Posted on 10/02/2006 12:58:58 PM PDT by teddyballgame
I know Mark Foley. Mark Foley is a friend of mine. But in all my years working with him in Congress and on TV, I could have never foreseen this kind of scandal swirling around the friendly politician.
Mark and I entered Congress together in 1994 and spent the next four terms working together on legislation and political campaigns. Rumors about Mark's homosexuality followed him from his first day in the House and I even discussed the issue with him before he launched his Senate campaign in 2003.
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Wasn't Scarborough also a friend of Condit's?
They serve nothing but Kool-aid in the MSNBC break room
Given the odd timing of Scarboro's retirement from Congress.
I don't want to hear from him, unless he has something to confess.
I have always felt that Scarborough didn't have what it takes to be a true Republican. His belly is yellow.
I don't think he was prepared for the absolute visciousness of Democrats in Washington, and probably had a skeleton or two he was afraid would be used against him...
Hey Joe, what's that sore on your lip?
Vote for Joe Negron to save foley's seat!
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4212
i got a solution to the damn problem..JUST END THE DAMN "
"PAGE" PROGRAM!!...GEEZ...JUST HIRE ADULTS...ANNOYING!!!!!!!!
Rumors about Mark's homosexuality followed him from his first day in the House..."
I have an important question to pose for freepers. It sounds irreverent, but, I really want to know answers.
Does anyone know of any politician who has gay rumors swirling about him and they can say beyond a reasonable doubt that those rumors are false?
Over the years, I have generally come to believe that if it is rumoured that Mr. X is gay....then he's gay and it eventually comes out.
But I want to know if anyone has other experiences (not hunches, though: "I don't THINK he's gay....").
Someone ask Joe about the Capitol Hill condo.
Somebody needs to ask Fox News why Ana Marie Cox (alias "Wonkette") is now a commentator on that network. She started her career by writing breathlessly and endlessly about the Washington, D.C., anal sex scene.
Classy. Very classy.
"Finally, my friendly advice to Democrats is to keep your mouth shut lest you be tagged as hypocrites."
Joe, Joe, Joe...are you forgetting the huge double standard in the media? BJC pardone Mel Reynolds, remember?
Now what was the final story on the dead girl found in Joe Scarborough's local congressional office?
I'm not sure what Joe means when he refers to DC's "dark side".
Scarborough makes me puke. Not only is he a weasel he looks like one. He has to pile on the GOP to please his MSNBC bosses.
Scarborough, shaddap already, okay? Nobody in the conservative movement listens to you anymore. You've shown your loyalties, so quit pretending to be a player.
"Scarborough makes me puke. Not only is he a weasel he looks like one. He has to pile on the GOP to please his MSNBC bosses."
Exactly, and to think I use to watch his show.
It's something that we don't like to know about--but how can anybody with a normally functioning central nervous system not be prepared for the absolute visciousnes of Democrats in Washington???!!!??? We're talking about the Party of Sociopaths and Morons, for cryin' out loud! These people will do anything!
Somebody needs to ask Fox News why Ana Marie Cox (alias "Wonkette") is now a commentator on that network. She started her career by writing breathlessly and endlessly about the Washington, D.C., anal sex scene.
Classy. Very classy.
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Come now, snarks. Go to the front of the class and write M-O-N-E-Y on the board 500 times.
Wonkette brings viewers. Viewers bring advertising dollars.
The question I have is why did Joe and others allow this to be kept secret when they knew it could blow up in everyone's face? The voters have a right to know who they are voting for.
Given the odd timing of Scarboro's retirement from Congress.
I don't want to hear from him, unless he has something to confess.
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You wrote exactly what I was thinking!
"I'm not sure what Joe means when he refers to DC's "dark side"."
Good point - by implication it must mean that DC has some other side as well, which is clearly not the case. There are a tiny few and dwindling number of honest people on both sides of the aisle, but certainly not enough to qualify as a "side."
As for Scarborough, I can't even look at him anymore. He turns my stomach.
How do you explain the Republican party's attempts to get Foley into the '06 race in their attempts to knock Harris out? Don't be absolutely absurd Scarborough. Yes, the party bought Mel in on purpose but they did so to kick harris out of the running in '04. She agreed to wait till '06, then they tried again to remove her. That time Foley was one of many they were willing to use. He didn't step up to run.
Reading the first set of e-mails made me uneasy. My friends and I who knew Mark got on the phone and asked why he would ask a high school kid for a picture. Friday afternoon I saw the instant messages he sent to another student and realized that Mark was in big trouble.
Wow, you must be brilliant Joe.
I think Joe would be well served to keep quiet himself, not just his Dem friends. He didn't exactly exit Washington under the best circumstances.
No, but given a chance, could I start one about that idiot Wexler?
Mr. Foley isn't in trouble because of his sexual orientation inasmuch as the age range he appears to target.
I think Scarborough sold his soul to MSNBC when he went to work for them and does their bidding.
"He didn't exactly exit Washington under the best circumstances." huh?? What terms did Joe leave under?
Joe Scarborough has become a pandering lunatic. He licks his finger - sticks it in the air - and then measures the wind for his position.
He is completely gutless.
Remember when he got his producer drunk to see if he would act like Mel Gibson? Well now - how about these ideas:
- Beat a woman to see if she is likely to kill her assailant.
- Give someone heroin to see if they want to jump off a bridge.
Get me drift.
THis is guy is an idiot - he is a classic MSNBC'er.
Loser
Wexler's gay?
shut up Scarborough. The adults are in charge, and they're taking care of things. Quit enabling the RATS who are just trying to fan the flames.
so any single unmarried man is going to be smeared by a rumor of being a homosexual?
Homo-activists have trolled to out people as homosexuality regardless of facts.
i got a solution to the damn problem..JUST END THE DAMN "
"PAGE" PROGRAM!!...GEEZ...JUST HIRE ADULTS...ANNOYING!!!!!!!!
I miss the days when congressmen had sex with their wives on the capitol steps in the middle of the night.
(some OLD time scandal when an ex-wife of a congressman possed for playboy in the pre-internet days)
Scarborough says he couldn't have foreseen this? What does it say about me if I could foresee years ago that Foley was a pervert? Or am I just a homophobe who stereotyped him because he talked like a girl?
A Death in the Congressman's Office - Does Anybody in the Press Care About Lori Klausutis?
Look at post #14 and run a search on the name Gary Condit.
See my link above.
Having a close friend of my daughter.....serving as an intern in D.C. for a senator, I can assure you that the truth of what goes on there is never going to be revealed unless it's a case like Condit's where the girl gets murdered.
Excuse me...never? You guys were electoral classmates, your district was up the Gulf Coast from his, you spent eight years working in the House together, and you got not even a whiff of a rumor that the guy liked 'em a little young? Excuse me if I'm a bit skeptical that Florida politics is that big of a world.
Scarborough and Herr Olberwomann are friends....nuff said.
You must be old!! :)
How long ago it must have been when it was scandalous to have sex with your spouse under any circumstances.
LOL.
why would Joe worry. Doesn't everyone have an intern turn up dead in their home state office.
One day his carer was ruined when the feds found a microscopic trace of coke by his bed stand.
Here's an answer you don't want. I don't care what anyone does in their private time as long as it's legal. It's none of my business.
Oh gosh, I had hoped that I was wrong. Absolute power corrupts absolutely? How discouraging. I'm still anxious to vote, but I guess it will be for the lesser of the two evils. Puke!
Is Scarborough Fair?
Joe Negron (Foley replacement) thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712270/posts
That would be John Jenrette(ABSCAM) and Rita. He was a rep from my hometown Florence/Myrtle Beach, SC. Total scumbag.
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