The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

Alex · 10-04-2006, 08:40 AM

Other pages may have come forward with other warnings by now, I didn't watch or read the news at all yesterday. But when I posted it, the source of that story was one specific page who was reported to have said one thing but in his own writing space claimed the warning he had received was informal, from one Republican staffer and simply said "he's gay, don't get too involved with him."

Definitely not any kind of official warning, which is what the initial reports suggested, more like backroom gosisp. But maybe that story has changed again.

Not Afraid · 10-04-2006, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

"he's gay, don't get too involved with him."

How about "He likes underage boys" Or "he's been known to be inappropriately forward" or how about "he's a lecherous old man, watch out".

Gay or straight isn't really the issue other than it was the male pages who were the desired as opposed to female pages that are the desired the other 90% of the time.

Alex · 10-04-2006, 09:12 AM

How about them? Have other pages said that they were given those warnings? Who were they warned by? Staffers or other pages? In high school we all had several teachers that we warned each other were lecherous or gay or taught P.E. so he could watch the girls run in sweaty t-shirts. Not quite the same thing as if the principal had come to us and said "stay away from Mr. Belding, he'll be thinking about your crotch."

All I was commenting on was the state of things yesterday morning when all the stories about pages being warned were from one specific source (whom I detailed) and that source said it wasn't really the warning that the news was making it out to be.

10-04-2006, 08:40 AM	#1
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Other pages may have come forward with other warnings by now, I didn't watch or read the news at all yesterday. But when I posted it, the source of that story was one specific page who was reported to have said one thing but in his own writing space claimed the warning he had received was informal, from one Republican staffer and simply said "he's gay, don't get too involved with him." Definitely not any kind of official warning, which is what the initial reports suggested, more like backroom gosisp. But maybe that story has changed again.
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10-04-2006, 09:12 AM	#3
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	How about them? Have other pages said that they were given those warnings? Who were they warned by? Staffers or other pages? In high school we all had several teachers that we warned each other were lecherous or gay or taught P.E. so he could watch the girls run in sweaty t-shirts. Not quite the same thing as if the principal had come to us and said "stay away from Mr. Belding, he'll be thinking about your crotch." All I was commenting on was the state of things yesterday morning when all the stories about pages being warned were from one specific source (whom I detailed) and that source said it wasn't really the warning that the news was making it out to be.
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