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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...


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To: maggief

These kids, young staffers knew Foley had a problem with young boys, and as a ha-ha they baited him into cybering, then spread it around as a joke?

This kid needs help. He actually could have brought this to the attention of the speaker, but he got his rocks off faking Foley into thinking he was into him. This kid is sicker than Foley.


1,261 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:01 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: PhiKapMom

Yes. But I think this will go the route of Rathergate, the noise will eventually get so loud that they will have no choice but to cover it.

They still haven't learned that they cant get away with this crap anymore.


1,262 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:04 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (This tag line will be commercial free for the remainder of this thread.)
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To: musikman

Nah, I just bought his new albulm last week.

And, man, the Killer can still rock.


1,263 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:15 PM PDT by furquhart (Time for a New Crusade - Deus lo Volt!)
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To: LS

And Kolbe was a Chairman no less. Today news will make Negron a GOP hold in Foley's district.


1,264 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:18 PM PDT by Welike ike
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To: OESY

Eyes wide shut...

1,265 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:21 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: advance_copy
Jerry Lee Lewis, who did marry his 13 y.o. cousin, was on David Letterman last night with Neil Young. Which means that CBS, Letterman, and Young embrace incest and pedophelia.

Happened 40 years ago ... by your infallible logic anyone hanging around with me embraces drug use ... because I was a user 25 years ago.

1,266 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:28 PM PDT by tx_eggman (The people who work for me wear the dog collars. It's good to be king. - ccmay)
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To: jess35

If the gag was shared with other pages or ex-pages, even if the group to whom Edmunds showed them were all Republicans, once something like that get shown around, it gets shown around and around.


1,267 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:31 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: CFC__VRWC

He hired the Timothy McVeigh lawyer.


1,268 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:41 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Go Sooners! George Allen for President in 2008!)
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To: areafiftyone

Yeah, just like Dan Rathr and Mary Mapes proved their case against GW. They will hang on until the ycan no longer, just like CBS. This story is imploding.


1,269 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:41 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: EODGUY
Secondly, I recall my days as an 18+ year old and the friends with whom I associated and none of us would have viewed this email, IM exchange as an enjoyable prank.

Were you a rich, well-connected, cocky, bored kid? or were you a good one who did his homework, helped your parents, picked up baby birds, and was just an all 'round good person? The good kids don't even THINK about messin' with the lives of another person that way.

1,270 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:44 PM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: MaestroLC

ABC is running scared - read my post #1260


1,271 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:50 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: trumandogz
Foley actually did write the IMs?

That's how I take it. And if that's true, how do we know what text might have been taken out or added A LA SANDY BURGLAR?

1,272 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:54 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: boxerblues

bookmark


1,273 posted on 10/05/2006 1:12:56 PM PDT by boxerblues
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To: piasa

"CREW" was formed in early April 2003

I think I heard O'Reilly say it was funded by Soros (?)


1,274 posted on 10/05/2006 1:13:04 PM PDT by hardworking
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To: Fresh Wind

She hasn't been able to shut her eyes in 10 years......


1,275 posted on 10/05/2006 1:13:07 PM PDT by kjam22
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To: kcvl

Did Brian Ross and ABC News proceed with the story of the instant messages from this person without talking to him to see if he was serious in the exchange with Foley?


1,276 posted on 10/05/2006 1:13:14 PM PDT by AJFavish
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To: madison10
And that's a good thing. But today I heard ED Hill say as breaking news that Hastert was setting up an 800 for pages or anyone else to use to relay information. I had heard that at least 2 days ago. Hardly breaking news. Maybe I'm just not used to the new format.
1,277 posted on 10/05/2006 1:13:20 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: jrooney

ABC IS GOING DOWN THE SAME TOILET THAT CBS WENT DOWN!


1,278 posted on 10/05/2006 1:13:24 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: Dinah Lord

bookmark


1,279 posted on 10/05/2006 1:13:30 PM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Why would mentioning Soros being on FOXNEWS at the moment...be considered hijacking a thread? One that garnered 1000 posts in under an hour?

Especially when it is being considered that Soros' money is behind all this?

Furthermore when did you become a hall monitor?

1,280 posted on 10/05/2006 1:13:40 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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