Page’s lawyer: Drudge’s story is “fiction.”
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Page’s lawyer: Drudge’s story is “fiction.”
Matt Drudge yesterday accused a former page of “goad[ing] Foley to type embarrassing comments” as part of a “prank.” The page’s lawyer calls the story “a piece of fiction,” and says “there is not any aspect of this matter that is a practical joke nor should anyone treat it that way.”
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Everything Drudge says is fiction, that is why I call him Sludge!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:05 amOh, I get it. Drudge is repeating, if not fabricating fiction out of whole cloth just because Edmund’s lawyer says he is. Neither Drudge nor Edmund’s lawyer produce–yet–any documentation. But Drudge is the fabricator. Wow. That’s deep.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:17 amThere is a place in hell for drudge right next to the rest of these neanderthal assholes
October 6th, 2006 at 10:17 amWhat? Drudge making things up? Oh, please. Everything he says is the truth.
Just ask Sidney Blumenthal.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:18 amAren’t most Drudge stories fiction? Drudge theme song: “It’s all part of my ne-o-con faaan-tasy, it’s all part of my ne-o-con dreeeeam”. How pathetic.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:21 amThe Marxists’ party lasted almost a week, but now it’s over.
Talk about overplaying your hand. The calculated Foley scandal will now backfire on the Marxists who concocted the whole thing, and the Republicans will maintain their majority in both houses.
I smelled a rat the moment the scandal hit, and so did a lot of us. Hypocrisy and manipulation aren’t hard to spot, and the Marxists in the media and the Democratic Party are sticking out like sore thumbs.
The American people don’t insist on perfection from their leaders, and that’s why whatever indiscretions were committed on the part of Foley will be forgiven. It was the Marxists, who dominate the media and the Democratic Party, which created the culture that produced Foley, and they will be blamed far more than he. Americans are finally wise to the tricks of the Marxists, and realize that any party that would stoop as low as the Democrats have in regard to the Foley scandal would do the same to them if given a chance. We are tired of the Marxist culture that has been stealthily imposed on us, and we’re going to do something about getting things back to the way they once were.
Even if the Marxists who run the Democratic Party had any issues whitch appeal to the majority of Americans (which they don’t), the American people would still reject them, based on their distaste for Marxist tactics, which are absolutely repulsive.
The Marxists thought they had it all sewn up this week, but their momentum was stopped dead in its tracks today. They will be rejected at the polls in November. Too much is at stake (Iran, NK, Iraq, the economy, the culture) to allow such trash to come to power, not only this election, but ever again.
The American people are waking up, and that spells trouble for Marxists, who, finding that they are unable even to steal an election, will soon resort to violence. And now that we have the right laws in place, we’re ready to put the Marxists in their proper place: jail.
Most Americans may not even know the name of the enemy that controls the Democratic Party and the media. They may not know that they’re Marxists or anything about Marxism. But they know that what the Left is doing is wrong, not only wrong but sinister and un-American. They may not know what to call them, but they’re starting to know Marxists, by any name, when they see them.
The momentum has shifted. Marxists, watch your back.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:25 amJames please do NOT defend Sludge on here > go to RedState.com to post, since you believe his lies and bogus drivil! Tell Rove to shove it!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:27 amDolejsi
Hey don’t let those marxists keep you from supporting pedophiles.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:28 amDrudge wouldn’t run with a totally fabricated story would he?
Let’s ask John Kerry’s mistress if Drudge would lie.
-GSD
October 6th, 2006 at 10:29 am“The momentum has shifted. Marxists, watch your back.
Comment by Dolejsi — October 6, 2006 @ 10:25 am”
Are you threatening China? What are you babbling about?
October 6th, 2006 at 10:29 amDolejsi > your fascist diatribe is pathetic > Mark Foley is a creep and a sexual predator pederast who will never be forgiven for molesting kids!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:30 amJames Frank SolÃs
Well seen as this is the kid’s lawyer, and this is what the kid, who was there, is saying and Drudge is basically a 2 bit hack with a history of lying, I think I will go with the lawyer on this one.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:30 amI wouldn’t have worded it quite the same way, but I understand where James is coming from. What else should we expect the kid’s lawyer to say? TP is usually good about documentation. This post doesn’t live up to their standards.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:31 amMy wife was the victim of domestic abuse in her previous marriage. Rule One for an abuser is to always blame the object of your abuse, the person you victimize. From Bush on down the current Republican Party is infested with abusers and Lady Liberty is their victim.
Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)
October 6th, 2006 at 10:31 amWhy are the Republican apologists trying to bring up the past of both Democrat & Republican sex scandals with underage pages to justify Rep. Foley’s actions?
That’s such a pre-9/11 frame of mind!
Everything changed after 9/11, so stop dwelling on the past!
(Finally, a way to throw their rhetoric back in their faces!)
October 6th, 2006 at 10:32 am“The American people don’t insist on perfection from their leaders, and that’s why whatever indiscretions were committed on the part of Foley will be forgiven.
Comment by Dolejsi — October 6, 2006 @ 10:25 am”
Let’s make a deal. America will forgive and forget Foley, when the Right Wing stops bringing up Clinton. Deal………or no deal?
October 6th, 2006 at 10:33 amDolejsi,
I’m a Groucho Marxist. Show ne a rose of leave me alone.
50 Ways To Dump THe Dubya
October 6th, 2006 at 10:34 amI asked this another comments section, but never saw a response. Is the FBI investigating Foley’s actions and the ethics committee investigating the whole shebang. Wouldn’t the FBI criminal investigation also be able to look into who knew what, when?
October 6th, 2006 at 10:36 amBoy after reading that slobber from Dolejsi, it proves the GOP has gone completely crazy and fascistic! If Karl Rove gave him that to post on here, then Rove is far sicker than I ever realized?!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:36 amoxillini
They could, but chances are they would not reveal it until it came to trial, which would be after the elections whatever happens.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:39 amIs post #6 by Dolejsi a troll parody? It is so far out there it sounds like one.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:41 amBruce, thanks for the response. I don’t particularly care when the investigaiotn is wrapped up/taken to trial, I just want the full story to come out. I believe the Democrats will take control of the House regardless of when the FBI investigation’s findings come out.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:48 amPoor Dolejsi, he can’t help it, rove put to many pep pill’s in his pablum this morning…..Name calling work’s best when served up at breakfast by the dictator in charge…..Run along now to red state and make sure you get credit for the drivel you posted…
October 6th, 2006 at 10:48 amPost 21 RealScientist > NO Dolejsi post is way far out there for real > I do not believe he wrote it, so if Karl Rove gave it to him, it means the GOP has gone completely over the edge into stark raving madness?!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:49 am#6 “Hypocrisy and manipulation aren’t hard to spot…”
God knows you’ve had plenty of practice with Bushco.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:55 amWow, if the Marxist smear is all they have left, woe be to them. As the game unravels about them, they claim to be on the verge of victory. Stunning.
Somewhere Rove and Bush are pinning medals on the lapels of boysouts and 90 year old men and telling them to protect the Fatherland because the enemy is being routed.
-GSD
October 6th, 2006 at 10:56 amJay, if I ever get to feeling like defending Drudge I will do as you recommend. But since I wasn’t defending him, I’m still very comfortable with my comment above. I mean, really, at what point in my comment did I attempt to demonstrate the truth of any statement of fact which Drudge made?
What a small mind you must have to think that, in pointing out that it is just as likely that Edmund’s lawyer isn’t telling the truth (perhaps because his client isn’t telling him the truth), I must be defending Drudge. A false dilemma if ever I saw one. It still remains the case that both Drudge and Edmund’s lawyer make claims for which they have only someone else’s possibly false testimony. My ‘defence’ of Drudge was actually a criticism of Drudge, Edmund’s cousel, and TP for uncritically rejecting the former while (equally uncritically) accepting the latter.
For the record: Drudge must defend his own claims, as must Edmund’s attorney. And I will comment where I want, unless the proprietor determines otherwise.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:01 amWhen will this administration, this disgrace against human dignity end?
October 6th, 2006 at 11:04 amPeople still visit Drudge’s site?
http://www.theworstpresidentever.org
October 6th, 2006 at 11:05 amJames, I see your point. I had hoped the US could have a legitimate investigation into this, but of course it looks to be devolving into antoher media circus where the trial will be held every day in headlines. Looks like another he said, he said. Godspeed to the FBI investigators.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:07 amJames Frank Solis,
In defense of Jay, I would give more weight to what the former page’s lawyer says, rather than what Drudge says, simply because he has access to his client. Time will tell if the former page is telling the truth. Drudge has nothing.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:12 amJames > post whatever you like, but regardless you are saying the young man’s word is no good?! At this time the male Pages accusations are being proven against Mark Foley! Predators and their defenders, like Drudge-Sludge, always try to claim the victim made up the story or other crap! The IM conversations have been traced to Foley > nobody fooled him into lusting for the underage male Pages, so he alone is responsible for his actions > not the young men!
October 6th, 2006 at 11:14 amDrudge’s story is “fiction.â€
I thought that the Drudge Report site is based on fiction.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:17 amPolitical Correctness “wants to change behavior, thought, even the words we use. To a significant extent, it already has.†“Whoever or whatever controls language also controls thought.†“Political Correctness†is in fact cultural Marxism. The effort to translate Marxism from economics into culture did not begin with the student rebellion of the 1960s. It goes back at least to the 1920s and the writings of the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci. In 1923, in Germany, a group of Marxists founded an institute devoted to making the translation, the Institute of Social Research (later known as the Frankfurt School). One of its founders, George Lukacs, stated its purpose as answering the question, “Who shall save us from Western Civilization?†Lind thinks there are major parallels between classical and cultural Marxism: “Both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness can be seen on [University] campuses where ‘PC’ has taken over the college: freedom of speech, of the press, and even of thought are all eliminated.†“Today, with economic Marxism dead, cultural Marxism has filled its shoes. The medium has changed, but the message is the same: a society of radical egalitarianism enforced by the power of the state.â€
Baron Bodissey
October 6th, 2006 at 11:20 amI have a doctor’s appointment, so will be back on later > bye Zooey.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:22 amCan someone just delete Dolejsi, his posts are off topic, and frankly, stupid. Equating wanting one’s leaders to not sexually harass or molest kids to communism, kind of shows that the guy has all the intellect of a dry-drunk monkey on cocaine, or to put it less kindly, the president of the United States.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:28 amSince Drudge’s report is all about blaming the victims to help normalize Foley’s sick behavior, I don’t see why it matters whether it is true or not. Foley is a sexual predator, period. His own words amply demonstrate it,
October 6th, 2006 at 11:32 amand there is nothing in one page’s actions that can alter that conclusion. What matters in this story is that Drudge, a well-known water carrier for the Republicans, is trying to spin the story in an extremely cynical (but typically Republican) way.
so does anyone have any thoughts on the 2 new pages who have come forward with allegations that Foley offered lodging for ‘oral sex’, as i heard on FOX NEWS last night?
October 6th, 2006 at 11:32 am(f you don’t watch the enemy reports you never know where to look)
mornin’ zooey!
October 6th, 2006 at 11:32 am#33 We are well read adult’s here, we know what Marxism is and now for you’re lesson in the here and now..You’re dictator is on CNN preaching his fascism, everything is wonderful little photo op. Go listen to some new talking point’s please and get some new names to call all the real patriots of the constitution and America….Berlin might be a good place for you to move to since you don’t like it here, or perhap’s Bagdad…..BTW you are loosing, only skin head’s, nazis and extreme reich winged fundamentalists christian nut cases agree with you…You’re in the -30%, go away..
October 6th, 2006 at 11:39 amwhether or not you agree with dolejsi, I have to give props for a well thought out post.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:44 amfor #33
October 6th, 2006 at 11:44 amIs “Marxist” the Right Wing talking polint du jour? And if you repeat the word enough, does it become reality? For instance, if I said the Republican Party is a bunch of sadistic cocksuckers, and these sadistic cocksuckers will do anything to remain in power, and these sadistic cocksuckers will unabashedly defend a predator, have I changed reality? Wow…that was easy!
October 6th, 2006 at 11:54 am#42
October 6th, 2006 at 11:58 amrobg,
You didn’t change reality by saying that….that has been reality for some time now.
Posting old propaganda written by someone else to make an off topic point does not make it worth the post..#33 is the second waste of time post by this poster…..
Whiteyfish, yes I did see several of the page’s are coming forward on the Foley case and I hope all involved including the one’s still in office and in the cover up will be removed from office…..
October 6th, 2006 at 12:01 pmHey whiteyfresh…I’m wise to you, buddy. You ain’t foolin’ anyone.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:03 pmrobg???
October 6th, 2006 at 12:10 pmbut it is nicely written…. NOT DEFENDING OR DEFAMING ANYONE THO……
October 6th, 2006 at 12:12 pmbut VERY off topic, yes…
Hey whiteyfresh,
How long have you been lurking at TP anyway? Or stalking?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:18 pmlurking? me? for at least half a year now….
October 6th, 2006 at 12:22 pmi think…
The first post I made on this thread is my own writing, the second is quoted from an article which I hope you will read, but doubt that you will. Here is the url for the article in case you surprise me:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/06/political-correctness-revenge-of.html
As to whether or not either post is pertinent to the topic of the thread, the answer is that both are.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:28 pmwhitey,
Why so long? How old are you, if you don’t mind me asking?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:29 pmRepublican Jeopardy Game Show Final Round…
Answer: “Marxists, watch your back.” commment by Dolejsi — October 6, 2006 @ 10:25 am
Wager: The November Mid Term Election
Question: What does a Child Molesting Republican Pedophile scream out while having an orgasm?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:32 pmUnderstaffing at my job, love for what i do created a HEAVY workload for a long time. Also, I just became more and more addicted to TP(no that doesn’t stand for teen pages!):)-and wanted to start throwing in my 2 cents-I’m still waiting for the 1 1/2 cent change…
28-u?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:33 pmwhiteyfresh, don’t give him too much credit. Dolejsi’s rant is nothing more than excerpts grabbed, word for word from this site:
http://www.restoringamerica.org/CulturalMarxism/PoliticalCorrectness/what_is.htm
October 6th, 2006 at 12:34 pmI don’t doubt that at all,ox.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:37 pmi mean, did you really expect a RePUGnican(or is ir Republicant?) to come up with anything more than espousing someone else’s words??There is no original thought in the rebub party, only countless regurgitation.
Drudge has constantly paraded false stories like this. And he complaoins about the “liberal” MSM getting stories wrong? Sorry Matt, just because you’re some web-based hack doesn’t mean that you can get away with lies.
It really doesn’t matter what Drudge or any other right-wing media types say about the Foley scandal. The GOP is in big-time trouble. One stroy has them admitting that they may lose 50-seats in November http://www.polibuzz.blogspot.com Maybe they’ll lose every single House race? Sweet…
October 6th, 2006 at 12:58 pmThe culture that led to the election of the homosexual Foley is the culture that was created by Marxists. Disguised as progressives, Marxists infiltrated education, media, government, and any other western institution which had value to them in their assault on the Western world. You don’t recognize Marxists for what they are not only because they disguise their true identity, but because most of you have been educated by them, or, now that multiple generations have been subverted by them, those who have taught you in schools are products of Marxist thought themselves who unwittingly pass down to you the indoctrinatino they themselves received. As Nikolai Ceaucescu put it in a conversation with his protege Yassir Arafat at one of their frequent meetings to plot strategy,
“Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let´s say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.” That´s the qualitative transformation.”
Cultural Marxism is applied the same way.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:58 pmThe culture that led to the election of the homosexual Foley is the culture that was created by Marxists. Comment by Dolejsi — October 6, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
In other words, Republicans are Marxists not to mention Pedophiles.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:07 pmDolejsi,
So progressives elected Foley? What? I’m tired of this “You lefties have screwed up our society and let this happen crap. Look, the right controls the House, the Senate, the Executive Branch and the Judicial branch, in addition to TV channels radio stations and best-selling authors. Stop pretending Democrats are behind everything. Fact is, Democrats haven’t had the power to pull off all the stunts the right accuses them of. Get a new straw man, your current one is looking pretty ragged.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:17 pmdANG…
October 6th, 2006 at 1:20 pmZooey askin me questions then bailin….
Zooey askin me questions then bailin….
Comment by whiteyfresh
28-u?
Sorry, the pills….
How old do you think? I’ll tell the truth if you don’t guess right.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:25 pmoh CRAP
October 6th, 2006 at 1:26 pmHeh. Tell the truth.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:31 pmum-somewhere between 15-75? i am trying to be as polite as possible-i dont like guessing a woman’s(?) age. It’s the southern gentleman in me:)
October 6th, 2006 at 1:32 pmmid 20s?
October 6th, 2006 at 1:32 pmHow old is your mom?
October 6th, 2006 at 1:35 pmMarxists had the great fortune of Ronald Reagan being elected to office. Reagan became a hero to Republicans for many reasons, but none moreso than that it was perceived that he brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. While that was indeed his goal, and outwardly it appears that he was successful, he was not. The dissolution of the USSR was planned well in advance of Reagan’s accession to power as part of a plan of long-range strategic deception. The dissolution represented a change in Marxist tactics designed to disarm the United States, which it succeeded in doing not only a military (specifically nuclear and nuclear defense) but on a cultural level.
In Reagan, Republicans have an icon which they will defend at all costs for having “won the Cold War.” According to Republicans, America’s enemy was vanquished by Ronald Reagan. Republicans stopped believing in the enemy, stopped believing that that the enemy was any longer in existence. Those who knew the tactics, the strategy, and the goals of the communists gradually became too old to hold power, and retired. Reagan became senile before he could recognize the trick that had been played. Conventional wisdom that communism had been defeated became etched in stone. My message is no better received among Republicans (in fact, it is bitterly opposed) than it is among the Left.
The fact is that there is no more “right wing” in America. Not one with any power, at any rate. Having let our guard down after the staged Soviet dissolution, we no longer fought against the Marxist indoctrination that was being carried out by agents of the enemy we no longer believed in. The new generation of conservatives, having been indoctrinated in the Marxian fashion, having to operate in a culture which from their birth had been subtly subverted, are not and cannot be the conservatives of old. Only the name “conservative” remains.
Are Republicans Marxists? Certainly not. But they are trapped by them, they must operate according to their rules. Are some Republicans in congress Marxists? Most likely, there are some. The rest are Reaganites, well-meaining and good people, but ultimately deceived by his false legacy.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:37 pmMarxists?
October 6th, 2006 at 1:38 pmThat is just so freakin’ stupid! My laugh of the day!
Wow. An attorney issues a denial? What “news”!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:43 pmzooey-whhhhyyyyyyyy?
October 6th, 2006 at 1:43 pmThe joke, SkdeA, is on you. Laughter echoes from near and far.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:43 pmwhitey,
Just messing with you — because I can.
I’m 46.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:50 pmshweeeet. i’m very ‘messible’
October 6th, 2006 at 1:54 pmmust be this bleeding heart,a stranger is a friend you haven’t met attitude i’ve rolled with in my life….
Heh.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:57 pmSMMOOOOOOOOKE BREAK!!!! Back in a few….
October 6th, 2006 at 1:58 pmzooey-whhhhyyyyyyyy?
Comment by whiteyfresh
I must say, whiteyfresh, I’ve never seen whining translated so well to the written word.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:58 pmOh little boy blue Drudge, just what leak is it you are trying to plug with that finger of yours, hmmmmmmmmmmm????? In the words of that great 20th century sage Jerri Blanc “Why does your finger smell like his asshol#?”!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:00 pm…it seems almost incredible that any ideology could lead to well-coordinated deception on such a huge scale. Whenever the word “Communism†is mentioned, most people think of a philosophy, a political theory, an economic system, or perhaps a political party. But Communism is none of these. Before we can understand the Communist role in strategic deception and terrorist warfare, we must answeKarl Marx and V.I. Lenin are widely known as the founders of Communism. However, not everyone who professes the ideology of Marx and Lenin is a true Communist. Lenin himself defined Communism as an international organization, akin to the Mafia, whose members would constitute an elite corps of professional revolutionaries.40 As he described it in 1902, “In form such a strong revolutionary organization in an autocratic country may also be described as a ‘conspiratorial’ organization… such an organization must have the utmost secrecy.â€41 Shortly after seizing control of Russia in 1917, Lenin revealed the secret of Communist success in a booklet, declaring that “The Bolsheviks could not have maintained themselves in power… unless the strictest, truly iron discipline prevailed in our Party.â€42 Naive believers in Marxist ideology are constantly purged from the Party, for the organization can rely only on those people blindly willing to obey orders.43 Communism explicitly disavows all moral rules, and its members must constantly shift tactics, sometimes even carry out seemingly anti-Marxist actions, as its leadership adapts the revolution to changing circumstances.44 Thus Communists possess the fanatic discipline needed to carry out deception on a scale beyond the imagination of most outsiders, including staging their own alleged “collapse.â€
r one critical question: What is Communism?
http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/next_target_a.htm
October 6th, 2006 at 2:09 pmi’m an excellent whiner, yeah..
October 6th, 2006 at 2:12 pmexcellent..
but only on Sundays..
when Wapner’s not on
:)
Ok whitey,
I got whining, I got Sundays, but what the hell is a Wapner, and what would he be “on?”
October 6th, 2006 at 2:15 pmw-winning
h-house
i-in
n-november
i-is
n-now
g-gonna
uh, happen
October 6th, 2006 at 2:16 pmyeah….
ever seen the movie Rainman?
October 6th, 2006 at 2:18 pmYes. I used to live it. Oh! That Wapner. The court show. Are you like Rainman, whitey?
October 6th, 2006 at 2:21 pmJay,
No I’m not saying that the young man’s word is no good. You’ve missed my point yet again. My original comment was on TP’s uncritical out-of-hand rejection of Drudge on the one hand and his equally uncritical acceptance of Edmund’s attorney on the other hand. I made no assertions about the veracity of Edmund’s testimony to his attorney, but did point out that Edmund’s attorney has only his client’s word so far as we know. And that is relevant because all that Drudge has, last I checked, was someone else’s word on it that Edmund was pranking Foley. I certainly offered nothing in the way of substantiating or defending Drudge’s claim. Neither did I offer anything by way of refuting Edmund’s attorney. More importantly: I intended to do neither. I intended exactly what I did, which was to criticize TP for doing precisely what Drudge did: report someone’s testimony as if that alone were dispositive. It isn’t.
It is irrelevant to Drudge’s assertions that “the male Pages [sic] accusations are being proven against Foley” since Drudge’s assertions are limited to one page, Jordan Edmund. Given that the IMs do in fact exist and that Foley does not dispute anything, I am unaware of claims that the victims made up the story. I certainly didn’t read that on Drudge, anyway. Nor am I aware that asserting that Foley was goaded into writing something is identical with his being goaded into lusting for young men. Certainly I haven’t said so. I don’t know that Drudge has done, but then I never read his report before yesterday (H/T: TP).
I don’t know who has, but I certainly would not assert that being pranked removes any burden of responsibility from Foley. I found Drudge amusing, but I still wondered why he thought it relevant. But I did note that he did not claim that such a prank, if it occured, would exculpate Foley.
Note: I still haven’t offered anything substantiating Drudge, or refuting Edmund. I point that out because you seem to have difficulty noticing that for yourself.
Note also: I am still critical of TP for uncritically rejecting Drudge while uncritically accepting Edmund’s attorney.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:21 pmI’ve been called worse…I almost had a 300lb former linebacker for Virginia Tech(who happened to be a marine at the time)kick my a$$ in a bar.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:24 pmJames Frank Solis,
I’m going to assume that the former page in question is named Edmund. I find it interesting that even though TP has decided not to link to sites identifying the young man, you are repeatedly using his name in your comments. Is there are reason behind this?
October 6th, 2006 at 2:26 pmHe wasn’t too fond of me pointing out how Bushie anc CO. were steadily cutting funding for armor, health care, post deployment mental health,vehicles, non-spoiled food,etc,etc,etc..for his friends still fighting in Iraq…
The sad part is, this was after we had a WONDERFUL conversation, he had shown me pics of his kids, and we had been hanging out for over an hour!!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:27 pmSorry, whitey, I hadn’t meant to call you a name. Glad the 300 lb guy didn’t kick your ass. It would have left a mark.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:27 pmzooey-that slid off my back quicker than water off a duck..
October 6th, 2006 at 2:30 pm(hellooooooooooooo DEEP south channelling through..)
The sad part is, this was after we had a WONDERFUL conversation, he had shown me pics of his kids, and we had been hanging out for over an hour!!!!
Comment by whiteyfresh
Loyalty beyond all reason is really pounded into the troops, especially Marines. You probably got a little too close to the mark, and he felt honor-bound to defend his precious corps.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:30 pmzooey-plans for the weekend?
October 6th, 2006 at 2:31 pmBless your heart, whitey.
You’re from the south, as you say, and I lived in Louisiana for five years. I used to find it amazing that the ladies would say “Bless her heart,” and then proceed to say the most vile shit they could ever come up with. As if the “Bless her heart” was some sort of shield…Have you found this to be true?
October 6th, 2006 at 2:34 pmhonor bound is great!!! I have family and friends in the military-but**sigh, here it is AGAIN***i’m disgusted by a commander in chief who constantly says one thing and does another!!!!!!!
i know, i know, i’m the 2,365,826 person to say that…
October 6th, 2006 at 2:35 pmoh, GOD YES.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:37 pm“Bless her heart, i guess she couldn’t afford to look pretty for the event”
“Bless his heart, he looks like he deserves to have a heart attack he’s soi fat.”
“Bless her heart, I guess someone has to love that ugly baby..”
and so on and so forth..
Thanks whitey,
I was hoping I wasn’t the only one cringing when I heard those words.
i’m disgusted by a commander in chief who constantly says one thing and does another!!!!!!!
Keep saying it.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:41 pm“Bless her heart, Condi looks like David Letterman and a Donkey’s love child”
October 6th, 2006 at 2:44 pmDolejsi is, in fact, Henry Kissinger, here on a special “covert op” to determine the game plan of the “pinkos”, and formulate a counter-strategy in time for the elections.
That, or McCarthy’s been thawed out and reanimated.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:48 pmHeh.
Later, whiteyfresh.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:50 pmi’m disgusted by a commander in chief who constantly says one thing and does another!!!!!!!
Then you must have loved Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment last night.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15147009/
October 6th, 2006 at 3:35 pmomfg it’s like I’m watching Edward R. Olbermann.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:40 pmHis brilliance is really shinig brightly on these special comments.
Then let him know, whiteyfresh. E-mail him at kolbermann@msnbc.com. I just did. He has a policy of not responding to e-mails (due to some problems he once had), but he does read them and appreciates the support we’ve all been giving him. We want him to do more and more of these Special Comments, especially between now and the elections.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:14 pm#6 dolejsi
Marxists. Good one.
Mmmmm. I love the smell of GOP desperation in the morning.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:26 pmThing is, it didn’t matter anyway even if it was true; it was a non-story even earlier.
What was the defense here? That the children “asked for it?”
October 6th, 2006 at 5:07 pmIt was pathetic to see Republican bloggers glee over this “revelation” that somehow was supposed to make it all better.
Equating wanting one’s leaders to not sexually harass or molest kids to communism, kind of shows that the guy has all the intellect of a dry-drunk monkey on cocaine, or to put it less kindly, the president of the United States.
—- That is the best quote on th is page! WORD
October 6th, 2006 at 5:29 pmI challenge anyone, especially those posters who delight in mockery of the notion that Marxism drives the culture and the Democratic Party to visit any openly communist website of your choice (ex. CPUSA) and examine their stance on contemporary issues, and tell me how your views differ from theirs.
You will find that they differ not at all. You will find the same rhetoric, and the same policy stands.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:32 pmBy the same token, Dolejsa, check out the similarity between the current Republican administration and any fascist regime ever! Notice anything familiar, asshole?
October 6th, 2006 at 6:02 pmSince I see no similarity between the Bush administration and “any fascist regime ever,” perhaps you would be so kind as to point what you perceive to be those similarities out.
In exchange, I’ll provide a link to the CPUSA, which proves my point that there is, for all intents and purposes, no discernible difference between communist and “progressive” thought or speech. It might interest you to know, bright boy, that the very term “progressive” was conceived and put into use by communists, who understood the importance of controlling and manipulating language, a long time ago.
Here’s your link, although I suspect you’re already quite familiar with the site.
http://www.cpusa.org/
October 6th, 2006 at 8:23 pmDolejsi, perhaps you need to chage your perspective. I doubt you’re able to accurately identify the similarities between the Bush administration and other fascist regimes from the position you currently occupy. Ann Coulter has had similar difficulties in maintaining her objectivity. Come up for air and remove the blockage from your airway.
October 7th, 2006 at 2:13 amMarxists made the priest molest Foley.
October 7th, 2006 at 9:39 amOk, why is anybody responding to Delejsi? His Marxist propaganda is not even believable enough to be a righty talking point.
October 7th, 2006 at 10:19 pmCome on!!! Drudge is right about half the time. Give him a break!!!
October 7th, 2006 at 11:06 pm