It May Be Judo
The pendulum of this so-called Foley Scandal appears to have swung as far to the right as it can go. Now, it can only go the other way. From the Washington Post (emphases mine):
Two of the news media’s sources of Mark Foley’s sexually explicit instant messages to former House pages said this week that they came forward to expose the Florida congressman’s actions, not to help the Democrats in the midterm elections.
But there are indications that Democrats spent months circulating five less insidious Foley e-mails to news organizations before they were finally published by ABC News late last month, which prompted the leaking of the more salacious instant messages. Harper’s Magazine said yesterday that it obtained the five e-mails from a Democratic Party operative, albeit in May, long before the election season.
The genesis of the Foley story has become the subject of heated debate, as Republicans try to shift attention away from Foley’s misconduct and the slow reaction of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert’s office to what they call a political hit just ahead of the midterm elections.
Okay, so that’s the opening three paragraphs of a Washington Post news report about an unconsummated sex scandal —each referencing next month’s elections with all the insistency of a liar protesting his innocence too much.
Was somebody talking about the elections? I’ll have you know that this scandal is all about the little boys. It’s the children, damn you! Waaahhhhh! Oh! and the predatory pedophiles. We’ve got to protect the children —the little 16 and 17 year-old boys— from the predatory pedophiles!
Miserable turds.
Beating up on Foley is as easy as falling down, of course, but it may also be that getting exposed in a conspiracy of slander and inculpation by association is even easier than that.
The only question now is how will the Big Media collude to squash the inevitable “counter-revelations.” They’ve got to be coming, you know.
Probably before the elections.
