"It might not hurt to remember that one man is a true victim and has been hugely damaged, Rep. Mark Foley. I know he's suffering. He has honor and shame."
*Snort.* *Guffaw* *Snort* Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
In case you've missed it, the latest meme to get floated from the Republican Damage Control Center is that Foley was neither gay nor alcoholic nor attracted to handsome young congressional pageboys: he was the victim of a prank. The page who broke the story was actually having a little bit of fun, trying to goad a congressman into posting naughty bits. Foley was just "going along" with the embarassing joke. It is the pages who did the IM'ing with Foley who are guilty of sexually harassing this poor, innocent congressman. Years of exposure to lobbyists have evidently left him vulnerable to any come-on that sounds plausible.
There's also a lot of blame-the-victim going on. Apparently Foley found a page who was queer and began playing on his youth and attraction, and therefore the pageboy is responsible for this disaster because he's gay. Which, by the way, is the other meme floating around Congress, and one that's sure to get the rabidly anti-homosexual crowd frothing at the mouth: that the scandal would never have broken if it weren't for the Homosexual Cabal of Congressional Aides and Pages who conspired to take a small pecadillo and extract as much damage from it as possible, leaking the IMs and emails to the press in dribbles and drabs in the hopes of hurting the holier-than-thou homo-haters in congress.
This is getting just more and more bizarre.
*Snort.* *Guffaw* *Snort* Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
In case you've missed it, the latest meme to get floated from the Republican Damage Control Center is that Foley was neither gay nor alcoholic nor attracted to handsome young congressional pageboys: he was the victim of a prank. The page who broke the story was actually having a little bit of fun, trying to goad a congressman into posting naughty bits. Foley was just "going along" with the embarassing joke. It is the pages who did the IM'ing with Foley who are guilty of sexually harassing this poor, innocent congressman. Years of exposure to lobbyists have evidently left him vulnerable to any come-on that sounds plausible.
There's also a lot of blame-the-victim going on. Apparently Foley found a page who was queer and began playing on his youth and attraction, and therefore the pageboy is responsible for this disaster because he's gay. Which, by the way, is the other meme floating around Congress, and one that's sure to get the rabidly anti-homosexual crowd frothing at the mouth: that the scandal would never have broken if it weren't for the Homosexual Cabal of Congressional Aides and Pages who conspired to take a small pecadillo and extract as much damage from it as possible, leaking the IMs and emails to the press in dribbles and drabs in the hopes of hurting the holier-than-thou homo-haters in congress.
This is getting just more and more bizarre.
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