Foley Quits Amid Allegations of Email Sex Scandal

Question, what evidence leads you to this conclusion, or is it merely conjecture?

McTag wrote:

Like, if the boot was on the other foot, the Republicans would keep a dignified silence? Uh-huh.

It would be just another Democrat obsessed with sex. Big deal.

Well, guys, the Foley scandal is over. Denny said that he takes full responsibility. I assume that this means that he will quickly resign and take criminal and civil responsibility.

This reminds me of when Bush took full responsibility for the the Katrina failures.

McTag wrote:

Like, if the boot was on the other foot, the Republicans would keep a dignified silence? Uh-huh.

It would be just another Democrat obsessed with sex. Big deal.

Ticomaya wrote:

McTag wrote:

Like, if the boot was on the other foot, the Republicans would keep a dignified silence? Uh-huh.

It would be just another Democrat obsessed with sex. Big deal.

Man, do you even believe the shyt you spout?

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Latest Republican Strategy -- Blame the Victims
(Cenk Uyger, Huffington Post, October 6, 2006)

The latest news on the Mark Foley sex scandal and cover-up is that the Republican proxies are taking the offensive -- against the young victims.
I often wind up having the urge to tell people that I'm not kidding when I report the absurd tactics of the right these days. But, really, who attacks the teenage victims of a sexual predator?

It's hard to imagine that anyone could sink that low. In this case, we don't have to imagine it. Here are the people proudly attacking the kids: Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh and Right-Wing Bloggers.

Matt Drudge started the new blame game earlier this week when he flat out attacked the young boys as "beasts" and said they were "egging on" the "poor congressman." I couldn't believe it when I saw it in print, either.
Drudge continued on the war path yesterday when he accused the victims of playing a prank on that "poor congressman." It was the kids' fault.

They had it coming. Not that this story needed refuting, but just to be sure ABC News talked to the pages and they said this was no prank. They were asked many times about sex acts, told to get undressed and talk about their penis by the "poor congressman."

Now imagine if this happened to your kids and right-wingers started attacking them like this. Man, how angry would you be?

Rush Limbaugh, undeterred by the proof offered by ABC News or by any semblance of a conscience, soon picked up on this strategy and started hypothesizing that the kids were the ones who started all this. That they were pulling some sort of prank like he used to when he was kid.

Remember, Limbaugh also said Abu Ghraib was nothing more than a prank. What kind of sick pranks did Limbaugh play as a kid?

Limbaugh finished off the attack on the victims by accusing them of gay bashing. That's what we call ironic. Pot we have Mr. Kettle on the line for you. Yeah, it must have been those beasts that were tricking the poor congressman into asking about their penises, over and over.

I'll amend what I said earlier, Tico: you may not be a jerk... but you do act like one

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

I'll amend what I said earlier, Tico: you may not be a jerk... but you do act like one

Cycloptichorn

I'm sure that's only your perception because you have found yourself on the wrong end of a barb or two tossed your way by yours truly.

Now, in this case, all it appears I did to elicit a "jerk" characterization from you was post an Ann Coulter article and announce that I find her entertaining. It seems you either have a lot of anger or resentment built up inside you towards Ann, or that anger is directed towards me.

But doubtless you perceive your own actions/behavior to be above reproach.

As for Ann, I don't have anger towards her at all, I just pity her deep-set need to insult people as an attention-getting device. I think most of those who find her to be funny have the same need.

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

As for Ann, I don't have anger towards her at all, I just pity her deep-set need to insult people as an attention-getting device. I think most of those who find her to be funny have the same need.

Cycloptichorn

Sounds like a personal problem. All I did was post her article, while you on the other hand, decided to insult me with no provocation. And your explanation is you insulted me because you think I'm someone who has a "deep-set need to insult people"?

You have to see the irony.

I'm curious, when was the last time you observed me insult someone as an "attention getting device"?

Ticomaya wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

As for Ann, I don't have anger towards her at all, I just pity her deep-set need to insult people as an attention-getting device. I think most of those who find her to be funny have the same need.

Cycloptichorn

Sounds like a personal problem. All I did was post her article, while you on the other hand, decided to insult me with no provocation. And your explanation is you insulted me because you think I'm someone who has a "deep-set need to insult people"?

You have to see the irony.

I'm curious, when was the last time you observed me insult someone as an "attention getting device"?

Posting an article by Coulter, is provocation for insult.

Posting articles by Coulter is, by extension, an attention-getting device, btw. You know what the reaction is going to be every time you do it, and you post it specifically to get that reaction, because it makes you happy to see people react that way.

Cycloptichorn

I often post Coulter's articles on the Bush Supporters thread, but in this case it was specifically relevant to the Foley thread. That you cannot stomach Coulter is not my problem. Your options do include scrolling past the article. Instead, you exhibited a lack of self-control, and chose to insult me.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Posting an article by Coulter, is provocation for insult.

You mean you cannot resist the urge to insult someone because they posted an article relevant to the subject matter of the thread, simply because you don't like the author of the article? [..]

I often post Coulter's articles on the Bush Supporters thread, but in this case it was specifically relevant to the Foley thread. That you cannot stomach Coulter is not my problem. Your options do include scrolling past the article. Instead, you exhibited a lack of self-control, and chose to insult me.

Do you even realize how easy it is to yank your chain?