[BlueJ7]

Update 8:55PM: ABC Trying to Hide Foley Mistake? Changes Text of 'Blotter' Entry This post pointed out that ABC had mislead the public by misstating the age of one of the former pages who was instant messaged by Mark Foley as under 18. ABC News has changed the copy on their story about the Foley IMs:

ABC News now has obtained 52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys who began their exchanges with Foley at the age of 16 and 17, and continued through the age of 18.

But the original wording is still in the Google cache:

ABC News now has obtained 52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys under the age of 18.

The "Blotter" entry does not acknowledge the correction.

[Enchante]

[uncorrected text]: "ABC News now has obtained 52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys under the age of 18."

HA! Nice try, ABC-frauds, you can run but you can't hide, your original uncorrected words have been preserved in cyber-space...... clearly ABC was trying to make people believe that Foley was sexually propositioning minors, but from what I've read it may well turn out that the only sexually explicit IMs were to an 18 y.o.

Foley is still scum, as so many here have noted, but the whole hypocritical "protect our children against molestors" theme of the Demagogues and the MSM may have gone down the tubes tonight.

[mabelkitty]

Censorship.
ABC trying to bring down digital media and save their livelihood.
Bigger war than just an off-cycle election.

[wouldntbprudent]

I hope someone is archiving all this so ABC can't just make it go away.