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...
No matter what the "truth" is Foley is a scumbag and he certainly doesn't deserve an apology.
Lighten up. After over 1200 posts, more has come out on this story and it continues to develop. For all we know, this whole IM issue was completely faked and Foley went into rehab for alcholism after having a nervous breakdown. It's early yet, so ease back.
Sure - on the basis of emails asking how the kid survived the hurricane, Hastert is going to force Foley to resign ? Yeah, right, on what basis ? Additionally, the kid was 16 - the age of consent in Washington DC. Are you saying Hastert should have acted outside the law to force a resignation ?
Read the emails. Not the IMs - that's a different story - but the emails. They are all Hastert knew of at the time.
Will ABC feel the heat and even the score with some DEM pedophiles??????
They saw Dan Rather go down the tubes
This is not unexpected in some quarters.
Teenagers who've just gotten their driver's license regularly drive slowly down the street in one of A'dams Walletjes with a bunch of friends hooting and hollering at the prostitutes displayed in the windows.
Before they get that license that walk in small groups down the street whooping and holering at the prostitutes in the windows.
There is no lack of tastelessness on the part of late teeners and early twenty-somethings.
Democrats are readily sucked into thinking all this stuff is real ~ see "That Seventies Show" and the character played by Tommy Chong, the brain burned overage hippy dopster.
ABC is in full 'save our own @$$' mode. They don't realize that their credebility is already gone. This is just icing on the cake.
I wonder why one of the pages who read the "prank" hasn't spoken out about the joke. Hmmmmm....
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Got it!
You mean the part about them all being below 18 when it now turns out he was 18 when some of the IMs were launched!
Too late for the first, it's already thoroughly documented all over the blogosphere. And he did the second (Steve Jones, bigtime criminal defense attorney) within hours of being "outed" by name yesterday by the pajama media.
bookmark for me too....resting eyes. LOL
Where are you getting your info? Keep it coming.
Sounds perfectly plausible to me. I have a 17 year old son of my own and have raised two more beyond that age. Although I don't think my sons would do such a thing, I have known 17 year olds who would do this sort of thing in a heartbeat and then laugh until they puked.
No matter what the "truth" is Foley is a scumbag and he certainly doesn't deserve an apology.
CBS "stood behind" the fake document story until they were forced to give up the ghost.
It's 2oclock, guy, and your (brief) time here is up.
Exactly!
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