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"Harry Hope" |
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27 Aug 2006 02:54:17 PM |
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Right Wing Family Values Washington hit by the curse of the kid bloggers. |
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2330177,00.html
August 27, 2006
Washington hit by curse of the kid bloggers
Tony Allen-Mills, New York
AS the leader of the Republican party in the US Senate and a possible
presidential candidate, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee has a
reputation for sober rectitude.
The same cannot be said of his son Jonathan, a Vanderbilt University
student who recently appeared on the internet wearing six cans of beer
strapped to his belt.
Nor has Jonathan’s brother Bryan done much to help his father’s
attempts to strike a reasonable note about US involvement in Iraq.
"I was born an American by God’s amazing grace," wrote Bryan Frist in
an online profile.
"Let’s bomb some people."
While the Bible warns that the sins of the father may be visited upon
their sons, the injunction may need to be revised in the age of the
teenage blogger and online social networks.
The sins of the sons -- not to mention the daughters -- are making the
titans of Washington and Wall Street nervous as the internet opens
public doors to what would once have been private family business.
Frist is one of at least half a dozen US politicians -- and at least
one US Supreme Court judge -- whose public images have been dented in
recent months by the internet antics of their offspring.
Pictures of scantily clad daughters whooping it up have become a
staple of internet gossip.
The popularity of teenage networking sites such as MySpace and
Facebook is proving a goldmine for political bloggers keen to compare
the pious proclamations of candidates running for office with the
blogs and picture-sharing websites maintained by their children.
No sooner had Congressman Louie Gohmert, a conservative Republican
from Texas, unleashed a tirade against the moral inadequacies of
Democrats opposed to the war in Iraq, than someone found internet
pictures of his daughter Caroline dancing on a bartop and posing with
a man in his underpants.
There was also embarrassment for Justice Samuel Alito, the
conservative Supreme Court judge appointed by President George W Bush
earlier this year.
Alito is opposed to gay marriage, but a Facebook entry by his
Georgetown University student daughter Laura declared, apparently
tongue in cheek, that her relationship status was "Married to Kate
Tice".
While much of the internet sleuthing has produced largely harmless
evidence that teenagers like to party even if their parents are
famous, more awkward incidents have been picked up by mainstream
media.
Roll Call, the Washington insiders’ newspaper published on Capitol
Hill, recently reported that Jonathan Frist’s Facebook entry declared
him a member of the "Jonathan Frist appreciation for ‘Waking Up White
People’ Group".
It also mentioned a group where there were "No Jews allowed. Just
kidding. No seriously".
The Washington Post discovered last week that the son of a prominent
Wall Street executive had been posting awkward criticisms of his
father’s company, the telephone conglomerate AT&T, in a personal blog.
Jared Watts, 21, an employee of an AT&T subsidiary, complained in his
blog about policies that were "abusive to the customer".
His father, Wayne Watts, is a senior vice-president who is currently
attempting to defend AT&T’s service record to industry regulators
examining a takeover bid.
Errant children have long been a fact of Washington political life,
but have rarely caused any lasting scandal.
Bush was untroubled by the underage drinking exploits of his twin
daughters Jenna and Barbara.
The president’s brother, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, was not
seriously damaged when his daughter Noelle was arrested on drug
charges.
His son John was arrested for having sex in a car in a shopping centre
car park.
The US media has in the past treated adolescent follies as largely a
private matter, but the mushrooming trend towards public self-exposure
on the internet is beginning to make life a misery for celebrities
with children who blog.
Even Marie Osmond, a devout Mormon and squeaky-clean American family
singer, was caught up in MySpace turmoil when her teenage daughter
Jessica, writing under the pseudonym "F off", declared she was
bisexual and that Adolf Hitler was one of her heroes.
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Shocking
Harry
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| Title: Picture Of Fristy's Boozer Kid PLUS Corker's Girl Kissin' Daughter Re:Right Wing Family Values Washington hit by the curse of the kidbloggers. |
27 Aug 2006 10:06:08 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2330177,00.html
August 27, 2006
Washington hit by curse of the kid bloggers
Tony Allen-Mills, New York
AS the leader of the Republican party in the US Senate and a possible
presidential candidate, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee has a
reputation for sober rectitude.
The same cannot be said of his son Jonathan, a Vanderbilt University
student who recently appeared on the internet wearing six cans of beer
strapped to his belt.
And you can see that right here:
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/facebook/john-frist-beer-wrangler-178678.php
And here's Bob Corker's daughter making out with another lady:
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/kids/more-facebook-fun-bob-corkers-daughter-experiments-with-mary-cheneyism-180720.php
[...]
No sooner had Congressman Louie Gohmert, a conservative Republican
from Texas, unleashed a tirade against the moral inadequacies of
Democrats opposed to the war in Iraq, than someone found internet
pictures of his daughter Caroline dancing on a bartop and posing with
a man in his underpants.
[...]
Bush was untroubled by the underage drinking exploits of his twin
daughters Jenna and Barbara.
The president’s brother, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, was not
seriously damaged when his daughter Noelle was arrested on drug
charges.
His son John was arrested for having sex in a car in a shopping centre
car park.
[...]
Shocking
Harry
Rightards - what a pack of hypocrites.
RT
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