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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:24 PM
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The Wingnut Scandal List
OK, I'm trying to think of just the most egregious of the wingnut scandals in the last few years, specifically those who make a career of scolding others for the same things they do themselves. I'll start - who can add others?

William Bennett - gambling
Rush Limbaugh - drugs
Bill O'Reilly - bizarro sex harassment
Laura Schlessinger - nudie photos, adultery, homewrecking
Whatshisname Ryan - dragging an unwilling wife to BDSM clubs
Guckert/Gannon - BDSM MSM prostitution, leaking classified material

more?
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:25 PM
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1. Reagan WH pedophile thingy
:(
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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:29 PM
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7. What was all that about?
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 04:17 PM
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19. See here:
Edited on Tue Feb-15-05 04:45 PM by mzmolly
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cry baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:26 PM
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2. Condi caught lying to congress - is that a scandal? n/t
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:32 PM
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9. Sort of. I'm specifically trying to list the "scolds" -
the ones who get caught doing precisely what they preach to others that they shouldn't be doing, like Rushbo with his illegal 'scrips.
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:26 PM
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3. Yes, I have more
And I also have some things that should be scandals, but aren't.

George W Bush - Lying, draft dodging

Pat Robertson - Ties to Charles Taylor

Richard Mellon Scaife - Murder of Steve Kangas
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:28 PM
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6. Dr. Laura had an abortion in her "youth." So I guess that
excuses her and sets her as judge and jury in every other woman's life. I hate this f*cking hypocrites.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 05:17 PM
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21. I'm astounded that Dr. Laura had an abortion...
...she is so vociferous when it comes to abortions.

She uses very graphic language to describe the procedure. She also couches the decision as, "Women who decided to murder their children by having them sucked down a sink." She uses loads of language like that.

She's also a major advocate for stay-at-home moms. I find that interesting, since she is privileged enough to have a millionaires' salary working 20 hours per week on the radio. Sorry, Dr. L--not everyone is a celebrity radio-talk-show host. Some of us have to work real jobs. I'm a stay-at-home mom and I'm embarrassed that she portends to speak for me---when I find her offensive, unrealistic and a hypocrite.

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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:27 PM
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4. won't you come join our thread
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:31 PM
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8. That has some of what I'm after,
but there's quite a few recent scandals that aren't in there, either. I just think a comprehensive list of all the high-profile conservative scolds caught with their pants down or their hands in the cookie jar, just in recent years, would be kind of impressive. The one guy in your thread did quite a job compiling the list of Republican pedophiles, that's for sure.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:37 PM
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12. i remember in the raygun years
someone did a poster with all the convictions of people associated with the regime. it was 16" x24", fine print. i was thinking about that the other day. i'd like to make one just for myself.
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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:28 PM
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5. Newt Gingrich. Adultery, among other things.
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:32 PM
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10. Oh, leave Ryan out of it. Lamest sex scandal ever.
Edited on Tue Feb-15-05 03:34 PM by Inland
He and his wife went to a club. He asked her to have sex in front of other couples. She said no. End of story, even assuming that much is true.

Hard to get scandalized about a guy wanting to have sex with his own wife, even in front of willing observers.

Plus, Ryan was never one of those sheet sniffing moralist types. His private life should have remained private.
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 04:01 PM
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15. Apparently, Ryan wasn't incredibly concerned about keeping his private
life, well, private. I think that is the same argument the freepers are using about Gannon, i.e., his internet prostitution activities were private. :crazy:
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 04:37 PM
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20. Can't compare the two.
Ryan went to a club, with his wife, where the expectation is that you don't talk out of school. Whether the people showing up can be trusted is a different matter. Although I would add that it was his wife that told.

Gannon advertised to the public.
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 05:39 PM
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23. Well, I just hope dem politicians aren't frequenting sex clubs...
thinking they have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
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JAbuchan08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:33 PM
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11. Bernie Kerik
weekend warriorism, mob ties, an illegal nanny.

and the whole lot of them for just general ignorance and insensitivity.
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:48 PM
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13. When is Bill Bennett going to write "The Death of Outrage Part II"
--- The Bush Administration 2001-2005?
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:53 PM
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14. here are a few more
giuliani - mistress living in the mayor's house while he was still married

bob barr - forced one wife to have an abortion. also was cheating on one or more of his several wives

henry hyde - infidelity

rush limbaugh - drugs. also 4 marriages from a guy worried about the sanctity of marriage
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 04:02 PM
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16. Don't forget Scarborough: Dead Intern
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 04:10 PM
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17. Demopedia has a lot of info on this
Scandals: Miscellaneous Republican

Scandals: George W. Bush

There's some kind of bug stopping me from including a link to the Propaganda category, but here's the link to the catgory list, and you can click on Propaganda for yourself:
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Special:Categories
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 04:14 PM
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18. That uber-conservative Virginian Rep.
who was busted for soliciting sex with men -- can't remember his name now.

As for perverts, then there was the GOP guy (in the Chicago area maybe?) who is doing time for having sex with two underage (VERY underage) girls with the permission of their mother.

Damn, there was a whole string of GOP perv threads for awhile -- mostly sex with underage kids.
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cry baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 05:24 PM
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22. What about Scarborough and the dead person in his office? n/t
Edited on Tue Feb-15-05 05:26 PM by cry baby
Oops, on edit, I see that someone beat me to it!! Sorry EC!
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