Excellent summary
Thanks...I read about this before the IMs came to light. I'm very interested to hear who had these IMs and how they got their hands on them and why they waited to make them public until 5 weeks before an election.
I have been trying to figure out scenerios on how Congressman Alexander would approach the leadership about emails and NOT know about the Instant Messages. I am becoming suspicious that the Dems in fact did know about the emails and the IMs and sent the matter through the reporting chain with only the emails - telling the Reps that there was nothing sexual. Once the leadership did what they should do under the known circumstances, the DEMS feed the IMs to the media and say the Republicans knew about the "messages" (technically true) and did nothing about them. If this was the ploy or something similar, i guarantee it had to cross Pelosi's ear/mouth.
This could have been planned for years (2003) and been part of the DEMS "culture of corruption" plan all along. With their willful accomplices in the media, they pull the slight of hand, telling the public the Republican Leaership knew about messages between Foley and the boy - and then immediately go to trounce of the Reps instead of actually clarifying to the public that the leadership knew only about Foley's request for a picture and birthday list and nothing about sexual content.
If the media truly cared about the truth, everytime a DEM cited the REPs knew and did nothing, they would say, "but didn't they only know about his request for a photo and a birthday list and nothing about any sexual advances or content?". They won't cause they don't (care about the truth that is). They only care about what these projecting Libs wish had happened -- that the pompous, moral Republicans covered up the sexual advances of a child predator when they campaign for outlawing Gay marriage and for Jessica's law, etc. -- The libs wish it happened, so the media will try to use a few facts to make the public think it happened. Very pathetic when a party has to do these kind of things every year to TRY to win elections.