| Author | Post |
|---|
s13
Moderator
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 03:35 am |
|
| http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?Section=66&ID=19689
|
Alias Emily
Member
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 03:39 am |
|
| The Colgate Kid is one mixed-up dude. I cannot imagine why any woman could take this man seriously.
|
quantumystic
Member
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 04:15 am |
|
National Enquirer + No photographic evidence it ever happened = Zero credibility.
In a stairwell? With not even one single bodyguard/security officer at a "discreet" distance, for a former Senator and Presidential candidate? Please.
I'm no particular fan of Edwards, but this is simply absurd. People like him don't roll without back-up. They never know when they might accidently come across a crazed NeoCon (ok, that was redundant) willing to sacrifice themself to push him down a flight of stairs.
|
Drudge X
Member
| Joined: | Sat Jul 16th, 2005 |
| Location: | Failure, USA |
| Posts: | 18595 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 04:44 am |
|
| Why is Gay Wired reporting this? Is Edwards having a sexuality id crisis? It'll be sad if Edwards divorces his wife who is having cancer.
|
mb
S. Moderator
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 04:55 am |
|
| What the heck? Is this a credible news source? Besides that... who really cares?
|
robert stout
Member
| Joined: | Tue Sep 28th, 2004 |
| Location: | Arizona USA |
| Posts: | 13300 |
| Status: |
Online
|
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 05:25 am |
|
John Edwards plans to move to Colorado City... ![[allamerican]](/forums/themes/default/allamerican.gif)
|
Opinionated
Member
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 05:35 am |
|
Drudge X wrote: Why is Gay Wired reporting this? Is Edwards having a sexuality id crisis? It'll be sad if Edwards divorces his wife who is having cancer.
Unlike McCain who divorced his 1st wife because she was disfigured and handicapped by a car accident.
Now there, there's a story that's just sad.
|
Nw9st
Member
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 05:37 am |
|
Opinionated wrote: Drudge X wrote: Why is Gay Wired reporting this? Is Edwards having a sexuality id crisis? It'll be sad if Edwards divorces his wife who is having cancer.
Unlike McCain who divorced his 1st wife because she was disfigured and handicapped by a car accident. john edwards woulda gotten her an 8 figure settlement.
Now there, there's a story that's just sad.
|
s13
Moderator
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 08:12 am |
|
Drudge X wrote: Why is Gay Wired reporting this? Is Edwards having a sexuality id crisis? It'll be sad if Edwards divorces his wife who is having cancer. A better question is why did you first post this?
|
merrill
Member
| Joined: | Sat Jul 30th, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 17603 |
| Status: |
Online
|
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 12:53 pm |
|
s13 wrote: http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?Section=66&ID=19689 Republicans love sex with a variety of others:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070710_is_there_a_writers_strike_in_heaven/
============
Okay, this is getting ridiculous. What is up with Republican sex scandals? Larry Craig, a Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho, was arrested in June for lewd conduct in an airport men’s room and pleaded guilty earlier this month to disorderly conduct. Craig maintains the incident was a misunderstanding, and I have to admit that the facts sound a little fishy. Craig’s alleged overtures to a plainclothes officer in the next stall over included waving his hand under the divider and playing a strange game of footsie:According to the arrest report cited by Roll Call, Craig tapped his right foot, which the officer said he recognized “as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct.”
I don’t know if that is conclusive evidence of a proposition, but I’m not an expert in the field of men’s room hookups. Maybe with some justification, Craig is now publicly regretting his guilty plea and denying any inappropriate conduct.
Yet, even if we dismiss his case for the moment, the number of Republican sex scandals in recent years is shocking. The party that loves to grandstand on sexual morality is also home to David Vitter, Mark Foley, Bob Allen, Jack Ryan, Bob Livingston, and the list goes on. Young Republican Michael Flory deserves his own heinous category:The former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans admitted today that he sexually abused a colleague during a national convention here last summer.
Michael Flory, a 32-year-old attorney from Jackson, Mich., pleaded guilty to sexual battery on the day he was to stand trial for rape.
The teary-eyed college student he overpowered in a downtown hotel room gasped and dabbed her eyes as Flory replied to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Peter Corrigan’s question, “Are you indeed guilty?”
“Sure - yeah,” Flory said.
Klassy. Now, it’s not that Democrats don’t have sex scandals. Clinton/Lewinsky will forever haunt us, and phrases like “Chappaquiddick incident” and “Gary Condit” don’t exactly help public perception of Democrats. The most recent Democratic sex scandal I can recall was Jim McGreevey’s 2004 self-outing amidst a harassment suit brought by his former employee/clandestine lover.
So yes, Democrats aren’t scandal-free. But it’s a little shocking how lopsided the distribution of sex scandals between the parties has been as of late. Of course, the distribution of corruption scandals is just as lopsided. Democrats may have Bill Jefferson and Alan Mollohan, but Republicans have the whole Abramoff crew (Tom DeLay, Bob Ney, Tom Feeney, Steven Griles, etc) plus do-it-yourselfers like Duke Cunningham and Jim Gibbons. Two out of three members of the all-Republican Alaskan Congressional delegation are under investigation for corruption (Ted Stevens and Don Young).
Still, the sex stuff grates in a special way. Jim McGreevey’s decent record on gay rights didn’t leave him open to charges of hypocrisy in the way that Larry “0% Rating From Human Rights Campaign” Craig has. Indeed, I may have been too quick to dismiss Craig from the scandal roster. Craig, it seems, has long been known to troll Union Station bathrooms - perhaps in between votes to ban same-sex marriage and block the addition of sexual orientation to hate crime and job discrimination laws. And Senator Vitter, did you realize that those prostitutes you cheated on your wife with were having sex before marriage?
How, exactly, are Republicans going to promote their rhetoric when so many of their leaders violate it?
|
merrill
Member
| Joined: | Sat Jul 30th, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 17603 |
| Status: |
Online
|
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 01:02 pm |
|
Prostitutes financed by Jack Abramoff and linked to AIPAC and former
Israeli prime minister serviced House, Senate members, media hosts, top
military, other feds
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough allegedly cooperating with probe regarding
Abramoff indictments?considering whether to report sex-ring scandal on
?Scarborough Country?
U.S. intelligence: Sen. Leader William Frist and reporter Robert Novak
alleged as regular clients
by Tom Flocco
Washington?May 5, 2006
A long-time top-level government agency official joined a national security expert in confirming grandjury testimony last month, revealing that male and female heterosexual,
homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and child prostitutes provided sexual
services to numerous congressmen, senators, national media hosts and
other federal officials who were compromised and made susceptible to
blackmail at three Washington hotels.
The whole Republican Party was for sale?
the House, Senate and the White
House,? said a well-respected federal agency official with impeccable
credentials who declined to be named but who is familiar with testimony
and sources close to the grand jury probing Jack Abramoff.
More on this matter:
http://thinkprogress.org/abramoff/
Last edited on Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 01:04 pm by merrill
|
merrill
Member
| Joined: | Sat Jul 30th, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 17603 |
| Status: |
Online
|
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 01:59 pm |
|
s13 wrote: http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?Section=66&ID=19689 Bush/Rove implied more than once that McCain had fathered an illegimate child when McCain was running against Bush.
Amy Goodman Questions John McCain on the Smear Tactics of Karl Rove & George Bush
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/9/3/amy_goodman_questions_john_mccain_on
This party has not one truthful bone in its' body and McCain is no better as we speak in spite of how the party screwed around with his private life.
This party stinks to high heaven!
Last edited on Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 02:01 pm by merrill
|
DarkSoul1984
Member
| Joined: | Fri Aug 19th, 2005 |
| Location: | InMod, Virginia USA |
| Posts: | 16677 |
| Status: |
Online
|
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 02:18 pm |
|
Drudge X wrote: Why is Gay Wired reporting this? Is Edwards having a sexuality id crisis? It'll be sad if Edwards divorces his wife who is having cancer.
Oh, you just gotta excited about half-assedly pounding that particular liberal...
|
Freaks1932
Member
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 03:24 pm |
|
"Republicans love sex with a variety of others"
Merrill hates sex. 
|
S.
Moderator
|
Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 06:32 pm |
|
merrill wrote: s13 wrote: http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?Section=66&ID=19689 Bush/Rove implied more than once that McCain had fathered an illegimate child
Source please.
|
dem4life
Member
|
Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 11:29 pm |
|
The John Edwards "love child" story
The sordid story of an alleged affair between former Sen. John Edwards and Rielle Hunter has popped up again, courtesy of a National Enquirer article saying that the paper's reporters caught Edwards going to meet with Hunter and the couple's purported "love child" at a Los Angeles hotel.
I know what you're thinking: Why even bother with anything printed by the Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid you probably think of as the kind of "newspaper" that focuses on rumors that Elvis Presley is alive -- and leading a band of rampaging space aliens? That's certainly the message Editor and Publisher's Greg Mitchell sent in an item he published at the Huffington Post on Friday. That's not really the Enquirer's niche, though. It gets confused with publications like the defunct Weekly World News, but in fact the Enquirer is surprisingly good at reporting on these kinds of stories, and it has a decent track record with them. It was the Enquirer that published the photo of Donna Rice sitting on Gary Hart's lap. It was the Enquirer that broke the story of Rush Limbaugh's addiction to painkillers. And new information about the Edwards story makes the Enquirer's reporting on it look more solid.
The Enquirer had first alleged that Edwards and Hunter were having an affair last year; it later reported that Hunter was pregnant with Edwards' child, though Andrew Young, a friend of Edwards', has said the baby is his. The latest chapter in the saga happened earlier this week, when reporters from the paper claimed that they spotted Edwards -- and confronted him -- at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night after being told beforehand that the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee would be there to meet with Hunter and the baby.
These stories have largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but new details that emerged Friday lend some credibility to the Enquirer's account, though they're not proof of it. FoxNews.com has now published a story based on an interview with one of the security guards at the hotel, who gave an account of intervening "between a man he identified as former Sen. John Edwards and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful."
From the FoxNews.com article: The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards -- whom he did not immediately recognize -- in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door ...
"His face just went totally white," the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter ...
The guard later confirmed Edwards' identity after being shown a photograph.
The story also notes that "the Enquirer says it has videotape showing Hunter entering the room where she met Edwards, and shows Edwards leaving the same room. However, the Enquirer has thus far declined repeated requests by FOXNews.com to release any photographs or videotape evidence of the incident."
There have been complaints from some quarters about the silence from the mainstream media that greeted the publication of the Enquirer story, as well as allegations of bias. Personally, I think it comes down to a few factors, none of them bias.
First, Edwards didn't get that much coverage in the first place, and he's not thought of as a really serious contender to be Barack Obama's running mate, so it's unlikely that major outlets will devote to this story the substantial assets required to do reporting on it. Without doing that, it's unlikely many outlets will report on the story based entirely on the Enquirer's allegations. Even if editors and reporters believe that the story is true and the reporting is solid, it would look odd for a paper like, say, the New York Times to print a story that came solely from the Enquirer. There's also the jealousy factor -- taking the Times as an example again, the paper of record really doesn't want to admit that it got scooped by a tabloid. And, last, there's the Elizabeth Edwards factor. Reporters are especially careful in a case like this, because of Elizabeth Edwards' illness.
― Alex Koppelman
|
Vashner
Member
| Joined: | Mon Oct 24th, 2005 |
| Location: | USA |
| Posts: | 1741 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 02:23 am |
|
Well.. that leaves Edwards out.
Who's still on the DNC VP short list?
|
Dlemay9
Member
| Joined: | Sun Sep 18th, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 5517 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 03:19 am |
|
MB wrote: What the heck? Is this a credible news source? Besides that... who really cares?
Some conservatives care out of fear Edwards might have a bigger bonzogi than what conservatives reckoned on in a police state. ![[pray]](/forums/themes/default/pray.gif) ![[elephant]](/forums/themes/default/elephant.gif) ![[asleep]](/forums/themes/default/sleeping.gif)
|
Dlemay9
Member
| Joined: | Sun Sep 18th, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 5517 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 03:44 am |
|
Vashner wrote: Well.. that leaves Edwards out.
Who's still on the DNC VP short list?
Not tiny Bob Barr! Isn't he the religious republican fanatic from the south that now claims to be libertarian? Why is it all small balled haired men turn to religion as to means to relay their beloved message?![[confused]](/forums/themes/default/confused-smiley-001.gif)
Not all small men are for stern religious republican rule.
|
darengb
Member
| Joined: | Fri Feb 8th, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 516 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 03:49 am |
|
"The National Enquirer reported" . . . hahahaha
|
Current time is 10:14 pm | Page: 1 2   |
|
