Drudge Report Claiming Foley IMs were a page prank gone bad....

[FormerDem06]

Sorry Dupe.

[WilliamPitt]

1. Yeah, that's why Foley quit at light speed.

[rock]

4. And why he (a Repub) claimed he was gay

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. No, that was just a "life choice" as they are playing it.

[MadMaddie]

This is the best they can do.....I wonder who is paying Drudge?

Oh and enemy political operatives = Democrats....

Pathetic...

[Donnachaidh]

2. perhaps someone should sic the IRS on Drudge

to see where all HIS income is coming from.

[BattyDem]

3. For 11 years?

Wow, that's some prank! :eyes:

[liberal N proud]

5. They are throwing mud at the wall hoping it sticks

Any excuse that will work at this point. Sounds a little like their reasons for war too.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Of course. That's why Foley resigned, took full blame...

and then outted himself as an alcoholic clergy-molestation survivor who's gay.

Of COURSE it was a prank!

[tanyev]

8. Yeah, so was this.

[nam78_two]

12. !

:thumbsup:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

9. Yeah, Denny Hasert just opened the campaign with a presser

about a half hour ago. They have had time to close ranks and the spin machine is fully ginned.

[gatorboy]

10. How does that change what Foley did?

NBC has an entire show based on tricking sex offendors with false information.

Considering how shocked they acted with what Clinton had done, the way they keep trying to make Foley's behavior okay is unsettling.

[ShortnFiery]

11. The more desperate they become, the more they flail about

They'll do anything, I mean ANYTHING to hold onto power.

Fasten your seat belts, bring your garlic and Crucifix.

Yes, this is nothing short of An Exorcism.

Let's kick these EVIL Republican Ghouls out of the Congress? :hi:

[iwanmycntrybak]

13. Even if it was a prank,

Foley still was trying to lick up a kid!

[Politicub]

14. But he's still a drunk in rehab?

Or was he "tricked" into that, too.

The republicans are so confusing.

[ryanus]

15. I still think the whole episode is the October Surprise

Not that Foley didn't do all the stuff he is accused of, but that the Republicans are trying to create a controlled scandal that will have minimal damage to the party for the election, and stop people from discussing the Military Commissions Act, Rice\Tenet 911, Iraq, and Iran. And I think they have succeeded.

I even wondered if the dirt of Foley wasn't being setup for being worse than it really was, so that the Republicans could then claim that the democrats are lying, etc. Happens all the time with other things. A damaging document is released, then another forged document is released, the forged document is debunked, and then people think "Oh, it's been debunked" and they don't realize that there were multiple documents, and no one does anything about the original, damaging document.

The Foley scandal has just unfolded too smoothly, with no admission from Foley, and silence from the media on how they got the converstaions.

I think it's a distration
-> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2299183&mesg_id=2299465
and -> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2308693&mesg_id=2308980

I think it's a controlled scandal put out by Republicans
and -> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2302660&mesg_id=2308374

Suspicious sequence of events and the media doesn't reveal how they got the evidence
and -> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2302660&mesg_id=2309132

yes I am cross posting like crazy.

[ShortnFiery]

17. Man, we've been planning this for 10 years ...

That's so B.S. :thumbsdown:

It was a Republican Staff member that gave the information to CREW. :eyes:

[ryanus]

27. I don't think you read what I wrote

Foley really did do all the stuff he is accused of.
Republicans have had dirt on him for awhile.
They are feeding the media the conversations to intentionally create a scandal.
The Republicans are going to "poison the well" with some converstaions that are not true (whether the fake discussuion are worse than real ones or not doesn't matter).
The media will mention that a particular conversation or some conversations have been shown to be untrue, or a prank, or something.
Joe American will hear that the conversations are untrue, and the damage to republicans will be minimal.
The Republicans do all this to keep people from discussing the issues to will affect the election.

That's how it is.

On edit: Look at the reaction of the freepers. They think they have won. They are starting to rally around the party. It doesn't matter what the truth is when dealing with public opinion. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714403/posts. This is exactly what I was talking about.

[ShortnFiery]

30. Sorry, I thought it was self evident

:sarcasm:

[Proud2BAmurkin]

18. ridiculous and paranoid n/t

nt

[mshasta]

29. another strategy by the reptilians....

You’re absolutely correct ...this can be another reality being carefully created by the lizards, so we can stay away from the idiot mess...

thank you..:kick:

[Garbo 2004]

16. Fordham asked Foley if the IM's were for real, Foley said "probably."

Which means that's exactly the sort of thing, and in quantity, Foley had been doing.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. I Think Drudge Is Implying The Pages Seduced Foley

Sounds Like projection to me...

[JackBeck]

20. Is Ashton Kutcher behind this?

You mean we've been "Punked"?!?!

[kentuck]

21. Doesn't Drudge and Rush live in his district in FL ??

Maybe they have a couple of IM's on the old computer??

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. Drudge Lives In SoBe

I'd bet my home Drudge has had some male teenage hustlers up to his South Beach lair.

[kurth]

22. Big Fat Idiot: I don't do Windows, but I know ABC transcripts are fake

because there is no way a chat program can log everything the way ABC shows it....
What bullshit, eh?

[kitkat65]

23. And why people can read this and not realize he's a republican whore

is beyond me.

[npincus]

24. let's see these jerks perjure themselves to the FBI

investigators. How stupid to concoct an easily debunked sotry like this, esxpecially when the FBI investigators will some calling to get testimony from these 'witnesses'.

Hah!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. I Don't See Where People Are Lying Or How It Helps Foley

As I understand it the page pretended to be interested in Foley and Foley tried to seduce him. He still was an underaged male page.

[Raksha]

28. Sure, and Abu Ghraib was nothing but a fraternity hazing.

Nice try!