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"Worst October surprise, EVER!"
Posted on 10/05/2006 5:59:56 AM PDT by Quilla
It had all the earmarks of a classic Democratic Party plan to depress Republican turnout. Take a barely disguised homosexual Republican Congressman, add salacious electronic messages that included masturbation, sex and other lurid flourishes, push the story to their eager and willing accomplices in the media 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. Enterprising bloggers have done the 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 such a thing would ever happen?
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. But it seems everything was perfectly legal, if nevertheless repellant to many, including a good chunk of the GOP base whose turnout is vital in the forthcoming election. 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.
While angry values voters fulminate over Hastert’s failure to do something before the IMs came to light, 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?
A pedophile that wasn’t.
A child that was actually an adult.
The disclosure of personal electronic communications of a highly personal nature between two consenting adults revealed.
A sex scandal between a couple who never had sex.
That Democrat Congressmen can have sex with 17 year olds and get re-elected, but Republicans that talk about sex are forced to resign.
ABC news is made to look like a fool, hyping a story beyond the facts at hand.
Along with the infamous Texas Air National Guard documents of 2002, 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. Almost four weeks are left to digest the affair. Much remains to be discovered, but one thing is clear.
It is, without a doubt, the worst October Surprise, EVER.
Here's another question. Are the IMs and emails posted on the blogs genuine, or made up? How can we actually know they occurred as claimed? It's easy to cut and paste electronic data.
One sign I would like to hold is "what kind of morons does ABC hire that they can't tell the difference between an e-mail and an IM?" If they play dumb then we should call them dumb.
I don't get it. What is the problem with repeating something of current interest. We don't all have the time to read everything that is posted on FR. Without this 'reposting' many would have missed this excellent post.
I would have. thanks
You know, I wouldn't have guessed this article by listening to ABC GMA this morning. It was full of doom and gloom for the Republicans. And of course not one mention of the guys actual age. Brian Ross is a fraud and so is ABC (but of course I already knew that).
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Blogger_outs_boy_in_Foley_scandal_1004.html
If the boy was over the age of 18 at the time of the messages, Foley's communication with him would likely still be considered criminal. Sex predator legislation is generally written bearing in mind that law enforcement sting operations rely on undercover officers pretending to be minors.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2865796&mesg_id=2865796
October Suprise back-fire bump
BTTT
Time will tell.................
I want to see Nancy Peeee louse eee MELT.
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"Worst October surprise, EVER!"
I smell sulfur........Did something just blow up somewhere?
I agree with your analogy......it sounds like the plan "B" the DIMS always use in situations.
A SEX scandal with no SEX?
So, this is their attempt to squelch it before it gets too far?
So that's what we call that thing that Clintoon did with Moan-ika in the oval orafice?
I wonder if the Bubba crash and burn squeegee squad will turn up connected to this too?
then of course we have the added twist that it was a "page prank".
Puts the whole story in a whole other light!
BwwwwaaaaaaaaaHHaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww!!!
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