What He Said.

Alex Dering:

Mike Rogers, blogger, walks in and basically wrecks a senator's career. He does this, apparently, in the worst possible way: by telling (what sure looks like) the truth.

Here's the questions I have yet to see raised:

1. Is anyone at a "real" paper going to offer Mike Rogers a job? You know, because he can actually do some reporting on something beyond whether Britney Spears is wearing panties and sober.

2. For all the men in the audience. Does the description of Larry Craig's actions sound like anything you would do in a public bathroom? I'm pretty sure the gay, the straight, the bi-curious, the hetero-transmetro-vanilla, the unsure, are all gonna answer the same way: "When I use a public bathroom I make no eye contact with anyone. I put the maximum amount of empty space between me and everyone else in there. IF, and I mean IF, I have to use the stall next to someone, no part of my body -- no foot, no hand, um, no non-foot or non-hand appendage -- goes anywhere near the boundaries of my stall. I try to touch as few things as possible." There's exactly one reason to look through the crack in a stall door. Two actually. (The second is if you're looking for the little Amish boy who may have seen you ice a cop.)

3. Would it be easier (i.e. within the limited abilities of what, sadly, fills some newsrooms these days) to just start asking every "traditional values" type in the House and Senate if, you know, wink-wink-nudge-nudge, they stir their Coca-Cola counterclockwise with a straw? [Permalink]