Schadenfreude
This has got to be some sort of record for investigative journalism:
ABC's Brian Ross reported yesterday that Republican Florida Congressman Mark Foley had sent... arguably inappropriate emails and sexually explicit instant messages to a sixteen-year-old boy who used to work as a Page on Capitol Hill.
Today, 25 hours later, Republican Congressman Mark Foley resigned as a result of this reporting.
Of course, Foley was a huge "family values" guy, and a big advocate of strengthening sex offender penalties.
This is nearly always the case. These consevative whack-os who talk the loudest about family values and the sanctity of marriage turn out to be the ones diddling adolescents and forcing their wives to have sex with farm animals.
It's one thing to be sexually deviant. And there's absolutely a rung in hell for pedophiles and rapists. But I really do find it even more despicable when someone is hypocritcally calling for stronger federal controls over sexual behavior (not even deviant sexual behavior - things like homosexuality), and they turn out to be a pedophile, a rapist, or something else of that ilk.
And yes, if/when I had/have time, I can/could dig up a list of at least 10 REPUBLICANS who have fallen into that category in the past decade.
This has got to be some sort of record for investigative journalism:
ABC's Brian Ross reported yesterday that Republican Florida Congressman Mark Foley had sent... arguably inappropriate emails and sexually explicit instant messages to a sixteen-year-old boy who used to work as a Page on Capitol Hill.
Today, 25 hours later, Republican Congressman Mark Foley resigned as a result of this reporting.
Of course, Foley was a huge "family values" guy, and a big advocate of strengthening sex offender penalties.
This is nearly always the case. These consevative whack-os who talk the loudest about family values and the sanctity of marriage turn out to be the ones diddling adolescents and forcing their wives to have sex with farm animals.
It's one thing to be sexually deviant. And there's absolutely a rung in hell for pedophiles and rapists. But I really do find it even more despicable when someone is hypocritcally calling for stronger federal controls over sexual behavior (not even deviant sexual behavior - things like homosexuality), and they turn out to be a pedophile, a rapist, or something else of that ilk.
And yes, if/when I had/have time, I can/could dig up a list of at least 10 REPUBLICANS who have fallen into that category in the past decade.
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