The UglyFace of the Right-Wing

It was only a matter of time before America's right-wingers came slithering out from under their rocks to lash out over the Mark Foley scandal.

These are the guys who patented attack politics. Don't worry about the truth, forget all notions of basic decency, just attack, attack, attack. This time it's really sickening.

Now they're blaming the children who were on the other end of this predator's e-mail. Internet sniper Matt Drudge called the pages "beasts" and said the 16-year old in question "wasn't coerced" but "was having fun with this." Drudge accused the underage, former pages of "egging the Congressman on."

Sadly, Drudge isn't the only right-wing dirtbag blaming the victims. Nationally-syndicated radio pundit, Michael Savage, blamed the former page for "gay baiting". This reprobate called the boy a "sleaze ball" and a "greedy, aggressive child." Savage questioned whether the boy even exists and, if he does, whether he's a Democrat.



ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross disclosed that his sources on the Foley scandal were Republicans. That didn't stop right-wing degenerate and junkie, Rush Limbaugh, from going on the air to claim that, "these e-mails were planted by a liberal" and it was all a carefully staged plot by the Democrats. Limbaugh's guest, none other than Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert himself, stated his Democratic colleagues "put this thing forward to try to block" the Republican agenda.



Limbaugh, however, wasn't finished. He went on to argue that the Dems might have set the whole thing up with the underage pages to document Foley's perverted behaviour.

Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity didn't waste any time debasing himself either. Like all the others, this blackguard chose to bury the fact that the ABC sources were Republican so he could pitch his own conspiracy, "I want to know why these instant messages were held back until now. Who knew about them? Why did they hold them back? ...We see a lot of things unfolding just before an election. You see that this is just pure politics."



Frustrated neo-con Bill Kristol of the "Weekly Standard" sought to spread the smear all around, "Well, foley is responsible for it, and the voters in Florida, I guess, who elected him. Maybe they should have known better."

The religious right hasn't been far behind. This from Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council: "...there's no defense of this behaviour...it shouldn't be totally surprising when we hold up tolerance and diversity as the guidepost for public life. ...This is what you end up getting: a congressman chasing 16-year old boys down the halls of Congress."



CBS correspondent Gloria Borger reported that an unnamed senior House Republican suggested to her that "a network of gay staffers and gay members" of Congress had conspired to do Hastert a "disservice."

If nothing else, the venomous right-wing reaction to the Foley scandal serves to show us what kind of people these creeps really are. There is nothing they won't stoop to in their tirades. They have no decency, none.

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