Thursday, October 05, 2006

The Important Questions About Rep. Mark Foley

When Republican Congressman, Mark Foley is caught engaging in dirty talk with an underage male page on the internet, "No Spin Guru" Bill O'Reilly gets in there and asks the really tough questions: Was this information leaked by the Democrats?

That's right. Because when a creepy old man is sending sexually charged e-mails to teenaged boys from his Capitol Hill office, and the entire thing was fully known by the House of Representatives' Republican leadership (the "rapidly-going-down-in-flames" Dennis Hastert)as early as three years ago, the real issue is whether or not the Democrats were the ones who informed you. Not that an elected official has a taste for soft, supple, boyflesh.

That sort of right-thinking is to be expected from a man who unabashedly suckles at the teat of right-wing America's elephant mascot. He probably blamed the Democrats for exposing his sexual harassment lawsuit, too.

And let's not forget Fox News' Sean Hannity, in his desperation to show that Democrats are still the Hell-spawned evil that was prophesized in the Bible (that part is in the back; don't go looking for it), brought up a similar incident involving a Democrat in recent past...23 years ago. I didn't catch the name of the person he was referring to because I was still shocked and awed by the size of the balls it would take to refer to "23 years ago" as "the recent past" with a straight face. 23 years is long enough for all your old clothes to come back in style.

Then, when he had the Democrats on the ropes, he played his trump card…the Bill Clinton incident. Of course, he was conveniently forgetting the fact that Monica Lewinsky was well above the age of legal consent (22)….and a woman. They impeached him for that. If Clinton had tried to proposition young boys back when he was President, the Republicans probably would have called for him to be castrated on live TV.

Last but not least, Fox News, in all of their coverage, has begun labeling Mark Foley as a Democrat, whenever they show his name during telecasts. Could have been a typo, could be political distancing. But I wouldn't bet on the typo.

Republicans, just accept that your boy is a pervert and that Dennis Hastert knew, as reported by ABC's Brian Ross (on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show, ironically enough). This is just the latest example of why you shouldn't watch Fox News. Only two people are really in danger of losing their jobs (Foley already resigned and Hastert was already under fire before this), yet the Fox Spin Doctors are out in full force, as if Dubya was caught bathing in the blood of puppies while having sex with his own daughters and eating the wings of angels. Is there really any reason to lie like this?

Nothing says "family values" like underage gay sex. Or spin doctoring. Vote GOP!

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