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News agencies snap photos of Hastert through the windows of his home

posted at 12:00 am on October 5, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Hey, if he wanted privacy he’d draw the blinds, wouldn’t he?

Privacy is for Democrats, chump. Bill Clinton especially.

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Sick.

I’ve seen photos of the Prez sitting in his office – photos that were taken outside. Those are understandable. The man is a public servant, he’s at work, and the public has the right to know that he’s working.

But a man’s home, OTOH, is his private castle and unless he’s invited the mediots around to take snapshots of him in his house, they have no business doing so. It smacks of standing-behind-a-tree to catch a glimpse tabloid journalism. These two photos are prime examples of just how low the media have fallen in their efforts to sink Republicans during an election year.

SisterToldjah on October 5, 2006 at 12:19 AM

I really hate the media. This is dirty pool. Do they not think this kind of thing really pisses off Republican voters? Bring on November, and let the carping of NRO types fall to the wayside.

Stormy70 on October 5, 2006 at 12:20 AM

New makers.

Not news reporters.

Creeps

Kini on October 5, 2006 at 12:51 AM

Did you know…
John Gress has a Bachelors Degree in Political Science. In 2004 he covered everything from the Iowa Caucuses, to the national conventions, to election night.

Stephen M on October 5, 2006 at 12:58 AM

Like Rush has been saying the Lefts Attach Machine is full throttle. And don’t think the Wallace interview wasn’t the catylist. Have you ever seen such a ‘disproportionate response’ in all your lives?????????

Hell, anyone out there that has been holding on to your 2nd Amendment privileges, better get some reserve and honer down. This election cycle is gonna be a ‘Barnburner!”

auspatriotman on October 5, 2006 at 1:05 AM

Geez, they have no decency to just leave people alone at some point during the day. Reminds me of the protest outside Rove’s house. It’s really going too far. These people have families too. It’s equivalent to being a peeping tom or a stalker. These people are not journalists, they’re paparazzi. The double standard against Republicans continues…

CP on October 5, 2006 at 1:59 AM

They call themselves journalists but I call them pigs.

Catie96706 on October 5, 2006 at 2:04 AM

Paparazzi is far too nice a term to use to describe them.

Wolfman on October 5, 2006 at 5:05 AM

And these same morons claim the NSA program infringed on the individual rights of Americans. Apparently only the news media knows how to tear through ones personal right legally.

Just think if a conservative tried to do the same to Barney Frank… they call us Nazi fascists!

Bob on October 5, 2006 at 6:15 AM

Ah, yes, the media is their own worst enemy. They take us for fools. They think we’re dumb. They think they’ve won…

As Mzzz. Coulter said on H/C last night…they do all this to Republicans, but we can’t wiretap terrorists!?!? Say what?!?!?!

SouthernGent on October 5, 2006 at 9:25 AM

AP,

where are these from?

Jaibones on October 5, 2006 at 9:27 AM

It’s almost time for these people to go to the “quiet room”, where they can all have thorazine and “CELEBRATE” their loss of the election. They just figure a way to keep upping the ante.

What’s next, dhimmicr@ps nuking the country themselves? Will it be possible in their protests to go that far, just to lose, and throw another fit?

THE “DHIMMICR@PS” ARE CHILDREN AND NEED A GOOD SPANKING!

tormod on October 5, 2006 at 9:38 AM

Isn’t there some sort of law against ‘peeping’ in people’s windows? Didn’t these people just provide the evidence against themselves?

theholyhermit on October 5, 2006 at 10:26 AM

I am GLAD that this and all of the stink over FOLEY’S FOLLY are happening! I think it’s great! I think that the FAKE ASSED CHRISTIANS, who have thrown the principles of Jesus Christ in the TRASH, deserve everything they get! GOOD! I hope they kick this incessant MORON Hastert out and every other faggot enabling member of the “so-called” religious party! Imagine knowing that a homo had interest in a teenager and concluding that it was innocuous?

Apparently there is a long list of GOP faggots ready to roll! ROFLMAO!!!! GOOD FOR YOU I HOPE THEY EXPOSE YOU ALL! All of you who are so “tolerant” of sin and sodomy that you have welcomed these degenerates into our midst will not only pay here on earth, but you will pay in the world to come as well!

For the unrighteous will NOT inherit the kingdom. Neither will those who secretly APPROVE or tolerate, the perversion of others. This is a little nugget for all of you fakes who “love the sinner but “hate” the sin”, and idea that came straight out of the pit of hell btw.

ROMANS 1

24. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. (This is why they are homosexual according to scripture)
25. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. ( AIDS AND OTHER DISEASES)

THIS LAST ONE is for you “tolerant” folk, who let these VERMIN in amongst supposedly righteous people. This is for all the fake assed Christians who don’t understand the game they’re playing or the “Rules of Engagement”.

32. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death (YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HE DID TO SODOM AND WHY SO YOU ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE) , they not only continue to do these very things BUT ALSO APPROVE OF THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM. This is what the Lord thinks of your TOLERANCE!

REPENT. KICK THE HOMOSEXUALS OUT FROM AMONGST YOU SO THAT YOU CAN ONCE AGAIN BE A MORAL PARTY…. THE WAGES OF SIN ARE DEATH, DEATH AND MORE DEATH. WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!!

Soothsayer on October 5, 2006 at 3:43 PM

Way to kill a thread, Soothsayer. I’m all for street preaching, calling out sin, and peeling the paint off the walls with a good old blistering sermon, but this isn’t the street, or church.

Yes, homosexuality is abhorrent to God, and repeatedly condemned in Scripture. But right alongside that every other moral sin is equally condemned.

In 21 years of military service I witnessed many occasions of men proclaiming their hatred of queers, and knowing that a good number of them were unfaithful to their wives every chance they got. Is one worse than the other? Not in God’s eyes.

Of course, I agree that any deviant behavior on the part of a public servant should demand their immediate ouster, once that behavior is known about. But let us not be hypocrits. Adulterers, womanizers, and a laundry list of other miscreants are every bit as unfit to govern as a predatory sodomite. But consider this. If you were a member of the House of Representatives, just exactly what action could or would you take on the simple knowledge that another House member was a homosexual, but with no suggestion or evidence that they have comitted a crime? You and I can agree that the lifestyle is immoral, but at present it is not considered by society to be illegal.

Certainly I would prefer that the conservative political party would denounce deviancy in all its forms and be consistent in regards to standards, but that is not the world in which I will wake up tomorrow, so I will deal with the reality presented.

The words “hate the sin, love the sinner” are not verbatim stated in the Bible, but the concept is certainly clear to see throughout Christ’s teachings. Jesus forgave a harlot, a tax collector, and after his ascension, a murderer and hater of Christians. Of course he declared his forgiveness to many others face to face as well, but my point is this; he did not forgive the religous legalists, those who put the law above the Spirit. He pronounced on them woe upon woe, and named them children of Satan.

When you open your comment by declaring that you are glad this issue will tear down people you despise, you err in your Christianity. Take no pleasure in another’s pain. The Pharisee raised his eyes to heaven and thanked God that he was not as other men, a sinner. The tax collector bent his head down, beat his chest and declared his repentance, begging God to forgive him. Only one of those two men came near to righteousness. Go thou and do likewise.