Self righteous Republican congressman is a hypocrite shocker

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2004-10-13 08:42pm

Yahoo News wrote:Texas Congressman Bares All, in 1974 Photo

Mon Oct 11, 6:46 PM ET

By LISA FALKENBERG, Associated Press Writer

DALLAS - The gloves have come off in the tight election race between two Texas congressmen — and every other article of clothing appears to be fair game as well. Democrats on Monday circulated old newspaper clippings of a 1974 college streaking stunt staged by hundreds of students — including then-18-year-old Pete Sessions — at Southwest Texas State University.

The conservative Republican congressman — who wrote a column condemning Janet Jackson's nude display during her 2004 Super Bowl halftime performance — apparently bared his bottom with about 300 others in a stunt that ended with arrests and a clash with police. Newspapers were filled with nude photos and headlines like: "Dudes, Broads, Bare Bods."

Southwest Texas students were apparently trying to break a streaking record set by another university amid a nationwide college streaking craze.

"Congressman Sessions' old school days are long gone," said Sessions' spokesman Chris Homan. "He recognizes it as an immature action of an 18-year-old college freshman."

But the campaign of Democrat Rep. Martin Frost (news, bio, voting record) is holding his rival's bare body to the fire.

"Pete Sessions exposed himself to children and strangers," said Frost spokesman Justin Kitsch. "He's exposed himself as a hypocrite as well."

Sessions' spokesman dismissed the comparison of Sessions' juvenile acts with those of Jackson. But the flap isn't the kind of exposure the four-term Republican wants in the final weeks of a tight race with Frost, a 13-term Democrat.

The two incumbents are battling each other in a Republican-leaning district in the Dallas area. Frost, Texas' senior congressman, lost his district under Republican redistricting last year.

Sessions transferred from Southwest, which is now called Texas State University, to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he graduated in 1978.

I’ve yet to grow tired of intolerant, authoritarian fucks such as this Sessions guy having their own self-righteous, judgemental bullshit turned back on them.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-10-13 08:44pm

Okay, he was 18 years old, likely drunk, and with some 300 other people. It was a dumbass thing to do, but a lot of college freshman are dumbasses, particularly when drunk.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2004-10-13 08:54pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Okay, he was 18 years old, likely drunk, and with some 300 other people. It was a dumbass thing to do, but a lot of college freshman are dumbasses, particularly when drunk.

Which changes what, precisely? Is not his action as 'wrong' as Jackson's one?

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2004-10-13 08:55pm

First off being drunk (or under the influence of any other narcotic is no excuse for anything), secondly I have no problem with him being naked in public when at collage or at any other time in his life.

What I find objectionable is someone taking part in a world record for streaking event where he ran around in public naked and then later on condemning some one for revealing a significant part of her breast.

Of course if you have no problem with such monumental hypocrisy then that’s your business.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-10-13 09:20pm

It's kind of funny how this kind of stuff always happens to the people who rail against it. Wasn't there that guy who helped write the FMA who was caught soliciting sexual favors on a gay sex phoneline as well?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-10-13 10:23pm

Its different,it was the 1970s

tharkûn · Post by **tharkûn** » 2004-10-13 11:35pm

Meh, people change. I tend to think people are hypocrits when they do that which they simultaneously preach against.

Let's be honest if it was the other way around would it still be hypocrisy? If he was a prude speaking against nudity at 18, say being the good fundie his parents raised him to be, but by 40 he had been swayed to think that nudity was no big deal and then went on to be a practicing nudist ... would we say he was a hypocrit or that he just grew a brain?

People's beleifs change over time, sometimes they become more logical, sometimes they become less. Being actions taken before you changed your beleifs don't make you a hypocrit.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-10-14 12:35am

It's fucking college, you're suppost to do stupid shit in college, that's what it's there for.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-10-14 02:26am

So if Jackson claimed it was an act of an immature woman, would it have caused as much trouble?