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Page Scandal Makes America Look Silly
The Sun ^ | 10/08/06 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/08/2006 9:37:44 AM PDT by the Real fifi

In London, sex scandals come along every other week. You name it, British parliamentarians do it: three-in-a-bed, auto-erotic asphyxiation, gay teen flagellation, getting your toes sucked while wearing the soccer kit of Chelsea Football Club. But at least at Westminster, sex scandals require actual sex. That the governing party of the world's only superpower could be felled by one creepy pervert's masturbatory e-mails and IMs is an event historians will marvel at. Granted that the Roman Empire in its death throes got hung up on gay sex, the American hyperpower seems set to be the first to collapse over gay non-sex.

And no, I'm not a "typical right-wing pedophile apologist" excusing Foley. But, in case you haven't noticed, he's gone. He quit quicker than his instant message. And, true, he's since done the usual contemptible redemption shtick, announcing he's going into alcohol rehab, etc., when the reality is he'd be a better man if he drank more and IMed teens about the size of their wedding tackle less. And yes, he'll get a book deal, just like New Jersey's revolting ex-governor. (snip) When a member of the House of Lords went abroad after a homosexual scandal, King George V is said to have remarked, "Good God, I thought fellows like that shot themselves." It may, indeed, be a less revolting spectacle for a chap to take a tumbler of whiskey and a loaded revolver into his study than to go on "Oprah" and bore on about his personal demons, abusive father, etc., etc. But we live in different times. [snip] But I very much doubt, despite the expertise with which the sheep have been rounded up and set baa-ing, that Showtime at the Foley Bergere will pay off in November.

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To: the Real fifi
"Media and Dems treating America like children and it is unlikely to sway the voters in November."

And, this-and-true technique has failed the media and dims when??? The Buffett/Soros backed dims have already set up their committees for impeachment.

21 posted on 10/08/2006 10:55:37 AM PDT by 100-Fold_Return (Soros hates MEGA-churches, Televanglists, and Wal-Mart)
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To: mewzilla

You mean the human beings on the Hill, and everywhere in the 300 million population of the US.


22 posted on 10/08/2006 10:56:47 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: the Real fifi
American politics and the MSM = voyeurs and titillation. Or in other words, little boys with a Playboy magazine.
23 posted on 10/08/2006 11:02:19 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: weegee
"That the governing party of the world's only superpower could be felled by one creepy pervert's masturbatory e-mails and IMs is an event historians will marvel at."

Sexual McCarthyism, what a Democratic MSM farce!

24 posted on 10/08/2006 12:25:56 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Bush Assassination Flick. Save your liberal friends a few bucks: the black guy in the tux dunnit.)
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To: alloysteel
Whatever happened to "If it feels good, do it"?

It went down the Oval Office sink with, "It's all about sex."

25 posted on 10/08/2006 5:24:58 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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