[George W. Bush]

Here is the updated ABC story.

The third paragraph: "This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., according to the message time stamp at a time when the teen had been 18 for just six weeks. (Some sharp online readers spotted that the boy was technically legal when the exchange took place)."

Huh? "Technically legal"? There is legal and there is illegal. Everything else is ethics and/or sin.

Notice how they barely admit it and try to shade anyway with the most prejudiced language they can.

Personally, I hope Foley hauls them into court and teaches them something "technically legal" about deliberately slandering and libelling a public figure.

Republicans have got to stop being so passive about media attacks and sue these people off the air. It's time to stop Rather and his cronies from pulling this every election season.

[fhayek]

"technically legal"? Hell Bill Clinton's entire existence was based on the concept of "technically legal".

[tirednvirginia]

Now what are these people going to say about Hastert tomorrow? What can they possibly blame him for? This guy was no longer a page and was an adult. How could Hastert have done more to protect him?

[usmcobra]

Can I get a link to where ABC admits that "Some sharp online readers spotted that the boy was technically legal when the exchange took place".