The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct released its report concerning the Mark Foley page scandal on Friday, and the media banged the predictable drum about this all being a Republican cover-up. However, what was ignored or downplayed by virtually every press outlet was the revelation that the offensive e-mail messages between Foley and male pages were leaked to the media by the communications director for the House Democratic Caucus. Also absent from such reports was the possibility that high-ranking Democrat Rahm Emanuel of Illinois might have been aware of these electronic transmissions even though he told ABC News on October 8 that he hadn't heard anything about them until the story broke.
Before the election, the Mark Foley page scandal was front page news every single day. It seems now that at least some Democrats knew about this, and based on other report they might have known about it for years. So this report atleast shows that a few Dem's knew about it, and held it until it was politically beneficial.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Media Ignore Foley E-mail Leaker and Possible Connection to Rahm Emanuel
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There were also no reports that Emanuel had seen little green men having escaped the facilities at Area 51. Having read a good portion of the report (which I'm sure you have not), I noticed that the committee reported on the testimony of witnesses and the evidence available and did not jump to conclusions that weren't supported by same.
So why should the media conjecture on subjects the report didn't address?
Jim, the ever partisan idiot appeaser/mouthpiece, can't see the dishonesty of this. The GOP got pilloried for "not knowing", yet the Democrats who knew and kept it underwraps until it was a political tactic are given a pass by Jim. My how white of you, Jim.
Game, in case you or anyone else who posts here ever actually reads the report instead of relying on NewsBlusters, you might want to read page 45 which states that the communications director of the Democratic Causus faxed copies of the emails to the Miami Herald and St. Petersberg Times in November 2005 a YEAR before election day. Not exactly keeping it under wraps and dropping a bomb in the final days of the election.
The media now seems to be coming to the conclusion that Emanuel must have known about the emails. And they are reporting it.
Not only that, but a top liberal blogger is actually criticizing Emanuel for lying about it and being hypocritical. I thought liberals would never do that.
However, that doesn't alter the fact that Democrats did not wait until a political opportune time to drop the bomb. Democrats informed the press a year before the election. It was a Republic that leaked the emails to ABC's Brian Ross who broke the story in October.
Jim, uh, the group that went to the press about Foley is made up of ex-Democrat aides and Homosexual advocates.
Try again at patting yourself on the back again.
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