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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: Enchante

thanks for the info! Interesting Stuff


2,981 posted on 10/06/2006 11:07:17 AM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: muawiyah
Let's say Billybob says "you're a poopoo head" to Betty Boo, and then you pick it up and you tell Betty Boo that she's a poopoo head.

But if Billybob says "you're a poopoo head" to Betty Boo, and Betty Boo replies "Yes, I know that", and then I pick it up and I tell Betty Boo that she's a poopoo head, how is that defamation? That's closer to what happened here.
2,982 posted on 10/06/2006 11:11:17 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: PhiKapMom
I just think its too much of a coincidence that Foley got a guys email he never met before and somehow both Foley and Vivyan had AOL Instant Messenger at the same time.

I guess it could happen....
2,983 posted on 10/06/2006 11:14:30 AM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: Enchante
One problem-- this liberal blogger finds that Google hadn't even discovered SSP at this point.

If it was made on Blogger, then it would have been searchable on Googles Blog Search the minute it was created.

http://blogsearch.google.com/

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2,984 posted on 10/06/2006 11:15:52 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: RatsDawg

Way too much of a coincidence in my book!


2,985 posted on 10/06/2006 11:17:21 AM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Go Sooners! George Allen for President in 2008!)
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To: PhiKapMom

seems like we are the only two talking about this lol


2,986 posted on 10/06/2006 11:30:55 AM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: conservative in nyc
Turns out C.R.E.W. appears to have "changed" the emails. When they did that they "owned them".

So, the analogy might better be that I heard Betty Boo called a poopoo head, and then turned around and said "Betty Boo is a bucket of spit" ~

2,987 posted on 10/06/2006 11:31:27 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Enchante

Very interesting. Chip Englander who is Istook's campaign manager from San Diego went to college in Michigan!


2,988 posted on 10/06/2006 11:45:50 AM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Go Sooners! George Allen for President in 2008!)
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To: RatsDawg

I know! LOL!


2,989 posted on 10/06/2006 11:46:24 AM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Go Sooners! George Allen for President in 2008!)
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To: PhiKapMom

have you watched the Bill O'Rielly interview with Vivyan? He said he started getting the IM's back in the SUMMER of 1997. If AOL IM just came out in May of 97, Foley and Vivyan Must have been right on the cutting edge of IM's.

Unbelievable.


2,990 posted on 10/06/2006 11:55:10 AM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: TexKat
Good catch. Obviously, Wikipedia is wrong.

Here is the page at AOL confirming the May 1997 release date:

http://www.corp.aol.com/products/brands_aim.shtml

2,991 posted on 10/06/2006 12:10:17 PM PDT by magellan
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To: MikeA

Foley knew before you did.


2,992 posted on 10/06/2006 12:14:51 PM PDT by stands2reason (The map is not the territory - A. Korzybski)
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To: valkyrieanne; TexKat
Did y'all see Vivyan on The Factor>/i> Tuesday night?

He sat there and said [paraphrasing] that even after the IMs from Foley turned sexual, he still kept in touch with Foley because he was interested in building relationships in order to further his career and he added...as any young ambitious person does.

Not only the words he said, made me go, "WHAT?!?!?"...but, also his entire demeandor.

I know I wouldn't trust him to tell me that an orange was orange, I'd say, "Sorry, I need to check a color chart to verify that."

2,993 posted on 10/06/2006 12:15:00 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: Fawn

He resigned because of the IMs.

What he said in those was real.


2,994 posted on 10/06/2006 12:16:01 PM PDT by stands2reason (The map is not the territory - A. Korzybski)
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To: magellan

That still only makes it a few months old, this is still too much of a coincidence.


2,995 posted on 10/06/2006 12:16:28 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: LS

Foley's IMs were real.


2,996 posted on 10/06/2006 12:17:30 PM PDT by stands2reason (The map is not the territory - A. Korzybski)
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To: Miss Marple
Home inspections to see if they have too any CD's of show tunes?

Not just any show tunes, but Ethel Merman records.

2,997 posted on 10/06/2006 12:21:01 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: NinoFan

The police who entrap pedos in chat rooms are of legal age as well.

Doesn't matter, it only matters how old the perp THINKS the target is.


2,998 posted on 10/06/2006 12:22:18 PM PDT by stands2reason (The map is not the territory - A. Korzybski)
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To: valkyrieanne
Tyson Vivyan tells us he is a liberal Democrat.

Enough said right there.

That's for sure. Another thing...why would a Republican, albeit a not totally Conservative one, hit on someone he would surely know could cause confidentiality problems because he was a Democrat?

2,999 posted on 10/06/2006 12:22:52 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: madison10

3,000


3,000 posted on 10/06/2006 12:23:08 PM PDT by vox_freedom (Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)
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