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If you're a sleazy male Democrat, you can always count on Nancy Pelosi to run interference for you and your pervy proclivities. While she has soaked up plaudits as a champion for women (most recently as the VH1 Trailblazer Honors recipient last month for International Women's Day), what she really deserves is Cheerleader of the Year Award from the Democratic Bad Boys Club. The latest beneficiary of her soft-glove treatment is former Vice President and potential 2020 Democratic presidential aspirant Joe Biden -- a.k.a. the veep creep. She gently advised him to "pretend you have a cold" and joked during...

The Congressional Office of Compliance secretly paid close to $100,000 in taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims from at least two young male staffers who worked for disgraced former Democratic New York Rep. Eric Massa, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter are now saying. He resigned in 2010 after allegations surfaced that he groped and sexually harassed his male staffers. What a scumbag. The secret settlement payments took place in 2010 following Massa’s resignation, ABC News reported on Thursday. Even fellow Democrats can’t stomach this crap. “This is exactly why there should be transparency,” said Rep. Kathleen...

Politics: The Democratic Senate candidate from South Carolina is not a GOP dirty trick but an appropriate representative of a party detached from reality. An incoherent and off-the-wall empty suit, he is a perfect fit. Late Thursday night, the South Carolina Democratic Party's Executive Committee rejected a protest of the June 8 primary for U.S. Senate, in which Alvin Greene, who has a felony arrest for showing porn to college girls, defeated Vic Rawl, a former state representative and judge. Greene has been declared the party's legitimate nominee, much to the chagrin of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, whose leg no longer...

The White House official behind the controversial offer to Rep. Joe Sestak is no stranger to hard-nosed political horse trading. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who enlisted the help of his former boss Bill Clinton to approach a congressman about sitting out a Senate primary race, has been involved in several political controversies during his 20-year-plus career in Washington. And the current controversy is only the latest for Emanuel in the past 16 months, since he joined the Obama administration. In the first days of the Obama administration, Emanuel admitted to talking to then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about...

Ever since its full scale assault on interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, the Obama Administration announced a while ago that it would form an elite interrogation unit for high value terrorists in captivity. This has left me wondering what type of person they would look for to be in the unit, and what the methods they would employ might be.... Nice to see the good former congressman taking his lemons and making tickled lemonade. If you don't know or remember the Elmo reference then click here and you're welcome. The Looking Spoon is a conservative humor/satire/art/commentary blog, visit www.thelookingspoon.com...

Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal documents. The senior staff, one of whom said he heard Massa making lewd remarks to young staffers, tried to manage the problem internally. But reports of Massa's inappropriate behavior continued, leaving junior workers feeling helpless, according to victims, other staffers and sources close to an ongoing House ethics investigation. Most asked not to be named due to the ethics probe and the risk...

It didn’t take long for freshman Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) to make an impact on Capitol Hill. Unfortunately for his staffers, Massa concentrated his attentions more on them than on his job. The Washington Post reports that a new report on Massa’s sexual harassment of his aides was far more serious than either Massa or Democratic leadership first acknowledged, and had gone on longer than admitted:

In a move designed to create a liberal version of the Tea Party, former Congressman Eric Massa said he's forming a new political movement. Massa said at a press conference that he is forming a party of disaffected Democrats, called the Tickle Party. "It's better than a tea party," said Massa. "Although there's nothing wrong with a wonderful tea party, full of scones and long white gloves and such wonderful, wonderful company!" "But nothing beats a tickle party!" Massa concluded.

Eric Massa will forever regret going on The Glenn Beck Show and talking about tickle fights & snorkeling, SNL goes after all the scandals surrounding him in what they call his final exit interview (Video)

How much of a pickle is Pelosi potentially in? Enough that Dem loyalist Charles Blow had to resort to some truly twisted reasoning to explain away her delay in responding to allegations against Eric Massa. Of all things, the New York Times columnist tried to excuse Pelosi's failure to act by blaming . . . "our crazy misogynistic culture." Huh? Blow offered his odd opinion on today's Morning Joe. Mika Brzezinski was surprisingly skeptical. View video here.

Has Joy Behar run out of things to talk about? Is the HLN host and "The View" co-host allowing producers to select her topics? On HLN's March 10 "The Joy Behar Show," Behar suggested it might be time for conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to go after making certain remarks involving embattled New York Gov. David Paterson and former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y. "This whole Massa controversy gave him an excuse to make a racial slur against New York Governor David Paterson," Behar said. "Not that Rush needs an excuse to make a racial slur." ...more (w/video)...

"I mean, some of these things that this man describes, you know, it just — it’s always reminiscent, these guys who are repressed homosexuals of this idea that somehow, it’s just sinning. You know, this is what the evangelical Christians always say, ‘Well, I’m not homosexual, it was just sinning.’ As if all of us men are looking to do the same thing – but we just don’t because it’s sinning. You know, that story he told about being at the wedding and the guy comes up to him and says, you know, you really should be hitting on the...

Compliments sometimes come from strange places, but you'll take them where you can get them, no? It seems that Fox News' March 10 "Glenn Beck" program, in which host Glenn Beck interviewed former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., captured the attention of both the left and the right. And it may have even put to rest some of the misconceptions about Beck, which are mostly generated by outfits that operate with just out-of-context sound bites. "Let me tell you something," "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough said on his March 11 program. "[Beck] was not on his heels. He just - he...

At the end of Glenn Beck's interview with Eric Massa last night, the Fox Host asked if there were going to be any Tiger Woods-type text messages revealed, Massa seemed to be setting up his next defense as he said, “I’m sure there’s text messages because we bantered back and forth all the time. Joshua Green of the Atlantic may have found out what Massa might be preparing to defend, some of his former subordinates in the Navy made accusations that he groped them while under is command.

Watch his body language during the debate on CNN, in which the then-New York congressman ironically touts the values of “honesty and integrity.” At the end, he throws in a total non-sequitur, soliciting Hunter to buy him a beer:

Eric Massa Story Gets Uglier: "Unwanted Advances" in Navy Posted by Brian Montopoli The strange story of recently-resigned House Democrat Eric Massa has gone from bad to worse: The Atlantic's Josh Green reports that Massa was "notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates" during his 20-year Naval career. One former shipmate tells Green that Massa offered subordinates "Massa Massages." Another said a drunken Massa, his senior officer, groped him while he was sleeping. Green's piece also includes a story in which Massa's roommate was subject to inappropriate behavior. "When you're on ship, you're almost exhausted 24-7," Peter Clarke is quoted...

Glenn Beck, in a stunning and unprecedented occasion on his TV show, has apologized to his audience, admitting he wasted an hour of their time for the very first time. The apology occurred near the end of Beck's much-hyped interview with disgraced and potentially sexually deviant, former Democrat Congressman Eric Massa of NY. Billed by Beck only a day ago as an interview where Massa may just expose verifiable corruption in the federal government and the Obama Administration with regards to their apparent retaliation for his position on the health care vote, viewers were led to believe that Massa's interview...

Rahm Emanuel inspects Congressman Eric Massa on the campaign trail. Tells Massa do not be angry. Foul language near the end.

Former Rep. Eric Massa says he is insulted when Larry King asks if he is gay.

Glenn Beck was wrong, its as simple as that. He wasn't wrong in interviewing Eric Massa because it was an interview that he had to take once it became available. The Massa story was dominating the headlines and he had to jump on it. No, where Glenn Beck was wrong was apologizing for wasting our time at the end of the interview. This interview was no waste of time because in the end it destroyed the myth that Eric Massa's claims had any viability. It was classic train-wreck theater. You know that a train is going to end up derailed...