Posted on 10/05/2006 11:50:13 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 10/05/2006 1:00:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
>XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 5 2006 2:53:48 ET XXXXX
CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.
The primary source, an ally of Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund. Both are fearful that their political careers will be affected if they are publicly brought into the matter.
The prank scenario only applies to the Edmund IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others.
The news come on the heels that Edmund has hired former Timothy McVeigh attorney, Stephen Jones.
Developing...
I doubt it was going on for 2 years! I think it just blew up in the stupid dims faces........
LOVE BEING A REPUBLICAN!
Thank you. I hope others who did this and then used blackmail are arrested and brought up on charges.
You have video?
Which is (putting on my flame-proof suit) a cruel trick to play on anyone, straight OR gay.
Foley thought the kid was into him.
He didn't realize he was the 'BUTT' of the joke.
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That is really sad.
Reminds me of the ending of that movie Trains, Boats, Planes (or something like that starring John Candy).
I think Pelosi and Rahm Emannuel will need him too!
Anyone with notepad can make an IM record. Since it is saved locally, no one can disproved it. If I have knowledge of your IM handle, I can produce a salacious IM recording between you and I and all you can do is say, it wasn't so.
I never understood why they were so quick to call for Denny's head!
Seems like that would be a pretty bad move to have the Speaker resign just before an election. Anyone calling for such a thing must want to see the GOP lose the House.
If that's true....
KARL ROVE, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!
Yes I know .. they dems adn libs are sooooooooo screwed
I think you're thinking of Jerry Lee Lewis (relative to none other than Jimmy Swaggart). And his cousin wasn's 16 at the time of the wedding. She was 13.
I think a lot of Dems planes just crashed.
He never thought it would be brought out but that gay society does not accept their own being in the closet.
My speeling is gone,too!
BRIAN ROSS YOUR CAREER IS OVER SCUMBAG!!!!!!!
WHERE IS THE ABC RETRACTION AND APOLOGY TO HAESERT??????????????????????????????
Believe him. He's being series. Don't loose too much sleep over it...
You mean Jerry Lee Lewis?
Don't be an idiot. Rove had nothing to do with this, he would never be that incredibly stupid, and if by chance he were, it would do more damage to GOP chances than the original (apparently faux) scandal. If you think that this latest revelation wraps everything up in a tidy bow and somehow public sentiment will suddenly swarm to the GOP side, you're nuts.
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