Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley of Online Sexual Approaches

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[newconhere]

Its true. It is completely unwatchable. Lets see North Korea is building a bomb, Iran is building a bomb. Terrorist right to left have waged war on us in the west but I have to hear about Foley's emails with adults and FOLEY IS GONE!!!!! Do you think the story of Foley is cheaper to carry than the international ones? What crap. We better keep our eye on the ball the bad guys like to attack when we are preoccupied.

[Dane]

I love the quality of the discussion here when anyone so much as broaches a dissenting opinion.

I asked you for proof if any of the GOP leadership knew of the lurid IM's before they were released in the press and you can't provide it.

[FreedomCalls]

And now it is claimed that ABC is sitting on a series of messages with other Congressmen of both parties as well. How much do you want to be the messages with the Democrats won't come out until after the election?

[Howlin]

I wonder if ABC have been receiving any emails from past pages about Democratic Congress people.

And just not sharing those.

[denydenydeny]

Now the MSM is really starting to *iss me off.

Juanita Broaddrick "came forward" too, but was essentially ignored by the MSM.

[pjsbro]

The page said Foley maintained e-mail contact with him even after he started college and arranged a sexual liaison after the page had turned 18

Oh, so they maintained e-mail contact and they arranged a "liaison" after the page was over 18?.

Sounds pretty consentual to me.

ABC is trying to cover it's a$$.

[Zeppo]

They independently approached ABC News after the Foley resignation through the Brian Ross & the Investigative Team's tip line on ABCNews.com. None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications.

The most important question is, did any of them end their notes by saying, "bababooie"?

[batter]

CBS gleefuly just stated that Republicans are in a panic. LOL! Keep up the spin C-BS:

[Radix]

How could a person that was actually able to reach a Congressional position be so absolutely clueless?

I am not saying that Congress people are intrinsically brilliant. I just think that most are so busy doing the CYA thing all while being absolutely ruthless on a regular basis, that it seems unlikely that any one of them would engage in dumb ass Internet activities.

I am still not buying this entire thing.

[newconhere]

ha.

[George W. Bush]

If this information were true, I think one or more of these pages would have complained to whoever runs the page program.

Notice how they don't identify the political affiliation of these new 'victims'? Or the party of their congressional sponsor? The two earlier ones were both Democrat-affiliated. Funny, only young Democrats seems to object to gay seduction by some old perv.

[edzo4]

Ok. If this is true. Where are the emails or IM's?

hold on dan's typing them up now....

[elhombrelibre]

Foley is a perv. There is no news there. But how they are using this info to smear all Republicans as pro-perv is. Notices that many Democrats march in Gay Day parades in which there are always NAMBLA people in. Do the Democrats protest? No. Did they get rid of Gerry Studds? NO. They're pro-perv when it helps them, but they rail against the sick and seedy side of pervs when it suits their political agenda.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Thier credibility is shot.

[Soul Seeker]

The MSM probably knows firsthand what sick men are in the Democrat party, and there probably are a few, hitting on pages and they've covered for them for years.

But my guess is if there are pages covering forward about Dems they'll at least be under age, have a paper trail to prove it and won't need to be fed talking points.

[batter]

Now the MSM is really starting to *iss me off.

Just now?! Are you sure you shouldn't be using the past tense?

[NinoFan]

I've thought that something was fishy about this from the first second I heard about it. Not because my love for the GOP is so great that I think a Republican can do no wrong, but because there were too many questions popping up in my brain as I read the story.

[Shermy]

"Wrong. The page who he had cybersex with was not a page at the time, but had graduated from the page program the prior year."

Wrong. The disparate power relationship remains, the relationship began from employment and nowhere else.

I'd say we should read Congress' harassment guidelines...but I bet they are the last big organization in this country not to have any.

[Paradox]

Just their word? Hey, it worked for Juanita Broderick, right?

[savedbygrace]

ABC and Ross are just moving on, as if they hadn't done anything wrong in their previous reporting on this story.

I'm not saying these new stories didn't happen; it's already been established that Foley is perv. The point is, these stories have nothing to do with anyone but Foley, who has already resigned and is facing an investigation and possibly punishment.

These new reports don't make any mention of reporting the incidents to anyone in authority, so they add nothing to the current debate.

IOW, they're pretty much a waste of ink.