You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
I'm going to weigh in on the Foley scandal with a time line prepared by Clarice Feldman at The American Thinker. I'm not going to go through the whole time line. You can read it at The American Thinker. The final paragraph of the article however deserves repeating.ABC has not disclosed the names of the recipients of the instant messages which were sexually explicit, years old, and not seen by anyone else. We do not know how anyone but the recipients could have retrieved them. We do not even know if they are authentic. None of the recipients has come forward and identified himself. What we do know is that reputable media and the Republican leadership acted appropriately on the initial innocuous correspondence and could not proceed further in view of the parents’ demand that their son’s privacy be respected only to find months later just before the election that same correpondence showing up on an unlikely blog site and then almost simultaneously on ABC and on C.R.E.W.’s site. As for the demand that a special prosecutor be appointed, maybe Patrick Fitzgerald can be appointed. Then he can fail to ask ABC or C.R.E.W. how they got the correspondence, ignore their political motivations, conflate their partisanship with “whistleblowing”, not look for the sources of the later sexually explicit emails, and nab Hastert for forgetting when he went to the bathroom on the day he heard about the emails.
There are 34 days to go until election. And we have yet to see Rove's October surprise. Get out your popcorn.
Update: 04 Oct '06 2232z
Commenter AMac at Winds of Change has a very interesting addition to the timeline.
Update: 05 Oct '06 0401z
Passionate American says that at least some of the IMs belonged to a former page who now works for Republican Congressman Istook. H/T LGF
Note: I got Istook's party wrong. Corrected.
Update: 05 Oct '06 0956z
Just One Minute says Foleys reputation for chasing young boys was known by Republicans and Democrats since '95. What did they know and when did they know it is getting deeper.
H/T Instapundit
2 comments:
FROM CAROL HERMAN
I have this mental picture of Foley, pulling on himself, using his nose to type an instant message. Looking like Woody Woodpecker.
On this news the pubbies are supposed to crash? How so?
Hastert is starting to look like a gentlemen. The GOP is looking more like people who are tolerant, than the nuts who run the donk tent.
And, David Corn, of all people, (The Nation. The rascal that started the Plame machine "to get Karl Rove to perp walk out of the White House," fame) is now embroiled in a list that is "going to expose gay republicans.")
Seems to me the donks piss on the people who vote for them. Gays, who want same-sex marriage, for instance, now have some wounds to lick. Courtesy of this 21 year old "smart bomb" Jordan Edmond.
Ya just will never conflate the harms that happen to kids who are sexually molested; with this MasturGATE crap.
Also, Foley CRUISED bars. Are you telling me, in DC, there are bars that serve minors? And, they still have liquor licenses?
Woody Woodpecker. I just can't imagine how Foley could masturbate and get an instant message out at the same time. I can't even pick my nose while I type.
Gee. The dirty tricksters in the donk party must do a lot of dumpster diving to come up with this stuff. No wonder Hastert got caught looking away.
Foley comes out of "rehab" in 30 days. We go to vote in 33 days.
You still think the republicans are in a pickle? REALLY?
A linear thought:
Yawn.
LT
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