# I bet Gary Condit is breathing easier **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480 "2001-09-13T23:21:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/1 "2001-09-13T23:21:43Z")
Do you think Condit, the Trouser Snake, would have retired/resigned by now if this bombing hadn’t occured? He has got to be doing everything possible to make himself seem the all-american congressman right about now. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/2 "2001-09-14T00:15:05Z")
Who is this Condit of whom you speak? I know him not 😉 Seriously, I think you’re right. Robin ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/3 "2001-09-14T00:20:39Z")
ms ujest, you have given me the first belly laugh since tuesday with your thread title. thank you. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/4 "2001-09-14T01:52:41Z")
You know, I actually made the comment the other day about how this knocked the Levy/Condit thing out of the news for the first time in months. (I still hope they find out what happened to her, but I got darned sick of the media coverage.) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/5 "2001-09-14T02:07:20Z")
Around here (Michigan) the Levy/Condit affair has been out of the news for a couple of weeks now. I hate to admit it, but Wednesday I thought to myself “Well, at least the news will have something other than filler pieces in it for a while.” :o ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/6 "2001-09-14T10:47:22Z")
There is no other news in America. There is nothing else right now. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/7 "2001-09-14T13:42:50Z")
I think everyone would rather that Gary was the main story nowadays. Even Gary. ---
**Author:** ![Elvis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Elvis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/8 "2001-09-14T16:05:35Z")
I think Condit may have masterminded this whole thing to get himself out of the headlines. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/9 "2001-09-14T16:10:47Z")
Also, little heard news story from yersterday: Paula Poundstone entered a plea bargain on wednesday – no contest to one count of felony child endangerment and one misdemeanor count of inflicting injury on a child – with the agreement that the sex charges would be dropped. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-gary-condit-is-breathing-easier/81480/10 "2001-09-14T17:20:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Elvis \* > \*\*I think Condit may have masterminded this whole thing to get himself out of the headlines. \*\* I said the same thing to Mr.Ujest. Conspiracy theories [sub]backwards [/sub]R Us.