[Talk] since "talk" has a passion for politics:

[Terry Richards]

i got this off another group and thought i'd fish a little:


-----List of Hypocritical Replublican Pedophiliacs:
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

And none of that shifted power.  Nothing new with Foley, just
another red herring to cover-up far more damning issues.

From:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct06/Marshall02.htm

Foley is a Red Herring
by Lucinda Marshall
www.dissidentvoice.org
October 2, 2006

If ever there was a week that the brown stuff hit the political fan,
last
week was a doozy. If it could have happened, it did. Even Tony Snow's

formidable spinmeister skills were no doubt taxed as heavily as a
middle-class worker.

First there was that pesky NIE leak.  Next we found out that surprise,
surprise, it seems that Jack Abramoff was in contact with the White
House more than a few times, hundreds of times as it turns out. And
then wouldn't you know it, a couple of those heinous whistleblowers
piped up to mention that Diebold secretly patched voting machines
 in Georgia. To top it all off,  the Congress then not only  voted
almost
unanimously to piss billions more of our money on the war in Iraq, they

also stood up and proudly affirmed that Torture-Is-US.

All this with an election just around the corner, not the kind of week
that you want to stick in the minds of voters. If ever there was a week

that the pols needed one of their famous red herring stories, this was
it.  A red herring, as explained by Wikipedia, works like this:

"[I]n politics, a minor or even phony issue trumped up as being of
great
 importance, in order to influence voters to vote for one party or
candidate and against the other, or distract from more important issues

that might help the opposing party."

Now you know things are getting pretty bad when the GOP sacrifices a
shoo-in candidate like Florida Representative Mark Foley. But these
guys know darn well that anything that smacks of sexual perversion
is the ultimate red herring story.

The keyword here is SEX. No other news item is as salable as a good
juicy sex crime. Sex stories, particularly ones involving children,
sell
billions when they are marketed as pornography.

Politicians and newsmongers (many of whose parent companies make
handsome profits from pornography) know this. This story is a slam
dunk to knock all that pesky bad news off the front page and distract
us just long enough so we forget all about influence peddling,
disastrous wars, election stealing and the like.

This is hardly the first time that such a lurid and titillating story
has
broken at a juncture when lawmakers or the President are up to
something they don't want us to think about. Anyone remember
the media frenzy over the arrest of John Mark Karr, the man who
wasn't even vaguely guilty of killing Jon Benet Ramsey?  Remember
what other news happened that week? Neither do I.

The best part is that while Foley's seat may be a goner for the GOP,
sex scandals are the most forgivable political sin that there is. Pols
on both sides of the aisle indulge, lots of uproar, then wink, wink,
nod, nod, and it's back to business as usual.

Let's not allow ourselves to fall for the latest smokescreen of moral

outrage.  Foley is slime; there is a good chance he belongs in jail
for violating laws he helped pass.  But it wasn't even close to being
the only reprehensible occurrence in the hallowed halls of government
last week, and we should not allow the media to do it's usual feeding

frenzy at the expense of informing us of the rest of the news we need
to know

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