Posted on 09/29/2006 12:01:58 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
Just breaking on CNN
They are from a different page, from 2003. Once this story broke, other pages started contacting ABC.
I'm with you. But I can only take so much of HGTV.
I've actually started watching REAL TV shows; James Woods' new show is great!
Thanks .. I didn't realize another page copied the im's from 2003
Foley's not homosexual, he is a pedophile.
I really wouldn't be shocked if Hastert doesn't resign his leadership position before the week-end is over. Boehner has basically stated that Hastert knew and let this go on. If true, Hastert should quit as speaker. I could never look at him the same way, knowing that he knew for a year and pretended he didn't, and left Foley as co-chair of the missing and exploited kid committee.
From today's St. Petersburg Times:
St. Petersburg Times reporters obtained the original e-mails last fall and interviewed two former pages, but didn't write a story. The 16-year-old boy did not want to be named. The other boy, who was willing to be named, said Foley hadn't done anything inappropriate. It's a Times policy not to make accusations in stories based on unnamed sources.
SNIP
As a member of Congress, Foley was gregarious and charming and befriended the pages, the teen-agers who serve as the Capitol's official messengers.
"I was told by a few interns to be careful about Foley," Will Humble of California, a 2005 page, told the Times last year.
But Humble, who received some personal e-mails from Foley after he left Washington, said he never saw inappropriate behavior from the congressman.
"A congressman e-mailing a 17-year-old after leaving the Hill is not normal, but if it's in a friendly situation it doesn't really matter," Humble told the Times last year. "If it was 'Send me a picture,' I would be a little suspicious."
Indeed it is--how could one who's been honored to serve as a representative act out this way--he couldn't have thought this behavior would escape public domain. If he or any have such "feelings" they are legally and morally bound to quash them never to see the light of day or certainly action. My God! I am so disappointed--it crushed me yesterday to think we have this outrageous crap from one of our own... (I know the GOP isn't perfect, but it's the only viable alternative for conservatives)... and at least gives us a voice. Now the question in my mind is can the seat be saved from the socialists?
Pray for Foley--tremendous lack of judgement--but his family deserves better. And maybe he can get right. I hope so.
Yes, but that's beside the point in that the psychology is still distinct. IOW, one set of circumstances resulted in their homosexuality while a separate set of circumstances resulted in their pedophilia. Much the same applies to pedophile men that like girls, the super-majority of which are heterosexual.
I can't read enough to even know if my search terms are accurate.
Can you say BIG FRIGGEN MISTAKE?
This whole thing disgusts me. What is most appalling is that the leadership left Foley in a position where he could continue to troll for teenage boys. Even if they needed to keep it quiet - to respect a parent's request, to protect personal privacy, to spare the party and the institution embarassment - why did they leave Foley in a position where he was able to continue this behavior? Why didn't they slap him down, HARD, in private?
I have a 15 yr old son. I wouldn't be willing to have him harassed and stalked by a pedophile, even if the guy was a Congressman and it spared the Republican Party embarassment. Where was the Tylenol Moment here? Why didn't the guys on top do the right thing?
God, just please don't have it turn out that there are more and more victims of Foley.
There is no free pass for this kind of thing. What in the hell were they thinking? At least they should have gotten Foley to quietly retire if they were going to cover for him, to let him go away with nobody knowing why.
He and they were pretending like it never happened. What is wrong with people once they get to DC. This is behavior I expect of democrats.
Pederast or ebeophile (the spelling of the last I'm not sure about). Pedophile is an adult attracted to pre-pubescent children, the other two are men attracted to adolescents, which would include underage teenaged boys.
Which is often SOP for homosexuals and has been throughout history.
Pedophiles find a way to get involved in child related issues. Foley followed the ped script to the letter.
Like clowns.
I've said it more than once today. And worse.
Are the leadership free from civil damages on something like this? Anybody who was went after this year, could argue that Hastert facilitated it, and if I was on a jury I would agree if what Rep Boehner is saying is true.
Everything I've seen says it was the St. Petersburg Times that got the e-mail first last November.
Ugh... at least he didn't kill them and bury them in Rock Lake Park like a democrat we know.
Expletive deleted. This is ridiculous.
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