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Why Is Mark Foley Following Half-Naked Teen Boys On Twitter?

Mark Foley, the former Florida congressman who confused congressional pages for willing sexting participants, has been tweeting since March. And YET!, he just broke the 200-follower mark, like, overnight! But he’s been using his account to follow some 61 users thus far, including JetBlue, the New York Post, Dave Matthews, dooce, 50 Cent, and this 15-year-old hottie living in India.

Bangalore’s Sylvester Rahul (user “shark_slys”) says he’s “a 15 year old guy living in india, i love music, gaming, swimming, and working out :P LOL that’s all.” LOL is right! I bet Mark LOLs when he sees your background picture!

First spotted by Wonkette, Sylvester hasn’t twatted since April, so I’m sure Mark is is seriously hot guy withdrawl. (Also: This kid is 15? Yeah, in HGH years.)

Foley, who’s now an out and proud homo with a boyfriend in Palm Beach (skin doc Layne Nisenbaum), said in 2008, “It’s not what I had hoped would be my lasting legacy.” Congratulations, buddy, you’re on your way to making sure it won’t!

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By: Ryan Tedder
On: Sep 30, 2010
Tagged: Mark Foley, Sylvester Rahul, Twitter

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No. 1 · PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS · Member · 1696 comments
Thay didn’t make 15yr olds that looked like that when I was 15…………….

Sep 30, 2010 at 10:51 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · Tessie Tura
So, what’s the newsworthiness here? Is this any worse than ogling an Abercrombie catalog?

Sep 30, 2010 at 11:08 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · Andy
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: I know!

Sep 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · B
No. 1 · PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS wrote, “Thay didn’t make 15yr olds that looked like that when I was 15″ …. my guess – Sylvester Rahul set up his profile and hasn’t looked at the text for a few years but did update his picture.

The more interesting question is about respect for users’ privacy – why is whatever Foley follows public information? Did he set it up that way or did they sneak in some default choices that users generally don’t notice.

Sep 30, 2010 at 6:01 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · Michael
Quite an investigation. What part of India is Sly from?

Sep 30, 2010 at 8:53 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 6 · Jake the libertarian
Just gonna say it here…. that is a bad photoshop of some guys head on a shockingly fit body…. the tan isnt even right.

Also Foley is following it because he is a big fan of underage dong. I thought we settled that a few years ago.

Sep 30, 2010 at 10:18 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 7 · Jake the libertarian
Really guys? I am the only one who sees that this picture is completely fake? Damn Queerty, I a usually a pretty big fan of you guys… but unless I am missing some serious sarcasm here, then you guys really dropped the ball.

Sep 30, 2010 at 10:22 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 8 · edge
Is that Brent Corrigan in the main pic, with the glasses on?

Oct 1, 2010 at 4:43 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 9 · Ravi
No that’s the page with the seven-inch cock who used to IM with Miss Foley.

Oct 1, 2010 at 5:18 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 10 · B
No. 7 · Jake the libertarian wrote, “Really guys? I am the only one who sees that this picture is completely fake?”

… doens’t matter if it is a fake if this Sylvester guy was the one who put it up. It would matter if a blog or other news source faked it.

I suspect most people just didn’t look at it very closely (or ignored the head given the body below it).

Oct 3, 2010 at 1:11 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 11 · Allnighter
Why is Mark Foley Following Half-Baked Teen Boys on Twitter?

Um, gonna take a shot in the dark here, but maybe because he’s gay?

Oct 3, 2010 at 2:56 am · @Reply · Flag