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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Larry Craig's Excuses

By Marc Ambinder
Aug 29 2007, 11:40 AM ET Comment

Copied from, and with sincere appreciation to, ABC News's The Note:

Collecting the reasons that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, didn’t do it:

1. “Wide stance.”
2. “He said/he said.”
3. Roaming toilet paper.
4. He’s a commuter. (?)
5. “Witch hunt.”
6. “Jiminy!”
7. “I am not gay. I never have been gay.”

8. “I am not gay. I love my wife.”

Craig also, apparently, loves political reporters. (Imagine what the next 36 hours will bring. And is he holding out the possibility of becoming gay in the future?)


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