Posted on 10/01/2006 1:17:09 PM PDT by frankjr
The media are playing their predictable roll in the lead up to this election, showing remarkable restraint when it comes to pursuing Democrats, and regurgitating the Democrat line when it comes to Republicans.
Mark Foley resigned because of truly outrageous messages he sent to pages and/or interns. It has now become an issue of what did Dennis Hastert know and when did he know it. Tim Russert this morning used the occasion of a debate between the candidates for the Senate from Ohio to ask left-wing Democrat Rep. Sherrod Brown if he agrees with liberal Republican Rep. Chris Shays in calling for the resignation of any Republican leader who knew about the messages. Of course, Brown said yes. Sen. Mike DeWine answered the question correctly, saying that we need to know what the leadership knew and what they did about it.
Ok, that's all fine. But has it occurred to anybody to ask how the Foley messages only now became available to the media. The Florida primary season is over. It is not clear whether or how the Florida Republican Party can replace Foley on the ballot. Yet, as I understand it, most of the Foley messages are a year or more old. The Foley seat, once a safe Republican seat, is now in play, probably leaning heavily Democrat now. Is this coincidence? It certainly advantages the Democrats, who only need 15-seats to win the majority in the House.
If the Foley messages are so outrageous (and they certainly are), why were they made public by ABC News and other news outlets only now? Where were the parents of these kids? I hope there is a full investigation and we can get answers to all these questions. But the politicization of the Foley messages by the Democrats and the media shouldn't be missed in all of this.
Bob Woodward and the media — especially the Washington Post Company — have now thrown the release of Woodward's book into the election mix. The bottom line, of course, is that Bush has been less than honest about the war, that he ignored warnings from Colin Powell as he was being nudged out of office, and that Donald Rumsfeld should have resigned. There's really nothing much new in the book, but the Washington elite is all excited about it and can't stop telling the rest of us that it's explosive. (Woodward will be on Meet the Press next Sunday, just to make sure it has a shelf-life that extends right up to election day.)
And, of course, before this we had weeks and weeks of "macaca" and the rest, aimed at tipping the balance in the Senate by taking out George Allen.
Amazing how little defense Democrats are having to play. The party of William Jefferson, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and so on, claims to be offended. And Republicans are having to respond to one mud ball after another. We've had September surprises and now October surprises, and there will be a whole lot more before it's all over. The Left — a combination of Democrat politicians, media types, and academia —is in full attack mode.
UPDATE: This is an excellent analysis of the Foley matter, with facts and questions about its timely (for Democrats) appearance in the public arena.
Foley and the Blame Game
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Great One Ping!
exactly. The story should be how the RATS and MSM are playing politics with this. The House GOP did the right thing as soon as they found out about it and should be applauded. The other side is the one who sat on this and then sprang it five weeks before the election. I hope Rush and Hannity hammer this them tomorrow.
Old news.
Nobody cares.
Time to move on.
PS: search any engine with "democrats studds congress massechusetts" for some perspective on this Foley fiasco.
Editor had the day off, apparently.
Editor wanted - inquire within.
But boss, the spell checker said it was OK!
(sorry if you do, it might help to spell massachusetts right)
A predictable roll would be doughnuts on Friday. A ROLE is a scripted performance.
This whole thing just serves to remind everyone of the eight years of bill clinton.
Somehow, I do not think this one will be swept under the carpet anytime soon and it has cost the GOP a seat in Congress.
They can be downloaded in pdf format at ABC Exclusive: Foley Explicit IMs
WARNING! Sexually Explicit Material just Too Steamy to Print
This one deserves just one approach:
Everyone gather in a circle like we're preparing to sing Kumbayaa, then together all yell at the top of our lungs:
YUCK!!
Then move on to more important matters.
On another note, a large part of the Republican constituency, for better or worse, believe that there are moral bounds that shouldn't be crossed. If this were a Rat, like Barney Frank, he'd survive relatively unscathed, because the Rat constituency couldn't care less about the morals of their representatives. They want people that will vote them money out of the public trough.
I always thought Foley was a fool. This doesn't surprise me a bit.
You might want to see this, for further consideration.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1711702/posts
barney gay/studds/bj clinton...when it is a lib/dem they never resign...they deny and point fingers at others and the msm backs them up...when it is a republican...he admits guilt/resigns in disgrace and the msm pounds him for days!!!!
Whatever happened to the $90,000 cold cash in the freezer of Jefferson? ....seems no one in the msm is interested!
I can't wait to hear what Rush has to say about this tomorrow.
ABC needs to answer how it recieved these im's. Are they involved in a coverup?
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