Posted on 10/04/2006 9:22:29 PM PDT by knews_hound
It had all the earmarks of a classic Democrat Party plan to depress Republican turnout. Take a barely disguised homosexual Republican Congressman, add salacious electronic messages that included masturbation, sex and other lurid details, push it to their eager and willing accomplices in the Main Stream Media (MSM) right before an election and as quick as you can say LBJ an instant scandal is created.
The only problem it seems, is that in today’s world of media, with data available to the whole world that was heretofore available only to a select few, the plan didn’t work out quite the way they had expected. An enterprising blogger has done some elemental detective work and discovered that the entire incident is nearly exactly the opposite of what was first reported.
Rather than a case of a pedophile Congressman stalking young men in the corridors of power, it instead turns out to be a case of a closeted homosexual nurturing a relationship with a young man, and making sexual advances once he became an adult. A relationship by the way that the young man, if he felt threatened or chose not to continue, could have ended at any time.
An older homosexual man seeking a relationship with a young man? Who would have thought?
Rather than the Pedophile Politician script we were first being fed, we now know that the real story is far less than we have been lead to believe.
As it turns out, although the young man in question was indeed a Page, was indeed befriended by Congressman Foley and did have sexual discussions with him; it seems everything was perfectly legal. As a signatory of a Bill outlawing Internet sex between adults and minors, Foley was perfectly aware of the legal boundaries and seems to have taken great care to not cross that fine line until the young man became a legal adult.
All I can remember is the Democrats mantra. That the troglodyte Republicans were obsessed by sex between consenting adults. That homosexuals in close working relationships with young people, especially young men, is a good and healthy thing. That some forms of sex, aren’t sex. That what two consenting adults do or say behind closed doors is their business. That intercepting and reading electronic communications between anyone in the US, especially those between two citizens, is never to be tolerated.
And most of all; never be judgmental.
So in the end, what do we end up with?
That the facts at hand were, yet again, revealed by an anonymous Blogger Rather (pardon the pun) that the “professional fact checkers” that the MSM routinely crows about is the death knell to the Democrats traditional scripts. Along with the infamous Texas Air National Guard documents of 2004, this latest attempt by the Democrats is not going according to plan, and I suspect it will have the same result at the Polls in November. It is, without a doubt, the worst October Surprise, EVER.
About the Writer: Patrick Godfrey lives and works in Northern California and blogs at http://knewshound.blogspot.com/ He can be reached at knewshound@yahoo.com. Feedback, criticism and pithy comments are always welcome.
Isn't that what the Demonrats did. Their vests exploded and they didn't do the damage they intended and may have just may have gotten a couple of people thinking about what Demonrats actually stand for which is nothing.
I can't tell you exactly but I heard it involves a) a trampoline, b) a bottle of vaseline, and c) a chicken."
Vaseline?
A chicken?
Then Slick Willy's got to be involved somehow!
What do you mean? Clearly this story will grow and grow and drag Democrats down to defeat in November! The fools!
I forgot to add: d) a blue dress.
Yep, that just about sums it up.
Yep, looks like the dems did a little "domestic spying" of their own.
But of course not to go after terrorists (why that would be a horribly unjust thing to do) but rather to go after, what in their tiny little lunatic minds is a worse threat, republicans.
Can't this run in EVERY PAPER IN THE USA tomorrow morning and be the lead in on EVERY MORNING SHOW?!?
I would guess not.
Unfortunately with the elections being as tight as they already are, it just might, I may be crazy, work. Thanks a lot Foley.
Hey, you're right. What was I thinking? Hoist on their own petard! Hmm.. That's sounds sorta kinky, all things considered. :)
Well .. I have to disagree this is the "worst" October surprise ever.
I think it's the best thing that could have happened. It's just more exposure of the true nature and agenda of the democrat party. They are the party of SMEAR .. not ideas.
I do not agree this will suppress the repub vote .. it's made me MADDER THAN I WAS ALREADY! And .. I know a lot of people who feel the same - and I'm part of the Christian right.
How much you wanna bet DU will soon have a thread up saying Rove created the fake Foley scandal to get rid of a gay Republican and to push the "true" Woodward scandal off the headlines?
There's a good reason for that. Absentee voting starts this week or next week. In Colorado, up to 60% of the ballots will be absentee. So there's a huge amount of voting going on RIGHT NOW. The election in most races will be effectively over in two weeks.
They timed the release perfectly. 30% of the vote will be in before this gets straightened out, if it gets straightened out.
Gaygate.
NAMBLA-gate.
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