Posted on 10/05/2006 4:35:34 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
The Foley set-up starts to break open
Drudge has a world exclusive, as most readers already know.
According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal… Developing…
They have to get up a lot earlier in the morning to pull this sort of thing off these days. The MSM may be dumb but we aren’t.
Present state of play—the Dems and CREW are implicated; ABC’s Brian Ross has his own Rathergate, the FBI and Ethics Committee are going to find out which Dems were involved and CREW will probably lose their tax exempt status. The Dems have shown themselves to be perfectly willing to use homophobia to win when they have no saleable platform or issues; the Republican base is charged up and once again Soros turned his gold into Dem dross.
Foley will become a living example of the Dems’ willingness to smear a homosexual for gain and will write a book, go on Oprah and make a mint. He will be this year’s wronged victim. Mark my words A fit ending to a sordid smear.
See also What is CREW? Clarice Feldman 10 05 06
Update:
Blogger Betsy Newmark predicted that the IM’s would be found to be a a prank with teenagers leading Foley on.
When I did the GOPUSA podcast on Tuesday evening with Lorie Byrd, John Hawkins, and Ed Morrissey, I ventured a guess about the circumstances of the dirty IM conversations that Mark Foley had participated in. I said that, based on my experience teaching teenagers, that the dialogue really seemed to be to sound like a kid sitting around with his buddies having a good ol’ giggle about leading on the perverted Congressman. I’d been talking with a couple of other teachers about this whole scandal and we’d all agreed that that was what it sounded like to us. The kid was definitely leading Foley on. It just had the ring of a kid playing a prank that he could share with other kids and laugh at. Thanks to John Hawkins for transcribing my comment.
“Foley is a complete sleaze, he has got a real problem, but let me say, this kid is not an innocent kid. You read those things, he’s leading him on. He’s like a little Lolita. And what I picture, I picture this kid, he’s in his dorm room, or wherever he is, and he has got 3 or 4 friends on and they’re just giggling themselves silly. “Look what I got this Congressman to say.” That’s why he saved these IM messages, so he could send it around to all his friends and they could laugh at this poor, middle-aged Congressman who is so pitiful and has got some real sick problems. It just seems to be the type of thing that teenaged boys would have thought was so funny. This isn’t some kid who is innocently appalled at what he’s getting. He’s leading that guy on.”
Yes, but we own the new media and we can start making our own "commercials" and posting them on YouTube and emailing them around the web---one dirty trick fizzle after another.
I went to the link you posted and couldn't find the stuff on the investigation of Istook. Could you elaborate?
And, yess, Jordan Edmund is the page. What is Selena's last name?
I just found that passionateamerican.com is ahead of me. There is a lot out there and they have pulled it together at the website.
Thanks.
I thought there was a "z" in it.
I heard no, but who knows?
As long as they ride this shaggy pony, they're not talking issues. The GOP has to get back on track.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714612/posts
emails were apparently ALTERED!!!
Look at the date on that. I believe the early editions were transcripts.
What did your post mean?
This is the inoformation to the site. If you want more information about the lies lies lies check passionateamerica.com. They have it pulled together.
these are computer records they should not be "altered" just printed.
IM records ARE transcripts.
Maybe they could just think ahead and remember to bring what they'll need. They have huge staffs in case of an emergency or late-breaking development.
There may have been a real justification for pages in pre-computer -- and especially pre-telephone -- days, but today it really does just seem to be a sinecure for the offspring of well-connected and ambitious parents.
Istook calls Wild Bill, "Irresponsible Internet Blogger"
Istook seems to be one of the PC Moderate Republicans.....
See this from the Blog:
**********************AN EXCERPT **********************
I almost interrupted Istook's bullcrap but I decided that I should just let him destroy any chance he had of getting elected. I will not vote for Istook (call me Brad Henry we need to talk.) I am a Republican and he is a Republican but I'll be damned if I ever vote for a candidate that can't speak like a real human being and says ignorant things like this:
I know the prevailing standard in journalism is not to disclose the identity or personal details about minors and victims of sexual crimes. Just because one irresponsible Internet blogger chose not to follow this standard doesn't make it right for others to disregard it."Well I already proved Jordan Edmund is not a minor and serious questions are being asked about whether he was a victim or if this was a planned
But in one exchange the network inadvertently left the victim's screen name on. It was quickly discovered and removed, replaced by a version with the name redacted.Let me explain the ABC NEWS lie:
However, ABC said Thursday that a blogger was able to retrieve the deleted file. The blogger, known as "Wild Bill' from the "Passionate America" site, went on a computer detective mission he describes in detail on his site to discover the name. (full text)
"The thing that gets me is that the worst messages are IMs. Anyone can use a text editor and "sex" them up as they please.
Unless they were saved in a system somewhere, and I doubt that, purported IMs cannnot be trusted. The people putting them forth are not under oath and why didn't they raise hell at the first instance."
This whole mess is starting sound like sound like Blather and Mapes were behind this bs.
Of course the reality may be that this group of homosexual missfits were behind what blew up Rather and Mapes.
ROFL! Thank goodness you manage to get away with just a warning!
I find it frightening.
Carolyn
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