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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

This is crazy - even by Fox News Standards

I assume most of you have been following the whole Foley-Underage-Male-Page incident down in the States.

I was predicting the usual spin from the Republicans, but a couple of things have just gone too far

For example, Matt Drudge has this to say: (hat tip: Jane Hamsher)


And if anything, these kids are less innocent -- these 16 and 17 year-old beasts...and I've seen what they're doing on YouTube and I've seen what they're doing all over the internet -- oh yeah -- you just have to tune into any part of their pop culture. You're not going to tell me these are innocent babies. Have you read the transcripts that ABC posted going into the weekend of these instant messages, back and forth?
The kids are egging the Congressman on! The kids are trying to get this out of him. We haven't got the whole story on this.

Yep, he's BLAMING THE KIDS (Listen to the audio here)

but wait, it gets even worse: It turns out that we had it all wrong, Foley is a Democrat, not a Republican. At least according to Fox News (We lie through our teeth, you decide)

(hat tip: Brad Blog) - go whath the video



And if you want the full level of outrage - read how Fox News is covering the story. It's all about how e-mail is bad - no mention of sex or pediphelia.

Fucking Fox News.

At least the so-called moral majority is reacting the way they would if ANY member of congress did this sort of thing.

right?

right?

nope

But wait, I mean, this is the only time that the Republicans have done this sort of thing, right?

Nope (Hat tip: Galloping Beaver)

Turns out there are over 60 different incidents involving Republicans and child molestation.

And, finaly, to bring it all home, what did Small Dead Animals have to say:

Update: as pointed out in the comments section this was actually Steve Janke (The other pillar of the right-wing wankosphere) and not Kate that posted this as my original post suggested.



If you can't read that closely enough, on October 1st (the Sunday two days after the whole Foley thing broke on US and Canadian News Networks)

What did Janke have to say: "If it's children exposed to penises, it must be Belgium"

Yeah, or, you know, THE US CONGRESS.

It took until today for the site to even cover the topic and here are some of the choice quotes:


"Bet the msm treats this a lot differently than the Clinton scandals. All of a sudden they care about a politicians sex life."
"To defend themselves the Republicans only have to repeat what all the democrats and msm said when Clinton was doing his intern. Its only sex, and is no reason to make a big deal out of it."


They honestly can't tell the difference between Clinton, who engaged in Aldultery with a consenting, of age woman, and this guy who abused children.

To Fox News, Matt Drudge, and Small Dead Animals.

Get off your moral high horse and crawl out from the filth and muck, you sick partisan bastards.


7 comments:

Saskboy said...

Just a note that Kate didn't write the Belgium joke, which was actually Steve Janke's line. He says its a spoof from a movie line. I asked him what the point of his story was at all, since to me it appeared he was attempting to link all frank sexual education to pedophiles.

Dave said...

Great post! Just a note though: Fox News has no standards.

Jacques Beau Vert said...

Wow, now that Fox claiming he was a Democrat bit is really shocking to me.

I don't get what Steve Janke said that upset people?? It's not a movie line, it's a movie title: If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. I can't read that screenshot, I'm not sure what's going on.

Giant Political Mouse said...

Thanks Saskboy - it's fixed.

jason bo green:

It the fact that two days after this sex scandle broke, the Small Dead Animals site was talking about a possible sex scandal in Belgium, that really was nothing but hot air.

Hypocrites

UncleMeat said...

I don't like to nit pick guys as I haven't had time to follow the news lately, but are these pages over the age of consent? If so then all this talk of pedophilia is a bit of a stretch. Foley is a wank by any standard, including the standard that was used on Bill Clinton for abusing a position af authority. Foley should resign and if he broke the law he should be prosecuted.

Giant Political Mouse said...

The Page was 16. Age of Consent was 18.

Enought said

UncleMeat said...

18 in some states. http://www.coolnurse.com/consent.htm