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Title: Speaker Hastert: The "butt" of many jokes among Washington's gay community.
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Published: Oct 7, 2006
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Post Date: 2006-10-07 19:18:30 by robin
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October 7/8, 2006 -- The rumors about another top GOP member of the House being involved in sexual encounters with young "men for hire" are confirmed to WMR by well-placed sources in Washington's gay community. The member in question is House Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose "alternate" life style is the primary reason for him and his staff covering up the scandal involving ex-Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley and his lewd messages sent to underage male congressional pages. Hastert's penchant to receive anal sex is well-known to our sources in DC's gay community. Additionally, Hastert's reported extremely small penis is the subject of many jokes among Washington's gay circles. Speaker Hastert: The "butt" of many jokes among Washington's gay community. WMR reported on old charges that swirled around Hastert when he was a high school wrestling coach at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois. Hastert decided to enter politics in 1980 after rumors surfaced about inappropriate contact with male high school students. In July, Hastert was hospitalized at Bethesda Naval Hospital for cellulitis, a bacterial skin infection. In the Feb. 7, 2003 issue of AIDS Treatment News, doctors reported that they saw "a large increase in aggressive, antibiotic-resistant 'staph' (Staphylococcus aureus) skin infections in gay men in some areas -- and a separate epidemic in certain prisons. Symptoms include boils or blisters; treatment can be difficult, and sometimes requires hospitalization. One HIV doctor in Los Angeles who used to see about one case a year is now seeing two a week. In the past this infection occurred mainly in hospitals." The reports of serious skin infections among gay men was also reported in the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 27, 2003. WMR has also learned that Republicans will soon mount an effort to discredit a senior House Democratic member with a sex scandal of a rather different nature. The member is aware of the plans and is circling the political wagons if the GOP launches their expected attack.
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#1. To: robin (#0)
The key to this is, who is Scott Palmer? On the surface, he's Hastert's chief of staff. Hastert's defense rests on Palmer's "absolute denial" that former Foley chief- of-staff Kirkman warned Palmer of Foley 3 years ago. The Wash. Post today reported that Palmer and Hastert live together in a DC townhouse. I found on the web that Palmer is single with no children. Now, why is Hastert, who not only has his Congressional pay but also made millions on a shady land deal in Illinois, living with his chief of staff?
Good info and question. Apparently everyone in D.C. already knows the answer.
I wish they'd clue us in. Lawrence O'Donnell has been intimating it without coming out and saying it.
Reports indicate Palmer is extremely emotional about this.
Nice of the 'don't ask, don't tell' Jew media entertainment combine keeping this information on the down low, huh? Themselves, politicians and their staffers are all in the know, but the American public are kept completely in the dark. What else is the Jew media entertainment combine not telling the American people?
Maybe we should all be reading The Washington Blade and wonkette.
Your bigotry offends me.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
Zionist or Federally controlled would be more accurate.
We have to rely on queer sites for the truth?
The "Jew Media" broke this story. Neither Foley nor any of the pages so far identified appear to be Jewish. What does that have to do with this?
They hate the hypocrisy of someone being gay while promoting anti-homosexual legislation.
Wonkette is queer? Before she sold out, her main interest appeared to be youngish female staff members boinking married, right-wing congressional senior staffers.
Good point, ABC broke it on MSM, but all the MSM sat on it for several months. Timing is everything. However, AmericaBlog broke it before ABC, I think.
I'm sure he meant Washington Blade. Wonkette just likes to get down and a little dirty, in a cute way: There was really only one story in Washington this week: the Cocktober Surprise. If you read only one post on Mark Foley, well, this one’s our most coherent. Because shortly after we put it together, everyone stopped making sense. Foley became a closet drinker, a closet scientologist (for a day or two), a closet democrat, and a hilarious punchline (NO MORE SAME PAGE JOKES, PLEASE). I can't help that I'm hung like a new born baby.
Now this is creepy.
Stop. You're turning on Gay Old Pedophiles (like "It is a Republic"?). On the other hand, baby boys will be safer if the GOPers are fixating on yours (or Denny's) undersized genetalia instead. Thanks for doing what you can for the children.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
I wuz just trying to make a funny. Did you laugh?
Karl Rove’s girl Friday, Susan Ralston, resigned today — very, very quietly. Due to, you know, the massive lies and corruption revealed by the Congressional report on Abramoff’s White House ties. The report that was news for like ten minutes last week before this pervert from Florida charmed the nation with his filthy I-mails. Observers say Ralston’s resignation may also have something to do with intense shame over this. She was Jack Abramoff’s assistant too, back in the day, and she did great work for him even after leaving for the White House — like money laundering and fraud and all that kinda stuff. But cheer up! Now she can be unemployed just like one of the characters in the songs of her favorite musical recording artist, Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen. Happy Friday evening! Enjoy your sex scandal!
The Jew media didn't break anything. They've been sitting on the information for years. I never knew Hastert or Foley were gay until just recently. The Jew media knew long ago and have been sitting on the damaging information for many, many years, and only now is it beginning to see the light of day. Why doesn't the Jew media entertainment combine trumpet the fact that a person's a queer when running for public office? Why sit on the information for so long before 'breaking' the story?
Me too. Yes, I did. The fact that Denny is so hung explains his power over his fellow G(r)OPers in the House. He's hung like a boy, but is old enough that they can diddle him without legal liability. No wonder they elected him Speaker and vote in perfect lockstep at his command. If they break ranks, they might lose their Denny- diddling privileges.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
I don't know about Wonkette, but the Washington Blade is.
Foley has been well-known as gay for a long time. He denied it, and the MSM let it go. Remember, him being gay isn't the story, hitting on underage boys and the GOP letting him get away with it is. On the Media had the exec editor of the St. Pete Times on today, asking the exact question you are. He said, in effect, we had a few questionable emails, not the IMs, and they weren't disturbing enough to merit a full-scope story. In retrospect, though, he admitted that they probably should have gone with a short item in a political diary or something, not a full news story, to rattle some cages and see what happens, which is exactly how ABC News broke this, through a blog entry. THEN they got the juicy stuff. But for the past four or five years, anyone who actually knew who Foley was (he's done ZIPPO in Congress) knew he was gay. That, in itself, is not a story.
John Aravosis of AmericaBlog has been working on exposing Foley as well. CNN with AmericaBlog's John Aravosis http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/fox-news-had-foley-e-mails.html FOX News had the Foley e-mails http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/breaking-cong-tom-reynolds-r-ny-chief.html Tom Reynolds' (R-NY) chief of staff tried to get ABC to cover-up evidence of Foley predatory sex chat ABC source says Hastert's chief of staff met Foley about pages "years" before e-mails emerged Washington—October 5, http://2006—TomFlocco.com—A retired intelligence agency official corroborated the revelations of a national security expert that male and female heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and underage children provided sexual services to numerous congressmen, senators, national media hosts, top military officers and other federal officials who were compromised and made susceptible to blackmail at three Washington, DC hotels since 2000. The long-time intelligence insider with multiple Capitol Hill sources told http://TomFlocco.com that convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff operated the sex / spy ring at the Watergate, Ritz-Carlton and Sheraton hotels in Washington, DC. “The whole Republican Party was for sale—the House, Senate and the White House,” said the well-respected federal insider with impeccable and historic intelligence credentials who declined to be named at this time but who is familiar with testimony and sources close to a grand jury probing the GOP lobbyist’s sale of sex in return for legislative influence over taxpayer dollars. White House presidential advisor Karl Rove According to Justice Department sources there is email and phone record evidence that White House advisor Karl Rove is linked to the operation of Abramoff’s sex ring according to federal agency sources who spoke with U.S. intelligence authority Thomas Heneghan. Heneghan added that a grand jury heard several agents testify last April that “the Watergate, Ritz-Carlton and Sheraton Hotels in Washington, DC were used to compromise legislators and news-people with prostitution services, the financing of which is directly linked to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Marc Rich and Abramoff.”
U.S. Republicans hit by wave of political bad news The influence-peddling scandal involving convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff also resurfaced, with a congressional committee report showing many White House contacts with Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud and is cooperating with a federal corruption probe. An aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove resigned on Friday after the report said she passed inside information to Abramoff while accepting tickets to sporting events from him. The entire coup again comes back to Jewish influence and blackmail...
Vote all incumbents out of office. Then send the newly elected lots of warnings.
I've already said too much.
#2. To: MUDDOG (#1)
#3. To: robin (#2)
Apparently everyone in D.C. already knows the answer.
I've already said too much.
#4. To: MUDDOG (#1)
#5. To: robin (#0)
#6. To: Splitends (#5)
#7. To: Splitends (#5)
Jew media
#8. To: Arator, Splitends (#7)
#9. To: robin (#6)
Maybe we should all be reading The Washington Blade and wonkette.
#10. To: Splitends (#5)
#11. To: Splitends (#9)
#12. To: Splitends (#9)
#13. To: Mekons4 (#10)
#14. To: Mekons4, Splitends (#12)
#15. To: robin (#0)
Additionally, Hastert's reported extremely small penis is the subject of many jokes among Washington's gay circles.
#16. To: Fred Mertz (#15)
In July, Hastert was hospitalized at Bethesda Naval Hospital for cellulitis, a bacterial skin infection. In the Feb. 7, 2003 issue of AIDS Treatment News, doctors reported that they saw "a large increase in aggressive, antibiotic-resistant 'staph' (Staphylococcus aureus) skin infections in gay men in some areas
#17. To: Fred Mertz, It is a Republic (#15)
(Edited)
I can't help that I'm hung like a new born baby.
#18. To: Arator (#17)
#19. To: robin (#14)
Dang, I almost forgot THIS one. Friday Night Newsdump...Rove's assistant resigns in corruption investigation. And believe me, Rove knew every thing she was up to.
#20. To: Mekons4 (#10)
The "Jew Media" broke this story.
#21. To: Fred Mertz (#18)
(Edited)
I wuz just trying to make a funny. Did you laugh?
#22. To: Mekons4 (#12)
Wonkette is queer?
#23. To: Splitends (#20)
#24. To: Mekons4, Splitends (#23)
by Joe in DC - 10/07/2006 10:31:00 AM
Well, well, well Denny Hastert. Your own Republican news channel had the Foley e-mails. Why didn't they protect the children? Or were they trying to protect Foley, too:Reporters and editors at Florida's St. Petersburg Times, The Miami Herald and the Fox News Channel all say they obtained e-mails that seemed to be between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page -- but that they didn't have enough to go public with the story.
No wonder CNN is so cranky....they really are the only ones who didn't have the emails.
by John in DC - 10/02/2006 07:50:00 PM
It's confirmed. Congressman Tom Reynolds' (R-NY) chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, tried to broker a secret deal last Friday to get ABC News to cover up the worst part of the Foley child predator scandal, the lurid five-plus-page instant message chat in which Foley asked a child to measure his penis and then led the child into a detailed discussion of masturbatory techniques.
Howie Kurtz in the Washington Post wrote about this in this morning's Washington Post, though at the time Kurtz didn't name names - he simply referred to the deal-maker as a "former chief of staff" to Mark Foley. It's subsequently been confirmed to me, by Kurtz, that the individual who reportedly tried to broker the cover-up deal was Congressman Reynolds' own chief of staff (and former Foley chief of staff), Kirk Fordham. Here is what Kurtz wrote:On Friday afternoon, a strategist for Rep. Mark Foley tried to cut a deal with ABC's Brian Ross.
(As noted above, I have confirmed that the guy offering the deal was Fordham.) Yes, God forbid Congressman Reynolds let the public know the truth. But we're to believe that he was interested in the truth when he first found out about Foley's creepy emails months ago. Right.
The correspondent, who had dozens of instant messages that Foley sent to teenage House pages, had asked to interview the Florida Republican. Foley's former chief of staff said the congressman was quitting and that Ross could have that information exclusively if he agreed not to publish the raw, sexually explicit messages.
"I said we're not making any deals," Ross recalls.
Congressman Reynolds, you'll recall, is the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the congressional body in charge of helping House republicans get re-elected. Reynolds had been notified about Foley's page-baiting months ago, yet wants us to believe he did everything he could and that he's not responsible for the sexual predator getting an easy ride, for his being permitted to remain in congress, permitted to remain the chair of the House caucus on missing and exploited children, and being permitted to remain in the House Republican leadership.
Now we know otherwise.
Congressman Reynolds let his own chief of staff secretly work for a child predator in an effort to cover-up the worst evidence of the predator's sexual wrongdoing. Without that evidence, this case might not have broken wide open. Add Reynolds to the list, alongside Hastert and Shimkus, of members of Congress who need to resign now.
by Joe in DC - 10/07/2006 05:53:00 PM
(UPDATE: It's not clear from the ABC story if there are one, two, or three sources now confirming Kirk Fordham's allegation that Denny Hastert's chief of staff met with Mark Foley several years ago to discuss Foley's creepy page obsession.)
Denny Hastert thought his little "buck stops here" speech calmed the waters on Thursday. But, there is further evidence that Denny Hastert hasn't been telling the truth about the Foley scandal. Another source confirmed for ABC News that Hastert's Chief of Staff met with Foley "years" before the "overly friendly" e-mails showed up:House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff met with disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley to discuss the time and attention Foley was giving House pages years before the speaker's office admits becoming aware of the issue, a current House staffer told ABC News.
Over to you, Denny.
The staffer, who asked not be identified because of the ongoing FBI and House Ethics Committee investigations, told ABC News of learning in November 2005 about an earlier meeting between Hastert Chief of Staff Scott Palmer and Foley, R-Fla.
2nd witness now says Hastert's office was warned about Foley well before November 2005
by John in DC - 10/07/2006 12:29:00 AM
Well isn't that interesting. When I received the Foley emails this past July, had I been warned two or three years ago that Foley was stalking pages, I'd have turned the emails over to the FBI myself, not waiting for CREW to do it (which was shortly after I received them anyway). But I didn't receive the warnings Denny Hastert received. I didn't know five years ago that Foley was stalking pages - like Denny Haster knew, since his office warned the pages 5 years ago to stay away from Foley.
Had the news media known what Denny Hastert knew, I bet they'd all have turned their information over to the FBI toute de suite. But the only person who knew the full story about Mark Foley sexually harassing underage pages was Denny Hastert and the Republican majority in the House. And they covered it all up for as long as they could.
And this article is another nail in the Republicans' coffin.
From the NYT:House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley about his inappropriate social contact with male pages well before the speaker said aides in his office took any action, a current congressional staff member with personal knowledge of Foley and his behavior with pages said yesterday.
The staff member said Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, met with the Florida Republican at the Capitol to discuss complaints about Foley's behavior toward pages. The alleged meeting occurred long before Hastert says aides in his office dispatched Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-Ill.) and the clerk of the House in November 2005 to confront Foley about troubling e-mails he had sent to a Louisiana boy.
The staff member's account buttresses the position of Foley's onetime chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, who said earlier this week that he had appealed to Palmer in 2003 or earlier to intervene, after Fordham's own efforts to stop Foley's behavior had failed. Fordham said Foley and Palmer, one of the most powerful figures in the House of Representatives, met within days to discuss the allegations.
#25. To: robin (#24)
http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/FoleyTipOfIceberg.htm
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#26. To: All (#25)
The iceberg?
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#27. To: Eoghan (#25)
Heneghan added that a grand jury heard several agents testify last April that “the Watergate, Ritz-Carlton and Sheraton Hotels in Washington, DC were used to compromise legislators and news-people with prostitution services, the financing of which is directly linked to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Marc Rich and Abramoff.”
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