Posted on 10/11/2006 6:28:30 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Naturally, it was all a part of Karl Rove's EVIL plan to make the innocent democrats look guilty. On their own, the democrats would NEVER do anything mean or nasty.
That Karl Rove is one bad person!!!
(sarcasm off)
Obviously, Harper's found nothing worth "reportage" in those emails.
BTTT
Just another 'glitch' in the DBM/DNC Matrix... nothing another evenings worth of Hastert-bashing can't clear up.
Well, between these developments and North Korea, watch this disappear.
"There was never a plan to undermine the GOP or to destroy Hastert personally, as the speaker has vaingloriously suggested," Ken Silverstein, Washington editor for Harper's, said on the magazine's Web site yesterday. "I know this with absolute certainty because Harper's was offered the story almost five months ago."He knows there was no plan to destroy Hastert or undermine the GOP, because these same emails had been circulated to many news organizations for a year or more. Yeah, that's absolute proof.
Silverstein said his source was a "Democratic operative," the same source that had provided the e-mail exchanges to the St. Petersburg Times in November 2005. Both the magazine and the paper declined to publish a story. But the source "was not working in concert with the national Democratic Party," Silverstein added.
Plausible deniability. Like with Cardin and the Oreos, Schumer and Steele's credit records, etc. Have underlings do it for you at your behest, then have them take the fall.
Harper's source was a former staffer who worked for Alexander, resigned when he switched parties, worked for Pelosi, and is now workign on a Democrat campaign in a district that shares a media market with Foley's district. Taht is a person who's tied in. I'm betting this was Pelosi's operation.
Good grief...did you get a gander at that poster at AJ Strata that claimed since the story was shopped since Nov 2005 it couldn't have possibly been a planned October Surprise by the Dems? How do those people survive daily life with that kind of logic?
"But we in the media thought it better to wait a month prior to the election to release this. That's proof there was no media/Democratic conspiracy to undermine the GOP."
The info comes across almost 100% opposite of the title?
What am I missing here!
Don't get excited. They're putting the blame on the media, instead of "Democrats" in power. They're saying the only reason it happened so late is because the media didn't bother with it until now. The Dem's had given them info ages ago, so they're not to blame.
Of course, 1 could then ask why didn't Dem's push the issue with the media, or go to "authorities" themselves?
History of Foley Messages' Release Clarified by Players
2 Sources Explain Motives, Citing Concern for Hill's Pages
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001379.html
Ping
The article is from a Blog,...commenting on the Washington Post article....and it is posted in Death Valley...the Bloggers area....
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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.
I know where the article is from. That is not my question.
Those people are evil, evil, evil!!!!
Problem with that is the librats feel justified to lie under oath if it helps them gain power.
true, and I'm sure there are republicans who might lie to retain power.
Fire them all.
And the changing of the title on the blog website is due to the reader's/poster's own wishful interpretation.
With a title like that, one is expecting meat. After reading the entire article, I was left wondering wheres the beef?
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.
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