Page Turners [Updated]
Well, we’ve been watching to see who’d bite the rancid squid giblets dangled in the water by one Wild Bill, of a blog called Passionate America. He’s the guy with the press release below about outing the identity of one of the pages whom Foley was harassing — which he did yesterday in a lavishly-illustrated and -annotated post, in a fusillade of self-congratulation and approving linkage.
Think Progress has a piece today:
Pajamas Media, Instapundit Facilitate Outing Of Foley Victim
An obscure right-wing blogger, Wild Bill, has outed one of Mark Foley’s victims, a former Congressional page. It is a despicable act. Wild Bill however, gets almost no traffic, so the damage done to the victim’s life could have been minimal.
All that ended, however, when some of the most highly-trafficked right-wing bloggers decided to direct their readers to Wild Bill’s site. First, Roger L. Simon, co-founder and CEO of Pajamas Media — a portal and advertising broker for nearly every major right-wing blog — posted a link to Wild Bill on his personal site. (The Pajamas Media portal also linked to Wild Bill.) Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit — probably the most highly-trafficked right-wing blog — followed suit by linking to Simon’s post and the Pajamas Media post.
Other links include such usual-suspects as Brent Bozell’s Newsbusters, Ace of Spades HQ, and the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.
Here’s the lead to Newsbusters‘ uniquely-spun and breathless take on the story, since echoed in a statement by Dennis Hastert:
Identity of Foley IM Individual Revealed Due to ABC News Error
Posted by Terry Trippany on October 4, 2006 – 22:16.ABC news mistakenly released the IM identity of the page who exchanged IM messages with former Rep. Mark Foley. Bloggers Wild Bill from Passionate America and Ms. Underestimated tracked the AOL profile from the unredacted IM message and are reporting that the person is a 21 year old Deputy Campaign Manager for Congressman Ernest Istook in Oklahoma.
The current age of the person would put him at 17 or 18 years of age at the time of the IM exchange although ABC released a statement saying that the messages took place before and after the man’s 18th birthday.
Further, the bloggers discovered that the indivudual was a member of the departing 2001-2002 Page class. A check of the Thomson Library of congress shows that the person was not a member of the 2003 class.
Apparently, then, it’s ABC’s responsibility for allowing the page’s anonymous IM alias to appear on-screen early in their coverage, before redacting it. If a right-wing blogger on the Internet chooses to exhaustively research that alias, digging up photos and personal information, then trumpets the findings in a press release — culminating in a post linked and publicized by a major flotilla of high-visibility right-wing chatterers, including Bozell’s foundation-funded Newsbusters — it is apparently ABC’s responsibility, and no one else’s.
This particular page was 17 at the time the IMs began, not 16. Therefore…something. Media bias, Democrats, Clinton, bla. But note the weasel phrase above, “17 or 18 years of age,” and the “although” before the ABC statement. Since the page’s birthday was disclosed, a translation into clear English yields a result like this: “The current age of the person shows that the IM exchanges began when he was 17 years old and continued after he turned 18. ABC released a statement saying this.” Newsbusters doesn’t hire the best. They mimic the standard form of GOP misinformation well enough, but often ruin their efforts with obvious fudges and childlike fibbing.
The best spin yet, in this vein, was from a radio host last night (probably Drudge, although they all run together when you listen to them in series) who said that this new data is evidentiary and newsworthy because it “brings [the page] closer in age to Monica Lewinsky.” Yes, that leaves only five more years to go past his actual age. One must also note that if you go the other way and subtract the difference between Lewinsky’s age and the page’s, circa date of encounter, he becomes 12 years old. This is exactly as meaningful as the prior mathematical exercise.
From Instapundit’s fatal post, a reader disputes the newsworthiness of the page’s exposure:
UPDATE: A reader emails: “Do you really think no one in the Republican leadership has bothered to go back and look at the file to see how old the page actually was?”
To which he replies, propellor spinning on his beanie (on which, since the Foley Scandal, an applique patch of the GOP elephant smoking medical marijuana has been hastily Sharpie-Markered out and replaced with ‘As I said yesterday, I never really took sides politically’):
A competent Republican leadership certainly would have, but that’s pretty much already been ruled out, right?
Yup. And if there’s a fire down below, you know these guys all gonna go.
They’ve ceded the moral high ground to Michelle Malkin on this one.
Sick, sick, sick.
If that’s part of a criminal investigation, Wild Bill may be in trouble for releasing it. In some states (not sure if it’s federal or not), it’s against the law to reveal the identity of a minor involved a criminal investigation, even if the minor has since come of legal age. (There’s a big gray here that I don’t know the details on.) In some states it’s also against the law to reveal the identity of the victim in a criminal case.
Ironically, these laws were passed by victims’ rights groups with the support of all the people who fume that liberals “coddle criminals” and such–unless the accused criminal is in your party, then it’s “setting the record straight” or something.
IOKIYAR. rinse, repeat..
It’s in the FBI’s purview now anyway, since its crossing state lines. What are the federal laws?
I guess I’m just no longer surprised by scumbags acting like scumbags. Attacking the victim is just part of the process for the “law and order” party. I’m kind of amazed it’s taken this long, though I guess one of the blowhards on Fox was claiming the pages seduced Foley on Day 2….
Republicans protect pedophiles if they are Republican. Republicans protect torturers if they are Republican. Republicans protect foreign spies if they are Republican. Republicans protects prostitutes if they are Republican. Republicans protect drug abusers if they are Republican.
Is it a stretch to think there is a Republican drugging and sexually torturing children while selling secrets to foreign governments that we just haven’t heard about because the Republicans don’t want to lose a house seat? Because it would no longer surprise me, nor would Hannity pointing out that Clinton got a blow job which was even worse or Limbaugh telling everyone the kids brought it on themselves.
As well, the messeges which were conducted during a House vote were when the page was 18.
Therefore contradicting ABC claims that the kid was underage for that time.
ABC is doing the same thing that Dan Rather tried to do. Overly influence a federal election to try and elect Democrats.
ABC includes messages sent to one possibly older page? Liberal Media conspiracy to influence voters.
Fox labels Foley a Democrat at least 3 times? Honest mistake.
Now that we know it was evil Democrats and the librul Emm Ess EMM, can Foley unresign?
He really shouldn’t have been so hasty, since it’s so clear now he did nothing wrong.
Gaynor speaks up about Masturgate arriba!
Gary Ruppert said,
October 5, 2006 at 18:01
As well, the messeges which were conducted during a House vote were when the page was 18.
Therefore contradicting ABC claims that the kid was underage for that time.
so in your world, molestation is bad but sexual harrasment is ok? how does this affect your take on Clinton/Lewinsky?
As well, the messeges which were conducted during a House vote were when the page was 18.
Therefore contradicting ABC claims that the kid was underage for that time.
I have no idea if this is true. With Gary’s track record I kind of doubt it, but I don’t care one way or the other. I’d like to ask Gary about how it feels to be defending this. Say the dood was 18 Gary. Do you now condone homosexual advances by your republican congresscritters AS LONG as the objects of their explicit sexual advances are of age? I mean, is this what the so-called “values voters” have come to? ‘Cause to me you’re starting to sound kind of, well, liberal in your support for openly gay republican politicians. The difference between this position and liberals is you just don’t seem to have a moral line. You’re all over the place, as long as it protects the power of your political party. Do you feel dirty, used? ‘Cause you look like a hypocritical tool to me…
mikey
I wonder why the page insisted on telling Foley he was under 18 then?
As though this one kid is the only one Foley was trying to diddle.
Please PLEASE Republicans, continue making a big stink about this one. Hang your asses all the way out making justifications for why it’s perfectly not creepy for a fifty year-old to be trolling high school kids of any age for booty.
More of this, please.
Y’know, Goatboy’s right (again). It’s kinda funny to watch. It’s like they know it’s actually hurting their cause, but they can’t help themselves. They have been so indoctrinated in the Rovian approach to politics, the utter necessity to smear, attack and destroy ANY critic, any threat, that they really can’t stop. So now they look in the mirror and they see them outting a harassment victim, smearing innocent teenagers and supporting a sexual predator, and they know it’s not helping. But they seem to have lost their moorings to the point that they don’t have another way to react…
mikey
Gary, is it your contention, then, that it’s perfectly okay for a member of Congress to send sexually explicit e-mails and instant messages to 16- and 17-year-olds under his authority, as long as he doesn’t do so during a House vote?
Please, Gary, keep defending Foley. And tell your elected representatives to do so as well.
Ruppert is making serious accusations.
It’s time to expose ‘his’ true identity.
Do any of you know how I could apply to get my Gary a job as a Congressional page? He’ll be 16 in a couple of months and it would be good to get him out of the house, maybe meet a nice old man who’ll take him out for icecream and backrubs?
has anyone ever posted this before?
http://www.lex-co.com/SHERIFF/29073.htm
ctrl+f “ruppert”
More Instapundit, quoting Roger Simon (keep in mind, just because Glenn linked him doesn’t mean he agrees with him. Glenn often links things he doesn’t agree with and doesn’t tell the reader that he disagrees with it, and then thinks people who think he agrees with it are stupid. It’s common sense):
Meanwhile, does anyone think it is ironic that so-called progressives who excoriated eavesdropping on terrorists are feasting on the publication of supposedly confidential email and IMs? You can forget about privacy. It no longer exists, if it ever did.
Now Roger is a widely successful screenwriter who probably doesn’t have time to check out the law, but shouldn’t Reynolds see that there is a slight difference between the two? State action? Remember that from when you were a 1L?
Please PLEASE Republicans, continue making a big stink about this one. Hang your asses all the way out making justifications for why it’s perfectly not creepy for a fifty year-old to be trolling high school kids of any age for booty.
More of this, please.
Yes but . . . the downside of this particular implosion is that it does serve the purpose of keeping everyone’s eyes on the shiny Foley object instead of the not-so-shiny-but-way-more-important news like, oh, solid proof that Condi Rice lied to the American people last week about her dereliction of duty back in the summer of 2001 . . .
Man, these republicans/conservatives are some of the ‘SICKEST FUCKS’ in the history of human evolution. Can we just hope that they are one of the off-shoots that eventually dies out?
Yes but . . . the downside of this particular implosion is that it does serve the purpose of keeping everyone’s eyes on the shiny Foley object instead of the not-so-shiny-but-way-more-important news like, oh, solid proof that Condi Rice lied to the American people last week about her dereliction of duty back in the summer of 2001 . . .
Yeah, like more evidence of negligence, stupidity, incompetence and venality’s gonna sway the election.
Follow the shiny object all the way to January’s hearings, I say!
Oh, way OT but has anybody else seen the Malkin/LGF “Leftist cabal at Digg contols teh YouTubez” thing?
Hy-LARious.
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GoatBoy said,
October 5, 2006 at 20:08
Oh, way OT but has anybody else seen the Malkin/LGF “Leftist cabal at Digg contols teh YouTubez� thing?
Hy-LARious.
Link it man.
Thanks Gavin. I would never have found that without this post!
You must have spent some time looking, because I didn’t link to it.
Maglalangadingdong
Chuckin Foad
The fact of the matter is that if the Democrats when the house, it’ll be due to this smear campaign and not due to their stances on the issues. Therefore, they’ll have no room to manuever if they have control, because they’ll have no mandate.
“Bloggers Wild Bill from Passionate America ”
After that it wasn’t hard.
Gary Ruppert said,
October 5, 2006 at 20:42
The fact of the matter is that if the Democrats when the house, it’ll be due to this smear campaign and not due to their stances on the issues. Therefore, they’ll have no room to manuever if they have control, because they’ll have no mandate.
Like that 51% wave of mandateyness GDub is still riding high on?
“Bloggers Wild Bill from Passionate America �
After that it wasn’t hard.
I believe this explains everything.
Gary Ruppert said,
October 5, 2006 at 18:01
ABC is doing the same thing that Dan Rather tried to do. Overly influence a federal election to try and elect Democrats.
In the 2004 election, the Republican Party used the federal government to “influence a federal election.” That is something the party in power has the ability to do, and always does.
The American Broadcasting Corporation is a corporation (you know, capitalism, ‘free market,’ and all that). And ABC was just fine with you all when they ran the anti-Clinton pro-Bush 9/11 movie. So, tough shit. Deal with it.
And Gavin busts out the ghotse!! It simply will NEVER die…
mikey
Citizen journalism at its finest. I can’t wait for these luminaries to start covering child abuse trials.
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Fuck
One more thing, Gary. If you haven’t been paying attention, corporations in this country influence elections all the time, and they influence government at all levels. They usually do it with great big sacks of cash.
Yes, Gary, if the dems get in it will be because of this smear campaign and therefore it WON’T REALLY COUNT and you can spend the next few years with your fingers in your ears blubbing “It don’t count! It don’t count”, okay?
has anyone ever posted this before?
http://www.lex-co.com/SHERIFF/29073.htm
ctrl+f “ruppert�
Aye carramba donde esta mi sombrero y pancho? – puto policia!
Aw, Gavin ,some of us are at work, you know… and eating.
Classy!
I believe this explains everything.
Goddammit, now my peanut-butter cup’ll have to wait.
Malkin Sez:
Strangely, my conservative YouTube group (now nearly 1,000 members strong) has also now been “flagged” for containing “content that is inappropriate for some users.”
Yeah, inappropriate for members of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage.
Oh. Now that’s just precious.
And it was all a prank
Of course the media and the left fell for it.. hook, line, and sinker
The fact is “[t]he prank scenario only applies to the Edmund IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others. “
And me.
Oh wait, what’s this: The prank scenario only applies to the Edmund IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others. Aw, crap!
I was waiting for Gary to pop up with that Drudge link. You can set your watch by the guy.
Okay, Gary, assuming for the sake of argument that the story is true:
1) Why did Foley resign?
2) It doesn’t matter to Foley’s criminal liability whether the kid was goading him or not. This is why pedophiles routinely are busted by cops posing as kids on the Internet.
Foley resigned because the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen
By the way, Smiling Mortician makes a good point up above. The Foley scandal, though very bad, is not the worst crime the Republicans have committed during their one-party rule. But it’s a microcosm of all the problems of Republican governance, and it presents them in a way the public understands easily and viscerally. I hope the story about the FBI’s role in the coverup blows up quickly.
Foley resigned because the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen.
I wonder how many more of those highly ethical Congressmen will be heading to prison for the Abramoff scandal alone.
Foley resigned because the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen
Man, you just made my day! That’s the funniest fuckin’ thing anyone has ever said, ever. I’m just glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that!
the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen
Of course they do, they just need a couple months for it to, you know, build up steam. Or years.
Foley resigned because the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen
Okay, I call Fake Gary on that one.
That’s just too funny a straight line. God, I nearly laughed up a lung.
BTW, Raw Story is reporting that Big Bad Page Outer identified the wrong frickin guy:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Blogger_outs_boy_in_Foley_scandal_1004.html
So not only did the buttwipe trash one of Foley’s victims publicly, but even got the wrong guy. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
It reminds me of a piece of doggerel:
When in Fear or in Doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.
So, Gary, the fact is that we’re all very curious what kind of contribution to the delinquency of a minor you made.
Also, the fact is that 5’8″, 185 means a bmi of 28.1, which is overweight, and closer to being obese than to a healthy norm.
Furthermore, the fact you bastards are trying to spin and qualify this scandal only reinforces for the non-partisan looker-in that you’d rationalize raping your mother if there was political value to it.
“Foley resigned because the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen.”
Gary has the Kool-Aid on IV drip.
5’8” and 185 lbs is pretty hefty for a young Mexican lad, isn’t it? And what’s with the blue eyes?
A BMI of 28.1!? He’ll never be a runway model with that physique. I hear the standards for pages are less vigorous…
This Gary guy is hilarious. And brief, for a troll. His nuggets are like little floating turds that bob back up even after multiple flushes. You guys have the best pet troll going.
I liked the old pet better.
“When in Trouble or in Doubt, / Run in circles, scream and shout… ”
The wingtards are having trouble understanding that Foley’s actions were wrong (criminal, as well as immoral and icky). Because the Wingnut Welfare Wurlitzer bases all its operas on the credo “Back in the 1950s, everything was just better!!!” And those of us who were around in the 1950s, as well as anybody who’s read anything about that glorious era beyond the novelization of the musical GREASE, knows that sexually exploiting teenagers and/or underlings was one of the “perqs” for the fine, upstanding, middle-class white Republican family man. When us moonbats insist that well-behaved, clean-cut, extremely White congressmen shouldn’t be soliciting teenagers for “special attention”, the wingtards wonder why the sacred prerogatives of the ruling classes should be abjured just because a few kids are complaining. Hey, if they’d been paying better attention, those kids would have picked up the nuances about never being alone with Congressman McFeely — this is just a “teaching experience” on the importance of heeding one’s elders! Not to mention, give them another 20 years, and those same kids would have their own pages / secretaries / children to, umm… what’s a clean-sounding synonym for “molest”, Roger?
So not only did the buttwipe trash one of Foley’s victims publicly, but even got the wrong guy. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
From Raw Story:
RAW STORY can verify that the young man in question is not the Congressional page from the emails that originally surfaced; with that in mind, a direct link to the Passionate America post is not provided here.
The “original emails” were not the IMs that ABC published. They indeed outed someone who was IMing Foley. There are at least three former pages involved so far (at least two people IMing with Foley, according to ABC, and the original emails). See also this, from the link prividedd by credulous Gary:
According to one ******** source who knows the former page very well, ******, a conservative Republican, goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.
The primary source, an ally of ******, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of ******. Both are fearful that their political careers will be affected if they are publicly brought into the investigation.
The prank scenario only applies to the ****** IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others.
The prank scenario is, on its face, actually pretty plausible. You have a congressman who is rumored to like the young boys. Maybe he sends a fishing email like the ones that originally surfaced to this kid. The kid shows it to his friends who encourage him to egg Foley on. So the kid starts IMing Foley and he and his friends start forwarding the chat logs to each other for a laugh. It certainly explains how copies of the chat logs ended up in third party’s hands. Unfortunately for Gary, this doesn’t get Foley or the rest of the congressional GOP off the hook. Those guys on Dateline think they were chatting with a 13 year old. They’re still in trouble even though they didn’t.
It’s also possible that the kid is in the closet and he and his friends are being “HE”S TOTALLY NOT TEH GAY!”
Gary’s new 2008 campaign:
Cheney/Bolton: He was 18!
What are the odds that Gary actually is Matt Drudge?
anyone?
Love the twist!!! On so many levels!
THIS is comedy, Gavin! 😀
Gaaah! This disease, this Garyotic Ruppertosis, she is everywhere. When exactly did my planet become one where it’s not only possible but standard for any media outlet to say any old batshit crazy thing as if it were, y’know, true, and then for the public to just go “Hey, didja hear?” and for nobody to do a goddamn thing about the death of truth?
*ahem*
Anyway. Think I’ll go play a rousing game of Help Hastert Hide the Perv over at HuffPo: http://helphastert.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
(No message preview? Goodness, I hope I don’t screw up any tags . . . )
I love the taste of a boy’s cum early in the morning, it tastes like sweet GOP victory.
Could someone please turn off the italics?
And has anyone else noticed that the good Professor seems to be putting on a little weight? Dr Helen, hide the Cheetos!
And has anyone else noticed that the good Professor seems to be putting on a little weight?
YES. He should take care not to pass the Michael Moore limit, beyond which he would be spurned by all wingnuttery.
Make it six:
Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley of Online Sexual Approaches
Three more former congressional pages have come forward to reveal what they call “sexual approaches” over the Internet from former Congressman Mark Foley.
The pages served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002. They independently approached ABC News after the Foley resignation through the Brian Ross & the Investigative Team’s tip line on ABCNews.com. None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications.
“I was seventeen years old and just returned to [my home state] when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked and how big their penises were,” said the page in the 2002 class.
It’s all a big prank Gary, it is all going to just go away if you wish hard enoug. Just like you do for success in Iraq.
There’s more perps. Specifically there’s more Republican perps.
It’s the easiest explanation for Foley’s and Hastert’s reactions when the story broke. Gatorade popular on congressmen’s flight home because some of them are sweating anvils right about now.
The fact is Republicans in power diddle kids.
Foley resigned because the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen
AAAAAAHH-HAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAA!!
Oh, Gary, you’re soooooooo funny!!
Hooo-hooo. That’s a good one.
Tell me another!
Rumor has it that Wild Bill outed the wrong person.
Don’t be so fast to jump on stuff —
Rumor has it that Wild Bill outed the wrong person.
Don’t be so fast to jump on stuff –
I explained this upthread. Wild Bill outed one of the pages involved, but not the page to whom Foley sent the emails that first surfaced. This “outed the wrong person” thing seems to be based on a misconception that only one Page was involved when we now know of at least six. The one to whom the original emails were sent, the two pages with whom Foley exchanged the IMs that ABC posted Friday (one of whom is the page that was outed by Wild Bill), and three more that have subsequently come forward.
The page Wild Bill outed is also the one who is (or whose friend is) claiming that he was egging Foley on.
claiming that he was egging Foley on
I don’t get it. Was the boy on the phone with Foley while they were IM’ing? were they doing two separate IM’ing? otherwise, how could he be egging him on? Just because he didn’t hang up? it makes no sense. Whether or not the boy was giving honest responses to Foley is totally irrelevant. As is whether or not he was actually upset by Foley’s IMs.
Gavin, BTW I am still traumatized by the hello jpg. I had gotten through my whole life up to this point avoiding that picture.
Wow. A whole new generation of ghotse victims. Whoda thunk. At the networld/interop show in vegas in ’96 or ’97 I was hanging with the IBM guys that were doing the show network. There was an early wireless implementation and they had rigged it so every wireless client that logged on and opened a browser session got that image by default. It was the funniest thing you’ve ever seen…
mikey
Likewise, Kathleen. Except I kind of figured that was probably what it was, and then I clicked anyway.
I’m not very smart.
It’s time to Bury the Ruppert.
“This was no prank,” said one of the three former pages who talked to ABC News today about his experience with the congressman.
What next, Gary the Ruppert? I’ve got an idea…keep digging, you’ll get out of that hole eventually.
BREAKING!!
Josh Trevino is hanging his dunce cap on the lowest peg and retiring from the Internets.
http://tacitus.org/story/2006/10/5/122756/930
How long do you give him before the withdrawals kick in?
Foley resigned because the GOP has a high ethical standard for Congressmen…
Umm… “How high is the stack o’ dollars you’ve solicited for us, McFeeley?”
Or: “Was your little indiscretion discussed on the teevee news? Okaaay… national news, or just the local stations? Been picked up by Nancy Grace yet? Um, what about late-night talk show hosts? Tell me you haven’t been featured in a SNL skit already?… ”
Mr. Ruppert, you keep using the word “ethical”, but that word does not mean what you think it means. The word you may have been looking for is exposure, and no, we do not want you to show us your Underoos, you poor Pavlovian lab rat.
TRex….
I think I’d have to be a chemist to measure time in that small of an increment.
Aren’t there some unstable isotopes that have half-lives of nanoseconds?
Oh, Gavin! That… that… picture. Jeebus. If that had been video, it woulda have to have been hosted by EeewwwTube.
I heard back from blogger, btw:
Hello,
Thank you for writing to us with your concerns. Blogger is a provider
of content creation tools, not a mediator of that content. We allow our
users to create blogs, but we don’t make any claims about the content
of these pages. In cases where contact information for the author is
listed on the page, we recommend working directly with this person to have
this information removed or changed.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
I wrote he was violating their terms of service, quoting the passage to them and telling them how he was violating it. Their TOS mean exactly nothing, and as they are now shown to ignore them completely when it’s brought to their attention that someone is using their service to break the law, it is not even the sheerest of ass-coverings against liability suits.
mikey, at the risk of looking like a n00b, what is the derivation/definition of the word “ghotse?”
more than you want to know
I particularly love this one:
My plans moving forward? Let’s just say they involve the Pope. 😉
Joshitus, he’s already GOT a bulletproof car, you can’t get him that way. Let it go, man.
Via Billmon: who could have ever anticipated this?
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1159942687135320.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating a possible threat against the north Louisiana teenager who was on the receiving end of suggestive e-mails from disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley, a Louisiana congressman said Tuesday.
Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, said Tuesday that the young man’s life wasn’t threatened, “but close to it.”
“There are people out there who feel like he is the one who (accused) Foley,” Alexander said. “There are some bloggers out there who sent him some ugly stuff.”
Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, said Tuesday that the young man’s life wasn’t threatened, “but close to it.�
Perhaps rape was mentioned.
If the threat was of a cockslapping then I’ve got a hot lead for the FBI.
How come no one points out on those boards that Monica wasn’ under age? That’s kinda of a real sticking point to this thing.
The blogger in question fucking CALLED THAT KID ON THE PHONE.
What a sick, sick, sick freak. Is that sort of thing covered under any internet stalking laws or anything? Holy shit.
I just spent ten minutes Googling and looking through archives to find this story on Wild Bill’s Passionate America or Instapundit. It’s not there. You should have linked if it was so disgraceful.
“I just spent ten minutes Googling and looking through archives to find this story on Wild Bill’s Passionate America or Instapundit. It’s not there. You should have linked if it was so disgraceful.”
Gavin busted again just making shit up. Have you no shame?
Sorry, I didn’t mean to say you were lying, but if you had a link, I would have been able to tell, “Hey, they took that page down.” Now I can’t tell where it ever existed.
the downside of this particular implosion is that it does serve the purpose of keeping everyone’s eyes on the shiny Foley object instead of the not-so-shiny-but-way-more-important news like, oh, solid proof that Condi Rice lied to the American people last week about her dereliction of duty back in the summer of 2001 . . .
The problem is, that would receive at most the same level of vigorous attention from the MSM as “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside United States.” Which is to say, nil. Habeas was revoked and the president given the power to detain and torture at his discretion last week. Wow, CNN was so all over that.
The Foley scandal shows Congressional Republicans for what they are, and it involves teh sex. The choice wasn’t between endless Foley coverage and endless coverage of what Dr. Rice knew and when she knew it, or endless Foley coverage and endless coverage of why Mr. Ashcroft started flying charter a week after his terror briefing. The choice was between endless Foley coverage and endless coverage of the Pet Rock Olympics, Jenny McBlondcelebrity’s new triplets, and whether Democrats are traitors or just completely wrong about everything.
downside, whatever.
I agree that it’s depressing that the Right Leaning Media can’t be bothered to do actual journalism about violations of the Constitution and misuses of power, as well as gross negligence, malfeasance, and just plain criminal activity by the ruling party, but find a gay sex scandal to be irresistible. (they might as well all be working for the Weekly World News)
But as long as it takes the Republicans down, HARD, I’m pretty much OK with it.
I’ll even be OK with these damn italics if it helps knock the r’s out of office.
They did it to drive traffic (especially William Kerr of Moore, OK). They were denied a hotlink here that would hepl them achieve that aim.
Conspiracy!
Noumenon, the post from Instapundit that was quoted above is on his front page right now, a little less than halfway down.
I’m not linking it ’cause I figure if Gavin had wanted it linked he’d have done so, but take a look yourself and you should be able to find it.
If the threat was of a cockslapping then I’ve got a hot lead for the FBI.
LMAO.
mds and TC:
Yeah, I stand corrected. I was guilty, for a moment there, of thinking about journalism. You know, journalism — that thing that’s so important to our society that it’s protected in the first amendment. Sometimes I retreat into a fantasy world (my titillating dreamfield, for those of you dropping in from the Swank thread) where the only reason the press doesn’t cover the important stuff like, oh, the rape of the constitution is that the big bad powerful politicians are thwarting their efforts. Then I wake up and remember that for the most part they don’t really make any effort . . .
Hey, tigrismus… before I click on that link, um, there aren’t more icky, NSFW pix at the other end are there? I don’t care how gross any text is, but I could do without another technicolor chasm.
No pics there, but links to pics for the interested.
Noumenon, the post from Instapundit that was quoted above is on his front page right now, a little less than halfway down.
I’m not linking it ’cause I figure if Gavin had wanted it linked he’d have done so, but take a look yourself and you should be able to find it.
Thank you. The post I found says, in full, “A BIG
FOLEYGATEMASTURGATE ROUNDUP, at Pajamas Media(link).” So you can see why I couldn’t find it by searching for keywords, even after I knew the page’s name. Not sure why Google couldn’t find the Wild Bill post, though.Huh. Y’know, that’s the part of “Pink Flamingos” that I have the hardest time with. Not the dog poo. Not the chicken sex. Not Devine and the steaklifting. No, the “entertainer” at Devine’s Birthday bash with the “magic asshole.” :::shudder:::