it was a bit chilly to count women with hairy armpits and I think my estimate of Government workers among them was probably way off, just to scruffy and smelly. The women outnumbered the men almost 4 to 1, I wonder what that says?
I find it hilarious that the trollocracy here can’t get the hypocrisy of a convicted perv drawing political cartoons critical of … pervs.
I guess that’s the thing about pervs. They’re perverted.
Western Canadian.
you have just witnessed the Birkenstock sect and the “men with squirrels in their beards” group.
they are all on the public dole.
we have some of them posting here today, they eat granola and yogurt in the morning , the men fluff their beards and the wymin ( I think thats how they spell it) backcomb the hair on their legs and they head down to the mocha shop to get primed to protest the system that feeds them.
Doug: Barney Frank was not convicted of running a male prostitution ring out of his apartment. His “friend” Steve Gobie claimed that he (Gobie) ran such a service out of Frank’s apartment with his (Frank’s) knowledge. The House Ethics Comittee cleared Frank of this charge but successfully recommended his censure for his relationship with Gobie and fixing of Gobie’s parking tickets. The very liberal Boston Globe called for Frank to resign, but he rebuffed the calls and was re-elected. It was a pretty sleazy affair, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Ethics Committee report was a whitewash and Frank was in fact guilty, but simply as a point of fact, Frank was never convicted.
The left still love their,”I didn’t have sex with that woman”hypocrite,so the comments from the trollocracy is hardly surprising.
“Supressing your sexuality isn’t a good thing.”
Pardon? What does that have to do with ‘flaunting’ your own particular version of it?
Here I go again with my ‘theys’: “They” can’t procreate, so “they” recruit by public display.
“They” can’t produce their own children, so “they” want someone else’s. “They” want to remake God’s concept of family.
But, the enemy of the family is the snake in the grass – read Genesis. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood….”
(BTW, those who rose up to take exception to “They” – it is an abbreviation for “the gays”, which is such an inappropriate description of their lifestyle, that I never use it. As it is their perogative to use it to describe themselves, then it is mine not to use it. You do offer me the legal right of free speech, I hope.)
“By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites”
Indeed. By not being morally self-righteous, I give myself permission to attack anyone else. It is quite clever, don’t you think? It gives me the right to sit in a bar, having gay sex, drinking a martini while denouncing the war in Afghanistan.
Out of curiousity, I have a question for right-wingers here? Do you actually believe that leftists are all gay sissy’s, who hate their culture and want western civilization destroyed? Or is that just rhetorical fluff you use when you have nothing else to argue?