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Ted Haggard and Larry Craig Used the SAME Escort!?

Posted by Cliff Schecter at 7:02 AM on October 6, 2007.


Cliff Schecter: Please, please, please let this be true. I'll do my own laundry for a whole year and give up drinking. Not counting beer. Or wine.
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The alleged former escort of Rev. Ted Haggard, Mike Jones, pictured left, alleges that embattled Sen. Larry Craig "saw him".

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This post, written by Cliff Schecter, originally appeared on Cliff Schecter's Brave New Films Blog

That is what Ted Haggard's escort is now claiming:

The male escort responsible for the downfall of Christian evangelist leader Ted Haggard is now alleging that embattled Senator Larry Craig also came to see him.

While promoting his new book during a radio interview with KNWQ-AM in Palm Springs Wednesday night, Mike Jones hesitated from making the allegation on the air.

Management for the radio station says Jones told them he would reveal something about Idaho Senator Larry Craig on the "Bulldog Bill Feingold Show."

While he hesitated doing so on the air, a NewsChannel 3 camera was rolling when he made the accusation during a commercial break.

Feingold asked whether the Senator had seen Jones in a hotel room.

Jones responded, "No, he came to see me."

Jones then added, "His travel records to Denver have been documented. That's what I wanted to say."

NewsChannel 3 asked Senator Craig's office to comment on the allegations that Craig came to Denver to see Jones, who calls himself a gay escort.

Craig's office said in response, "Mike Jones' allegations are completely false."

Christian evangelist Ted Haggard originally denied Jones' allegations of sexual relations in 2006.

Haggard later stepped down from his national leadership post and his New Life Church in Colorado.

Jones is not alleging that he has had sex with Senator Craig but that he is alleging the senator came to see him.

"One of the things I was good at was figuring out what people did for a living when they came to see me by things they said or their actions," Jones said on-air Wednesday night.

"So be in a position where you have to guess what people did for a living, occupation-wise. Someone comes in to you and the first question they say to you is 'do you follow politics?' and you would say, 'yes'. 'Oh.' 'the weather is cold outside, isn't it? What would you think that person is involved with?

"I will just tell you a gentleman came in and said that exact thing to me.

"Did he look similar to Senator Craig?" Feingold asked.

"I've been with many politicians and all I can tell you is for a fact, that Larry Craig is a hypocrite."

Please, please, please let this be true. I'll do my own laundry for a whole year and give up drinking. Not counting beer. Or wine.


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It's just plain sad...
Posted by: peacelf on Oct 6, 2007 9:47 AM   
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that gay men who happen to be Republican or Fundamentalist Christians must hide in the closet...or men's restroom, or behind a pulpit.

Come! Come! Come! come out of the closet. Join the world of the living!

peace

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Fabulous!!!
Posted by: Astroboy on Oct 6, 2007 1:27 PM   
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More grist for the mill!!!
With his bald-faced, constant LYING, how in hell can Larry Craig show his face in public, let alone carry on in the Senate?
The man has absolutely NO SHAME! Except for being homosexual, which isn't shameful.

Strange, strange man.

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It makes you wonder
Posted by: Jeanne on Oct 6, 2007 1:50 PM   
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if every male in the Republican party, married or not, who ever proclaims the evils of homosexuality must be gay. What is it? If you are a hung-up, self-hating, closeted gay male, you will gravitate to the Republican party? Beyond the issue of their denial of their gayness is the rampant marital infidelity. It doesn't really matter who you're being unfaithful with, if you are being unfaithful. "Family Values?" What a steaming pile of hypocrites.

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Is it really responsible...
Posted by: Chickensh*tEagle on Oct 7, 2007 8:01 AM   
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...to print this without some form of corroboration?

-- Craig's office said in response, "Mike Jones' allegations are completely false."

This old world's general craziness notwithstanding, I'm still not quite ready to take denial as corroboration.

-- Jones then added, "His travel records to Denver have been documented. That's what I wanted to say."

I notice he didn't say who documented them or what they actually were.

C'mon, folks, what does crap like this accomplish?

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» probably not, Posted by: hurricane hugo
maybe
Posted by: aislinnluv on Oct 8, 2007 5:13 AM   
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maybe this allegation is true, maybe not. perhaps the escort has enjoyed his notoriety after revealing the liaison with ted haggard and found another opportunity to increase his visibility (and possibly his net worth) by jumping on the larry craig-bashing bandwagon. one supposes time will out the truth. meanwhile, it is pitiable that people are so intolerant of alternative sexual urges that these urges are hidden, suppressed or indulged in on the sly, sometimes resulting in discovery and humiliation for the principals and their loved ones. homosexuals are not like two-headed toads - freaks of nature. they are our sons and daughters, sisters, brothers and yes, even our mothers and fathers. how sad that we are so unaccepting that we condemn what is at base a reaching out for a human connection.

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» RE: maybe Posted by: Lajaw
» then i guess you've never Posted by: aislinnluv
» RE: maybe Posted by: mkeeling@jam.rr.com
"What does this accomplish?"
Posted by: boydranchitos on Oct 8, 2007 5:29 AM   
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IF the bush crime syndicate had taken the US over by blunt force, reportage of their cronies' misdeeds would probably accomplish nothing at all.
But it wasn't a coup in the violent sense, and millions of enablers, (mentally and ethically challenged) remain to insist that Bushevics are ALL ABOVE REPROACH AND ABOVE THE LAW.
For six years, the media propagandists have implied nonstop that these thugs and perverts are our betters, that we should tolerate their treason and obsessive secrecy coupled with lawllessness because they are "bringing dignity" to the oval office and our political life.
Actually, these folks are benthic extremes and every revealed fact about their strange sexual proclivities and their moral degeneracy helps extend the death of a thousand cuts. Inch by degraded inch, Bushevics should be exposed for exactly what they are.
It seems odd to me that the value of that exposure escapes some posters. Personally, I find it difficult to remain high-minded surrounded by the stench of the uhmurrica that they and their true believers have created..... let all the reeking facts come out too.

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» RE: "What does this accomplish?" Posted by: aislinnluv
It wasn't the White House man ho, Jeff Gannon?
Posted by: yurbud on Oct 8, 2007 6:08 AM   
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About the bald-headed male escort


I guess they're a little discrete about who they pass around.

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Grouchy
Posted by: bikesnbach on Oct 8, 2007 8:31 AM   
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One wonders how far out of his way did Senator Craig go to get to the specific restroom at the Minneapolis Airport. Was it right near his departure or arrival flight or did he have to wander off to another concourse to find it?

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So, what?
Posted by: willymack on Oct 8, 2007 10:20 AM   
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If it was found that bush & co. were caught in a daisy chain at the white house, does anyone seriously believe that this crooked regime would be endangered? Just take a look at what they've gotten away with since Jan 20th., 2001.

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Potty peek-a-boo is a grass roots activity for the GOP
Posted by: ark on Oct 8, 2007 11:12 AM   
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And yes, it too is served up with denials.

=["
The New Orleans Times Picayune - October 04, 2007
DiFatta twice detained for lewd conduct in mall restrooms
By Christine Harvey


St. Bernard Parish Councilman Joey DiFatta, who on Thursday withdrew from the 1st Senate District campaign, has been stopped twice since 1996 for suspicion of engaging in lewd behavior in public restrooms in Jefferson Parish, records obtained by The Times-Picayune show.

DiFatta, 53, acknowledged that reports he had been stopped are true, but he denied any wrongdoing in both cases. He said he was not prosecuted in either case and has no arrest record.

"If I had done something wrong, I would have been arrested," DiFatta said Thursday afternoon. "I was not. I will deny that I was involved in any activity of that nature."

"]=

What DiFatta fails to admit though is that for one of the incidents he was issued a summons to appear in court. that an arrest, charge, or Own Recognizance signature bail rolled into one. Naughty naughty lying Republican Louisiana State Senator.

1st Incident: Potty Peeping From the Times Picayune:

=["
Kenner police issued a misdemeanor summons to DiFatta in September 1996 in connection with a peeping Tom incident in a men's bathroom at the former Mervyn's department store at The Esplanade mall, according to a Kenner Police Department incident report obtained by The Times-Picayune.

The report states that DiFatta watched a man use the bathroom while peering through a hole in a bathroom stall. The man held DiFatta until police arrived, at which time he was issued the misdemeanor summons and ordered to appear in court.

DiFatta said the man eventually withdrew his complaint, and the case was dismissed. A spokeswoman for the Kenner Police Department said the record was expunged.
"]=

2nd Incident: Playing Footsie With An Undercover Cop In Bathroom

=["
In the second incident, Jefferson Parish deputies working an undercover detail in a men's bathroom at Dillard's at Lakeside Shopping Center in March 2000 stopped DiFatta after he indicated a desire to engage in sex with an undercover deputy in an adjoining bathroom stall, according to an interoffice memorandum written by Sgt. Keith Conley, one of the deputies involved in the investigation.

The report said DiFatta slid his foot into the deputy's stall and tapped the deputy's foot. In the report, Conley noted that such activity is common among men to indicate a willingness to participate in sex.

The deputy inside the stall, Detective Wayne Couvillion, responded by tapping his foot, and DiFatta reached under the partition and began to rub the deputy's leg, the report states.

The detective asked DiFatta, "What do you want?" according to the report, and he replied, "I want to play with you."

DiFatta also used a hand signal to indicate that he wanted to engage in sex and used language that indicated the same, according to the report. Conley, who is now the Kenner city attorney, confirmed the report's authenticity Thursday.

The incident did not culminate in an arrest because the deputy in the bathroom with DiFatta terminated the investigation after several children entered the bathroom, the report states. Conley noted in the report that DiFatta appeared well-versed and comfortable with the routine.

"]=

Also of note: Bob Novaks says the GOP knew about Craig all along.

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This is news while Jeff "Johnny Gosch" Gannon poked Dubyah in the White House on numerous occasions?
Posted by: xbj on Oct 8, 2007 11:58 AM   
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Not to mention his cronies on numerous overnight "off-the-record" party visits as well?

Where's the outrage on that? Sending boys to die in a useless scam never-to-be-won never-INTENDED-to-be-won war to make him and Cheney and their elite cronies richer while bending over for Gannon's ex-military "escort" schlong, with the nerve to stick him in the White House press corps to lob ridiculously obsequieous talking point questions to him instead of having to deal with the real MSM?

What about the GOP scandal involving Johnny Gosh and other kidnaped boys "touring" the White House on overnight visits involving Bush's father in the 80's? Hushed that one up pretty damn good too, they did.

Makes Monicagate look like a Sunday Church visit with the Pope, doesn't it? And nary a word in the MSM press.

You can STILL find Gannon's sex ads on the internet.

The GOP... party of grand old NaziHomo family values.

One day someone with actual balls in the MSM (those that aren't in "the club" and under "the sword") will wake up and file the story of the century, and NO ONE will even remember who Woodward and Bernstein or NIXON were.

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