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CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
Drudge Report ^ | 10/5/07 | Drudge

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...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: GraceCoolidge
Grace,

You are wise indeed. I already can see it happening.

I agree that this guy probably needed to say something that would let him deny he is gay. And it turns out it was a "conservative" staffer. So the media has tomorrow's headline: "Mark Foley Victim of Conservative Gay Baiting: Career Destroyed by Homophobia and Teenagers' Cruelty." The story now will be how the evil conservative right wing (perhaps even Rove) destroyed the life of this upstanding gay Republican.

You only forgot motive. I'll add one. In order to get the Woodward book out of the news :)

421 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:23 PM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: SolidSupplySide

Fake in that the sense of a police informant 'entrapping' a suspect. Foley did type the words, but was doing so as a result of encouragement from the intern. All the IM's have not been revealed yet, so we do not know if the intern sent a previous 'suggestive' IM or two to Foley to make him think he was gay and/or interested in Foley


422 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:25 PM PDT by milwguy
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To: cynwoody
The word is he resigned over the emails and before the IMs were revealed. That blows away the best evidence that the IMs are not forged.

No. In fact, he resigned over the IMs, and simply called it a "smear campaign" after the initial emails.

423 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:35 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: ConservativeMind

Are you series? You don't no what that meens?


424 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:35 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: GraceCoolidge

They will certainly try that spin.


425 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:38 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: mass55th

Howdy, I posted a reply from a poster, I kind of left out it was Flips post to me LOL. How you doing.


426 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:43 PM PDT by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: Robe

how did the IM logs get into the hands of the DNC operatives? that doesn't just magically happen on its own.


427 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:45 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: TexasBeth

that will work *L*


428 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:47 PM PDT by Mo1 (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - BECOME A MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Enchante

I've a sneaking suspicion that there's still a bit of lying in that. I think the page(s) used Foley machine to type out the stuff, not Foley himself. Just saying.


429 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:48 PM PDT by debg
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To: Perdogg
So let me get this straight.

That just struck me as funny for some reason.
430 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:50 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: fellowpatriot
This was never a prank. It was a poor attempt by the libs to get Hasert.

Or it could be Republicans going after Hassert and getting rid of a gay 'pubbie too.

The ultimate coup d'état.

431 posted on 10/05/2006 12:12:52 PM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty hereā€¦ move on.)
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To: kcvl

OK, now this just doesn't make any sense. Foley was "goaded" into making these comments? Well, y'know, I'm sorry, I don't think there's any way that I, as a middle-aged heterosexual male, could be "goaded" into saying some of the stuff that Foley texted. No way, no how. Now, if these pages knew Foley was cruising for young page tail and decided to, uh, "yank his chain" (so to speak) a little bit? I can see that.

Yeah, the Rats are overreaching and this is probably going to blow up in their faces unless the news media can keep a lid on it and manipulate the coverage that gets out to the sheeple--which they can do, but not as well as they used to thanks to places like this. But let's not lose sight of the fact that, at the center of this all, there's still a 50+-year-old Congresscritter that was cruising for 16-19-year-old young male page tail. We can segment that away from the political aspect of it all.

}:-)4


432 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:01 PM PDT by Moose4 (They caught me white and nerdy.)
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To: Fawn

"Foley should of just married his 16 year old cousin like ELVIS....he'd be revered!!!"

Naa! He should have moved to Ma in the district with Barney Frank, came out of the closet and said, "I'm a new democrat homosexual who really likes sex with teenagers. He would have won in a landslide.!"


433 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:10 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: .cnI redruM
The apology is due to any intern who he actually spent the past year sodomizing while all these Democratic activists sat on the story waiting for the timing factor to kick in.

There are NO allegations whatsoever that Foley had sex with any current or former pages! Stop making reckless charges that you don't know to be true!

434 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:16 PM PDT by pgkdan
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To: kcvl
This PRANK explanation smells like a slick coverup to me.

There were other motives to all this!

435 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:16 PM PDT by beyond the sea ( The Shadow of Your Smile --- Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
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To: bwteim

I've always liked Drudge, but I've also read him long enough to know that caution is not his strong suit.


436 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:16 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: kcvl

I guess this explains why Hastert was blaming Democratic operatives and ABC News.


437 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:22 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide (Hastert will not be Speaker by January 2007 (and should not))
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To: kesg
That's why I think that Foley may have actually been in on the joke.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
438 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:27 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Howlin
Somebody's going to hell.

LOL....I concur.

439 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:31 PM PDT by Fawn (http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/toilet_obsession.html)
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To: 2oclock guy

I almost forgot about that Kerry "love affair". I broke that story to some classmates, only to look foolish at the next class.


440 posted on 10/05/2006 12:13:36 PM PDT by elc (Feeling the babywearing love)
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