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Title: Blitzer's list of recent Washington sex scandals included only Democrats
Source: Media Matters
URL Source: http://mediamatters.org/items/200705050002
Published: May 6, 2007
Author: staff
Post Date: 2007-05-06 10:32:27 by Indrid Cold
Keywords: None
Views: 243
Comments: 5

On the May 3 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer observed that Washington is "no stranger to sex scandals," then provided viewers with examples of scandals involving only Democrats. During the segment, Blitzer was discussing the "DC Madam" scandal that has already led to the resignation of Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias, the first director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Blitzer listed three sex scandals: former President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky (1998), former Sen. Gary Hart's (D-CO) liaison with Donna Rice (1987), and former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills' (D-AR) involvement with Fanne Foxe (1974). But there have also been numerous -- and more recent -- sex scandals involving Republicans. For example:

* On September 29, 2006, then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned after ABC News asked him about sexually explicit instant messages to underage former congressional pages. The messages, according to ABC News, were "provided by former male pages who said the congressman, under the AOL Instant Messenger screen name Maf54, made repeated references to sexual organs and acts." The House Ethics Committee later decided not to take any disciplinary action against members of the House leadership who had known of emails sent by Foley to former pages, as these were found to be not quite as explicit as the instant messages. One former page, however, described those emails as "sick sick sick sick sick."

* In 1999, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's (R-GA) "long-term" affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek -- whom he later married -- was revealed while he was seeking a divorce from his second wife. In March 2007, Gingrich confessed to the affair.

* In December 1998, during impeachment proceedings against Clinton stemming from the Lewinsky affair, then-House Speaker-designate Bob Livingston (R-LA) admitted to having an extramarital affair. Two days later, Livingston announced he would not seek the speakership and that he would resign from the House in mid-1999. He resigned in March 1999.

* In a November 22, 1992, article, The Washington Post reported that then-Sen. Robert Packwood (R-OR) had made numerous "uninvited sexual advances to women who have worked for him or with him." Investigations revealed more incidents of sexual harassment and also exposed Packwood's secret personal diaries. Packwood eventually resigned from the Senate on October 1, 1995, after the Senate Ethics Committee voted unanimously to expel him.

* In September 1998, http://Salon.com reported that then-House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL) had engaged in an extramarital affair with Cherie Snodgrass from 1965 to 1969. According to Hyde, the affair ended when Snodgrass' husband, Fred, told Hyde's wife about it. Hyde purported to explain the affair -- which came out amid the Lewinsky controversy -- as a "youthful indiscretion," even though he was reportedly 41 when the affair started. Hyde, as Judiciary Committee chairman, led the successful push to impeach Clinton.

Former Nixon White House Counsel John W. Dean has compiled a list of congressional sex scandals.

From the 5 p.m. ET hour of the May 3 edition of The Situation Room:

BLITZER: Washington, of course, no stranger to sex scandals. Here's a look at some of the ones that grabbed headlines over the years.

Back in 1998, Bill Clinton, impeached after his affair with the White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, became public; 1987, there was the yacht, Monkey Business, picture of Gary Hart on that boat with Donna Rice, ended his run for the White House.

And back in 1974, many of you will remember a powerful Democrat named Wilbur Mills was caught with a stripper, Fanne Foxe. The relationship became public after a cop pulled Mills' limo over late one night and Foxe tried to flee by jumping into some nearby water [The Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.]. He resigned as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. She continued stripping.


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LOL. 1974, that's topical.

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#1. To: Indrid Cold (#0)

Talk about the "tip of the iceberg" on cheating...

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-05-06   10:40:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lodwick (#1)

Talk about the "tip of the iceberg" on cheating...

Yeh, nothing like having to dig back 30 years to find evidence of a "problem".

The "Department of Defense" has never won a war. The "War Department" was undefeated.

Indrid Cold  posted on  2007-05-06   11:36:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Indrid Cold (#2)

Blitzer draws a big check from one of the lobbys...guess which one? HINT: the guy in front of him in the pay line is Leiberman.

Sodie Pop  posted on  2007-05-06   19:47:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Indrid Cold (#0)

"Fanne Foxe (born Annabelle Battistella on February 14, 1936 in Nueve de Julio, Argentina) was a dancer best known for being involved in a sex scandal surrounding Arkansas congressman Wilbur Mills, one of the most powerful men in the House of Representatives and a 1972 Presidential candidate. Mills was having an affair with Foxe, who was then working as a stripper.

On October 7, 1974, the two of them had been drinking and were driving near the Tidal Basin in Washington at around 2:00 AM. The park police pulled the vehicle over, and Foxe attempted to flee the scene and jumped into the Tidal Basin.

The incident attracted much publicity and led to Mills' resignation as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee two months later; he was re-elected to his congressional seat in 1974, but he did not run for re-election in 1976. Foxe continued working as a stripper, changing her stage title from "The Argentine Firecracker" to "The Tidal Basin Bombshell," and published a book, The Stripper and the Congressman. Foxe eventually returned to Argentina, and her current status is unknown."__wiki

Status unknown, huh?

I wonder if she's still stripping?

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-05-07   3:02:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: lodwick (#1)

Talk about the "tip of the iceberg" on cheating...

They should talk about obnoxious Pubs like Bob Packwood.

A touchy, feely guy if there ever was one.

I'd bet he ain't the only one and even today there are probably lots of piggies like Packwood who goose the wimmens, particularly staffers and others who serve at the pleasure (oh boy) and who more or less have to put up with it.

Congress immunized themselves from the sexual harassment laws they passed for the rest of us.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-05-07   3:17:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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