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Matthews: Craig 'A Sexual Deviant'; Do Dem Prez Candidates Agree?
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/28/2007 2:52:45 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Chris Matthews, opening this afternoon's "Hardball":

Idaho Senator Larry Craig, cultural warrior of the right, stands naked tonight, exposed as both a sexual deviant and a world-class hypocrite.
View video here.

Matthews presumably labelled Craig "a sexual deviant" based not on the mere fact of his presumptive homosexuality, but on his engaging in the kind of public "cruising" to which the senator pleaded guilty in Minnesota.

I challenge Matthews to flatly ask the Democratic presidential contenders and other Dem leaders he encounters in coming weeks whether they share his view that all men who engage in such conduct are "sexual deviants." Should make for some revealing and TV as Dems walk a tightrope between public mores and the sensibilities of one of the Dem party's important constituent groups.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: 110th; chrismatthews; deviancy; homosexuality; larrycraig; msnbc; pervert; republican
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Matthews: Craig 'A Sexual Deviant'

Chris Matthews: Homophobic Bigot?

Don't expect to see talking heads take that tack...
21 posted on 08/28/2007 3:03:38 PM PDT by VOA
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To: NonValueAdded

Trolling in a public restroom is deviant behavior, hetero or homo.


22 posted on 08/28/2007 3:06:45 PM PDT by UndauntedR
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To: VOA

If the target of Matthews accusations had been a favored son of the (D), he’d be looking for a new job now and be facing civil court tomorrow.


23 posted on 08/28/2007 3:07:04 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ah, yes, hypocrisy, ‘the tribute vice pays to virtue’ as LaRochefoucault observed.

Almost by definition American liberals can’t be hypocrites: they all deny there is such a thing as virtue, and call evil ‘good’.


24 posted on 08/28/2007 3:07:16 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: IronJack

Thanks for reminding me about Janet Reno. I forgot about her getting busted in a parking lot at a Florida KMart in the back seat of car with a teenage girl. The arresting officer couldn’t eat lunch for a week after that.


25 posted on 08/28/2007 3:08:25 PM PDT by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If I am not mistaken Matthews is a supporter of the deviant crowd if they vote the Rat party.


26 posted on 08/28/2007 3:10:12 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well that's a "meanspirited" comment by matthews.

Will the homosexual lobby denounce his comments,will Representative Barney Frank make a speech on the floor of the U.S. House condemning his remarks?

Or will they just kiss his butt;)

27 posted on 08/28/2007 3:10:40 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: UndauntedR
Trolling in a public restroom is deviant behavior, hetero or homo.

Yup.

I would never have guessed that Sen. Craig was a queer who trolled men's restrooms.

A deviant indeed and most likely a hypocrite.

28 posted on 08/28/2007 3:12:14 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton (Texan Pride)
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To: The_Reader_David

“The reason any conservative’s failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!

Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It’s an intriguing strategy.

By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.” — Ann Coulter


29 posted on 08/28/2007 3:16:17 PM PDT by OCMike
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I can’t imagine any Democrat/liberal having any problem with Craig’s behavior. He’s a criminal sexual deviant....the perfect DeomcRAT demographic. Maybe he should just switch parties....or maybe take a cruise with Mark Foley and Bonnie Fwank.


30 posted on 08/28/2007 3:18:04 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberalism is not a mental disorder. It's syphilis of the soul.)
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To: UndauntedR
Trolling in a public restroom is deviant behavior, hetero or homo.

If I may, I'd amend that to : "Trolling in a public restroom is deviant behavior, Republican or Democrat."

Just gross. Period.

31 posted on 08/28/2007 3:22:28 PM PDT by softengine (Hypocrisy plays on both sides of the fence.......but no one will admit it.)
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Crissy the horn dog may be right, but when he criticizes a Republican’s sexual deviance he sounds like a pimp dissing a ho that ain’t his.


32 posted on 08/28/2007 3:24:16 PM PDT by pallis
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To: IronJack

To be fair, I think he meant “sexual deviant” because of his public restroom “cruising”. So for that we would need to compare the media reaction to, say, George Michael for the same thing, or Paul Reubens (Peewee Herman), or even Eddie Murphy (in public with a transvestite).


33 posted on 08/28/2007 3:25:45 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: clintonh8r

What, and no chrissie blabbering about dummocrats kow towing to gays with their gay debate of a few weeks ago?


34 posted on 08/28/2007 3:25:51 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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To: colorado tanker

“Nah, Chris follows the MSM Rule of Republicans. That would make Craig a “sexual deviant” and Barney Frank a proud gay American. See the difference?”

I do see the difference. It’s the hypocrisy that is so blatant. The republican party splits the country on gays only to have someone from the party whose been known to be a homosexual for decades exposed. Not only a homosexual but a bathroom kind of stall queer. The kind of individual that solicits strangers for bjs(a senator non the less). That is ultimately disgusting. But again no news here since everybody knew. Meanwhile he travels around the country going to churches promising to fight for “family values” while he’s on restrooms soliciting strangers. Are you high? This is what the republican party fights the most against. People knew and said nothing. This sort of thing will cost the party a lot of votes. I think others that knew about this should be punished also. But if we try to blame the media. Than we just show how we are just like everybody else and we deserve to get killed on the ballots.


35 posted on 08/28/2007 3:30:10 PM PDT by Maimonides
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Idaho Senator Larry Craig, cultural warrior of the right, stands naked tonight, exposed as both a sexual deviant and a world-class hypocrite.

If anyone's a hypocrite, it's Chrissy. Did he have such harsh terms for Barney Frank or Bill Clinton or Jim McGreevey? And -- wait -- why a "deviant"? I thought homosexuality was OK with the Libs. He'd better be careful, or they're going to demand his Liberal card back from him.

36 posted on 08/28/2007 3:31:15 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Deport 'em all.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mathews is a shameless ###%&@#.


37 posted on 08/28/2007 3:33:45 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Plains Drifter
Thanks for reminding me about Janet Reno. I forgot about her getting busted in a parking lot at a Florida KMart in the back seat of car with a teenage girl. The arresting officer couldn’t eat lunch for a week after that.

Do you have a source for that story?

38 posted on 08/28/2007 3:34:43 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m SO confused?

But I think I’ve figured out the new formula..

Sexual deviant = a republican searching for gay sex.

oppressed minority worthy of protection and admiration = democrat or apathetic homosexuals searching for gay sex.

Has Matthews ever referred to McGreevy as a sexual deviant?


39 posted on 08/28/2007 3:35:42 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: UndauntedR

“Trolling in a public restroom is deviant behavior, hetero or homo.”

Thank you... I think some Freepers are posting straight from Bizarro World. They seem to believe the offense here is that a Republican is being picked on, not that an actual crime was committed.

It does us no favors to take this position (which is not difficult to construe as defensiveness). Crybabying that a Democrat would get away with it, when everyone remembers what happened to a certain governor not too long ago, only makes the situation worse.


40 posted on 08/28/2007 3:36:58 PM PDT by COgamer
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