FOLEY TOUCHED PAGE ON HOUSE FLOOR

[powergirl]

The last sentence brings it home. Read on . . .


The page, Richard Nguyen, a first-year student at the University's Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, said he saw Foley pat a male page's behind. Nguyen did not report the incident to authorities. At the time, the then-16-year-old thought it was "questionable activity," but he was unsure how to interpret it. "I mean, you see athletes patting each other's asses all the time on the field."

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Nguyen said many of the pages in his class were suspicious of Foley. "We always saw that Mr. Foley was very friendly to male pages," he said. "There were signs, for an observer like myself, but I never knew what I know now."

Nguyen said he never felt threatened. The dormitory where he and the other pages lived was guarded by police, and the page program enforced curfews and a buddy system.

"I always felt safe when I was there," Nguyen said. "But then again, I was a Democratic page."

http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2006/10/11/Government/Page-Foley.Touched.Page.On.House.Floor-2343543.shtml?sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.co
:spray:

[maxsolomon]

1. nice quip, kid.

nguyen is pronounce "wen". so sayeth the nguyen 2 desks down from me.

[aquart]

4. Thank you. I always wondered.

[maxsolomon]

5. me too. i always thought "noi yen"

she started last week so i immediately asked.

i love pronunciation.

[aquart]

38. I love words.

I love what happens when someone who is a stranger to a word meets it, and takes it somewhere else.

[MnFats]

7. um, where have you people been?

"Nguyen" as "wen' has been around quite a while.
case in point: I went to my neices high school graduation (st. Paul Central) and there were more "nguyens' listed among the graduates than there were Olsons or Petersons. And this is Minnesota. As I recall, the Johnsons still had the lead.

[Counciltucky]

22. Huh...

I always thought it was pronounced "en-GOO-yen".

[tinfoilinfor2005]

31. My husband is a poker freak.

There are a couple of Nguyens on the poker tournament circuit, and I always though they were pronouncing it WIN. But Wen and Win sound close enough.

[MnFats]

46. i think there probably are slight differences in pronounciation......

just like the name Hermanson would sound differently in Texas than it would in Maine.
regional differences held over from the homeland...

[frogcycle]

50. minor clarification

well, the johnsons had the lead with Foley, maybe

:)

[eShirl]

54. um, where there are no Nguyens around?

Personally I've only encountered the name in print.

[emmadoggy]

60. I'm embarrassed to admit...

that when I graduated from Technical School (in MN - almost 20 years ago), I had to read the graduates' names as they came on stage for their diploma (I was a broadcasting student and myself and a handful of the other broadcasting students each read a portion of the graduate names).
Anyway, there was a student on my list with this name and I butchered it - I had never heard it before. A group of people in the audience actually shouted it out at me like I was an idiot. Unfortunately, because they all shouted it out, not in unison, I still didn't catch what it was supposed to be and so wasn't able to correct myself. I thought they said, "wyen" or something like that, but I wasn't sure. It was one of those moments where you just want to slink off and hide. :yoiks: :hide:

Nice to know, all these years later, how it is actually pronounced. :blush:

[maxsolomon]

62. dial it back a bit, MnFats

i'd always wondered how it was said, and now i know. i won't look like a clueless priveledged white boy to the vietnamese i meet anymore. ignorance has been lessened, but you chastize us for it?

[Monk06]

23. Foley: "So now that we know wen, it's just a matter of where and how

big your penis is."

[MnFats]

26. massive.

but, with apologies to Seinfeld, (it's 29 degrees outside) : "SHRINKAGE!"

[Monk06]

34. Ali G: "It's not massive unless it's Westside Massive"

[MnFats]

45. Represent! n/t

[Monk06]

47. Respect ! n/t

[soothsayer]

43. The Vietnamese around here say "win"

Same diff i guess

[goodhue]

44. /nwien/

Is the pronunciation, one syllable. It is the most common vietnamese surname.

[IronLionZion]

59. The Nguyen I know says it's "new N"

maybe it varies. There are only a handful of Vietnamese last names so Nguyen is very common.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Love it! Recommended.

[Greeby]

3. Says it all

:spray:

[StrictlyRockers]

6. Excellent little gotcha there! Don't see Rethug moms and dads lining up

to let junior become the next page in the saga.

[Canuckistanian]

37. Yes, good point

Interesting to see if Repug parents continue to sign up their little scions for public duty after this fiasco.

It's now being said that Foley has had more pages than Tolstoy's War and Peace.

[spooky3]

8. am I the only one for whom the link doesn't work?

[Stand and Fight]

9. Your link does not work. n/t

[eleny]

10. Oh - Feh!

[pnwmom]

11. Here's another link.

http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2006/10/11/Government/Page-Foley.Touched.Page.On.House.Floor-2343543.shtml?sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com

[spooky3]

14. thank you. Mr. Nguyen sums up the situation very well.

[pnwmom]

29. He has a very trustworthy voice, doesn't he? He'd be a very strong

witness, in my opinion.

[grytpype]

12. "then again, I was a Democratic page." heh heh heh

Foley only hit on smooth young Repug pages. Way to keep it in the family!

[Roy]

63. Dem pages would have reported incident to authorities...

Repubs are required to report transgressions to RNC, and MUST be prepared to FIRED os SLIMED.

:rofl::rofl:

[orleans]

13. K&R

on the house floor?

[Cronus Protagonist]

15. Did he bend the page over

Or bookmark his ass?

:evilgrin:

[Monk06]

48. Foley: "At this point in my life it's time to turn a new page."

[Pryderi]

16. deleted

[powergirl]

17. Try this link

http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2006/10/11/Government/Page-Foley.Touched.Page.On.House.Floor-2343543.shtml?sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com

I couldn't edit on my original post b/c the time expired. :):toast:

[w4rma]

39. Another working link

http://www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2006/10/11/Government/Page-Foley.Touched.Page.On.House.Floor-2343543.shtml?norewrite200610112341&sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com

[JohnnyLib2]

18. Let's time the swiftboat reaction on this one.

The Michigan paper was yesterday.
DU and beyond today.
Attacks on the kid by tomorrow, I'd say.

[Cha]

19. "I always felt safe when I was there," Nguyen said. "But then again, I was

A DEMOCRATIC PAGE"

Such a wonderful quote!

[YDogg]

20. Oh man. Poor kid.

[Catherine Vincent]

21. Whoop! There it is!

"I always felt safe when I was there," Nguyen said. "But then again, I was a Democratic page."

Sweet!!

[No Exit]

24. Holy shit!! This is turning into Packwood Redux--except, with MINORS!

First he's talking dirty online. Then he's visiting the page dorm in his cute baby-blue BMW convertible. Then he's bagging a former page. Now he's groping the underage pages on the frikkin' HOUSE FLOOR. (In between having "internet sex" with a page or ex-page WHILE VOTING in the House, of course...)

[powergirl]

27. Ick, I hope he washed his hands . . .

n/t:puke:

[No Exit]

56. Me, I hope the PAGE washed his.... you know!

[greeneyedboy]

25. can hardly wait for the next episode of Foley's Follies & Hastert's Heroes

[joetripp]

28. GOP Ad Slogan

"Vote Republican. We won't molest your children. Really."

[Divine Discontent]

32. or this one

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[civildisoBDence]

30. "I mean, you see athletes patting each others' asses all the time on the

field"...but when's the last time you saw a little league coach pat a kid's ass in the locker room?

Newsprism

[Divine Discontent]

33. I call BULLSHIT on the repukes!!!!

Like Nguyen was the only person that saw Foley reach down and pat the boy on the ass! BULLSHIT! There's people walking all around in there, there's cameras, surely someone else has seen him do it, but they're probably all repukes and don't want to say anything.

Nothing like some young smooth boytang is there Foley? :crazy:

[Generator]

35. Yes yes yes!

Let's get back to Foley Foley all the time. ENOUGH with North Korea and these other distractions. What Americans CAN understand is a little underage harrasment homosexual butt slapping.

And they will not allow that. Whew! I knew this story was a winner when I saw the Republican Bushbot on the View agreeing with Rosie O'Donnell that Hasert should resign.

[Dinger]

36. Isn't Tehre A CNN Anchor With The Same Last Name?

Wonder if they're related? I think hern first name is Betty. I don't like her.

[Scout1071]

40. And half of Vietnam.

It is a very commom Vietnamese surname. Kind of like Smith.

[savemefromdumbya]

41. Democratic pages always feel safe!

[Renew Deal]

42. That last line is funny.

:thumbsup:

[garybeck]

49. hhhmmmmmmmmmmm ... second hand story.... is it illegal anyway?

i don't know about this. is it illegal to pat someone on the butt? and it's second hand story. I'd like something a little more solid. otherwise it almost smells like rove.

[V. Kid]

51. THE DEMOCRATS HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THIS, THE DEMOCRATS HAD PRIOR

...KNOWLEDGE OF THIS! THE DEMOCRATS HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THIS!

Seriously though, the best online comment, was the one by this person:

Malgoska
posted 10/11/06 @ 5:32 PM EST

G.O.P. = Gross Old Perverts?

[Vinca]

52. It's not the page program that's the problem,

it's the Grand Old Perverts that are causing trouble. They (Congress as a whole and pervs in particular) should leave the page program alone. I would be interested in knowing the page who had his butt touched and if anything else happened at another time.

[powergirl]

61. GOP = GRAB OUR PAGES

n/t:evilgrin:

[V. Kid]

64. Gross Old Perverts?

n/t

[Maryland Liberal]

53. Roll the Tapes

Like - they don't have security cameras on the house floor???

[kdpeters]

55. "I always felt safe...I was a Democratic page." Huh?

This makes no sense. How does one's political affiliation determine the threat one faces from harassment? How would a harasser know and why would he care? If Mr. Nguyen's animal attraction can't reach across political ideology, I have to wonder if he's really the irresistible studmuffin he imagines.

[Buzz Clik]

57. Nguyen's comment was drenched in irony -- not to be taken literally.

[Divine Discontent]

65. hi new DUer!

I believe it was in context to if he felt threatened by FOLEY a REPUBLICAN. As a Republican it appears from the stories breaking over the past week that Foley, who is a Republican, only went after Republican families kids, as far as has been reported. As a Democratic party follower, the teen made a rational judgement that he was safe from the pig Republican child molester.

[Buzz Clik]

58. Ass-grabbing is an American tradition.

Just ask the Butabis.



And they weren't gay. Maybe. Well, they certainly weren't pedophiles.