{"id":1698,"date":"2007-10-07T00:21:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/07\/a-story-changing-colors\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:36:27","slug":"a-story-changing-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/07\/a-story-changing-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"a story changing colors…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Novak: Senate Conservatives Knew About Craig’s ‘Weird Conduct,’ ‘Didn’t Do Anything About It’<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

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On Bloomberg Television today, right-wing pundit Robert Novak revealed that “sources in the Senate” have told him that Senate conservatives had prior knowledge about Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-ID) “problem” but intentionally kept it “in the closet”: “I have talked to several of my sources in the Senate, and this came as a surprise to me…They knew about it. They knew that he had this problem, and it was in the closet. And it was not just a homosexual relationship. It was this weird conduct. They didn’t do anything about it.<\/em>”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So far, the Larry Craig story has been kind of silly – another quirky Republican being exposed as a hypocrite. But this revelation, if true, turns the story in a different direction. It points to a culture of active deception – a culture in the Republican Party that is more surprising as time goes on. It’s a story of massive ruse served up as "family values" which is more and more appearing to be nothing but a Talking Point to pull the wool over the eyes of decent but gullible people. It’s no longer about Larry Craig, a conflicted, closeted gay guy. It’s about the righteous facade of the Religious Right\/Conservative alliance being fabricated as a front for way too many improprieties. Larry Craig is lying, outright. And his lies have been supported by the silence of the Republican Party. Like many other lies…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak: Senate Conservatives Knew About Craig’s ‘Weird Conduct,’ ‘Didn’t Do Anything About It’ On Bloomberg Television today, right-wing pundit Robert Novak revealed that “sources in the Senate” have told him that Senate conservatives had prior knowledge about Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-ID) “problem” but intentionally kept it “in the closet”: “I have talked to several of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}