5.16.2005

Poor, Used Dr. Ass-Invader Hager

What Greg Beato at Wonkette said:

Dr. David Hager, the faith-based gynecologist and Bush Administration appointee to the FDA's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs, is trying to cover his ass in the wake of a Nation article in which his ex-wife claims he repeatedly subjected her to "painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual...[anal] sex." But while Dr. Hager insists the Nation story isn't "based on all of the facts," he won't disclose what the missing facts are. Instead, he simply tries to ram his point home with some incredibly slippery logic: "As I said before, the allegations as stated do not reveal all of the information and therefore they're incomplete and not true." And then he finishes things off with this vigorous stroke of irony: "No one likes to be criticized, no one likes to be torn apart privately or publicly and I think that it's disappointing that my former wife has chosen this avenue to vent her anger and bitterness." Italics ours. Gently insert your own lube joke here.