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When asked today where the stunt kids in the background for his press conference came from (you know, the one where he discusses his role in the online sex solicitation of a minor scandal), NRCC head Tom Reynolds said :
Reporter: Who are the children, Congressman? Who are these children?
Reynolds: Pardon me?
Reporter: Who are these children?
Reynolds: Well, a number of them are from the community. There are several of the "thirtysomething" set that are here and uh I've known them and I've known their children as they were born.
Don't recall any mention of the word "props" :
Republican Tom Reynolds rented out a daycare facility today as he surrounded himself with kids and families, using them as protection from tough questions about specifics into the Foley messages.
Tom may have just won the highly coveted GOP "how low can they go" gold medal of the day, but I hate to award it so soon because the day is still young and there are so many vying for it.
Update: BuffaloBlogger now says "It was a turn of phrase. The press conference was held in the student center of Daemen College in Amherst, NY." We apologize for any confusion.
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FITZ! KIDZ!
Just when you think these schmucks can sink no lower, they prove you wrong, again and again.
Reynolds will be a contender, though.
Family Values!
EPUed during poky toobz….
Dana Bash on CNN’s Sitroom reporting Boehner’s effort to fingerpoint at the Democrats and his talk about how many more children may have been victimized because of politically orchestrated delay…
Um, Boner-baby, can you say Fox??????
I guess you could call them a “Reynold’s Wrap”…
why does Reynolds Wrap himself in a kiddie-fest… trying to foil the media?
Well, he’s certainly a contender for today’s gold medal. What kind of parents let their kids be used like that? They weren’t all babies or infants.
Has anyone found out if Pickles attended the Reynolds fundraiser as scheduled? If so, she needs to be asked whether she raised the issue with him. No more free passes for the First Lady — if she’s campaigning, she has to answer real questions, not just about her drapes-into-dress moments (see watertiger).
Is the Bearded Lady still doing her fundraiser for Reynolds?
Kick the bums out: Alexander, Boehner, Shimkus, Reynolds, Hastert.
actblue.com/page/foleyfive
Jo Fish @ 5
impeccable timing!
He actually rented out a day care facility? Truly?
I am speechless.
“Uh, Congressman Reynolds, sir. At what point in time did you proposition these children to come out and play with you today? Did you ask them directly or by IM, email or fax? Were the inducements cash or ‘other’ “?
Just asking, sir.
But I just read And the Hits Just Keep On Coming .
I’d like a ruling on Foley’s status.
Is he qualified to win? Is he a Republican or a gay?
yeah I’m with you Margot - is that so ???
please someone provide link for Spotlight purposes - I hate being the slow kid
teaser on CNN just now -
“Tom Reynolds may have some campaign troubles of his own”
Cafferty duly pissed.
Piles all the bushco and congress poop together and expressed disgust about it all and says that the thugs still looked powerful until now. He crowns his commentary with the “degenerate congressman”.
Ain’t no regular sex scandal acc to Jack.
This Republican Congress is now like a filthy kitchen that when you walk in late at night and turn on the lights all the cockroaches scatter, running for cover.
Except, of course, this time there’s no place to hide.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG! This wins for the most pathetic thing I have ever heard of someone doing to save their own ass. Renting out other people’s children to use them as human shields against the media asking the questions you should have been asking for yourself all along… Pa.the.tic.
I mean, honestly, there isn’t much lower to go than this, is there?
What are those parents thinking?
damn fools– they are using their kids too.
blech.
EPU’d
Siun:
“This investigation should be thorough and any violation of the law should be prosecuted,”
“I know Denny Hastert. I meet with him a lot. He is a father, teacher, coach who cares about the children of this country,” Bush said. “I know that he wants all the facts to come out.”
“I know that he wants all the facts to come out and he wants to ensure that these children up there on Capitol Hill are protected,” the president said. “I’m confident he will provide whatever leadership he can to law enforcement in this investigation.”
etc etc…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....MlJVRPUCUl
Not one bit of that is an endorcement that he remain speaker, IMO. He’s dancing around the edges ; )
Christy Hardin Smith @ 18
Sadly, I think we’re going to find out…
Well the white house did have their rent-a-boy in Jeff Gannon, so perhaps there is a precedant.
Prairie Sunshine @ 4
Glenn Greenwald has post explaining Why Boehner is as culpable as Hastert
And it just gets worse and worse. How could so many Americans be fooled for so long? It is disheartening. But spring will arrive this autumn. The Democrats WILL win, come fall!
Hmmmm….
I’m sure some “Foley Catheter” jokes would be easy to come up with…hmmm….
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I googled “Repulsive cauldron of addiction, mendacity and cellulite” and got this:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ho.....guest.html
Margot @ 11
Knowing the financial situation of many day care centers, I hope they charged a great deal for the use of their space.
RawStory sez:
Rumor swirls in DC that Nat. Journal will drop bombshell
on another Congressman at 5:00 pm EST… Developing?
Greetings. Quite a time up there in ole D.C. This has probably been discussed, but the R team has a HUGE gaping hole in the reports that the R team Congressional Ethics Committee failed to notify the D team member. That’s called….COVERUP.
Now our Congressional D teamers need to shout this from the rafters! Take the floor of the House and Senate, give interviews on the Capitol steps….and shout long and loud about how the R team covered up child molestation for political gain. D teamers, we need to “Murtha-ize” this!
Ghostman
“Rented out a daycare facility…”
You can do that? I mean, you can call them up and they rent the kids out for a price?
Next up, Reynolds will use people sensitive to bright lights as a backdrop so that TV crews can’t turn on their cameras.
Man, we have got more than our share of backwash & fools in this country…
cnn covering Reynolds and they jest said Laura will be giving him support tomorrow.
showing the presser now.
Huge Apologies to John Prine
Dear Abby, Dear Abby
My friends have all split
I diddled with pages, and couldn’t quite quit
I talked to them dirty, some said quite obscene
Then Everyone dumped me for being a Queen
Signed, MaF54
MaF54, MaF54 you have no complaint
You did what you did and you showed no restraint
So listen up buster and listen up good
Stop hitting on young boys and pounding your wood
Signed, Dear Abby
heh, indeed
Mr. Tobacco Check deserves to be the next bozo in the dock now that the MSM’s covering Reynolds and the daycare kids.
Bearded Lady Laura Bush to fundraise for Reynolds tomorrow. Time to demand the media DO THEIR JOBS.
Jerry @
31
And thus secure the vampire vote.
Jo Fish @ 33
LOL!!!!
I do that Prine tune in my acoustic act. Awesome parody.
Just thinking out loud here…Nobody in the Republican party makes a move without Karl Rove’s blessing (or, at the very least, knowledge). That would include covering up over-friendly emails if it put an incumbent’s seat in danger.
So, are there any enterprising journalists out there asking “What did Karl know, and when did he know it?”
So, will Denny throw Karl under the bus?
Jes’ thinkin’ out loud.
Pumping the brakes here…
The “rented out a daycare” line came from a blog post providing no corroboration. It’s sick enough Reynolds used kids as props, but unless we’ve got supporting evidence for renting out a daycare, I wouldn’t trust the line.
Fordham unavailable for comment acc to Mary Snow…
What a coward. Hiding behind women and children.
as Shooter would say,
The Republicans are, if you will, in the last days of their insurgency.
Almost as appalling as Top Republicans protecting a pedophile in their midst is the Mainstream Media, shamelessly and determinedly trying to minimize, dismiss, misdirect and gloss over this crime. The MSM has a role as a check and an illuminator of government corruption, but it has been so thoroughly taken over by corporate interests that it is actually possible for Mark Foley to do what he has apparently done, and for the MSM to be cowed into submission by its corporate owners.
Are the MSM covering the issue? Of course. But are they covering it accurately, cleanly explaining the crimes of the RNC, and casting issues into clear relief? No. They are deliberately drawing false comparisons, minimizing the crimes, and positioning this story as one of alcoholism and sex, rather than one of politics and criminal coverup.
Disgusting. There are about three decent reporters left in the country, and the rest of them are nothing but hacks.
I think the “rented out a day-care” line is sarcasm, not a statement of fact … In fact, I’m sure it is.
After all, these guys don’t need to pay. Why buy the whole pig for just a little sausage?
Ghostman @
29
Dear Ghostman,
You have been missed. Several people have asked where you are. And you are right about this.
What kind of day care operator thinks it’s a good idea to rent out her charges for political cover? Peee-u, that stinks.
And thus secure the vampire vote.
But he’s already got Novak . . .
Now showing a Patty Wetterling ad on Foleygate.
whoa.
Ghostie,
you’ve been missed and asked after
Cozumel — note that Bush’s quote describes the pages as “children,” whereas some of the RW spin has talked about “17 year olds.”
Ghostie! Long time no see!
Jo Fish @
33
Jo Fish, good to see you. Have to put your site back on my new(er) computer as a bookmark.
CNN Crowley blathering on a powerful Patty Wetterling ad about the Foley/coverup scandal, saying it’s potential overreach.
Hey, Candy, do some research on Patty Wetterling. Her son Jacob was snatched by a predator 17 years ago and never found. She’s dedicated her life to protecting children ever since. Patty is sending exactly the right message to voters in her Congressional District. And more power to her.
scarecrow @ 49
Thanks, noted!
Here’s the ad by Wetterling
http://www.pattywetterling.com/media/crimes.php
the new George W Bush School in Stockton CA
what a disgrace; that’s even a form of torture. if my kids had to go to scool of that name, we’d become instant adherents to home schooling. in Berkeley (as in most other communities, I’m sure) we tend to name schools after people of merit and historical distinction - Rosa Parks, MLK Jr., Washington, Jefferson, Longfellow…
44, Margot: goodness! Folks asking about me? Well, that IS nice to hear. I are fine! Just got flooded with work and usually too tired at night to jump in. Oh, and…well…..the start of the NFL season didn’t help things either….chuckle.
Ghostman
I’ve been thinking since yesterday about Tony Snow’s feebly attempted walk-back from his “naughty emails” comment.
I keep asking myself, ‘Did he really say “fill in the blank”?’ even though I’ve listened to it and I know he did.
To me, THAT stands as one of the most disgusting moments this week, that when the White House Press Secretary was given a mulligan, he basically, LITERALLY said “yeah yeah yeah, horrible yada yada.”
“Fill in the blank” ?!?!
What’s that I hear? Why I do believe it’s the sound of an entire FLEET of buses starting their engines.
yes, G-man, you are a member of this community and your absence was noted by me and several other members. welcome back, glad to hear all is well with you!
The stock market closed at record high today, led huges gains by Orville Rickenbacher and other popcorn makers.
Mr. Ghostman! how nice to see you again. I’ve missed you.
welcome back, gman.
Reynolds surrounding himself with children.
Hastert, according to dailykos, surrounding himself with Rushbo.
Now there’s a bright idea.
I still think there’s a not-yet-told story on those sex tourism weekends of ol’ Rushie. Any enterprising Caribbean reporters digging in?
I haven’t had a chance to read thru all of this thread’s comments, so forgive me if I am repeating here. In a daycare center, club, school, no one may photograph, record, or video children under the age of 18 without the written permission of that child’s parents.
Did Reynolds get the written permission of each and every parent of the children in that video? If he didn’t, he has broken the law!
thanks to all, thanks to all. Now….let’s go get those R teamers! What a bunch of crooked, lying, two-faced, child-molesting CREEPS!
Ghostman
Hey, g-man, good to see ya.
Do you suppose Reynolds got the idea for this “kids as human shields’ idea from AG Gonzales, who used his own kids in a hearing in an effort to protect him from having to answer hard questions about Abu Ghraib?
Case Study:
Rickenbacker
Redenbacher
:-)
We have to be ready for the inevitable news report that a Dem congressman did the same. (Note: I’m NOT even saying one actually did. I’m saying the report is inevitable regardless of its veracity.)
So a couple points are in order. First, ABC did not simply run the pages’ emails when they received them. Brian Ross actually confirmed with the congressman’s office that they were from Foley. I understand the same was done with the IM’s. The aol account was definitively confirmed as belonging to Foley by admission.
Second, when this report comes, we need to do everything we can to make sure the question moves quickly to: when did Nancy Pelosi know, and when did she know it? Because I am confident it will provide a contrast we’d like to dwell on.
(selise: I read the Iran deployment diary but not yet the comments. Until I get some time I’ll say no more than that Col. Sam Gardiner knows a lot more about this than I do.)
true, Professor Foland.
Dr. Bong @ 68
Thanks. Never type with butter on your gloves.
What a sordid bunch of people. I now have visions that the Repuglikans are going to go out abducting children from a daycare center and barricade themselves in a bunker.
Laughing too much to type… (deep breath..)
Did Bohner really say its the Dems fault for not making them stop it?
Anybody have a link to the actual transcripts of the Foley email messages? I’d like to discuss them in my class.
cleter — ABC News has them. I’ll see if I can dig up a link on their website that goes directly to them — but Jane has linked some of them up today in earlier posts. Just FYI.
Mommybrain @
45
A Republican one.
1. Sir Foland may have soom food for thought. And Pelosi ought to come out much cleaner than those R team dudes.
2. Sam Gardiner?? Ok, I don’t know what ya’ll are discussing, but Gardiner is one of the top-drawer experts in war-game simulations. He’s a legend around the Pentagon.
Ghostman
Prof Foland, re inevitable smearing of a Dem, I’ve been concerned about the same thing, and also concerned about how to avoid politicizing any response or strategy.
These people are masters at muddying the water and turning a political advantage into a political neutral. They’re already frantically trying. They just haven’t found any traction yet.
I’m just sick of them using their fuckups to smear the entire system, is all. I want the cancer contained and cut out.
As I scrolled lurking… I thought I saw a ghost but then thought naw… its just yet another sweet Jamisons induced bit of wishful musing…however I shall step out into the light anyway…
The fact that Denny Hastert evidently knew about Foley’s fun-and-games for at least a year and did nothing — which I liken to the Catholic Church’s monstrous denial of sexual abuse — raises curiosity about what might be found in Hastert’s own dirt pile.
Any man (or woman) who can purposefully and repeatedly turn a blind eye to the sexual abuse of children under their care has obviously made some psychological accommodations that also demand our further attention.
Larry
cleter at 74 — take a peek here — this has links to a number of other e-mail exchanges as well.
one more time - Hastert is in the Cheney camp, Boehner belongs to Rove
and this makes me happy if this anemic, politically worthless shit is all “The Architect” can come up with -
Professor Foland @ 69
thanks.
just wanted to let you know i saw your comment…..
Thanks Christy!
CNN: Seven republican candidates are returning their contributions from Foley
Next hour - Bill Frist - and the teaser question: “I’ll be asking him whether Speaker Hastert should resign.”
The answer should be quite illuminating. Under most circumstances, the leaders of one house never comment on the leaders of the other house. Of course, these aren’t most circumstances.
I’m guessing Frist will politely duck the first time the question is asked, but if they repeat the question and don’t let it go, he’ll give Denny a push toward the curb. The only thing up in the air, IMHO, is whether Frist will smile as he pushes . . .
Personally I’d really like a clarification on whether the “renting out a day care” is the literal truth.
At first I assumed it was a rhetorical flourish but now reading the link I am just not so sure.
Did I mention earlier that this is doing a lot for releasing our inner cynics?
GMan–selise asked me on an earlier thread what I thought about the Navy deployments to the Gulf. I’ve read the most recent story (there’s a dkos diary on it) that just came out, but haven’t had any time to digest. A couple of weeks ago Gardiner has already said he’s watching the date Oct. 21; the various known PTOD’s to CV battle groups, subs, and minesweepers puts them all in and around the Gulf on that date.
Gooooo Patty. I am in her district and she has been running slightly (sometimes more) behind the republican. Balrog said he has tried to get Patty on the candidate list highlighted here, but good for her on this ad. People are MAD here in Minnesota. Oh please, please let’s get rid of Pawlenty, Kennedy and their followers.
Larry! I HAVE had time for a few glasses in the evenings!
I think folks ought to read closely what Larry put in bold. On child sex matters, you do not EVER stand idly by. Not ever! What those R teamers did by turning away from this is sick. Pure sick. And cowardly as well. God are they sickos.
Ghostman
Larry @ 79
bingo ding ding bingo!
Hey Ghostman, good to see ya.
Even if it proves false that this idiot rented out a daycare center, Reynolds’ amateurish and desperate propaganda strategy of gathering supporters WITH their little children to protect him from any questions that would, appropriately, quote sexual language from Foley’s IM’s only serves to provide a clear visual tip off of Reynolds’ otherwise denied guilt in the Foley scandal.
Ghostman!
Punaise!
I had heard someplace on this toobz that an attack on Iran (or a blockade) is tentatively scheduled for right after the election.
If the dems take control of the House - what happens then? I suspect that the dems will go ahead with the blockade because Nancy can be a hawk and no one will want to be classified as weak. And they (the republicans) still have the media so they will be ready on the attack.
Jane, this “renting out a daycare” thing is spinning out of control. People are taking the line literally.
The blogger who wrote the line, “buffalowatchdog,” appears to have just been making a wry joke. Or do you have any corroboration that a daycare center was actually rented out? If not, your post needs an update and a walkback.
ok this may be lower….
Great moments in parody during free-fall …
Hastert: If I have to resign over Foley, the terrorists will have won.
– Josh Marshall
1,292 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Prairie Sunshine:
Oh shit, did Crowley do her takedown of Patty Wetterling on a scheduled broadcast…might we have a chance to see it again later? I would really like to see Patty request time to respond and get an interview with Ms. Piggy…I think Crowley has finally stepped in some shit she won’t be able to wash off.
Oh, welcome back Ghostman!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND BE CAREFUL THEY’RE POPPIN’ UP EVERYWHERE!!!
a link from Jane’s link above -
http://www.wnymedia.net/index......;Itemid=37
meta @ 90
Ghostman!
meta!
[Professor Foland: hmmmm. I’ll have to read that dkos thing. But if Gardiner has his attention on said date….it’s certainly something to pay attention to. Gardiner may not be right…but he’s a man one should always pay alot of attention to.]
Ghostman
Norske– Candy was on the sitroom and it may be replayed either now at 5 or at 7. That kind of stuff sometimes is.
hi Ghostman.
punaise @
55
Yes, poor Stockton Unified. They have a sick member of the school board, who also happens to be a pedophile (truly! had to resign from his job at the community college but is still on the school board!) who forced that name through by threatening to block the high school being named after Cesar Chavez. Of course most of the rest of the board is worthless too. Shows how important it is to have progressives running for all offices, even school board.
cnn just had a video by a former page– a girl– who said she never thought anything funny about Foley.
well, duh– you were not a chosen target.
cbl — That link is a blog post by a pseudonymous author providing no corroboration. That’s why I’ve been raising a red flag on this.
Apologies if this has been posted earlier . . .
The Hill is reporting that Lieberman is claiming to have assurances from the Dem leadership that he’ll retain his seniority in the next Senate, should he defeat the democratic nominee for his seat, Ned Lamont.
Laugh line: “Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, does not want to wrestle with these questions in public before the Nov. 7 election.”
ralphbon -
was merely linking it to show where Jane may have heard it - but someone needs to contact Buffalo media and find out just what the circumstances for the presser were -
Oh, I caught Candy Crowley too. She is getting an email shortly.
For pity’s sake, someone (not Crowley) played the Wetterling ad again with no background!!! What’s the matter with these people?? Never mind.
Raw Story Again:
Foley attorney to holds news conference in Palm
Beach, promises to deliver ‘bombshell’… Developing…
Wasserman-Schultz doing very well on Tweety’s show v. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Love that Debby
Hopefully KO will host Craig Crawford tonite…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15110582/#061003a
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Professor Foland at 85,
I sent an email to admin@wnymedia.net and just received this reply:
“no that was hyperbole.,.. the kids were local republican operatives
children and family…”
I told him I couldn’t tell what was hyperbole and what wasn’t, anymore.
Ira at 108 — while I truly appreciate your enthusiam for the Webb campaign, I’d like it even more if this didn’t become a concerted effort to spam our comments. We’ve been getting this a lot today. Thanks!
LaHood on CNN defenderating Hastert.
tossing Shimkus under the bus.
angie @ 111
Pretty soon there won’t be any more room under that bus.
OT..WTF?..Lieberman says he has been assured that he will keep his seniority. jebus..if this is true, we need new leadership in the Senate.(c-span-CapitalNews)
Ghostman @ 29
Ghostman! We’ve been looking for you! (OldCoastie at work)
Shimkus and the speaker’s staff.
LaHood’s hoody eyes shifting desperately as he tries to respond to John’s aggressive questioning. John King showing what a real reporter/interviewer looks like.
RevDeb @ 112
how about this bus?
J-Lie will doubtless be pushing that story of keeping his seniority during his appearance on Imus tomorrow morning.
Got questions?
imus@msnbc.com
RevDeb @ 112
We’re going to need a bigger
boatbus!on Iran:
see Gary Hart from HuffPo here:
http://www.informationclearing.....e15206.htm
and Gardiner video here:
http://www.informationclearing.....e15170.htm
no date there but there’s a lot of talk around about the end of October
Margot @ 109
Let us not fall for a red herring pissing contest over “did/did not rent out a day care.” The only salient point is the desperate, utterly transparent, cowardly ploy of using those kids as human shields/props.
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