so much for family values. The repubs have sold their souls. Duke Cunningham and the boys took bribes during wartime which has to be treason. Soldiers go to jail for this and the repubs take money from it. Just another day in the GOP. Nixon would be so proud.

Are there any republicans left who haven't been outed as hypocrits?

Foley,
Haggard,

and now the RNC taking money from gay porn makers?

I'm voting democratic.

More Republican hypocrasy. The so-called party of virtue and "family values" is finally showing its true colors. Really hoping that the American public wakes up and sees them for what they truly are.

How Republican!

The infinite hypocrisy of this administration is coming to light everyday now. What a meltdown. Think what they will be in a year or two.

Funny how ABC brings crap like this to the front page three days before the election. What a leftist rag.

Leftists calling the Bush Administration hypocrits for this "scandal" is laughable.

Brian, you seem to be stuck on porno and gays. Get over it and move on.

These are a handful of Republicans. You crazed Libs make it sound like its all of us!

The world is a mess,this just shows me how corrupt the system is.

Maybe it's time we fire everyone in Washington and start over again! This is a prime reason why i'm registered as an Independent!!!!!!!!

Q: how are the Republicans like the Flinstones?

A: they're gonna have a gay old time!!!

I wonder what kind of day the "Values-Voters" are having...
Think they will ever wake up and focus on the real issues facing this world?

When will "conservative" America wake up and realize they've been used and abused by the Republican party all along. How can you have been so blind for so long? We "liberals" have been screaming this for so damn long, taking heat for seeing what they really are and just now you begin to see.
We aren't better but we are honest about who we are and who we accept.
Hypocrisy is their game, you still subscribing to it?

Funny, the ABC choads are too afraid to use the word 'gay' or 'homosexual' to describe the kind of porn that marina pacific produces. But its obvious what is going on here. Anybody know if they do straight stuff as well? This story will be so much funnier if they only do gay porn.

Army Recruiters can now be honest and tell students that they can become movie stars for the Republican Party, now that the "war is over and we are bringing people back".

It appears that the Republican Party is one big party of sodomist hypocrites.

Uncle Sam wants YOU! So does Mark Foley and Ted Haggard. What is it that someone said once? "All's fair in love and politics."

The house of cards that the Rupublicans built with their hate and hypocrisy upon the backs of their blindly loyal sheep is falling down before our eyes...
The wheels are falling off of the GOP bandwagon as the monkeywrench of truth is thrown into their political attack machine while it falls over the cliff...and other mixed metaphors.

All of these problems would be solved if, as a nation, we just stopped the vendetta against Gay men and Lesbians, realized that every American is equal, stopped the foolishness of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and joined the civilized nations of the world in recognizing Gay relationships as worthy of dignity and respect.

I'd like to see that in my lifetime.

Morality is not a party issue. If your heart is contaminated, everything you touch will also be contaminated. Personal responsibility is a choice we all make, no matter what other factors have influenced us.

Funny how all these "Republican scandals" are coming out right before the election. It seems the liberal media has been working toward this election for some time now. Notice how Democrat scandals just seem to get swept under the rug (e.g. Jefferson and his freezer full of cash)?

Of course, if Democrats had been accused of these same acts, it would be disregarded as being within the liberal mode of behavior, and therefore, no big deal.

Watching the left-wing media attack Republicans just gives us more incentive to vote Republican. Remember Michael Moore in 2004???

The clues surrounding Foley/Gannon/Haggard/Marina Pacific and even Abu Ghraib suggest connectivity over the control and flow of a steady supply of muscular, willing young boys/toys for power and persuasion.
Brian could further illuminate the story with a sidebar on DC's age old male prostitution industry...

Since the RNC is recieving money from the porn industry, is this the reason that the RNC is trying to keep the War in Iraq going?

The DNC and DSCC need to make an ad about this to run non-stop in Tennessee for the next 3 days, especially rural Tennessee, to expose the kind of "family values" the Republican Party REALLY stands for.

What makes this even more reprehensible os the type of movies they produce: Bareback. Sex without condoms.

Not that they are the only ones.

While Republicans advocate no sex until marriage they happily take money from movie producers who facilitate the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Moral values at its best.

How dare the neo-cons try to use family values as a major talking point? And they say democrats have none.

What a joke.
I'm voting democrat this year.

Can ABC and the MSM do anything more to target Republicans in this election while turning a blind eye towards the Democrats?

We "liberals" have been screaming about this for years and only now our fellow "conservative" Americans are starting to realize they have been used and abused by the Republican party and it's extremist right wing. Did anyone listen? America deserves better than all these liars, hypocrites and thiefs. We all do.
Always have been and always will be a proud Democrat. We don't judge you. After all we are all Americans, welcome back!

Republicans are profitting from exploitation in so many ways. This is one Republican who is voting a straight Democrat ticket this year.

I'm not sure about Nixon being proud (or not), but let's all remember that he was finally run out of office in disgrace. It looks to me like everybody inside the Beltway is suffering from servere amnesia; let's all refresh their memories this coming Tuesday. And as far as I know Nixon wasn't a pervert - he was just a crazy control freak, and really paranoid. Kind of ironic and frightening - Nixon's beginning to look kind of tame and silly compared to today's sleazy events.

Republicans what values? Foley preying on young pages. Speaker of the house Dennis Haster aiding & abetting criminal activity by Foley. He knew a crime was being committed and he failed to report it or take action. Bush talking to Rush Limbaugh convicted for an addiction precription pain killers and also ridiculed Michael J Fox.
Republican are a joke. Jerry

I'm sure it was all just payback for all the business Ken Mehlman did with the porn industry. I would hate to see his private home collection of videos. Yeesh!

This is as disgraceful as Jeff Gannon claiming to be a Marine so he could charge a higher rate for his escorting.
Republicans have no limits when it comes to hypocrisy and immorallity.

With bush's buddies Ted Haggard and Mark Foley in the news of late, why should this come as a surprise? Next up will be the outing of David Drier and Karl Rove.

The media concentrates on Republican scandals because they are much more interesting. Who cares about $90,000 in a freezer when you can report on a "bridge to nowhere" costing millions. Clinton was with a WOMAN, Foley, well we all know now what he prefers. Dems/Reps, who cares, kick 'em all out and start over

I'm a lifelong Republican and these video sound hot! I'll be looking to buy some. Yee-Haa!

Thrill Sergeant? Drill Sergeant would have worked fine in this context, no?

If Republicants will take money from Dishonest Abe-ramoff, they'll take money from anyone...

what ELSE does he donate to Ken Mehlman - porn stars?

"Notice how Democrat scandals just seem to get swept under the rug (e.g. Jefferson and his freezer full of cash)?"

You mean the Jefferson scandal that saw Dennis Hastert (R-IL) come to his aid? Hmm... A Democrat committing a crime, but a Republican coming to his aid in his "right" to cover it up... Very interesting.

I love how some are crying about the liberal media using these stories right before the election. Well folks, if you give the media, any media, a reason to report a scandal, they will.

Funny how republican apologists blame the "liberal" media for reporting these stories. I guess the truth hurts so they play "shoot the messenger" instead of cleaning up the corruption and decadence in their own party. Hopefully the American people will finally hold these people accountable for their coverups and transgressions on election day.

I wonder if this is where Ken Mehlman found Jim Guckert/Gannon? Is this the main connection between gay porn and the RNC? Is this where the White House gets its midnight guests?

While all Republicans are not bad and mean well for their ideals and country, a good number of them in power are starting to show their true colors of hypocrisy and greed.

This is not the only porno dealer supporting the republicans. There is Murdoch, owner of Fox news and DirectTV too. He owns the porno franchises in hotels across America, and I would guess in other countries too. So next time you order a skin flick in the hotel room, or subscribe to titty TV on Satellite, think Murdoch and Fox News, those paragons of Family Values!!!!

This Republican government is the most secretive in our history, but what's become completely transparant is their depravity and hypocracy.

Gannon/Guckert, Foley, Pastor Ted Haggard, Limpbaugh...the list goes on forever.

I don't believe it's possible to be a Republican and be a decent, moral human being.

GayGate
WaterGate

Doesn't anyone wonder WHY there are no traceable contributions to the Democratic Party? Because it wouldn't be news then!!! Because there would be no scandal to uncover a few days before the election if the porn industry was donating to both parties!! I can't imagine the Dems turning away money no matter where it came from....though someone should prove me wrong and tell everyone where there is proof that a righteous Democrat said "Oh, no thank you, porn industry. We don't take money from the likes of you... go ahead and offer it to the Republicans, though..."

Ray said; "These are a handful of Republicans. You crazed Libs make it sound like its all of us!"

James Dobson seems to think otherwise.

Republican Greed and Corruption Rampant in Washington:
Values Trampled, Betrayed

What are the Republicans going to do? They have not been able to win on the basis of getting followers for their issue positions. Newt showed that to win that had to move to ugly politics, divisive politics. Problem is, you really do have to follow what you preach. So, for the Republicans, now what?

Oh there's PLENTY of Republican scandal that the mainstream media has completely ignored... The only reason the Foley/Hastart/Haggard/etc are being covered is because there's SEX involved.

I laugh at how the right always accuses the "liberals" of plots to destroy them. Liberal press, liberal this and that. Hey righties, you are an inbred bunch of hypocritical christnazi zealots, fueled by your blind unquestioning, condemning faith. Meanwhile a rot is taking over your elite. Wallow in your own unctuous, festering filth.
I saw those military vids being relased a few years back. All young army guys. "Preying" on the troops, fooey. These guys are old enough to know what's going on. I hold no pity.

There has been much talk about the Republican "base" of Evangelical voters and Christian conservatives banding their flocks together to keep Republicans in power this election. However, many of them are starting to wake up to the fact that they are being used on a grand scale. And yet there are still those who are "asleep at the pew" and ready to vote Republican on baseless moral grounds. I have a question I would love to ask of all the religious wingnuts. If their mythology is true and Jesus decided to come back tomorrow, how do they think George W. Bush, his demonic administration, and Republican enablers in Congress would react? A) Would they allow a peace loving, liberal, hippie to make peace on Earth and all men and women to be equal? OR B)Go to war with God to maintain their power, control, and fortunes? They know the answer would be (B)! So my next question would be... Doesn't that make him the Antichrist according to their mythology??? No wonder they call it a "flock!" It's hard for a president to convince anyone he is pro-life when it comes to banning stem cell research while thousands are being sent to their deaths in Iraq. It is also ironic that the very party that puts forth a homophobic agenda turns out to be full of closeted homosexuals and pedophiles. It's not what you say, it's what you do. For real Christians and people of faith the mantra for the next election cycles should be, "It's the hypocrisy stupid!" We have all heard the acronym, "WWJD - What would Jesus Do," but a more suitable acronym in this age of hypocrisy would be, "WWTDTJ - What would They Do to Jesus!"

These republican scandals have been occurring at a constant rate of frequency this whole year, and even before, not just right before the election. How much would you bet that the scandals continue even after the elections?

Had the RNC NOT run the bimbo ad in the Ford/Corker Race accusing Ford of accepting money from porn producers, then this story probably wouldn't have even come up. The media loves hypocrisy and once someone makes a charge, the first thing they should do is look at their own party so it doesn't come back in their face. The whole "blame the liberal media" idiocy is getting so old.

Hey Mike Garcia,
You are grasping at straws to blame the "liberal" media.

The shoe is on the other foot now. All the misdeeds the GOP was hiding are coming home to roost.

Is this behavior/hypocrisy typical of all Republicans? No. But Reps. often use one or two comments made by Democrats to accuse the entire party of wanting "therapy for terrorists" or "immoral" or whatnot -- most of which is just spin by the GOP.

Republicans: Welcome to politics. In case you haven't figured it out, stories like Evangelical Pastors buying meth and getting massages with "happy endings" tend to make good news before Electon Day.

The zealous right wingers out there implying, or outright stating, that these recent scandals involving the republican party are some kind of leftist media conspiracy to affect the upcoming elections aren't fooling anyone but others such as yourselves, who will clearly never vote anything but republican, no matter what the republicans in office do. I notice you don't question the validity of these reports. And what of the other republican scandals from well before the elections? You know like the ones involving Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, etc., etc., etc. Not to mention an administration which continually lied to the nation and the whole world about aluminum tubes from Afica and WMD's in Iraq to start an unjust war resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Americans; and a spineless congress that rubber stamps whatever the administration wants. And they want to condemn the entire Democratic Party for a verbal faux pas by John Kerry? Please. Be it months before the election, during the election or after the election the republicans in charge are scumbags who are only in it for themselves and just fill peoples' heads with propaganda to try to convince them otherwise.

Jerry wrote...
Funny how ABC brings crap like this to the front page three days before the election. What a leftist rag.
Posted by: Jerry | Nov 3, 2006 12:32:46 PM

Funny how the leftist rag ABC and FOX ran big stories on Kerry botching a joke about a "Joke" all week long twisting the truth.

Richard wrote...
These are a handful of Republicans. You crazed Libs make it sound like its all of us!

This handful of Repubs is unfortunately running the country. The true Republicans should be outraged. It's a disgrace!

Why is it that Republicans all seem to get caught in homosexual affairs? The two biggest Democratic sex scandals that stick in my head are Gary Hart and Bill Clinton. These were heterosexual affairs that sent this country into a tailspin. Now we've got elected officials preying on young pages and soldiers, and every republican in power seems to be looking the other way. Maybe all republicans are nothing more that secret "closet cases" praying that no one looks into thier bedroom!

I'm a gay Dem and could care less about this (it is a bit hypocritical...)

But what is up with all of these gay Republicans???

I'm voting against every single hypocritical sicko Republican on the ballot! What a bunch of phonies!

Quit blaming the people that actually report the Republicans actions.

Even if Brian Ross or ABC was trying to alter to election...does that change the fact that the GOP has some ethical issues they need to answer for?

When did the party of responsibility become the party of blame everybody else? (Clinton, "liberal" media, gays, Islam, puppies, lollipops, Jay-Z, staplers...???)

republicans:

i am an independent. i know most american citizens who identify themselves as republicans aren't corrupt, homophobic, bigoted, hypocritical, and so forth. i know you only wish to see the success of conservative causes such as smaller government, fiscal discipline, lower taxes, strong national security and ACCOUNTABILITY.

the problem? you've let your party get hijacked by people who ARE corrupt, homophobic, bigoted, hypocritical, and so forth.

they refuse to take accountability. this year, i intend to make them pay for it.

won't you join me? clean this filthy bunch of miscreants out of office and send them a message. you don't even have to vote for the democrats if that is too unsavory a choice for you. write in the name of someone you respect, or vote for a third party candidate.

please, just don't vote for the republicans this year. your party needs this, and america needs this.

Family Values. Republicans. LOL.
How much more does america need to see? It is not that the discovery of gay republicans is novel, it is the discovery of gaybashing gay republicans. Praise the lord, fella! You do recall the smutty ad accusing a democrat of accepting money from a porn king? Duh. Karma is a beautiful thing. Flatbrainitus diagnosis republicanism.

I think the most shocking part about this is the way the soldiers appearing in the films were treated.Not to mention the utter hilarity of the quote "It's very frustrating for the leaders of the 82nd Airborne to know that people like this are out in the public who prey on our troops,"

From Marriam-Websters online dictionary:

Main Entry: hyp·o·crite
Pronunciation: 'hi-p&-"krit
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritEs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
- hypocrite adjective

I am not surprised. Preachers of virtue always are the worst offenders. Mike Fouley is an example in point.

rev. ted buys crystal meth and then throws it away???
what a waste of his churchs money.

when i tithe to a church, i fully expect the minister to use the drugs he purchases.

render unto caesar the things that are caesars and render unto god the things that are gods.

does that mean separation of church and state??

what a good idea

How many voters have tuned-out all these stories by now? How many REPUBLICAN voters? When those who decide to vote in this election walk into their voting booths, they're going to vote THEIR incumbents back in. They just want everyone else's INCUMBENTS to be voted o-u-t. The result? No change. Status quo confirmed. Those who see their Republican party as "their team" and the Republican candidates as "their guys/gals" are going to vote Republican....no matter what. The very thought that these "moral people" on the right would ever NOT vote Republican is "a Cheney" (a "no-brainer.") Besides, DIEBOLD is going to make sure the votes are for the "right team" anyway.....again. Is that too cynical? Look where we ALL are after 6 years of these "compassionate Republicans," then answer that question.
R. Horn

As I read some of the reactions to this story and others concerning questionable decisions made by the Republican leadership I'm amazed that some Republican supporters are angry these people are exposed for what they are doing to our country. When one finds themselves defending their party for enabling pedofiles, evangelis who buy illegal drugs and pay for gay sex while pretending to be the opposite, and donations from the porn industry, exactly what is it you stand for?

I'm voting a straight Democrat ticket this year.

It's not all Republicans we have a problem with - just the meth-snorting pedophiles who take gay porn money, a.k.a. the leadership.

Oh come on here folks. You want to bet the guy put down when asked that he was a film producer and left out the word porn. Do you really believe either party hires investigators to check the employment records and life history of every contributor?

Republican: lacking in moral virtue. Ex: "His morals are a bit...repulican...if you know what I mean"

Face It! Both Republicans and Democrats are corrupt as a three dollar bill! Kick the hypocritical Republicans out and AFTER the election impose a PROGRESSIVE agenda on the new Congress, cabinet and President.

Progressive reforming candidates, publicly funded elections, campaign spending limits, full disclosure (can you read this Dubya?) will help bring the U.S. back to its former glory. If we do not take an interest, invest the time and push forward, our country will be lost forever.

Couple thousand bucks from a businessman.....what's the Big Deal? ABC slam the Republicans all you can. Bunch of liberals at Disneyland. OOOHHHH

The whiney spineless Republicans are at it again, molesting boys, doing meth with their male prostitutes, taking bribes from Jack Abramhoff, taking money from porn kings....then blaming it on the leftist media.

When will these chicken little cowards who are so busy being afraid of everything going to live up to "The Buck Stops Here" responsibility they try to drive up everyone else all the time?

Coulter is under investigation for voter fraud, Kathryn Harris is running for Senate! How much can Florida take?

Delay, Abramhoff, Foley, are just a few examples of the morally corrupt hypocrits in washington right now. Let all the rightwinger nutjobs come out now and blame the NYTimes for Delay working with Abramhoff to control our government for their own power-hungry pride.

Let Tony Snow spin you rightwingers some more till you are screaming in the streets to kill Jesus himself because he was too passivist for you big old tough American pride types who are more terrified of the shadow of your conjured boogeymen than how far off the plank each of you really are.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
BRING IT ON!

From the great state of awakening

Yes... I love the outrage. Not at the behavior of the Repubs, but that it should be exposed! And before elections!!! But wait, wasn't the whole report cited as a reaction to the original ad against Ford taking money from porn producers? Thus, it probably WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN reported here except for the Repubs opening up that line of inquiry! Get over it!

RE: Funny how all these "Republican scandals" are coming out right before the election. It seems the liberal media has been working toward this election for some time now. Notice how Democrat scandals just seem to get swept under the rug (e.g. Jefferson and his freezer full of cash)?

OK--Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, Joe Scarborough, Monica Crowley, Wolf Blitzer, the entire FOX NEWS operation, innumerable local radio talk hosts. Yeah, it's all a vast liberal conspiracy. And Bill Clinton's sex life was just "swept under the rug." Those YEARS of hearing, the hours of blather on cable about Monica's dress, the whole impeachment--none of that happened.

Those of us on the “live and let live” side of life see GLT people as just a "bird of a different color". Perhaps our right wing faith based gay bashing friends should remember "A bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush". (Well...he was a cheerleader in Prep school) The Republican closet must be a double wide walk-in. If I was a Republican (I think…therefore I am not) I would insist on all party members and supporters to answer the following question: “Are you now, or have you ever been…?”

Hey unlike the Religious Freaks that think they're running things in Washington, porn production studios actually pay taxes. They don't get the 503(c) exemption. With that in mind why shouldn't they be represented by their GOP lawmakers?

Couple thousand bucks from a businessman.....what's the Big Deal? ABC slam the Republicans all you can. Bunch of liberals at Disneyland. OOOHHHH
Posted by: David
The big deal is, David, that the RNC was running ads against Harold Ford Jr. for this very same issue. It's called hypocrisy. It's like saying, "support our troops," and then our family has to shop for body armor on the internet to ship to my little brother stationed in Iraq with the Marines. I could go on, but my point is - This is Personal! It's Personal to all of us who care about this country. It's damn Personal to every American this hypocritical Administration has directly impacted. I suppose you laughed and giggled as Limbaugh said they should lock up all the drug users and then said, "what's the big deal? Rush just likes pills." When the "liberal" media reported the fat muppet got caught with pounds of oxycontin. WE the PEOPLE would like our country back and REALITY back!

It used to be "The buck stops here".