Leave it to Hindrocket to come up with the perfect defense for Dennis Hastert: PredatorGate is all the gays’ fault, since one expects homosexuals to do creepy stuff with the pages, and so one can’t blame Hastert for failing to take any action to protect the underage boys employed by the House from Foley.
These emails were described to Hastert, apparently, as “over friendly,” but he was also told that the family of the page in question “didn’t want the matter pursued.” I’ve never been Speaker of the House, but I can imagine that such a conversation would not be among the most significant Hastert has had in the last year, and would not necessarily make a deep impression. Foley was, I take it, generally assumed to be gay.
Yeah, it was probably just another “been there, done that” moment for Hastert when he was told that a member of the House was hitting on the pages. Because, you know, he believed that Foley was gay, and you know what they’re like.
Our younger readers may not be aware that House pages have figured in several scandals over the years. Congressman Gerry Studds (D-MA) had an affair with a teenage male page that, I believe, included sex within the precincts of the Capitol Building. Studds refused to admit that he had done anything wrong, and turned his back on the House when it censured him for this misconduct in 1983. The voters in Studds’s district didn’t seem to mind; they continued to re-elect him until he retired in 1996. He is remembered mainly as a pioneering crusader for gay rights.
Then there is Barney Frank, who was reprimanded by the House for using his Congressional office to intervene on behalf of his boyfriend, a homosexual prostitute, to dispose of at least 33 parking tickets. The boyfriend also ran a prostitution ring out of Frank’s house. Today, Frank is one of the most powerful members of the Democrats’ House caucus.
Translation: “If you are young or stupid or something, I can probably convince you that the Democrats are way more perverted than the Republicans! And while my stated thesis was that pages have figured in lots of (Democratic) House scandals, you’ll notice that I only mentioned one such scandal, and that the Barney Frank story didn’t involve any pages at all. But hey, Frank was gay and Foley is probably gay, so now we’re even.”
So I’m not particularly surprised that Foley wrote some “over-friendly”–I’m sure I would find them creepy–emails to one or more underage pages.
Yes, Hindrocket isn’t particularly surprised that Foley wrote ”over-friendly” or even pornographic emails to the underage pages, because, after all, Foley was gay and in Congress. So, in conclusion, Remember the Clenis! And anyway, nobody would even care about about protecting kids from Republican pedophiles if there wasn’t an election next month.
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