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Evangelist Admits Meth, Massage, No Sex
Evangelist Ted Haggard admitted Friday that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a gay prostitute who claims he was paid for drug-fueled trysts by the outspoken gay marriage opponent.
Haggard resigned Thursday as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and stepped down as leader of his Colorado megachurch while the two groups investigate the allegations.
Talking to reporters outside his house Friday, Haggard denied the sex allegations but said that he did buy meth from the man because he was curious.
“I bought it for myself but never used it,” he said. “I was tempted, but I never used it.”
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Question from the internets:
If you’re iinterested in dabbling with drugs, do you start with meth?
It’s not gay if you hire a gay prostitute to rub your back but he doesn’t do anything with either of your willies.
Geez, if the guy’s going to throw away his career and make himself look like a worldwide fool, he could at least have gotten a good f@€& or a good high out of it.
You’re going to have to update that t-shirt every 24 hours or so.
When will someone connect all the gay dots with this administration.
Jeff Gannon’s late night visits to the White House.
Haggard’s close relationship to the Pres
I tell ya there’s a good story here.
WAIT … John Kerry botched a joke about The Decider!! Isn’t that more important …?
In this late, late hour of the campaign season, is it truly possible that Democrats have finally and dangerously overplayed their hand?
Guys and gals of the left, you might be pissing off the wrong people.
Hasn’t the argument about Dems “overplaying their hand” just about overplayed itself? How exactly is it the Democrats overplay their hand here? By forcing hypocrite evangelical leaders to buy meth and hang out with prostitutes?
Rory_Is_Freedom | Nov 4, 2006 11:53:52 AM
“Guys and gals of the left, you might be pissing off the wrong people.”
LoL!! Whoops, spit coffee on my keyboard. Thanks for the laugh, Rory!
But you see, Oliver, there are people in this country who are devout in their faith who feel that political operators are mocking them, manipulating them. These people VOTE while others sit on their duffs.
These so-called attempts to psychologically suppress the turnout of the religious right might indeed have the opposite effect.
In other words, the voters of “Jesusland” (your words, Oliver) just might turn out in explosive numbers, and they won’t be voting for the party that mocks them either.
People are reaching their final decisions, even now.
Wait, it’s the Democrats’ fault he’s a hypocrite?
I don’t think the Democratic front-rank have said anything either way about this.
Rory, which Democrat put that prostitutes penis into Ted Haggard’s orifices while he preached hellfire against gays?
BTW, the political operators that are mocking people of faith are the cons.
HEY THERE WAS NO PENIS\ORIFICE INTERFACING OKAY IT WAS JUST A BACKRUB FROM A GAY PROSTITUTE THAT’S NOT GAY DAMMIT I MEAN DARNIT
Hey S, glad I brightened your day. You know, there are times when I believe there is WAY too much anger in this room.
Rory_Is_Freedom | Nov 4, 2006 11:53:52 AM
“… people in this country who are devout in their faith who feel that political operators are mocking them, manipulating them.”
“they won’t be voting for the party that mocks them either.”
To clarify, the Democrats are mocking the devout because an evangelical, after denying the accusations, has been outed for having gay sex and buying meth …?
I am content as ever, as I bask in the knowledge that I know you and yours much better than you know me and mine.
Rory_Is_Freedom | Nov 4, 2006 12:47:05 PM
“Hey S, glad I brightened your day. You know, there are times when I believe there is WAY too much anger in this room.”
Well, Rory, perhaps you might consider this food for thought.
Aside from Dugger, dr pedro, SaveFarris, Jay and Frank (who, we all know, has decided to pursue other interests), we’re fucking fed up with Americans and Iraqis dying in a “war on terror” — oops, I mean an effort to spread democracy throughout the Middle East — that has never had a strategy, has taken thousands of lives and might end when another president takes office coz The Decider just don’t know what in hell to do anymore.
And Britons and Australians.
Rory_Is_Freedom | Nov 4, 2006 12:53:59 PM
“I am content as ever, as I bask in the knowledge that I know you and yours much better than you know me and mine.”
Uhhhhh, right, Rory. Let’s talk on Wednesday, k?
Sure. Wednesday it is.
I will deal realistically with any outcome of the vote.
Can you say the same about yourselves?
Or will we have more Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004?
Think about it.
I’m not interested in suppressing the religious far right vote – they can vote until they’re blue. They’re never going to be Democratic voters, and if they think that voting for Republicans who ditch them after election day (“Marriage amendment says what?”) is the way to go – more power to them.
But I will never stop mocking and denigrating a group of morons who want to push their agenda on everyone and who time and time again turn out to be extremist hypocrites of the highest order.
That these people are the backbone of the Republican party says all I need to say.
Rory_Is_Freedom | Nov 4, 2006 1:34:00 PM
“I will deal realistically with any outcome of the vote.”
“Or will we have more Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004?”
So we can have a rational discussion as long as everyone understands your ground rule it was an honest, un-Diebold-corrupted midterm election?
I hope somehow, someday, you can conquer your anger, Oliver. I’ll be pulling for you.
Rory_Is_Freedom | Nov 4, 2006 1:43:17 PM
“I hope somehow, someday, you can conquer your anger, Oliver. I’ll be pulling for you.”
As soon as people stop dying in a useless invasion, I’ll bet Oliver feels much better.
Stop screwing my country, get out of my bedroom, and I’ll be as happy as a little bird.
…there are people in this country who are devout in their faith who feel that political operators are mocking them, manipulating them.
You mean like Karl Rove?
Rory? You’re yesterday’s news. LoL!
A Presidencia do Governo da Regiao Autonoma dos Acores / Assessoria para a Ciencia e Tecnologia e a Universidade dos Acores estao conscientes da necessidade crescente de proteger os Oceanos.
I haven’t been up to much lately. Eh. I just don’t have anything to say right now. I’ve pretty much been doing nothing worth mentioning. That’s how it is. I haven’t gotten anything done.
I feel like a fog, not that it matters. I’ve pretty much been doing nothing , but eh. Today was a loss. I haven’t gotten much done for a while.
Not much on my mind right now. Today was a complete loss. So it goes. I’ve just been sitting around waiting for something to happen. I’ve basically been doing nothing , but I guess it doesn’t bother me.
We are better off today than we were eight years ago