What I find facinating this morning is HOW FAR BEHIND THE STORY the newspapers listed by C-Span.
In fact C-Span is waaaaaay behind the story this morning. They just had a republicans only call in and they were flooded by democrat seminar callers.
FR is so far ahead of this story. Even Hassert knows about C.R.E.W. and the media (like "Roll Call" on C-span) are intentionally oblivious. It seems nobody wants to admit that Dick Morris' acknowledgment, Rush Limibaughs alert or other reports of C.R.E.W. afe falling on unwilling ears.
"In fact C-Span is waaaaaay behind the story this morning. "
I don't think CSPAN is "behind" the story. I think they're part of the media coverup/smear. Yesterday at 7AM they had a couple "teasers" about what was coming up. They were worded in such a way so as to obscure the details and shock the viewers.
"I HAD NO INKLING" [Byron York]
From an Associated Press account of an interview with Kirk Fordham:
In an extended interview in Washington Tuesday, Fordham described in detail helping Foley and his sister after they were confronted last Friday by ABC News with lurid instant messages Foley had apparently sent to teenage boys who were past congressional pages.
The longtime Capitol Hill staffer, his eyes red and speaking softly, said he tried to help Foley deal with questions about e-mails and private messages that exploded in the headlines late last week.
Fordham was Foley's former chief of staff but has not worked him since 2004. Last Friday, he said he went to Foley's house to help the lawmaker deal with the page scandal first reported by ABC News.
Fordham said when he learned the graphic sexual content of some of the instant messages, he confronted Foley.
"I said: ‘Are these authentic?' and he said ‘probably,' and he confirmed that they were likely his instant messages,” Fordham said.
Fordham said the immediate reaction of his current boss, Reynolds, was to get Foley to leave Congress.
"He told me (Foley) needed to resign,” said Fordham, adding that the National Republican Congressional Committee wrote the first draft of Foley's resignation letter before it was rewritten on Foley's official letterhead.
"I was still pretty shell shocked myself,” Fordham said of the day he learned about the messages. “This was someone I had worked for 10 years. I had no inkling that this kind of blatantly reckless - just obscene - behavior was going on behind our backs.”
How does the "I had no inkling" remark square with the Post's report that Fordham "says he implored the highest ranks of the GOP leadership to intervene to thwart behavior that he had been unable to stop after multiple confrontations with his boss"?
Posted at 7:45 AM