Posted on 09/21/2009 3:55:55 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Former Rep. Mark Foley is trying to master the art of the comeback.
Three years after the former Florida congressman resigned amid disclosures that he was sending lurid text messages to teenage, male pages on Capitol Hill, a scandal in which Foley was never charged with a crime, he is taking a step back into public life -- this time as a radio personality.
"Foley on Politics" debuts Tuesday night on Seaview AM 960 in North Palm Beach.
"We certainly looked at every aspect and every angle, and we thought the information aspect of what he brings to the table, and what he brings to the microphone, can help people," said Joe Raineri, the station's operations director.
Radio talk shows are hardly a new format for down-and-out political figures trying to regain their footing.
To F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous lament that there are no second acts in American lives, perhaps no one offers a sharper retort than G. Gordon Liddy, the convicted Watergate conspirator who became a best-selling author, TV pitch man and radio host.
Add to that list former Ohio Rep. Bob Ney, who served 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to bribery and falsifying forms in the Jack Abramoff scandal.
Now he hosts "Bob Ney News and Notes" on West Virginia's 1370 AM.
"Talk radio gives me the ability to debate and be part of the energetic give-and-take of public debate once again," Ney said.
Florida's Foley is getting back into the public debate as well.
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Hmmmm.... Foley is doing what? Maybe he can interview someone from ACORN ....
If Foley just decided to run again as a RAT he could be the chairman of the banking committee.
“To F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous lament that there are no second acts in American lives, perhaps no one offers a sharper retort than G. Gordon Liddy, the convicted Watergate conspirator who became a best-selling author, TV pitch man and radio host.”
Well there is Ollie North, who had his problems during the famous Irancontragate scandel, now he works for Foxnews.
Really?
Paging Larry Craig!!
Who would listen to this numbscull? He’s certainly not ‘conservative’?..
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