Posted on 10/05/2006 4:35:34 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
The Foley set-up starts to break open
Drudge has a world exclusive, as most readers already know.
According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal… Developing…
They have to get up a lot earlier in the morning to pull this sort of thing off these days. The MSM may be dumb but we aren’t.
Present state of play—the Dems and CREW are implicated; ABC’s Brian Ross has his own Rathergate, the FBI and Ethics Committee are going to find out which Dems were involved and CREW will probably lose their tax exempt status. The Dems have shown themselves to be perfectly willing to use homophobia to win when they have no saleable platform or issues; the Republican base is charged up and once again Soros turned his gold into Dem dross.
Foley will become a living example of the Dems’ willingness to smear a homosexual for gain and will write a book, go on Oprah and make a mint. He will be this year’s wronged victim. Mark my words A fit ending to a sordid smear.
See also What is CREW? Clarice Feldman 10 05 06
Update:
Blogger Betsy Newmark predicted that the IM’s would be found to be a a prank with teenagers leading Foley on.
When I did the GOPUSA podcast on Tuesday evening with Lorie Byrd, John Hawkins, and Ed Morrissey, I ventured a guess about the circumstances of the dirty IM conversations that Mark Foley had participated in. I said that, based on my experience teaching teenagers, that the dialogue really seemed to be to sound like a kid sitting around with his buddies having a good ol’ giggle about leading on the perverted Congressman. I’d been talking with a couple of other teachers about this whole scandal and we’d all agreed that that was what it sounded like to us. The kid was definitely leading Foley on. It just had the ring of a kid playing a prank that he could share with other kids and laugh at. Thanks to John Hawkins for transcribing my comment.
“Foley is a complete sleaze, he has got a real problem, but let me say, this kid is not an innocent kid. You read those things, he’s leading him on. He’s like a little Lolita. And what I picture, I picture this kid, he’s in his dorm room, or wherever he is, and he has got 3 or 4 friends on and they’re just giggling themselves silly. “Look what I got this Congressman to say.” That’s why he saved these IM messages, so he could send it around to all his friends and they could laugh at this poor, middle-aged Congressman who is so pitiful and has got some real sick problems. It just seems to be the type of thing that teenaged boys would have thought was so funny. This isn’t some kid who is innocently appalled at what he’s getting. He’s leading that guy on.”
I agree with Professor Turley, the page program should end.
Edmund and Englander went to BERKLEY and have made a complete mess of Ernest Istook's campaign for Governor that they are running!!! This was NOT A PRANK!!
yah. It's pretty obvious that the Page Program is just too risky and open for abuse. That's a separate issue from the obvious attempts to politicize this whole thing. I'm a betting man, and I'm betting we find out exactly who is behind all of this in fairly short order...
But Foley is still disgusting.
Yes it will, and yes he is.
I totally agree that the Page program should end. The biggest reason is that we should NOT be encouraging people to choose politics as a 'career'. It's not supposed to be a career. It's supposed to be public service. Government 'by the people' to me means government by a cross section of people who as a whole represent the whole of the nation.
By definition the kinds of people who most often go into programs like the Page program etc. are focused on one thing, politics. That is what they will then bring to the table when they eventually seek a career in politics. They will not bring some special knowledge of telecommunications, or health sciences, or economics, or law enforcement, etc., etc. They will just bring their knowledge of politics, and their desire to be part of the celebrity of politics. We don't need any more of that.
Journalism is the same way. You take classes in writing, maybe, or classes in broadcast journalism, but otherwise develop no particular expertise in anything. In addition, the only life experiences you bring to the job are often your years at the University. This is why when journalists address topics that you are very familiar with, you are often amazed at how many factual errors they make. We don't need more celebrities, in politics or journalism.
O.K. I'm jumping down off the soapbox now.
Sorry.
Very well stated.
Unless they were saved in a system somewhere, and I doubt that, purported IMs cannnot be trusted. The people putting them forth are not under oath and why didn't they raise hell at the first instance.
It's Berkeley (not Berkley).
And - believe it or not - some conservatives attended UC Berkeley.
That aside, I hope the rest of your assessment is correct (and will be shown to be the case).
Great post!
TR read post 6
Yes, Foley is disgusting and so are the Clintons, Barney Frank, All the Kennedy's and slezebags like Pelosi and Jefferson!
OMG!! Spelling police...thanks for the pullover.
Suzy, I got called on the Berkley.. mis-spelling also.
Oh well.... we never claimed to go to such college!
Your assessment may be correct if Edmond made copies of
the Im`s.
Rep. Foley must now stand up in front of the microphones
and admit what is true and what is false.He must
also,accurately,point the finger at the democrat smear
machine and their desperate attempt to avoid the election
issues of which they were being beaten on.
interesting read
Foley will be away for at least a month...re-hab rules are strict.
and yet Shepard Smith show on Fox News was following the democrat pro-homo talking points.
Folks the MSM is only reporting the democrat side of this.
Talk to your friends let them know what you have seen and read here.
FNC is staying on the reservation on this one. The media wants to report a resignation they are not covering the complet story.
Berserkeley.
No kidding!!! :)
Is Shep GAY?
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