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...
and so what do you think about the Dems that used this bait to paint the entire GOP as Pedophile protectors.... hmmm that is the real story here.. Tried to steal an election and supress Conservative base turnout by claiming that the GOP Leadership is protecting Pedophiles....
They're gonna need Perky Katie to prop them up before this is over with. CBS may be seeing an opportunity to get out of 3rd place?
I think we'll have to admit her to the Dan Rather resthome sooner rather than later.
If this is true, the Dems are SCREWED!!!
I wish these young jokesters would have you know told the Speaker, or the page board people instead of letting Foley keep harassing the new pages coming in. Yes they were young, but jerks but I guess that is pretty normal.
I just saw this - wowza
Okay, first, 16, 17 and 18 year olds are biologically sexually mature human beings, so in the psychological sense--erotic attraction to pre-pubsecent children--Foley shows no evidence of pedophilia.
Second, under the laws of DC, 16 is age of consent, so legally, having the hots for Congressional Pages is not pedophila.
Why resign? Loyalty to party, an estimation that being outed as a homosexual who was into teenagers would ruin his election chances. Because he really is a drunk and doesn't recall what actually happened three years ago.
If Edmunds goaded him into exchanging lewd IM's, then the incident becomes akin to entrapment.
Honestly, if you are single (or imagine yourself--may God forbid it--divorced or widowed), and an attractive young person on the cusp of adulthood and already the age of consent wherever you are (if you're in a state where it's 18, imagine a great job has moved you to Kansas or DC, where it's 16) comes on to you, mightn't you act a bit giddy and goofy, do stupid things?
He resigned because people on both sides threw him to the wolves. The democrats are just as guilty in his resigning. Their fingerprints are all over this mess.
LOL!
I watched a bit of it and was very unimpressed by Soros, who seems like an empty suit. OK, so he figured out how to make lots of money attacking over-valued currencies, that does not make him any geo-strategic sage or even someone worth listening to on anything outside of his specialty.
fwiw, I was very disappointed that Neil let Soros slither away from the Hastert comment merely by sliming Hastert. Soros says HE did not know about the matter, but Hastert never suggested that was the case -- what Hastert said was that 'Rat operatives FUNDED by Soros have manipulated this thing. Soros did not even pretend to address that and Neil just let him off the hook. I am disgusted.
He must drink a lot. Let's wish him well on the road to recovery.
btt
For everything done in secret will be revealed.
Shalom.
I think this investigation with the FBI and the Senate ethics committee should now GO ALL THE WAY!
Wait until the dems get outed...about a lot of stuff!
Foley should have resigned. He has issues and problems. He does not need to be in congress. Atleast, he does not need to be a republican.
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Because the IM's from Edmund to Foley were pranks to get Foley to respond in kind, but the IM's from Foley to Edmund (and others) were sincere.
And that comment is based on what evidence that he specifically targeted underage kids ?
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