Alcohol's Not Your Problem, You Pathetic Pervert
Today is all about politics.
The Republican Party, the party that espouses "family values", the party that never misses a chance to attack popular culture, gambling, or any other straw man, cannot even be bothered to investigate when one of its own is sending inappropriate email to children. Instead, they spend 2 years and millions of taxpayer dollars to learn every detail relating to a blow job that an adult gave to another adult.
But I'm going to direct this post to the pervert himself, Mark Foley, and his disingenuous, 'me first" attitude to his actions.
With all the stories surrounding this today, you may not have noticed that Foley checked himself into rehab to because, as he put it "I strongly believe I am an alcoholic".
No you're not. What you are is a pathetic asshole. You are seeking to sequester yourself from the press and any responsibility for your actions. You are now off-limits to the public, you can sit behind gated walls while you pursue your treatment of "alcoholism" at whatever speed you choose. If you come back into public life, and things get too hard for you, you can "relapse" and sequester yourself again.
Of course, you come first. You wouldn't even think of trying make things right with the children that were the targets of your email. You just want to run away to a quiet place until it all goes away.
And by choosing alcohol as your vice, you will someday blame alcohol for your actions. When you become 'sober', you will "realize" that you did these things because of old John Barleycorn, on demon rum. You will ask us to believe it, and some pathetic individuals that think alcohol is evil (how could a liquid be evil?) will believe that you are a normal person, and only alcohol made you do what you did.
But all the alcohol in the world can't make someone do what you did. That is only on you, Foley. When will you own up to it?
The Republican Party, the party that espouses "family values", the party that never misses a chance to attack popular culture, gambling, or any other straw man, cannot even be bothered to investigate when one of its own is sending inappropriate email to children. Instead, they spend 2 years and millions of taxpayer dollars to learn every detail relating to a blow job that an adult gave to another adult.
But I'm going to direct this post to the pervert himself, Mark Foley, and his disingenuous, 'me first" attitude to his actions.
With all the stories surrounding this today, you may not have noticed that Foley checked himself into rehab to because, as he put it "I strongly believe I am an alcoholic".
No you're not. What you are is a pathetic asshole. You are seeking to sequester yourself from the press and any responsibility for your actions. You are now off-limits to the public, you can sit behind gated walls while you pursue your treatment of "alcoholism" at whatever speed you choose. If you come back into public life, and things get too hard for you, you can "relapse" and sequester yourself again.
Of course, you come first. You wouldn't even think of trying make things right with the children that were the targets of your email. You just want to run away to a quiet place until it all goes away.
And by choosing alcohol as your vice, you will someday blame alcohol for your actions. When you become 'sober', you will "realize" that you did these things because of old John Barleycorn, on demon rum. You will ask us to believe it, and some pathetic individuals that think alcohol is evil (how could a liquid be evil?) will believe that you are a normal person, and only alcohol made you do what you did.
But all the alcohol in the world can't make someone do what you did. That is only on you, Foley. When will you own up to it?
posted by Beukey @ 5:04 PM
3 Comments:
At 8:15 PM,
Bluey said…
It is truly amazing how some people use the convenient excuse of addiction to explain away the fact that they are fucking sick individuals.
It used to be that these folks would at least have the sense enough to put a bullet in their brain once they were exposed.
Now, thanks to the Dr. Phil mentality of the world, everyone has the potential to be "healed".
Yeah, right.
At 7:30 PM,
David said…
Foley may or may not be an alcoholic and may or may not have been molested as a youth. Neither would surprise me.
However, the fact that he has chosen to hide behind these problems - before acknowledging responsibility or expressing contrition for his actions - indicates what a coward he is.
But we've known all along that Foley is a coward. For years, it's been an open secret that Foley is gay - yet he has persisted in denying it. Meanwhile, Republican congressmen Steve Gunderson and Jim Kolbe came out, served with distinction, and were reelected by their constituents. Maybe the gay press needs to get back to outing, if only to force the liars from positions of leadership.
Foley's cowardice is now being rivaled by that of Denny Hastert and the Republican leadership, who knew about these emails for almost a year, but didn't do anything about it for fear it would hurt the party. Not without culpability are the St. Petersburg Times, which sat on the story for months; and the parents of at least one of the pages, who just wanted Foley to leave their kid alone, but apparently must have thought it was okay for him to cruise other teens.
Aside to Bluey - I don't believe that anyone is 100% good, or 100% evil, nor do I believe that anyone is beyond redemption. Recognizing and accepting the humanity in others frees us to accept and love ourselves. I would not be surprised if Foley had issues with this too.
Aside to Beukey - Props for defending alcohol. I am drinking my LAST Latrobe-brewed Rolling Rock as I type this. No more green bottles for me!
At 5:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
The Republican party is now seeing the downside to aligning themselves with the holier than thou religious right. You can only pretend to be perfect and criticize those that aren't for so long. Sooner or later, you make a mistake and the backlash their getting is fitting. If the Dems can't win back the House and Senate in 2006 they should disband the party. Or, the trial lawyers that support them should file a class action lawsuit charging incompetence.
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