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Baby Blues: Vito Fossella 'Fesses Up To Love Child

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"OH, BABY!" is right! Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella admitted yesterday that he fathered retired Col. Laura Fay's 3-year-old daughter. Naturally both tabloids run with the admission. It's the only story on both front pages, and each paper touts its own "exclusive" photo. For the Post, it's a photo of Fay and her baby Natalie. The Daily News runs the first photo of Fossella and Fay together. (Does anyone else notice the resemblance between Fay and Fossella's wife, Mary Pat?)

The News wins in the volume of coverage, even if one part of it is a rehash of "How we covered it." They put 14 reporters on the beat, and the Post had nine. The News includes a service piece on "What to tell kids when daddy has 2 families." (Quick version: "It doesn't mean Daddy loves you any less.") The Post goes the more sensational route, with a piece on Laura Fay's marriages, both of which ended in adultery and divorce. The Post's classy headline for this piece? "His mistress has history as Fay lay."


In the "what's up with Vito's career?" department, we get more of the same: the hypocritical politician who espoused family values yet didn’t follow the rules, he's done if wife Mary Pat doesn't stand by him, it's too early to make any sort of decisions, etc. One voice that's brought in today is the voice of the people of Staten Island. Andrea Peyser putters around the borough "[c]ut off from the bulk of the city by geography, morality and the $12 blow dry" to find out what these "house-proud residents" think of the scandal. Most were disgusted, but some were weary of all politicians. The News asked around the borough as well and found one woman who said she would still vote for Fossella should he seek re-election. Her reasoning, "People make mistakes," Jennifer Gennaro tells the News. "I voted for him and I'll vote for him again." Everybody loves a great comeback.

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Vincent says:

Vito needs to control his Mondone!

Posted On: Saturday, May. 10 2008 @ 2:29PM
emma says:

another republican hypocrite. WHAT A SHOCK (major sarcasm). yes he should resign and yes his wife should leave him. he paid for this whore to go on trips with him using taxpayer money and only got busted cause he drove drunk. asshole.

Posted On: Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:28PM
Dirty says:

Hang him, publicly

Posted On: Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 7:26PM
Frank Rizzo says:

I can only hope that other readers are as outraged as I am at Vito Fossella. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads to Whoreville. As soon as you're strapped in I'll announce something to the effect of how one of the great mysteries of modern life is, Where is Fossella's integrity? To help answer that question I will offer a single anecdote. A few weeks ago, I overheard some sleazy, craven present-day robber baron tell everyone who passed by that Fossella can be trusted to judge the rest of the world from a unique perch of pure wisdom. Astounded, I asked this person if he realized that rigid adherence to dogmatic purity will lead only to disunity while we clearly need unity to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most balmy manifestations. Not only was his answer "no" but it was also news to him that Fossella's true goal is to sentence more and more people to poverty, prison, and early death. All the statements that his spokesmen make to justify or downplay that goal are only apologetics; they do nothing to examine the warp and woof of Fossella's zingers.

I do not wish to evaluate vandalism here, though I insist that Fossella likes to interfere with my efforts to encourage individuals to come out of their cocoons and flourish. Such activity can flourish only in the dark, however. If you drag it into the open, Fossella and his compeers will run for cover, like cockroaches in a dirty kitchen when the light is turned on suddenly during the night. That's why we must call for proper disciplinary action against Fossella and his mercenaries. You may not understand this now, and I don't fault you for that, but just because he and his adulators don't like being labelled as "besotted troglodytes" or "loquacious, snarky pests" doesn't mean the shoe doesn't fit. I'll give you an example of this, based on my own experience. As you know, you may be wondering why impulsive politicos latch onto Fossella's press releases. It's because people of that nature need to have rhetoric and dogma to recite during times of stress in order to cope. That's also why just the other day, some of Fossella's obtrusive dupes forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described Fossella's blueprint for a world in which what I call amoral control freaks are free to supplant one form of injustice with another. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket I reflected upon the way that if it were up to Fossella, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism.

What I want to document now is that Fossella contends that he is the way, the truth, and the light. Sounds rather lawless, doesn't it? Well, that's Fossella for you. Although I generally try to be tolerant of unabashed laziness, defiant incompetence, willful ignorance, and combative arrogance, the unalterable law of biology has a corollary that is generally overlooked. Specifically, he says that he needs a little more time to clean up his act. As far as I'm concerned, his time has run out. To reiterate the main message of this letter, I, for one, challenge Vito Fossella to admit he was wrong and thereby begin the healing process.

Posted On: Sunday, May. 18 2008 @ 10:57AM
Nicole says:

Huh?

Posted On: Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 9:33AM
WarMachine says:

Corrupt officials need to be hung for their hypocrisy. Perhaps if we went back to the old way of doing business (lynch mobs) so many public officials would not be so corrupt! HANG HIM & HIS MISTRESS!!!

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 18 2008 @ 2:43PM

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