Sadly, on Malkin’s website, she’s also shopping around the whole conspiracy theory defense angle.
I don’t get how someone could be this stupid. If anything, the guy should have been fired just for displaying unprecedented levels of dumbassitude. It’s past the point I can muster up outrage. I’m just astounded.
It’s one (stupid) thing to engage in sexually explicit flirting with a minor. It’s another (stupid) thing to partake in such behavior with a kid who works for you. It’s another (stupid) thing to do that and be a highly visible politician at the same time. It’s another (stupid) thing to do that as a visible politician, while being a staunch proponent for measures to protect minors from sexual predation.
But he didn’t quit there.
Why did it never occur to him that sending all these skeevy messages electronically was not a good idea? All it would have taken is one nosy parent, one careless teen who forgot to log off the computer, or one mistaken addition to the “To:” field, and he would have been caught with his cock in hand. And did he forget how gossipy kids are, especially when they’re caught in uniquely absurd situations? If I had been that page, I would have printed those IM’s out and showed them to my friends for endless hours of laughs. Maybe that’s just me, though.
I learned what a complete fucking moron Ben Stein is during the whole Terry Schiavo debacle.
That he and others in the Republican party are now trying to blame the Democrats for Foley’s behavior and the apparent party cover-up is utterly reprehensible. I become more and more disgusted by Republicans on a daily basis.
Foley’s writing his auto-biography. Apparently it’s a real page turner.
Dang, we’re already on our sixth page. We’re no better than Mark Foley. 
I’ve seen that!
Over 5 years ago, an employee sent a tender romantic email to her husband from work.
But she accidentally managed to get in the to: field the group <all email addresses company-wide>. This in a corporation with 200,000 employees over 48 states, and emails addresses to the store manager & department managers at about 1/4 of the grocery stores in the USA.
The email wasn’t that bad (PG rating at best), but I still presume she was much embarassed.
(Personally, I thought the IT staff who allowed such wide-ranging email groups to be set up, and allowed every single email user to access them should have been embarassed, too.)
Years ago, I saw a 20/20 (?) special where Ben Stein said he had to send his teenaged son to a boarding school because he thought his son was playing too much Everquest.
That was about the last of my respect for Ben Stein right there.
Please remember that at any age ,dogearing pages is sexual harrasment. He after all is a powerful congress man and they are lowly pages.
There were emails asking if they wanted to get a ride from the airport. This implies more thanj lewd emails.
AP News Alert: The attorney for former Rep. Mark Foley says Foley was molested by a member of the clergy as a teenager.
:rolleyes: Because no one was buying the alcoholism excuse.
Obviously the priest got him drunk on communion wine, snuck him through a crowd of flag-burners into a courthouse without the Ten Commandments, tricked him into watching pornography, molested him, and then forced him to have an abortion; so it’s not his fault.
Was the priest a Democrat too?
Weren’t you paying attention? He already said that the priest was a homosexual pedalphile!
<to the tune of “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria”>
He writes email and asks for more
His shorts are on the floor
He measures length, girth and ages
And whistles for the pages
And underneath his moral stance
He plots his next advance
I even heard he’s Cruising into rehab.
He always IM’s the teens
But his penitence is real
He’s always begs for everything
Except for female tail.
I hate to have to say it
But I very firmly feel
Foley’s not an asset to the congress-
I’d like to say a word in his behalf
Foley’s dilemma… makes me laugh
How do you solve a problem like Mark Foley?
How do you catch a page and pin him down?
How do you find a word that means Mark Foley?
An eblephile! A page turner! A clown!
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell him
Many a thing he ought to understand
But how do you make him stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep the jerk outta “rehab”?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Mark Foley?
The pages hold his moonbeam in their hands.
When I’m with him I’m confused
Out of focus and bemused
And I never know exactly where I am
As predictable as prattle
He’s as horny as all cattle
He’s predatory! He’s a demon! He likes lambs!
He’d outpester any ped
Drive a hornet from its nest
He could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
He is gentle! he likes 'em wild!
He’s a riddle! (not to a child)!
He’s a headache! For the Reps!
What can they twirl?
How do you solve a problem like Mark Foley?
How do you catch a page and pin him down?
How do you find a word that means Mark Foley?
A pedophile! A sad pervert! A clown!
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell him
Many a thing he ought to understand
But how do you make him stay
And listen to all you say
How do you stop him emailing lads?
How do you solve a problem like Mark Foley?
How do you catch a page and pin him down?
How do make him stay?
And listen to all you say,
How do you guide the page to your hand?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Mark Foley?
How do you catch a page and pin him down?
An unnatural beast, a homo, a clown…
The priest was a black, unwed mother, illegal alien on welfare who got her job as part of a racial quota and received three undeserved Purple Hearts in Vietnam; political affiliation is unknown.
He had a thing for bikes?
Yes. (Warning, not for prudes.)
OH! MY! GOD! I ride a bike all the time! I had no idea! Kinda late in the game to find out stuff like this, esp. since I didn’t like 16 year old boys when I was a 16 year old boy!
Man, I’m gonna have to give this some thought.
Dag, that’s some hot gay porn. From Amazon! Who’da thunk?
The real question is, have you ever avoided sex using the bicycle excuse?
Daniel