My ears glossed over it at first, but Andy Martin has some new media buys on St. Louis radio. I didn’t catch it at first, because the new ad sounds like his old ad, the one where he peddles the Kirk/gay gossip. (That’s because Martin’s voice is monotonous, so everything he says sounds alike). But I finally paid attention to his spoken words today. At first, I thought he was nothing more than a harmless gnat, and I actually enjoyed him being in the race, b/c it pissed off the State Repugnican Party lamestram. But this second ad of his is outright libelous.
In the new ad, he insinuates that Mark Kirk excuses pedophilia. His reasoning is that Kirk dismissed the non-scandal relating to his then-House colleague, Mark Foley. The ad doesn’t mince words — Martin accuses Foley of pedophilia, and drags Kirk into it by saying that he excuses Foley’s “pedophilia.”
IMHO, Mark Foley has grounds to sue. And don’t put it past the IL Republican Party to fund a lawsuit on Foley’s behalf, in order to swap this gnat once and for all.
Foley never committed pedophilia. He never even had sex with the 17-year old guy in question (and even if he did, that’s a legal relationship in many states, including MO and DC). I read the IM transcripts, and all Foley did was to give the young man advice on how to jack off. And this non-scandal took place few years before the media/Democrats publicized it, they were saving it for an October Surprise as run-up to the 2006 mid-terms which resulted in the Ds taking back the House and Senate. They wanted to dislodge conservative/moralist voters away from the Republicans, to get them to stay home. But if they would have used it too early, then the stink would have cleared well before election day. The hypocrisy of it is that Mark Foley, someone who didn’t keep his orientation a secret AND an elected Republican (a very rare pairing), wasn’t allowed to advise a teenage boy (again, I might add, a legal sexual adult in some states) about masturbation. But those very same Democrats want that and more to become a staple of kindergarten education. If Foley did commit pedophilia, it would have come out far closer to the time of the actual act, rather than a timed election season weapon. And the consequences for Foley would have been far more severe than resigning from Congress in advance from being voted out.
Another element of Democrat hypocrisy relating to the Foley row is that they’ve been telling us for years that we shouldn’t harbor any bigotry toward homosexuals (which we shouldn’t), nor are we allowed to imply that there is a strong correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia (which there is not). But in the Foley issue in late 2006, the Democrats/MSM didn’t explicitly say that Foley committed pedophilia, but I’ll go to my grave believing that that was the subliminal message they were peddling, or at least, they were hoping enough people would suspect that Foley was a pedophile and that his being a Republican was a besmirch on the whole party. In other words, they peddled homophobia and insinuated that there is a homo-pedo link. Methinks that Andy Martin is one of those who did translate the subliminal message into a conscience one. And the irony of all this is now, the MSM, and a lot of liberal Democrats, at least the ones familiar with Martin, will now accuse him of spreading homophobia and insinuating that there’s a strong homo-pedo correlation.
It’s just that the Democrats would say anything in order to win elections, no matter how two-faced they have to be in the process. Evidently, Andy Martin will say anything, too.
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