Mr. Hypocritical

"I have no problem with adult pornography. People are entitled to read it, watch it, see it in their homes or in public accommodations. Where I have to draw the line is using children for the excitement of those more mature people who should know the difference and know better."

Representative Mark Foley
Republican from Florida
2002 interview with National Public Radio

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"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."

Representative Mark Foley,
Republican from Florida
speaking about Bill Clinton in 1998.

NOTE: Interestingly this quote regarding Clinton appears to have been scrubbed from Wikipedia recently.

Original (from Google cache): Unscrubbed edition

Current: Scrubbed edition

NOTE: According to a new note on the current page the site was recently vandalized.


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"We track library books better than we do sexual predators."

Representative Mark Foley
Republican from Florida

Source: Boston Globe

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Isn't it comforting to know Mr. Foley buttoned down our sexual predator laws just in time to face them himself?

I wonder what depths of denial will be plumbed by republican dead-enders in order to cling to the discredited notion that republicans are morality champions.

It seems difficult to make a man understand something when his pride depends upon him not understanding it.