Republican Pedophile Scandal: When Did The Speaker Know?

4:35 pm EST October 4th, 2006 | Republicans | 8 Comments

Kirk Fordham, the Reynolds aide who resigned today, has told the Associated Press that Speaker Hastert’s office was alerted to Mark Foley’s inappropriate behavior two years ago. Hastert’s people are denying that.

As Rep. Pelosi has said, people need to be put under oath and questioned on this.

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8 Responses to “Republican Pedophile Scandal: When Did The Speaker Know?”

  1. Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy says:
    October 4, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    Someone should probably photoshop Denny Hastert’s face onto a poster of Dead Man Walking. I would do it, but I’m lazy.

  2. frameone says:
    October 4, 2006 at 5:49 pm

    “I would do it, but I’m lazy.”

    Just great. That’s why Dems lose elections. Too many people are just too lazy to do the kind of grassroots photosphopping the party needs.

  3. Duros62 says:
    October 4, 2006 at 6:21 pm

    an we send it over to what’s her name at Firedoglake?

  4. Mike says:
    October 4, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    The problem is, we have no evidence that Speaker Hastert knew specifically that Foley was engaging in sexually explicit activities with underage boys.

    We do know that “everyone” in D. C. knew that Foley was gay, and we know that liberals had threatened to “out” him before the election. And apparently several young men reported that Foley was overly friendly with them. Foley was specifically asked to stop corresponding with the one former page who said that Foley “creeped him out.”

    But if Hastert had officially reprimanded Foley based on only those allegations, Hastert would have been pilloried up and down D. C. as a McCarthyite gay basher. Foley would have been turned into a gay rights martyr, and we might never have known about his predatory behavior with underage boys. Alter all, the private lives of adults are no one’s business, are they?

    Of course Democrats probably wouldn’t care, because once again they would be given the opportunity to sack Hastert, only under this hypothetical circumstance the charge would be hypocrisy, McCarthyism, homophobia, and gay-bashing.

    Unfortunately the Democrats blew this one big-time. By calling for Hastert’s resignation and a full investigation into the entire House Republican leadership before most people even knew what Foley was charged with, they prematurely gave away their ultimate strategy, and proved that sacking Republicans –not justice for Foley’s victims — was their primary goal.

    By the way, I wonder why no one has bothered to interview Gerry Studds. I would think that a story about “the man who did the same thing as Mark Foley and got away with it” would make an interesting Nightline or Dateline NBC piece.

  5. midderpidge says:
    October 5, 2006 at 1:33 am

    Yes, Mike, it is clearly about gay bashing. Hear No Evil Republicans.

  6. Bill L. says:
    October 5, 2006 at 5:05 am

    Okay, first, Gerry Studs? That’s some sort of counter argument? Is the Right so far gone that they have effectively adopted “two wrongs make a right” as their spin control? Secondly, Studds was censured and stripped of his chairmanship of a House Merchant Marine subcommittee. I would hardly say he “got away with it.” He wasn’t hanged, but then again, his indiscretion wasn’t with a 16…or possibly multiple “16″ year olds.

    This Foley pederast business has made it clear that the remaining 30%+ of the country that backs the GOP have really collectively lost their minds. Nobody with even a semblance of understanding what it should mean to be a U.S. citizen should be throwing in with this lot.

  7. factcheck says:
    October 5, 2006 at 8:09 am

    Geez, Mike. Next time mix the Kool-Aid with water before you drink it.

  8. Duros62 says:
    October 5, 2006 at 3:30 pm

    once again they would be given the opportunity to sack Hastert, only under this hypothetical circumstance the charge would be hypocrisy,

    and this isn’t hypocritical how?