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Ford Uses Foley to Deflect NRSC's Playboy Attack
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ABC's Teddy Davis reports: Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) seized on the cybersex scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) Wednesday to deflect a question about an NRSC ad which asks: "What kind of man parties with Playboy Playmates in lingerie then films a commercial in a church pew?"
"I'm not going to take a lecture on morality from a party that took hush money from a child predator," said Ford Wednesday in Memphis, TN after speaking to the downtown Kiwanis Club.
The NRSC based its ad on a Feb. 8, 2005 Roll Call story by Mary Ann Akers which had a source saying that Rep. Ford was spotted at that year's Playboy Super Bowl party in Jacksonville, FL.
Rep. Ford, the bachelor son of a former congressman, is regularly maligned by the NRSC as "Fancy Ford."
He is running against former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker for the seat being vacated by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN).
October 5, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (22)
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I find it very disturbing that there are homophobic comments here, and that folks are missing the point. Ford is running as an arch conservative. He's also a gay bashing homophobic bigot. He can't publicly hand out cards with the "ten commandments" on the back, and pander to the far right, then go to Playboy parties. Sorry, can't have it both ways. As for being a "normal" bachelor, please spare me the anti-gay remarks.
Posted by: Liberal | Oct 27, 2006 10:22:31 PM
Labeling Ford a homophobic is disgusting. It lacks knowlegde of what the word means. Ford responsing back to comments at attending a superbowl party WHERE playmates happened to be tells the public one thing: he likes football and women. In a sport where the cheerleaders perform half-naked and the commericals are just as exposing are Republicans so self-absorbed that they can not see that attending a superbowl party and/or watching the game at your home are similar to each other. Calling him homophobic because his heterosexual behavior is labeled as 'normal'in society and because he defended his behavior is not the same as a child predator, what Foley is. Foley is not gay, he is a sex offender. Learn the difference.
Posted by: Common Sense | Nov 3, 2006 3:32:19 PM
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