Foley asked a page to get a ruler and measure his penis

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/beattie10022006.html

The Meaning of "ummmmmmmmm"
Speaker Hasert and the Over Friendly Congressman


'ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.' This is former Rep. Mark Foley's e-mail response to an underage congressional page who had just answered Foley's question about penis size. In fact, the Florida congressman had asked the kid to 'get a ruler and measure it for me.'

All the lurid details are available for other readers and not just congressional pages. And, now, Foley, the former co-chair of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, has checked himself into an alcohol rehab.

-snip-

I'm wondering if House Speaker Dennis Hastert is going to check into an alcohol treatment center as well. Surely, he needs a defense for hiding knowledge of Mark Foley's activities. Hastert, who was told months ago about the e-mails, characterized their content as 'over friendly.' Over friendly? Dennis, were you under the influence when you said this?

-this snip holds some of the things Foley said - I can't bring myself to post them-

If Dennis Hastert thinks this is merely 'over friendly,' one has to wonder what the house speaker would consider perverse and inappropriate.

Actually, I know the answer. Bill Clinton's semen on a blue dress.
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Hastert now stands in the spot light - what will he do and say?

[leftofthedial]

1. this is perfectly innocent

god wanted him to ask the kid to measure his pecker.

[Stevendsmith]

2. Best thread title ever? (n/t)

[rodeodance]

3. Hasturd says he knows nothing about these later IM

[wakeme2008]

4. I do not believe that was in an email but in IM chat

so Denny is on a fine line about the emails.

[wtmusic]

5. This weirdness is approaching that of the "coke can pubic hair"

admit it, the 'pubbies have it on us for sheer imagination in the perv department

[valerief]

9. Thanks for the reminder! Yecch… n/t

[dipsydoodle]

6. el chimpolino

could've done that by just saying how much longer a cigarette packet was. :)

[Cassandra]

7. Naughty, naughty...

or disgusting and criminal, depending on your point of view.

[donsu]

8. and point of law

nt

[seabeyond]

10. ok, when a guy does this is it before or after. like to get facts right

:)

[Garbo 2004]

11. Emails and IM's not same kid, not same years. Leadership knew about

the emails that had no sexual content, but no evidence currently exists that they knew about the overtly sexual IM's between Foley and other former pages years before. (Although one might guess Foley's "interest" in teenage boys was not entirely a secret. If so, they probably thought they dodged a bullet with the emails that were brought to their attention.)

[Virginia Dare]

12. OMFG

:wow: