Comments on: Fox’s Non-Denial Denial

By: Jukesgrrl

Jukesgrrl — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:16:22 +0000

Marcy, PLEASE keep investigating. This entire story is rotten to the core and I don’t mean because of the sex angle. I’ve been telling everyone I can think of that the tie back to Christopher Ward has something to do with this, but now that The Family is also involved, the smell is getting worse and worse. If US senators lived in a house owned by AIG or Chrysler, for that matter, people would be screaming “conflict of interest” from the rooftops. But because it’s the American Taliban, it’s a non-story?

Exactly whom did Chris Ward rip off (a story told all over DC) and if he did, was he ever even investigated, let alone prosecuted? If not, why not? That usually only happens when crooks steal from other crooks. Is there a connection between the organizations he worked for and members of The Family?

I’m beginning to wonder if Ensign even did have an “affair” with Cynthia Hampton. Is it possible this was an affair of shady finances rather than sex. In other words, the “what you made my wife do” wasn’t sex but something not just immoral but illegal? Illegal enough that even Ensign’s wife would prefer a cheating story to the truth?

I’m not usually paranoid (I ascribe to few conspiracy theories), but the fact that Mrs. Hampton was treasurer to two Ensign organizations blows this affair out of the realm of a mere sex scandal. The money trail is currently leading to some VERY shady places and the chances of the Nevada press looking into this are next to none.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:01:30 +0000

“Amen.”
The way The Family is set up in cells, who knows who is calling the shots. Flat out creepy.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:57:38 +0000

Another religious fraud Republican in a tawdry sex scandal – what’s newsworthy about that? To me, the story is the freaking religious cult that grips Congress, and the grooming of it by evangelical wingnuts, and the traditional graft passed as a result that is completely ignored because it is religious. Graft is fucking graft, and this is graft. Ensign is a sideshow.

By: fatster

fatster — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:42:39 +0000

This story might have legs? Why not toobz?

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:20:44 +0000

Mmmm, I like the taste of blackberries. Heh.

In an age of amazing technology it leaves me all atwitter that this story might have legs.

By: RickMassimo

RickMassimo — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:13:24 +0000

We certainly weren’t going to rush to air with accusations against a sitting Senator without doing due diligence on the reputability of the claims.

Unless of course that sitting Senator is a Democrat who is uppity enough to run for President, in which case anyone we can find who thinks he’s a secret Mooslim terraist gets all the air time he wants.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:03:44 +0000

0-2? My numbers are a little higher than that.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:00:47 +0000

Welcome back, redfish. While you’re not making false straw man arguments about people claiming KSM is anything less than the terrorist he is, you’re being inane, again.

0 for 2, so far, friend. You’re on a roll that will get you banned from the site if you keep it up.

By: EvilDrPuma

EvilDrPuma — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:44:54 +0000

Nobody’s forcing you to read these threads, you know.

By: EvilDrPuma

EvilDrPuma — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:42:33 +0000

It’s kinda fun reading the words “John Ensign’s cuckold.” I think it must be fun to write them, too, ’cause I’m reading them a lot.