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- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -9/+30Michelle Malkin whom is part of Pajamas Media did the same thing a while back. A group of peaceful college protesters apparently got her panties in a twist so she posted all of their addresses, email addresses and phone numbers. Numerous people recieve DEATH threats from her readers. Pathetic.
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24This content is not spam.
- xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10ABC News is an "obscure" website?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18He was 16
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@RikkiTikkiTavi -
You, sir, are what the block/report button was invented for.
Thank you for providing such an excellent example.
Oh, and I emailed abuse@digg.com about your blatant and unecessary attack on a valid digg user. You should be ashamed. - Lackadaisy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12even if he were of age it's *still* sexual harrassment and that's inexcusable from someone who is supposed to be representing this country.
- blackmariah, on 10/12/2007, -11/+16How about I ***** your 16 year old daughter and tell everyone in the world about it?
Doesn't sound too ***** nice, does it, *****? - xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Wow, there's a classic Digg moment.
- growler1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Where do people (and I use the term loosely) like these two come from? Is this what the neoconservative movement has to offer? Really? Are these the people (and their supporters, and those they support) who are supposed to be running the country?
Check, please.
I believe we've reached a saturation point with these clowns. It's time to do a little electoral modding-down. - zeeeej, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6He might be 18 now, but he was 16 then.
I'm sorry in advance for this kid. The coming days are going to give him a tough lesson on what the right-wing fringe is all about. - icontrolthesun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The truth hurts.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7They're just shooting themselves in the foot, digging themselves deeper into a hole. Soon it will be clear that their rhetoric of "family values" is a sham for more power. First there is Hastert and other republicans who tried to sweep this under the rug vs protecting children. Then there's the protecting republicans, defending Hastert. Even family values groups are protecting Hastert and others. It is becoming clear that republicans, like every single politician on this earth, care more about power than anything. No one group has a monopoly on morality. You are either a moral person or you're not, don't try to tell me how moral and riteous you are.
And in the end all the republicans have is telling us how riteous and how moral they are. This Foley scandal damages republicans to the core, and rightfully so, this moral crusade BS had to stop at some point. How many more republicans are pedo's? Foley bashed Clinton for his transgressions, how many more morally riteous people who bashed Clinton are closeted pedos? How many more skeletons are there?
I'm hoping the investigations will be very fruitful and we can clean up congress. I'm all for morality and protecting children. Versus protecting one party. This Foley thing is huge and convervatives are in a downward spiral which will only stop when they start doing the right thing. Outing this guy isn't doing the right thing either. They're just alienating themselves from people who have a brain and think for themselves. The only republicans left will be hateful right wing lunatics. - spjmm0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4ABC had not removed the kids name from their website where the blogger got it. ABC is the one who should be blamed.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think the fact that RikkiTikkiTavi is no longer a valid user shows what Kevin Rose says.
- dmorel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Gotta love how journalism on the left is sacred, but journalism on the right is "a despicable act."
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What was it Colbert said at the correspondence dinner?
Reality has a well-known liberal bias, or something along those lines... - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Did you READ the transcripts? Admittedly, I couldn't really get very far in them before closing the site with every hair standing on end and feeling like there was no reason to ever have hope in humanity again... But Still. Take a look at them before you defend someone who is obviously troubled at the very least for the vain and shallow reason of party affiliation.
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -7/+918? and he's what....in his 50's? ...
It's disgusting how republicans right now are making it seem like that's still okay. - wprange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uhmm, you've probably heard of FBI investigators who pose as teens on the internet to ‘catch’ pedophiles? It doesn't matter who is on one side of the communication, it could have been Foley's grandmother for all I care. Foley clearly thought he was chatting with an underage boy and coerced "the boy" into cybersex.
Foley co-sponsored the law to make that an illegal act. He also made absolutely sure that one party did not have to be underage in fact: when the predator *thinks* the other party is underage, he's toast. - WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kevin's probably a member of ThinkProgress.
- hawkeye17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Attacking the VICTIMS of this pedophile is just beyond the pale. This another example of Right Wingers exposing themselves as radical lunatics who could care less that this kid was preyed upon by one of their own. People like this have no conscience or morality whatsoever.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not quite as simple as censorship through muscle.
RikkiTikkiTavi was calling for censorship himself. This particular comment is a good bit more civil than others. If you scroll up, you'll find a post by RikkiTikkiTavi that essentially constitutes a call for harassment of the poster of this article because of party afilliation. Essentially crowdsourcing censorship. That's why he was banned. - HeartOfFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only story I find on conservative sites about this story is the claim it was all a prank gone awry:
http://www.drudgereport.com/page.htm
"CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, 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 Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund. 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 Edmund IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others.
The news come on the heels that Edmund has hired former Timothy McVeigh attorney, Stephen Jones.
Developing...
"
In fact, this story specifically states the Page wasn't a homosexual. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What Maf54 Said To The Page Boy
This is a transcript in pdf.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/06/262_foley.pdf - WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If what's being dug up about this is actually true, then maybe this "victim" might go to jail.
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Looks like this whole thing might've been just a prank.
http://drudgereport.com/page.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are you so sure Foley knew it was a prank? Isn't that kind of how a prank works? The person you're pranking doesn't know it's a prank? Imagine how ***** that Punk'd show would be if the 'victim' knew all along they were getting punk'd.
- HeartOfFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 Why don't I see an actual quote of the blog in question? There isn't even a link to it. I looked up the blog and couldn't find it, personally. And I put in pajamasmedia into my url and coudln't find this supposed link, either.
Could it be they didn't link to the statement in question, nor even quote it, because it is doesn't say what they make it out to say?
You can take anything out of context and make it into anything you want. Take the letters out of any sentence and you can turn them into alphabet soup, turn them around, and have them say anything.
If anyone is confused as to what I am talking about, I am talking about the article linked to. It goes into saying what this "Wild Bill" supposedly said, but doesn't even offer a single line quote. It doesn't reference the supposed statement he said in whole nor even in part. Instead, it goes on about traffic patterns and other such nonsense wholly unrelated. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22wild+bill%22+%2Bfoley+%2Bvictim+%2Bpage&btnG=Search
- CupBeEmpty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@lackadaisy
if he were of age it would not be harassment unless Foley was asked to stop, which looking at what was out there was not the case.
However the kid was underage so it is just sick. - dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Does anyone even take that nutty bitch seriously? News to me!
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6DISCLOSURE, RIGHT WING IGNORAMUS SPAMMING DIGG COMMENTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITH SAME COMMENT LINKING TO HIS OWN DIGG ARTICLE SO WE STOP TALKING ABOUT CREEPY OLD MAN FOLEY!
http://digg.com/userblock/665775
Oh yeah, and caps lock is what AOL users use to "scream" in chat rooms. - chronicRick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1All 3 of you spout tasteless opinions that no one cares about, while offering nothing to this article.
- zeeeej, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah ... anything dugg through the "Digg This Story" button (provided by Digg) is spam. And your raising this ***** point has nothing to do with politics.
Young liar in training. Your mommy must be proud. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Mark Foley News
Make *Mark Foley News* your homepage.
Add *Mark Foley Headlines* to your website RSS.
http://www.topix.net/us-house/mark-foley - hawkeye17, on 10/12/2007, -17/+16The Right Wing scum is rising to the surface. These people don't care about anything unless it makes money for them. The Right in this country is filled with shallow, money grubbing, incompetent, ignorant fools who will do and say anything that will keep them in power or make them money. America is finally waking up to that fact.
- monkeywizard, on 10/12/2007, -11/+11"We won’t be providing links to any of these posts."
Sorry, I think that's wrong.
I'm against neo-con nuts as much as any intelligent sane American, but suppressing information, to me, is on par with not giving the whole truth.
If it was linked by their blogs, the cat's already outta the bag. Linking to it for the sake of demostrating what they are doing wouldn't make things worse. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1MaF54: Hello Sunshine State Kate (lol). Thanks for covering my ass (lol)
"though I wish I was covering someone else's ass at the moment (lol)."
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20061004Bisbort.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Well, when the kid was consensually going along with the sicko, his reputation should be on the line, too.
Sure, he's a "victim", but he had ample opportunities to stop the conversations and have the matter taken care of. Instead, he volunteered time & information ("7 1/2 inches"), which makes him *completely* liable. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Netscape's Jason Calacanis agrees this poster's activities constitute SPAM.
http://digg.com/politics/Calacanis_takes_ThinkProgress_to_task_for_being_bad_guests
What says Digg's Kevin Rose? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Google it.
- petesy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3So Foley resigned on the strength of a prank? Get a grip on reality - the man folded faster than superman on laundry day! This is just the latest attempt to discredit the real victims. Pretty disgusting tactic by the GOP, and I suspect it will backfire among a lot of the 'value voters' they depend on.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1How many ThinkPropaganda news posts have we had now? 3,264,192 or 3,264,193? I lose count. The nice thing about ThinkPropaganda is it has its own news theme:
We hate, we hate.
We denigrate.
We just can't wait
To inundate
Your mindless state
With Bush-filled hate
"Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out."
John McCarthy - dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@aaron
Yes. But because Mrs. Malkin fills her readers with hateful insane propaganda about people who are against the war, etc, she should have known that this was going to happen. ACCORDING TO HER that information was made public. But I'm 100% sure that a college student who's intelligent enough to go out and protests about something, isn't gonig to post their HOME ADDRESSES on the internet.
I'm sure you're another one of Malkin's fan's who whacks off to her hotair vents. Give me a break. - aaroncampos, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Nice un-biased accounting of what happened there @dustedbunny. Of course, you left out the part where she maintains this contact information was publicly posted on the press release by said student organization. Anyways, here's the article from her side if anyone cares for more information.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004974.htm
That is, if information is the point. If your point is just to smear people you disagree with then move along. - zydeco, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7Um, so what information do we need, exactly, from the identity of the page?
To see if he's a paid minion of George Soros and the vast left-wing conspiracy? So we can dig up all the dirt on his personal life and focus attention there? So his friends can sign up for book deals? - DSPGeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You quote *Drudge* as a source? He's just another talking point mouthpiece; people quoting him automatically show how biased they are.
- JoeBlunt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Go preach to your choir Freeper. Repubs have better learn that if they want to tell anybody else how to think, they better have high moral ground on which to stand. Your legs, sir are stuck in a pond of hog$hit.
- DSPGeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0From the Army-McCarthy hearings, appropriate since it was another Republican trying to deflect blame by finding fault with a much younger victim:
Jospeh Welch: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" - modiggs1976, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6I have to give credit to Republicans. I thought they hated Iraqi children but they hate children of all races and creeds.
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yup. Censorship through muscle.
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