Rep. Foley resigns over e-mails
 

He was chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. Hide in plain sight.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page. [more]

What I think is fucked is the way abc has the transcripts of the chat sessions on their site. The double standard when porn is acceptable drive me nuts. NOT okay for pornographers to make money on porn, but perfectly acceptable for ABC to do it.

The chat is very explicit with Foley asking the kid how he masturbates, where he shoots it, how often, blah blah blah and the kid talking about how he humps his bed on his knees, etc.

On fucking ABC's website.

Pretty soon the only place it will be legal to publish porn is on "news" sites and media venues when they report on the lurid details of someone else who actually has the sex or makes the porn and gets in trouble or arrested for it.

Over here (England) we have a daily newspaper published by a company part owned by a 'top shelf' magazine publisher, and part owned by a guy who runs Europe's largest chain of sex shops. It is sold as a 'proper' newspaper, and does have the main 'proper' news stories, but most of it's articles are of sex related news written to look like 'exposes' but actually just to titillate. It also prints photos of topless women to illustrate it's articles where possible, and used to print the 'nipple count' (the number of naked nipples in the issue) on the cover as a selling point. But it still considers itself as a 'proper' newspaper, and sells itself as such.

The most annoying aspect of the publication is that it uses it's articles to sell its owner's products. For example there was a two page article on a "sex cruise", condemning the fact that a filmmaker "lured" women into a two week cruise, then once at sea had sex with all the women and filmed it. The article made it clear that this was "disgusting" and condemned it. It also condemned the fact that the guy was selling the film on video. Then the article finished by saying that the journalist had seen the video and it was the most obscene film he had ever see. "But you can judge for yourself, send £19.99 plus £2.99 postage for the video, or £29.99 for the DVD to...... (publisher's address)". Oh, and the article failed to mention that the film's production company/distributor owned a 50% share of the paper.

WoooHooo, Another one goes down
 

Rep. Foley Quits In Page Scandal
Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page.

In Congress, Rep. Foley (R-FL) was part of the Republican leadership and the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...092901574.html

hmmmm i guess he wanted to make sure at least 1 wasn't missing. :D

See this one was sweet. The chance of a Democrat beating Foley in that district was slim to none. But now, the Republicans have to scramble and they are out of time. So, here is a Congressional seat that was never going to be a Democrats and suddenly will be.

I don't know how many here will remember the Congressional Page sex scandal of 1983, but to bring back some humor from those days...

Do you know why Congressmen don't use bookmarks?

They prefer to bend their pages over.

|jester|

Hehehe!! That is fascinating! I wonder how long it will be before our "news" outlets in the states stoop to such levels.

That just goes to show that stimulating people's judgemental ire, sense of shame about sex AND their sexual curiosity is a recipe for sales, though.

Have you folks heard yet - Congress has known about this for a year, and was keeping it quiet, until the first boy got tired of waiting, and went to the press on his own.

And congress has known that Foley was a boy-chaser for much longer than that - two years ago, when these conversations happened, the Page class that these boys were a part of, were warned to watch out for Foley's advances.

From this point onward anyone that attacks pornography shall be know as a "Foley".

Bill - actually some of the pages from 2001 are coming forward now and saying that their "handler" had warned them about him back 5 years ago.

Unfortunately for congress this may finally blow up the whole scandal that got brushed under the rug back in 1989 - but then that was just teen boys being taken for "tours" of the whitehouse at 1 in the morning - seems George Jr when he was the presidential son had a thing for boys (although most know he still does) - but most of that has stayed hidden since the guy that was bringing the boys in "got suicided" a few years back

too fucking early
 

I wonder how Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell feel about putting a sodomite in as president??? Oh wait.. they probably keep him amply supplied. |jester|

If the Democrats can successfully make public a list of "who knew and did nothing", perhaps a few more incumbent Republicans will lose their seats.

Unfortunately the speaker and the house leader were very smart in asking for the DOJ to investigate - they can now legally say they cannot comment on anything until the investigation is over which Im sure will be way after the elections

The pedo checked into rehab.
He blames the booze.

Democrats and Republicans never fail to validate my decision to always vote LIBERTARIAN. Both parties base decisions on popular opinion (or what they perceive as popular), not the rule of law.

He's from Florida. It's illegal to use a paper trail to verify a vote. Jeb Bush will decide each and every election in the state and won't even need the judges to help him.

These guys stay in office for so long they think they are above the law.
The president can only stay in office for two terms, why can senators and congressmen stay forever?
Oh, that's right they make the laws |banghead| .

And now after the ruckus/speeches the Repubs made yesterday about getting the FBI involved to investigate - seems the FBI already knew about this back in July and didnt do anything about it either

They are busy worrying about this industry having preditory practices when iots quite obvious thats designed to keep the spot light off them.

This guy is responsibile for drafting the "child porn" law when its obvious he was more interested in queering off with young boys.

Religious Right Strangely Silent About Foley
 

I've been waiting to hear what the RR and the soccer moms have to say.|yawn|

"Odd, isn't it? The same people who can move their followers to boycott any company that believes gay people even have the right to exist, can't muster much outrage over one of their own preying on young boys and, more importantly, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives ignoring it to save their political hides."

"In fairness to the FRC, they did finally issue a press release from Tony Perkins late Monday, saying that he is "shocked by this spectacle of aberrant sexual behavior." They then turned right around and subtly placed the blame on the gay community, saying that "this is the end result of a society that rejects sexual restraints in the name of diversity."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/200...uffpost/030820

Of course they have to blame it on the gays, he blamed it on them (clergyman) and the booze. This one will be on spin cycle at least until the elections are over.

After 10 years of republicans making careers out of politicising Clinton having sex with Monica I love how they've changed their tune and keep saying "It's a shame how some people want to politicize this and ignore the real issue".

The real issue is that when this political party knew about this pedophile they had the Reelection Campaign Chair deal with it instead of trying to protect the kids. To me, that's the real issue.

If the guy was just a pedo and resigned that's not a big deal but the republicans were trying to cover it up for political gain and ignored those kids.

It's really sad how the religious leaders are following suit. Jesus would have had this guy resign in August 2005 and any one that follows his teachings would have done the same.

I have to LOL about this situation as much as possible for it just pisses me off more and more. The whole time they are craming 2257 down honest people in the adult industry with the protect the children speach they were protecting one of their own that was hitting on minors.

News just stated that he was in one of those chats with the minor when he was suppose to be voting on funding for the Iraq war. Nice!

Just hoping this party self destructs :)

Ran across this when I was looking up some info on his replacement. Now I realize that the list is biased because it only lists repugs not dems, but, I don't even have an adjective to describe what I feel about these pervs after reading it.

Compendium of Republican Sex Scandals Involving Children
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/1732583.php

And they want to call us pervs.|catfight|