Pastor Ted Haggard says that he received a massage, not sex, from a gay male hooker. During the course of the massage (says the clergyman) the enterprising hooker intimated that he had some meth for sale, and Haggard decided to sample the product. Upon receipt of the merchandise, Haggard reconsidered his purchase and tossed it away with (ahem!) all due speed. Why? Because -- as Nixon once said when he remembered the microphones -- it would be wrong.
As Randi Rhodes pointed out on her program, Haggard (calling himself "Art," his middle name) can be heard on the gay male hooker's answering machine, reciting these words: "Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more. Either $100 or $200 supply. And I could pick it up really anytime I could get it tomorrow or we could wait till next week sometime and so I also wanted to get your address."
So. Haggard goes to a gay male hooker but does not receive sex. He buys meth, but does not use it. Then he asks to buy more.
Do the Jesus folk in Colorado actually believe this crap? Anyone who takes this ludicrous yarn at face value probably thinks that the Incredible Hulk is real. Haggard has spent so many years spewing hooey to the young and impressionable that he has forgotten how to converse with normal adults.
On a related note, I want to score Randi for something else she said yesterday. When she recounted the Bakker scandal, she lauded Tammy Faye for her non-judgmental attitude toward gays. I'm sorry, but that small measure of tolerance hardly makes up for the fact that the woman was a con artist who escaped a much-deserved jail sentence.
Tammy Faye and her husband raised funds for a non-existent radio broadcasting operation in Korea. Then, in order to fund her lavish lifestyle, she helped grossly oversell vacation timeshares to the rubes. How could she not know the truth of the situation?
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well, hats off for listening to randi, i suppose. i tried, especially after the 04 election mess, but just could not tolerate her rush likeness; it's all the same, except the words are different. i like most of the words, but the main thing i cannot tolerate about rush is his loud, belligerent, inyourface, igottheansweryoudon't, rudenss. i heard randi diss callers, curse callers, talk over guests, and just generally rant. i don't need or want ranting; in fact, i want NONE of it. well, on occasion, and in very tempered doses. and the ranting got in the way of randi's ability to carry on measured, reasonable discourse. she made errors in fact and in logic, which drives me CRAZY!
all reasons why i stopped listening, switching instead to thom hartmann, who is just the best by leaps and bounds. everyone should check him out.
www.thomhartmann.com
Something for some smart reporter to pick up: In Haggard's non-denial denial, he claims to have bought the meth and then thrown it away. Why, then, in the taped conversation you quote above does he ask for "more?" ("Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more.") Did throwing away just one load prove to be somehow unsatisfying?
I'm with you dr. e., can't handle any situation in which others talk on top of one another. Period.
Still, Haggard is full of it. On camera, body/eye speak, he's totally lying. Whoever chooses to believe him, fine. I never will.
Miss P.
I can't deal with Randi when she interacts with the call-in audience. On the other hand, I don't much care for any other radio personality during those segments. She usually holds her tongue a bit more -- well, she TRIES to do so -- when interviewing an author or expert. I wish she would do that sort of thing more often.
Other than that, I love her. Her rants are superb.
If she and I were forced to be roommates -- well, after a month or so, I might not be responsible for my actions. I'd probably stuff cotton down her throat. But when she's screaming about politics on the radio, she's peachy.
This is clearly a limited hangout for Haggard -- he only admits what can be readily proven and denies what he thinks he can get away with -- what Jones may not have proof to demonstrate.
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