BUSTED....WASHINGTON POST REPORTS DEMOCRATS BEHIND FOLEYGATE!

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)

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.

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.

Thanks E for more about Silverstein from this topic. Nothing I like better in the morning than a self-serving non-sequitur:

"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."

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.

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.

Harper's circulation will, of course, take a hit from subscribers finally disgusted by it, while it will benefit from those who will now subscribe to it but not actually read it.

We need the DSCC, Howard Dean or someone higher up - otherwise it looks like a bunch of people who just happened to be Democrats, not the efforts of a concerted effort.

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?

"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."

"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."

How in the world did whoever come up with the title and summation: BUSTED....WASHINGTON POST REPORTS DEMOCRATS BEHIND FOLEYGATE! out of the info that is contained within the article.

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?

Original Title of Washington Post article:

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....

BUT the Was Post article does Bust them pretty good:

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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.

From reading the article I don't think that it is/was WaPo intention of busting anyone in this article.

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.