Worst October Surprise, EVERPosted on 10/04/2006 9:22:29 PM PDT by knews_hound
Worst October Surprise, EVER
It had all the earmarks of a classic Democrat Party plan to depress Republican turnout. Take a barely disguised homosexual Republican Congressman, add salacious electronic messages that included masturbation, sex and other lurid details, push it to their eager and willing accomplices in the Main Stream Media (MSM) right before an election and as quick as you can say LBJ an instant scandal is created.
The only problem it seems, is that in today’s world of media, with data available to the whole world that was heretofore available only to a select few, the plan didn’t work out quite the way they had expected. An enterprising blogger has done some elemental detective work and discovered that the entire incident is nearly exactly the opposite of what was first reported.
Rather than a case of a pedophile Congressman stalking young men in the corridors of power, it instead turns out to be a case of a closeted homosexual nurturing a relationship with a young man, and making sexual advances once he became an adult. A relationship by the way that the young man, if he felt threatened or chose not to continue, could have ended at any time.
An older homosexual man seeking a relationship with a young man? Who would have thought?
Rather than the Pedophile Politician script we were first being fed, we now know that the real story is far less than we have been lead to believe.
As it turns out, although the young man in question was indeed a Page, was indeed befriended by Congressman Foley and did have sexual discussions with him; it seems everything was perfectly legal. As a signatory of a Bill outlawing Internet sex between adults and minors, Foley was perfectly aware of the legal boundaries and seems to have taken great care to not cross that fine line until the young man became a legal adult.
All I can remember is the Democrats mantra. That the troglodyte Republicans were obsessed by sex between consenting adults. That homosexuals in close working relationships with young people, especially young men, is a good and healthy thing. That some forms of sex, aren’t sex. That what two consenting adults do or say behind closed doors is their business. That intercepting and reading electronic communications between anyone in the US, especially those between two citizens, is never to be tolerated.
And most of all; never be judgmental.
So in the end, what do we end up with?
That the facts at hand were, yet again, revealed by an anonymous Blogger Rather (pardon the pun) that the “professional fact checkers” that the MSM routinely crows about is the death knell to the Democrats traditional scripts. Along with the infamous Texas Air National Guard documents of 2004, this latest attempt by the Democrats is not going according to plan, and I suspect it will have the same result at the Polls in November. It is, without a doubt, the worst October Surprise, EVER.
About the Writer: Patrick Godfrey lives and works in Northern California and blogs at http://knewshound.blogspot.com/ He can be reached at knewshound@yahoo.com. Feedback, criticism and pithy comments are always welcome.
From what I am reading this morning, it sounds like the Democrats' little Foley IED has prematurely exploded, leading the media into a nasty little quagmire in the process. The supposed "minor" - wasn't; no crime occurred, and George Soros' fingerprints are all over the tip sheet that was dropped off at ABC News. This was a political operation from the start, and the more that becomes known about it, the more the Republican base will come back to the fold. Besides, if Congress wants to start peeking under the hem of the seamy side of life in DC, Democrat's have at least as much to fear as Republicans.
Great lines.
Yeah, but of course when the wheels start to come off the scandal cart (like Plame-gate) the media simply moves on trying to find the next one. And the masses are left with months of "oh no, how outrageous" on the front page and a correction on the back page on day that nobody sees in their heads when they walk into the voting booth. Doesnt matter if the original scandal was nonsense, the damage gets done and no effort is ever made to undo it because the damage was the intended outcome in the first place.
The blogosphere has had some success at holding the MSM accountable (the fake memo) but I am still nervous. All the MSM reporting I see is still about a sexual predator, a 16 year old page, yadda yadda yadda.
What a surprise, the October surprise is that the media is biased.
Very well put. My grandmother had a saying which, translated into English, goes "The more you stir this stuff the worse it smells."
Caller is talking about it on Glenn Beck radio show right now. Page was not under age.
Barely. Kudlow and Cramer, separate shows, is all that keeps them going. And, mostly Cramer.
That's the number we're expecting this year based on previous years. The number came from a party official.
WOW, the Dems really are hapless.
Note in all of this and other "scandals" that the RATS cannot win on the issues; they can win only on personal invective and the politics of personal destruction.
This should be an immediate GOP talking point.
I like that a lot. ;-)
LOL!!
Yeah, he lost it. Sometimes the self rightous in him is all too evident. I wonder if he will do take-backs tonite ;)
I am concerned about the reach of the MSM, because I think it is still greater than that of the Alternative Major Media.
On the other hand, a word-of-mouth campaign begun through the internet and through churches can totally counteract MSM lies. It's just that it can be done only sparingly.
And the messages must be short, to the point, and memorable.
The most amazing spectacle to me was the San Francisco Chronical labeling a budding romance between two adult homosexuals as disgusting. I'm amazed a mob hasn't burned the publisher in effigy. Partisan politics trumps EVERYTHING.
lol. Beyond parody.
OK, new rules, we accept. Now wiretap every Dem in congress on suspicion of sexual impropriety, and give the tabloids real time feeds from their bedrooms.
Graphically illustrated in most "Roadrunner" cartoons...
We got a pretty good start this morning with the reports that Al-Qaeda's #1 fruit cake in Iraq was whacked yesterday, along with three of his top stooges.
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