Dobson on Foley: It’s the sex-crazed liberals’ fault!

October 7, 2006

Guest Post by Morbo

Imagine what the Religious Right’s reaction would be if a Democratic House member were caught sending sexually explicit messages to a 16-year-old congressional page. It would be round-the-clock outrage and a TV preacher-driven media circus.

Thus I waited for some Religious Right leader somewhere to say something about the appalling behavior of former Rep. Mark Foley, who, despite what the Fox News Channel would have you believe, is a Republican. For several days there was silence. I continued to wait.

Finally, four days after the scandal broke, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action issued a statement — and found a way to blame it all on the liberals.

Liberals, you see, have created a sexually permissive atmosphere, one that leads an adult member of Congress to believe it’s OK to send filthy instant messages to a boy. Reads the FOF Action press release:

“Those truly interested in protecting children from online predators should spend less time calling for Speaker Hastert to step down, and more time demanding that the Justice Department enforce existing laws that would limit the proliferation of the kind of filth that leads grown men to think it’s perfectly OK to send lurid e-mails to 16-year-old boys.

“If any lasting cultural good could come out of this awful incident, it
would be Americans discarding the politically correct notion fed to us by those on the left that obscenity is just another form of free speech.”

I think the reason it took FOF four days to get this out is that Dobson and his henchmen were having trouble keeping a straight face while typing up this junk.

I’m sure they considered other options. Dobson toady Tony Perkins, for example, is going with the ever-popular line that the Foley incident just proves that all gay men are pedophiles. This one is a tad hard to push as well, given that every other night NBC’s “Dateline” runs a program whereby adult men are lured to houses believing that they are going to have a sexual encounter with an underage girl.

I’m sure many on the left believe the Religious Right’s obsession with the sex acts of consenting adults is unhealthy and kind of creepy. We have also argued that young people deserve comprehensive sex education in school, not far-right Christian sermons and the fear-based nonsense that passes for “abstinence-based” education. We believe young people should be taught about the things their bodies do, informed that such things as condoms exist and told that some people are gay and that this is their own business. None of this means we think it’s acceptable for an adult to send pornographic messages to a high schooler.

Sorry, Jimbo. Foley is one of yours. He’s a conservative Republican who posed as an all-around “family values” guy. He is a product of your culture and your politics. As much as you would like to pin him on the left, it just won’t work. Furthermore, evidence is mounting that your boy Dennis Hastert knew about Foley’s actions at least two years ago and did nothing.

It was a nice try, Jim. Now why don’t you get busy and find a way to blame the recent shootings at that Amish school in Pennsylvania on the liberals?

“He’s a conservative Republican who posed as an all-around “family values” guy”

To give Foley the only bit of credit I will be arsed to give him, he voted No on the GMA. I’m not suggesting he’s some sort of freedom fighter subversive undermining the system from within. He’s just another rich, white, power fetishist, who thinks his dick is a magic wand. But it makes me wonder why the right-wank “Christians,” haven’t looked this up, declared him a traitor and left him to fend for himself.

And of course Dobson doesn’t say how the icky liberals also caused several other Republicans to leap through their own arseholes and cover for Mr. Measure Your Penis for years. A story (front page above the fold again!) in the Post today says another Republican aide has confirmed Fordham’s story. But if the Libs have that much power, what are we waiting for? Let’s get Hastert to strip naked, paint Spank Me across his blubbery backside and crawl around the Senate chambers barking like a dog. Let’s get Dr. Rice to come to the next UN meeting in those hot boots, a metal bustier and leather g-string. Let’s get Dobson to stick his head up his own arsehole…ooops. That’s already been done.

I think Dobson is just preaching to the choir and most of them have left. The people who already blame the “liberals” for everything that goes wrong in this country just needed him to articulate that jangle of noise they call thoughts.

  • I think Foley’s issue was one of power. And power is the aphrodisiac of the right. Just as rape has little to do with sex and a lot to do with having power to violate a victim, pedophilia has a lot to do with the power of the older man to control the minor. Consequently, in an environment where the Republicans have gorged themselves on abusive practice of power, have deigned themselves to be always right and have found it acceptabel to abuse those who do not have the same power as themselves, I’d say they have created an environment where pedophilia should flourish. So will other pedophile shoes drop out of Republican ranks?

  • “I think the reason it took FOF four days to get this out is that Dobson and his henchmen were having trouble keeping a straight face while typing up this junk.”

    It took them four days to figure out how to get all their hard drives cleaned up.

  • It took them four days to figure out how to get all their hard drives cleaned up.

    Comment by MW

    LoL. It really is the hypocrisy, isn’t it. Some Reichers claim that the reason Democratics are so focused on hypocrisy is because Repubs have such strong morality. That’s true if you define morality in the most, well, hypocritical terms. But their real hypocrisy is about something more universal than their right-wing mores. They are hypocritical about the things that almost everyone says are good and true–the human values.

    Please please send the rapture soon.

  • Liberals have created a sexually permissive atmosphere? Wait minute, wasn’t Foley a Republican? Wasn’t it the Republican leadership which was “see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil” about Foley so long the millions of donation dollars rolled into Republicans coffers (the RNCC still wants to get its tainted mitts on that filthy lucre)? Wasn’t it the Bush Crime Family that demonstrates daily that there are no moral/legal codes to which it must adhere?

  • Ya gotta hand it to ’em. As we all know, control a person’s sex life and you control the person. The evil liberals want people to be in control of and have responsibity for their own lives, to keep the guv’mint out of their bedrooms. How shocking! Sounds almost like a conservative “truth”. 😉

  • These are the same people that likely think standing next to a gay man will make you gay or give you gay (like the cooties or the common cold) so this kind of thinking doesn’t surprise me at all.

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