A Pilgrim’s Progress
Oct 5th, 2006 at 9:12 pm by Susie
So we were driving up to New Hampshire and the only station we could find with a clear signal turned out to be a right-wing talk radio station from Boston. There was a horrifyingly racist parody commercial attacking Deval Patrick, the black Massachusetts Democrat who’s running for governor, and then sneering comments about how the entire Foley scandal was a hoax. “Change the station. I can’t listen to this,” my friend said.
Yep, a great big hoax. Here’s some more merry pranksters:
“I was seventeen years old and just returned to [my home state] when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked and how big their penises were,” said the page in the 2002 class.
The former page also said Foley told him that if he happened to be in Washington, D.C., he could stay at Foley’s home if he “would engage in oral sex” with Foley.
The page told ABC News he was interviewed this week by FBI agents who had a six-page list of questions about Foley and the exchanges.
Oh, where was I? Yeah, we finally got to Hampton Beach (we drove past the big and famously unsafe Seabrook nuclear plant, which is right down the road), when my friend realized she didn’t write down the name of the hotel where she made reservations. I laughed. “You’re such a numbnut,” I said. “You didn’t write down the name of the hotel?” (Fortunately, she did write down the address. So there was that.)
We had a fabulous dinner in the hotel dining room, took a walk on the boardwalk and now we’re watching Pat Buchanan make a total ass of himself on “Scarborough Country” (he called Foley “a flamer”). And there’s free wireless in the room.
Life is good.
[...] A leadership struggle may come to a head. Or worse. Speaking of head, in his own head Dennis Hastert knows, just knows he did nothing wrong. This is all the Democrats fault. Meanwhile three more pages stand up to say Foley was a dick a predator. Defenders of the Party of Dick now ‘claim‘ the first Foley dicking IM exchange was a prank gone bad, so let’s stop talking about dick and get back to the issues the Republicans think they can win on. Democrats simply must let go of this one sleazey issue so Republicans can get back on the high road of attacking their opponents’ patriotism. We are all so dicked. [...]
That station had to be 96.9… god awful rightwing bullshit factory, feeds that crazy stereotypical Boston blue blood redneck xenophobia.
So glad I got Sirius.
hey susie, that’s hampton beach. what hotel was it? omigawd that buchanan shit was awesome! i was cracking up.
I think it was called the Ashford Inn. Something Ash, anyway.