Well, at least they’re catching up!
Via the Washington Post:
“Two of the news media’s sources of Mark Foley’s sexually explicit instant messages to former House pages said this week that they came forward to expose the Florida congressman’s actions, not to help the Democrats in the midterm elections.
But there are indications that Democrats spent months circulating five less insidious Foley e-mails to news organizations before they were finally published by ABC News late last month, which prompted the leaking of the more salacious instant messages. Harper’s Magazine said yesterday that it obtained the five e-mails from a Democratic Party operative, albeit in May, long before the election season.
The genesis of the Foley story has become the subject of heated debate, as Republicans try to shift attention away from Foley’s misconduct and the slow reaction of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert’s office to what they call a political hit just ahead of the midterm elections.
“Are we saying that a 15-year-old child would’ve sat on e-mails that were XXX-rated for three years and suddenly spring them out right on the eve of an election? That’s just a little bit too suspicious, even for Washington, D.C.,” Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) said on “Fox News Sunday” last weekend. On the same day, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said he “never saw” the e-mails. “What you guys want to do is take your dirty laundry and throw it over the fence and try to blame other people,” he said.
But new information suggests that the story of the release of Foley’s communications with male ex-pages is more complicated than either side asserts.”
Truth is that you are going to see the MSM begin to circle the wagons and start shooting at each other. The only reason you saw Silverstein come forward, as have others, is because withholding evidence of a crime IS a crime. I think that they are beginning to see that this entire thing could backfire and in a large way.
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owl
October 11th, 2006 at 9:43 am
1They are cuties! CYA Silverstein admits it was Dem operatives at work. They put out the emails to every Tom, Dick and Harry, trying to start this hit. Republicans were shown same thing. Republicans are being beat to death over something that NONE of the media would publish?
Since when has the MSM refused to publish anything? If it bleeds Repubs, they publish. There was nothing there. Nothing.
How many believe that ABC published the emails WITHOUT having the IMs? Just your typical Dem/MSM and mainly MSM doing all the work for one party.
Carol Johnson
October 11th, 2006 at 9:49 am
2As per Free Republic
“Shays Hits Hard In Page Scandal [Invokes Chappaquiddick In Rebuking Farrell]
Courant.com ^ | Oct 11, 2006 | DAVID LIGHTMAN, Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON — When the congressional page scandal broke last month, Democrats across the country saw a chance to lambaste Republican leadership - including Diane Farrell, who called on House Speaker Dennis Hastert to step down.
But when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy came to Connecticut last week to help her campaign, Rep. Christopher Shays hit back.
“I know the speaker didn’t go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day,” said Shays, R-4th District, referring to the 1969 incident in which the Massachusetts Democrat drove a car that plunged into the water and a young campaign worker died.
“Dennis Hastert didn’t kill anybody,” he added.
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O U C H !!!
Carol
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October 11th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
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owl
October 11th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
4Hee hee Carol! Been waiting for years to see someone grow some and put it back in their faces. Teddie has the gall to say what he has said and that bunch wants to CHOOSE all our leaders for us…..Our bunch just sits back and says “hit me again”.
I guess it takes desperation to grow ‘em. I consider the joke to be on all the good Congressmen. They thought they could just sit back and watch their buddies beat Bush to death…..thinking they were immune. Better late to the fight than never.
NixGuy.com » Let the MSM CYA begin
October 12th, 2006 at 4:06 am
5[...] Macsmind: Truth is that you are going to see the MSM begin to circle the wagons and start shooting at each other. The only reason you saw Silverstein come forward, as have others, is because withholding evidence of a crime IS a crime. I think that they are beginning to see that this entire thing could backfire and in a large way. [...]
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