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To: jlallen who wrote (361031)	12/3/2007 12:11:04 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

One of the other GOP sex scandals worsens Posted December 2nd, 2007 at 11:10 am The Idaho Statesman was investigating allegations surrounding Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-Idaho) sex life before the scandal broke in earnest in August, and the paper never stopped. Today, The Statesman runs a report documenting four gay men, all of whom have gone on the record, who say “they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention.” David Phillips is a 42-year-old information technology consultant in Washington, D.C., who says Craig picked him up at a gay club in 1986 and that they subsequently had sex. Mike Jones is a former prostitute who told the world he had sex with the Rev. Ted Haggard last year. The former Colorado Springs evangelist at first denied it but eventually confessed. Jones says Craig paid him for sex in late 2004 or early 2005. Greg Ruth was a 24-year-old college Republican in 1981 when he says he was hit on by Craig at a Republican meeting in Coeur d’Alene. Tom Russell, now 48, is a former Nampa resident who lives in Utah. Russell said his encounter with Craig occurred at Bogus Basin in the early 1980s. A fifth gay man, who is from Boise but who declined to be named for fear of retaliation, offered a recent and telling account: He was in a men’s restroom at Denver International Airport in September 2006 when the man in the next stall moved his hand slowly, palm up, under the divider. Alarmed, the man said he waited outside the restroom and then identified the man in the adjoining stall as Craig, whom he had met in Idaho. All, apparently, are willing to come forward now because they’ve heard Craig repeatedly insist, “I am not gay, I never have been gay.” They know the claim false, and they want to set the record straight. The next question, I suppose, is what Senate Republicans are prepared to do about all of this. My hunch is, not much.

To: jlallen who wrote (361031)	12/3/2007 12:15:14 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574854

National Review Fabulist Update 01 Dec 2007 12:30 pm A reader writes: This is David Kenner. I'm an American journalist living in Beirut who writes for NOW Lebanon. Broadly speaking, I'm in Mr. Smith's "political camp" (supporting the pro-Western government, opposing Hezbollah). That said, Mr. Smith's writing on Lebanon is atrocious, and the "facts" that he reported never happened, as anyone living in Beirut could tell you. Really, it's not even a close call. If 4,000 - 5,000 Hezbollah gunmen deployed to Christian Beirut, the country would be descending to civil war. The idea that only Mr. Smith would have noticed this is absurd - somebody is feeding him fake news, and hoping he transmits it back to his readers in the States. I actually criticized Smith from my blog, which covers Lebanese politics, in October. I suspect that is what he is responding to when he complains that people criticized him for calling Beirut's southern suburbs a Hezbollah "stronghold." Really, this sort of thing makes me very angry... Hezbollah does so much that is truly damaging to Lebanon, journalists shouldn't let them off the hook by making up things that never happened. Kenner's response to the NRO spin can be read here. My summary of the charges here. The alleged factual inaccuracy - reporting 4,000 Hezbollah gunmen when they didn't exist - dwarfs any alleged incident Beauchamp reported for TNR. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com I criticized W. Thomas Smith's Lebanon blog, hosted by National Review Online, a few months ago. It's good to see that other American journalists are picking up on the scent. Yesterday, National Review ran a retraction of some of Smith's posts, and Smith commented on the matter himself. davidbkenner.com