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Originally posted by marfknox

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2303322#2303338

Check this out - it is a frame from Fox News where they had Foley listed as a Democrat! And apparently this was not aired once, but several times. I don't believe it was an accident for a moment.

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(Update below) Here comes Matt "The Eggman" Drudge to (Mr. Predatorgate) Mark Foley's defense. He uses that age old "attack the messenger" conservative technique-only in a creepier way. He says the congressional pages are just as responsible because of Youtube and pop culture and how dare they egg him on like that. They are just 16 and 17 year old beasts after all and not innocent little babies who are engaged in a conspiracy against poor, old Foley. What kind of beast does that make the 52 year old Foley?

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Still searching for radical right outrage on Foley/cover-up scandal
by Chris in Paris - 10/03/2006 04:36:00 AM

Where's Rush to provide some moral righteousness during these troubled times? Surely he must be bothered to hear there was a sexual predator running free in Congress, all under the watchful eye of Congressional leaders. James Dobson somehow can't find it in him to be as outraged with this scandal and says "it's not the time to be talking about politics" now that the GOP owns this sex scandal (along with Abramoff, Iraq, DeLay, etc) plus cover-up. Where is Jerry Fallwell? Pat Robertson? Surely the Christian Broadcasting Network has something to say about a cover-up and sex scandal in Congress, right? Hello? Is anybody there?

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Gay sex with children, underage drinking, gross e-mails and IMs, Congress, the Republicans, Macaca, rehab … you were probably thinking there was no possible way this story could get better. Oh ye of little faith, how about a heaping helping of Scientology?

First, our trusty Scientology Investigator sent us this detail:

Foley sent his “Gone to Detox Mansion” fax from Clearwater, Florida. Are there any rehab joints there that aren't run by Scientology? Remember, that's the same cult that says they can ‘cure' homosexuality ….

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Originally posted by marfknox


Hold the phone a sec, guys. Granted, being Foley's age and attracted to teenagers is technically a mild form of pedophilia, but it isn't even remotely in the same league with child predators....

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AMY GOODMAN: We are talking to Maddy Sauer, who broke this story with Brian Ross at ABC News of the sexually explicit IMs, instant messaging, that was going on, that the congressman was sending to underage pages.

MADDY SAUER: the stories are remarkably similar. It always starts as a friendly “Hi, how are you doing?”

And, of course, these pages have left the Hill at this point. They're not still working on the Hill, so they want to keep in touch with the congressman contact, because they're all aspiring politicians or at least want to work in that world. And they're trying to chat politics with him, and meanwhile he's changing the subject to, you know, “Go measure yourself and what are you wearing?”

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MADDY SAUER: Well, this is one of the things that has disturbed me the most, because at least when these suggestive emails were passed to Rodney Alexander's office, who passed them to Tom Reynolds, you know, the excuse has been, “Well, we didn't investigate, because there was nothing sexual there. It was just a suggestion that, ‘what do you want for your birthday?'” But the whole point is, if there were these rumors and if people sort of had a hunch that this was happening, this would have been the perfect opportunity to actually go and investigate. You have emails. You have a child who's complaining. Go investigate.

Now, the FBI is involved. They didn't investigate when they initially got the emails, but they may not have known about these rumors and hunches that people on the Hill had. And because he is soliciting a minor, in some of these instances, online, where he is saying, “Let's have dinner. Where do you want to meet? I'll pick you up at the airport,” that is punishable as soliciting a minor over the internet, because the kid was under 18 at that time, and it's a federal crime, and it is one of the laws that Congressman Foley actually helped to enact.

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Originally posted by filthy

On a lighter note, if such can be found, it is a well known axiom that "when the hits the fan, everybody gets spattered."

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Originally posted by filthy

On a lighter note, if such can be found, it is a well known axiom that "when the hits the fan, everybody gets spattered."

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Ummmm. Filth?

Thats MARK Foley, not MICK Foley.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office was notified of concerns about then-Rep. Mark Foley before 2005, casting doubt on top GOP leaders' statements that they heard nothing of Foley's inappropriate behavior before then, a former aide to Foley said Wednesday.

Hastert's office has denied the claim.

Kirk Fordham made his remarks after resigning Wednesday amid allegations that he tried to protect Foley from congressional inquiries into his inappropriate contact with congressional pages.

Fordham elaborated in an interview with ABC News and said he told Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, that Foley was too friendly with the pages, and that Palmer talked to Foley.

Hastert's spokesman Ron Bonjean told ABC News, "That [warning] never happened."

Added Palmer, "What Kirk Fordham said did not happen."

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CONGRESSIONAL SEX SCANDALS
I'll save you all a lot of trouble. By now you've noticed the Christian right is blaming us for Foley's Folly and once again screaming and yelling that this confirms that homosexuals are all pedophiles.

So I did some googling and thanks to the Washington Post and a variety of other sources, here's what I found before I got bored.

The obvious conclusion: Men are pigs. Circe was right. Straight and gay. Members of the House and Senate are no excpetion to this rule.

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My three favorites, by the way: the four-way involving three Republican Representatives and a Playboy Playmate, an Ohio Republican paying a 13-year-old girl for sex, and the Conservative Republican from Mississippi caught giving blow jobs in the House men's room.

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Originally posted by filthy

Thus it has always been and thus, people being what they are, it shall always be. I'm waiting for a Bush/Condi scandle to erupt. I don't have any grounds for such a suspicion beyond how snuggely they look when together, and a slip of the tongue on Rice's part, but greater outrages have sprung from less.

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Originally posted by HalfMooner

Thanks for the link, Filthy. Though I'd been aware there'd been plenty of other sex scandals in Congress, it was interesting to see them actually compiled. However, the compilation might have been better done by leaving out all the consenting-adult relationships, in my opinion. There were plenty of others involving politicians and under-aged people, as it was.

I think what actually stands out this time, and may even be unique, is the growing evidence that, on a partisan basis and to protect their majority, Has-turd and the GOP House leadership covered up and allowed Foley to proceed with what he was doing with under-aged pages. That's criminal in an ethical sense, and probably in a legal sense as well.

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