{"id":188,"date":"2006-10-03T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/foley-the-one-handed-warrior\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T19:21:39","slug":"foley-the-one-handed-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/foley-the-one-handed-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Foley the One-Handed Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News<\/a><\/strong> revealed this afternoon that Foley was engaging in “Internet sex” with a teenage boy while Foley was voting for the Bush administration’s Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriation in 2003.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

ABC reports:<\/p>\n

This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m.,\u00a0…<\/p>\n

Maf54 [FOLEY]: I miss you
\nTeen:\u00a0\u00a0 ya me too
\nMaf54: we are still voting
\nMaf54: you miss me too<\/em><\/p>\n

The exchange continues in which Foley and the teen both appear to describe having sexual orgasms.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maf54: ok..i better go vote..did you know you would have this effect on me
\nTeen:\u00a0\u00a0 lol I guessed
\nTeen:\u00a0\u00a0 ya go vote\u2026I don’t want to keep you from doing our job
\nMaf54: can I have a good kiss goodnight
\nTeen:\u00a0\u00a0 :-*
\nTeen:\u00a0\u00a0
\n***<\/em><\/p>\n

Bush often talks about the idealism of his war on terror and the nobility of congressmen and others who support his warring by burning tax dollars as fast as the IRS can vacuum them out of American paychecks.<\/p>\n

We now know what Foley was doing when he voted to support scores of billions of dollars of additional spending for Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

But what were other pro-war Republicans doing at the same time?<\/p>\n

How many other congressmen were metaphorically doing what Foley was doing actually?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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