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October 03, 2006 ( politics )
I have to admit that watching the GOP spin cycle try to deal with Foley is like watching the spin cycle when you finally get around to tossing your mud-caked tennis shoes in the wash. You wince, but somehow, it's still amusing. Case in point, the GOP was covering for Foley not to loose face with the zealot right, but to be sensitive to gays:
Gingrich suggested that House Republican leaders would have been responding "overly aggressively" if they took action against Foley after reading his alleged emails because "the actual notes were relatively innocuous, there was nothing sexual in those notes."
Maybe they should've looked not at the emails (which merely complimented the fitness of various pages, asked for pictures, and ages), and looked at the instant messaging transcripts from 2003 (via ABCNews):
Maf54 (7:46:33 PM): did any girl give you a haand job this weekendXxxxxxxxx (7:46:38 PM): lol no
Xxxxxxxxx (7:46:40 PM): im single right now
Xxxxxxxxx (7:46:57 PM): my last gf and i broke up a few weeks agi
Maf54 (7:47:11 PM): are you
Maf54 (7:47:11 PM): good so your getting horny
Xxxxxxxxx (7:47:29 PM): lol...a bit
Maf54 (7:48:00 PM): did you spank it this weekend yourself
Xxxxxxxxx (7:48:04 PM): no
Xxxxxxxxx (7:48:16 PM): been too tired and too busy
Maf54 (7:48:33 PM): wow...
Maf54 (7:48:34 PM): i am never to busy haha
At the end of the day, it's sad that the GOP was covering for what looks to be four years of pedophilia and sexual harassment by Foley, it's sad that Foley is such a putz, and it's really, really, really sad that one of our elected officials can't even get your/you're right.
BTW - keep a barf bag handy if you start reading the ABCNews chat transcripts.
Posted by griffjon at October 3, 2006 09:24 AM
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