# "Do I make you a little horny? Well strip down and get naked!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687 "2006-09-30T01:54:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/261 "2006-10-03T16:09:15Z")
Limbaugh jumps in: > [@](#): > > ``` > LIMBAUGH: I'm just thinking out loud here. What if somebody got to the page and said, you know, we want you to set Foley up. We need to do a little titillating thing here. Keep it and save it and so forth. How would you get a kid to do that? Yeah, who knows? You threaten him or pay him. There's any number of ways given the kind of people that we're dealing with and talking about here. > > Now, folks, I don't want to be misunderstood here. I'm not trying to mount any kind of a defense. That's a bad word. I'm not trying to get into a defense of what Mark Foley did. Please don't misunderstand. I'm just telling you that the -- the -- the orgy and the orgasm that has been taking place in the media since Friday and with the Democrats is -- it's all coordinated, and it's all -- it's all oriented toward the election. There's no concern about the kid -- no concern about the children. > > There is -- there is -- there's not even any real problem with what Foley did, as we've discussed. In their hearts and minds and their crotches, they don't have any problem with what Foley did. They've defended it over the -- over the years. > > ``` That’s ridiculous in so many ways, I’m not even gonna pick one or two. It speaks for itself. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/262 "2006-10-03T16:12:04Z")
[Limbaugh jumps in](http://mediamatters.org/items/200610020013) Left out the link, doggonit. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/263 "2006-10-03T16:14:00Z")
Does anyone still really listen to that junkie anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/264 "2006-10-03T16:18:49Z")
His Vicodin dealers, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/265 "2006-10-03T16:18:54Z")
I wonder if Limbaugh is even aware of the hypocrisy inherent in his own blathering somments. He first makes a loud suggestion that this kid was in on a conspiracy to “se Foley up,” then in the next breath, he goes on to lament the imagined lack of “concern for the children” on the part of Democrats. Does he even realize he just smeared the victim? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/266 "2006-10-03T16:22:46Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I wonder if Limbaugh is even aware of the hypocrisy inherent in his own blathering somments. He first makes a loud suggestion that this kid was in on a conspiracy to “se Foley up,” then in the next breath, he goes on to lament the imagined lack of “concern for the children” on the part of Democrats. Does he even realize he just smeared the victim? [/QUOTE] It’s been a Talking Point since the weekend. Drudge was the first one to spew it, then the rest of the Rightie mouthpieces lapped it up. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/267 "2006-10-03T16:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] It’s been a Talking Point since the weekend. Drudge was the first one to spew it, then the rest of the Rightie mouthpieces lapped it up. [/QUOTE] Have they invoked the idea that congress is a [behavioral sink](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink) for Republicans yet? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/268 "2006-10-03T16:34:53Z")
The Republicans are really trying to hang this on the Democrats. The WSJ says it is liberals fault because we are too tolerant of gays, Ben Stein said the same thing, so did Newt Gingrich. Katherine Harris wants an investigation on who in the Democratic party knew about this and kept it from the Republicans (WTF?!) and Rush and Drudge say Democrats set Foley up (kind of like Marion Barry’s “the bitch set me up”). Given how well they work the machine, how complacent the media is, and how little may voters pay attention, I think they very well might suceed. I think you’ll see some of the party hacks on these boards spouting some combination of the above arguments before the week is out. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/269 "2006-10-03T16:37:35Z")
[QUOTE=madmonk28] Given how well they work the machine, how complacent the media is, and how little may voters pay attention, I think they very well might suceed. I think you’ll see some of the party hacks on these boards spouting some combination of the above arguments before the week is out. [/QUOTE] Voters will pay attention because the scandal involves sex. It’s ridiculous that this might be what brings about political change in our country–not the war, not encroachments on civil liberties, not bigotry against homosexuals, not the health care crisis–but that’s how our country works. Nobody ever went broke overestimating the prurience of the American public. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/270 "2006-10-03T16:42:28Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] Voters will pay attention because the scandal involves sex. [/QUOTE] I hate to say it, but it looks like the Pubbies were right; sex makes a marvelous cudgel with which to batter your political opponents. If we had known the Pubs were more morally dissolute than we are, we would have employed it sooner. That’s what we get for believing their glurge about family values. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/271 "2006-10-03T16:56:24Z")
I think it should be said in all fairness that not all the usual conservative pundits have shown themselves as hypocrites and moral frauds in this case. I happened to catch a bit of Michelle Malkin on Fox New yesterday talking about the foley scandal. I was braced for the worst but you could have knocked me over with a feather when she not only went right after Hastert but also the Republicans in general for trying to spin their way out of it. She specifically criticized the _tu quoque_ tactics and said the party had to confront this and deal with it as their own problem if they wanted to preserve any moral credibilty. I was amazed. She wasn’t trying to spin anything at all. Then they said Ann Coulter was going to on shortly so I changed the channel. I wanted to quit while I was ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/272 "2006-10-03T16:59:51Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Then they said Ann Coulter was going to on shortly so I changed the channel. I wanted to quit while I was ahead. [/QUOTE] I started to write a post parodying Ann Coulter’s style, but I can’t bring myself to do it. She’s that vile. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/273 "2006-10-03T17:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I think it should be said in all fairness that not all the usual conservative pundits have shown themselves as hypocrites and moral frauds in this case. [/quote] Apparently there _is_ some stuff so filthy that even a Republican won’t wallow in it. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/274 "2006-10-03T17:25:29Z")
[QUOTE=Orbifold] Originally Posted by madmonk28 Ben Stein said this scandal is the Democrats fault because the Democratic Party is the party of homosexuals and… …wow. Ben Stein is an _asshole_. [/QUOTE] Is he saying that Foley was a closet Democrat _too_? And **wring** , I don’t get your point about Chandra Levy. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/275 "2006-10-03T17:46:14Z")
It _IS_ amazing if this is what brings down the Republicans, as opposed to the party’s support of legal torture, erosion of human rights and civil liberties, a tragic, misguided war, etc., as **Left Hand** said. Sadly, I wouldn’t be too astonished if it comes out that there were a Democrat or two who knew about Foley but thought “there but for the grace of God, go I” and were afraid the binocs would swing in their direction next if it all came out. What makes it even so much worse for the Republicans is the hypocracy, with that party loving to spout “family values” and all the anti-gay rhetoric. And one of their own, head of the center for exploited children no less, being found out as an old closeted chicken hawk. ---
**Author:** ![the\_PC\_apeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_PC\_apeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_PC_apeman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/276 "2006-10-03T17:49:27Z")
Gah! [Andrew Sullivan](http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/10/super_adventure.html) picks up on a weird twist: Foley and the Super Adventure Club (aka Scientology). [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/foley\_and\_scientolog.html](http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/foley_and_scientolog.html) [http://www.wonkette.com/politics/scientology/battlefield-foley-204681.php](http://www.wonkette.com/politics/scientology/battlefield-foley-204681.php) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/277 "2006-10-03T17:58:59Z")
What nobody realizes is that poor Mark Foley was only trying to play matchmaker, setting up young Republican pages with dates with the daughters of the Majority Leader. **That’s** why he kept telling them he wanted to see them with a Boehner! ::: ducks and runs :::: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/278 "2006-10-03T18:19:11Z")
\ That whole Limbaugh bit made me sick. They will stop at nothing. I wonder how many GOPers\* will notice this and start to (finally) think, hey-what is up with Rush? I won’t hold my breath. \*like my MIL who thinks he speaks truth. I got an odd phone call yesterday. It was a guy named Ernie from the RNC (my husband is a registered Rep) wanting to know if I supported the party. I repeated his question and asked if he meant me. He corrected himself and said he meant my husband. I had the joy of informing Ernie that my husband has become Libertarian and that I am a Democrat. He hung up faster than I did. Made me pause… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/279 "2006-10-03T18:22:31Z")
[QUOTE=ThePCapeman] > **[Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things](https://boingboing.net/)** > > Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still... [http://www.wonkette.com/politics/scientology/battlefield-foley-204681.php](http://www.wonkette.com/politics/scientology/battlefield-foley-204681.php) [/QUOTE] What the slippery **fuck**??? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687/280 "2006-10-03T18:51:35Z")
This just keeps getting [better](http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/new_foley_insta.html) > [@](#): > > Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as a congressional page, according to new Internet instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages. The guy interrupted a vote to go have a cyberwank with a high school kid? And the GOP leadership knew all about this guy? Unbelievable. What a gift for the Dems. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-make-you-a-little-horny-well-strip-down-and-get-naked/374687.md?page=15)