hold on dan's typing them up now....
Dang, look at that keyboard. Dan's finally mastered Wordstar on C/PM-80.
Posted on 10/05/2006 2:45:06 PM PDT by mmyers
Three more former congressional pages have come forward to reveal what they call "sexual approaches" over the Internet from former Congressman Mark Foley.
The pages served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002. They independently approached ABC News after the Foley resignation through the Brian Ross & the Investigative Team's tip line on ABCNews.com. None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications.
"I was seventeen years old and just returned to [my home state] when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked and how big their penises were," said the page in the 2002 class.
The former page also said Foley told him that if he happened to be in Washington, D.C., he could stay at Foley's home if he "would engage in oral sex" with Foley.
THE BLOTTER RECOMMENDS READER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED: Foley's Exchange with Underage Page Foley Instant Message Chat While Waiting for a House Vote Click Here to Watch This Week's Brian Ross Investigates Webcast The page told ABC News he was interviewed this week by FBI agents who had a six-page list of questions about Foley and the exchanges.
The second page who talked with ABC News, a graduate of the 2000 page class, says Foley actually visited the old page dorm and offered rides to events in his BMW.
"His e-mails developed into sexually explicit conversations, and he asked me for photographs of my erect penis," the former page said.
The page said Foley maintained e-mail contact with him even after he started college and arranged a sexual liaison after the page had turned 18.
The third page interviewed by ABC News, a graduate of the 1998 page class, said Foley's instant messages began while he was a senior in high school.
"Foley would say he was sitting in his boxers and ask what I was wearing," the page said.
"It became more weird, and I stopped responding," the page said.
All three pages described similar instant message and e-mail patterns, with remarkably similar escalations of provocative questions.
"He didn't want to talk about politics," the page said. "He wanted to talk about sex or my penis," the page said.
The three new verbal accounts are in addition to two sets of sexually explicit instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages.
An online story on the Drudge Report Thursday claimed one set of the sexually explicit instant messages obtained by ABC News was part of a "prank" on the part of the former page, who reportedly says he goaded the congressman into writing the messages.
"This was no prank," said one of the three former pages who talked to ABC News today about his experience with the congressman.
LOL!
Prostitution is a far more respectable occupation than journalism in today's world.
Bingo.
These pages were fed talking points. I don't know who coached them from the Dem aisle, but using the word "prank" hours after a Drudge story the MSM itself had NOT reported on is a dead giveaway. Unless they can prove these pages are linked to Drudge's site 24/7 they've just torpedoed this new story they put out. They are idiots.
Thank you for the poll update. So I guess they have been getting justifiably hit for reporting that nonsense then.
"These pages were not his "inferiors." The Louisiana person who was sixteen at the time (subject of relatively innocuous e-mails) never worked for Foley,"
So what?
"and Foley did not send him e-mails until after the Louisiana teenager stopped being a page and returned to his home state. Notice in the story that the unnamed seventeen-year old (at the time) page says that Foley contacted him after he returned to his (unnamed) home state."
Foley was a US Congressman, not a state official.
Think on this: you're young and you summer intern for General Motors. After you leave one of the board of directors contacts you like Foley was doing. And on a GM computer? Sexual harassment on GM's dime.
BTW, why fail to mention what state the seventeen-year old came from? Could it be because the age of consent in that state is ... drumroll... seventeen?
CBS never gives up.
Anyone can come forward at this point. How many gays are Democrat and wouldn't mind throwing a monkeywrench into the election?
So what indeed. The sexual harassment laws are out of control.
How do you know what computer(s) Foley used, btw?
Why?. More crap.
And the guy involved was an adult...Foley was wrong, but give it up. They didn't mind when Clinton actually DID an intern not much older than this page. But some dirty talk is suddenly the crime of the century? Please. That giant clicking sound you're hearing are Americans tuning out the hysterical and partisan overreach on this by the Democrats and their media puppeteers.
Just because we think Foley is a creep doesn't mean we all have to lay down and let the macacas do anything they want. It doesn't mean we don't fight back. It doesn't mean we don't expose their lies.
Foley is despicable and no excuses are possible.
More revolting things will probably come out and the GOP is well rid of him.
These 16 years old young men are not blameless, but the real blame always lies with the adult in position of authority. No excuses.
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