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Politician forced to resign after comments . . . picked up by parliament microphones
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 17, 2010 | Andrew Picken and Sarah Bruce

Posted on 06/17/2010 4:21:19 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

A Labour MSP caught on camera lusting over a 'dark and dusky' woman in Holyrood's viewing gallery has been forced to resign from a key parliamentary post.

Frank McAveety last night quit as convener of the Scottish parliament's petitions committee after lurid comments he made about a member of the public were inadvertently picked up by Holyrood's TV channel. The married former Culture Minister was seen ogling a dark-haired girl in the public gallery while speaking to his committee clerk.

He was then heard to say: 'There's a very attractive girl in the second row. Dark and dusky. We'll maybe put a wee word out for her. She's very attractive, very nice, very slim.

'The heat's getting to me. She's got that Filipino look - the kind you'd see in a Gauguin painting.' The woman at the centre of the comments is thought to be a member of the public who had come in to watch the committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: openmic; politician
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1 posted on 06/17/2010 4:21:19 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“We’ll maybe put a wee word out for her”

That’s the really interesting part. Pol scum think they own everything and everyone.


2 posted on 06/17/2010 4:23:01 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgAihJ5WVEA

Well,we're in it for the lobbying....

3 posted on 06/17/2010 4:25:49 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

>> Pol scum think they own everything and everyone.

The “Teddy Kennedy School of Dating and Interpersonal Relations”


4 posted on 06/17/2010 4:27:43 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

So now being attracted to women disqualifies you for public office?


5 posted on 06/17/2010 4:34:55 AM PDT by Conan the Conservative (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the hippies.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Actually, British lusting politicians seem refreshingly descriptive and civil in their off-mike comments. “Like a Gaugain painting”. Half the politicians over here would have said, “Look at the rack on that one in the second row.”


6 posted on 06/17/2010 4:35:03 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I rethought this story while eating, & I think it’s too perfect, with it being a minority & all.

Social engineering, planting a thought out there?


7 posted on 06/17/2010 4:46:07 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Sender

See post #7. It’s only like that in Britain when they KNOW they mike is on.


8 posted on 06/17/2010 4:46:52 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Conan the Conservative

If you’re already married, yes.


9 posted on 06/17/2010 4:47:29 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Charlie Chaplain was arrested for oral sex on a young woman. He was being tried, and in open court, out of frustration with the hypocrisy of it all, yelled out, “Oh, for crying out loud. Everybody does it.”


10 posted on 06/17/2010 4:48:51 AM PDT by healy61
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Michelle Malkin, you see what you did?


11 posted on 06/17/2010 4:56:32 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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She's got that Filipino look - the kind you'd see in a Gauguin painting.'

He doesn't know art..............

12 posted on 06/17/2010 5:11:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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To: Conan the Conservative
So now being attracted to women disqualifies you for public office?

Being attacted to women doesn't disqualify you.

What can disqualify you is being married and getting caught on tape planning to have a strange woman you're objectifying roped-in by your cronies for a (ostensibly sexual) rendezvous.

That's as it should be. The guy sounds like he's done it before.

13 posted on 06/17/2010 5:24:13 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Red Badger

Gauguin, (Eugène-Henri-) Paul

From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific.

Arearea (Joyousness)
1892; Musée d’Orsay, Paris
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/gauguin/gauguin.femmes-tahiti.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/gauguin/&usg=__CbIiZUy3oIYON2vzoiUgvFCqaSU=&h=790&w=1059&sz=153&hl=en&start=5&sig2=FeXaavdqKWuRlB3LgycdEA&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=3stkkqJPitqTzM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGauguin%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=7xQaTJybM4nEMqzf8a0F


14 posted on 06/17/2010 5:34:55 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: healy61

How did they catch him?


15 posted on 06/17/2010 5:42:12 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

BUT NOT THE PHILLIPINES............


16 posted on 06/17/2010 5:44:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

coming soon....legislative attempts to make it illegal to record elected officials without their permission


17 posted on 06/17/2010 5:48:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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"It quickly emerged he had actually been tucking into a mutton pie, beans and roast potatoes in the parliament canteen and then First Minister Jack McConnell forced him into a humiliating apology for what became known as 'Piegate'."

"The heat's getting to me. She's got that Filipino look - the kind you'd see in a Gauguin painting.'"

Something else is going on here? All would wait for the 'Lion of the Senate' to pound down a half dog, no big deal?

18 posted on 06/17/2010 5:52:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Red Badger

You know the story.
Attractive young woman, two heads and not enough blood.
He’s hypovolemic! Therefore weak in geography¿?


19 posted on 06/17/2010 6:01:27 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

He sounds like a dirty old man.............like me..............


20 posted on 06/17/2010 6:14:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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