O'Reilly needs to be shot

Along with Dennis Hastert, Tom Reynolds, and of course Mark Foley.

Why? Because, suspiciously, O'Reilly labeled pedophile-former-Congressman as a DEMOCRAT not once, not twice, but three times during his broadcast last night.

He should be attacking the congressman for his vile behavior; instead, he blames gay Americans (because Foley is now hiding behind the "I'm a gay American and that's what caused me to do this" excuses) and Priests/Pastors/Rabbis for "abusing Foley himself as a teenager."

Sure. I'll believe that when you show me hard statistics that every gay man in America is a pedophile and every pedophile in America is a gay man. But I guess that the second part of the statement, that "Mr. Foley is not offering any excuse" for the behavior should be interpreted that the admissions and accusations offered yesterday were provided for no more than informational purposes and should not be interpreted as any type of excuse. Right, right?

Mr. Foley, for the record, if you're going to claim that you were abused by a man of the cloth, it helps to actually be able to identify what denomination your abuser was. Of course, if he's still preaching, it shows that you weren't really doing your job, doesn't it?

For the record, Foley isn't a Democrat. He's a Republican. Usually, that shouldn't matter when such a sick individual has been charged with protecting our children and fail miserably (Chris Hansen doesn't include the "for the record what party are you registered to?" question when he's shocking predators on Dateline); however, when the sicko involved has been tasked with and commended by our President for his efforts to PROTECT CHILDREN, it matters. It matters a lot.

As for Hastert and Reynolds, they should have raked Foley across the coals (he probably would have liked that) as soon as they learned about the IMs. Instead, they covered it up -- much like the churches that shuffled priests from parish to parish. You can't shuffle a congressman, you can only cover up his behavior. Right?

They also fed the story that the Page program should be disbanded. If that's not a way to blame the victim, I don't know what is. It's like telling a mother: "Gee, sorry Mrs. Doe, I didn't mean to abuse your two year old. It was just that she looked so sexy in that diaper." How fucking sick is that!!??!!??

When even the most conservative newspapers in the country are calling for your resignation, it's time to go. To jail. Do not collect $200, do not keep the money you already collected. Mark Foley was caught with a live boy and resigned. Dennis Hastert and Tom Reynolds were caught with the same live boy and should face the same fate. The money raised by Foley should go straight to a Hurricane Katrina charity (because the IM victim was from that region), the Amish Community (who lost their little girls to a pedophile like Foley) or to a charity for victims of pedophilia. It should NOT go back into the coffers of the Republicans who knew about the abuses and hid them.

O'Reilly isn't the only one who's been hiding information about Hastert's involvement. ABC News and the Washington Post both changed stories after initial postings. Those stories initially mentioned Hastert's involvement, and both had quotes that changed to something that wasn't as clear. Check out the Daily Kos for that info.

So, I'm fully expecting that the next move for Camp Foley is to claim that the abuses extended only to the inappropriate IMs. IMs, incidentally, that were so "inappropriate" that if Charlie Gibson had read them aloud during World News Tonight, he would have been slapped with FCC Fines out the wazoo.

I don't buy that.

Maf54: I miss you lots since san diego.

What the hell happened?