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Andy Borowitz—Bush on Foley: We Must Crack Down on Illegal Immigration

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Posted on Oct 6, 2006

By Andy Borowitz

In an attempt to change the terms of the debate over the Mark Foley scandal, President George W. Bush said today that the Foley matter “only reaffirms my belief that we must crack down on illegal immigration.”

Mr. Bush’s decision to link the Foley scandal with the issue of illegal immigration struck some in Washington as unorthodox, but the president remained resolute that America’s immigration crisis, and not the behavior of Mr. Foley, was the true root cause of the scandal.

“The question we need to be asking ourselves is not if Mark Foley behaved improperly,” Mr. Bush said. “The question we need to ask is, were these congressional pages in our country legally?”

Mr. Bush said he would ask Congress to appropriate $84 million to investigate the legal status of all congressional pages at once: “What we may be seeing is an orchestrated attempt by 16-year-old boys with hot bodies to swarm into our country and tempt our lawmakers.”

Minutes after the president’s remarks, which Mr. Bush made at a Boys Club of America luncheon in Washington, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert praised the president for “pointing the finger at the true culprits in this case.”

“It’s not hard for a bunch of scheming young men with hot bodies to corrupt an older man through no fault of his own,” Mr. Hastert says. “As a former high school wrestling coach, I speak from experience.”

Elsewhere, Brad Pitt said that he and Angelina Jolie would adopt three babies next year, “but definitely not Tori Spelling’s.”

Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of the newly published book “The Republican Playbook.” To find out more about Andy Borowitz and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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By Pat in Montana, October 16, 2006 at 1:08 pm #
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Well, boy howdy, took me about three paragraphs to realize we were bein’ had. Great piece, who knows? It could be true. LOL

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By Susan, October 13, 2006 at 11:08 am #
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Ooo...got me too!...took this as real - no more absurd than anything else he/Rove/Cheney has been polluting us with for 6 longyears.

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By Jon, October 9, 2006 at 7:19 pm #
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Andy Borowitz, the author of this article wrote “The question we need to be asking ourselves is not if Mark Foley behaved improperly,” Mr. Bush said. “The question we need to ask is, were these congressional pages in our country legally?”

Ok Mr. President, does it mean illegal pages are freebies for congressional child molester? You gotta be kidding.

Way out of line, way out of line. I can’t believe he actually said that. Can he differentiate a child molester and a child? Oh well, it’s about VALUE folks.

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By Paul M Smith, October 9, 2006 at 5:39 pm #
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Hopefully “This fool and his presidency will soon be parted”.

Isn’t it a sign of genius that people like Borowitz, Williams (Robin), Maher, Keillor, Stewart (no...not Martha), and even Leno & Letterman, can keep us laughing when we should all be crying our eyes out?

We seem to have been dreaming when we all should have been screaming. Hopefully the nightmare will soon be over...unless they STEAL another one.

Seriously, though, anyone who votes Republicans back into office in the upcoming election deserves to at least be waterboarded. Shouldn’t be too stressful, right? Hasn’t his majesty mad king George proclaimed it isn’t torture? Right...and the moon is made of cheese, too. LOL

These sick rat finks have given us 6 bad years so I think the only decent thing for us to do is give them 15-20...in the BIG house instead of the WHITE house. The saddest part is Bush’s approval ratings are still over 30%.

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By Jimmy James, October 9, 2006 at 6:29 am #
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Don’t y’all think that humor & satire should be appropriately identified in the header of this kind of article??

I had two friends e-mail me this piece who did not know that Andy Borowitz is a humourist. They took it seriously !!

I really like Borowitz’ sense of humor, but this is an example of why one must take everything one reads on the internet with a healthy dolop of salt.

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By Robin Ewart, October 8, 2006 at 1:19 pm #
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Are any of these pages from the Middle East?  Could they be agents of OBL?  Worse still, could they be Iranian Weapons of Mass Seduction?

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By RepublicanSuck, October 8, 2006 at 9:50 am #
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Mr. Bush’s decision to link the Foley scandal with the issue of illegal immigration struck some in Washington as unorthodox,

...and it strikes`some outside the Beltway as a bizarre non-sequiter.

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By whale shaman, October 8, 2006 at 8:05 am #
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i believed bush could think that irrationally.

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By cognitorex, October 8, 2006 at 5:41 am #
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“Did ya notice that we found the WMDs ?”

“They were right here in Washington; fact is they had immigrated right into Congress.”

Those Weenies-of-Mis-Direction (WMDs) are right here you’all.

“Ain’t no mountain high enough.”
“Ain’t no fence long enough.”

or: Mark Foley’s favorite song.

I’m Getting Married in the Morning,
Ding, Dong I’m giving him a ring

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By Vince McCarty, October 8, 2006 at 4:17 am #
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Good God! I almost believed that one. What a shame that it would be so easy to believe.

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By MichaelSean, October 8, 2006 at 1:28 am #
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Andy has a daily newsletter of which this is one. I’ve subscribed for a few months now and they’re all as funny as this one.

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By c. grasser, October 8, 2006 at 1:21 am #
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yeah,Those buggers will stick together, next thing you know, they’ll be legalizing pedophelia as a means of stress relief for all our delightful warmonger congressmen. aint it a bitch we all get to fund these “EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES”! Just continue to remind yourselves of something; these people in office are not our friends! they are dangerous combattents, and they will protect eachother,even CHESTER the “MOLESTER”

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By titchaba, October 7, 2006 at 11:38 pm #
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This........is a new low.

This is.........freeking pathetic.  This is at the level of “the dog ate my homwork”.

Vote Republican again and may you Burn in Hell....

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By Zena, October 7, 2006 at 9:08 pm #
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LO>L.

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By Jack Flackett, October 7, 2006 at 7:30 pm #
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It’s a terrifying time in the history of our country when I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.  It’s a joke, right? Tell me it’s a joke.

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By Immigration march organizers linked to Mexican gov, October 7, 2006 at 7:24 pm #
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That’s cute, but Bush is a strong supporter of illegal immigration and is even less concerned about the fate of the American worker than the Dems.

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By Guitarsandmore, October 7, 2006 at 7:06 pm #
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This can’t be a real story, can it?

Bush isn’t that stupid, is he?

I just can’t believe it. 

You mean there isn’t already a process in place to determine if someone working for the government has a birth certificate etc?  No background checks? No security clearance ?
This is bullshit.

Second, Does Bush whip out his unit every time a hot chick walks by? Doesn’t he believe it is up to each individual to follow the law and leave the children alone?

Does the Bush culture of corruption go so far as to blame everyone else everytime some Republican steps his foot into it?

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By Dave Barrett, October 7, 2006 at 4:44 pm #
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The Republican response to the Foley crisis has been so outrageous that I took this article seriously up to the “hot bodies” comment.  It was sounding to me like a Carl Rove strategy for dealing with the crisis.  A satire has to be pretty outrageous these days to prevent itself from being overtaken by reality.

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By MMM, October 7, 2006 at 4:33 pm #
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Ha Ha Ha!  This is Georgie trying to be funny, Right? Ha, Ha, that’s a pretty good one!  An Illegal Congressional page is destroying our democracy.  Oh oh, there’s an Illegal now, working on my neighbors roof, and he’s not wearing a shirt.  Ops,I think he sees me.  I better run and hide!

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By Wisco, October 7, 2006 at 2:09 pm #
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Too funny!

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By R. A. Earl, October 7, 2006 at 9:10 am #
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I’m waiting for one of the more dim-witted of our secular or religious “leaders” to actually offer Borowitz’s satire as evidence supporting their screwed up values and beliefs.

It’s bound to happen… just wait.

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