How Did IMs Find Their Way into Public Domain

Two things on my mind today about all this, particularly at this time. I think the only relevant question Since we know what Foley did. Foley has resigned and he's gone to wherever, rehab or what have you. So the problem, as it relates to this particular incident, has been resolved. It has been corrected. So the first question I have is, "How did these instant messages find their way into the public domain" Now, when this story first popped last Friday and throughout the weekend, I will be honest with you and I will share with you -- and I did on Monday -- my original suspicions were not to doubt the truth or veracity of the actions of Congressman Foley, but it's October.

It's an election season. I know Democrats like every square inch of my glorious naked body, not just the back of my hand, and I'll be honest with you, folks: the first question that popped into my mind was, "Who saves instant messages like this" Who saves them Especially of this nature! These are embarrassing; these are things that you would hope nobody would ever see. Why save 'em So I began answering the question, why save 'em Well, maybe a plot. Maybe these pages were set up. Maybe these pages were threatened. I don't think anything is out of the realm of possibility when it comes to dirty tricks as practiced by Democrats, by liberals. Nothing. I don't think anything is out of bounds.

So I asked myself, and I sent e-mails to friends. I said, "Why would a kid save these messages, fifty-two of them or whatever" Why Three years ago, two years, why save these things Was the page a Republican- or Democrat-appointed page I didn't know any of this when I was asking these questions. Was the page approached by somebody who said, "Look, we want you to get involved here. Titillate this guy. Draw him out. We know this guy's got these proclivities, and we want to get a record of this" Would a kid do that, I ask myself. Well, the kid could be easily intimidated by another member of Congress as well or whoever else.

The kid could also be an activist. Activists happen at very young ages. Maybe the kid was threatened; maybe the kid was paid. These are the questions that went through my mind, I'm just telling you, not that I didn't doubt what Foley had done, that didn't cross my mind, but I could not eliminate from the equation potential Democrat involvement -- it's October! And they do this! So then today, or last night, when I finally learned the identity of the page, Jordan Edmund, who is in Oklahoma working as an assistant campaign manager for Ernest Istook, a former congress, Republican, now running for governor there, I said, "Hmm. So the page must be a Republican."

So that sort of canceled out the whole notion that the Democrats might have been behind itpartially. Then I said, "No, maybe not. Who knows what this page has done in his life Who knows" Anybody is blackmail-able, especially young kids. I'm just telling you what was in my mind. These are the things swirling through the deep, dark crevices of my fertile brain. Then, I read today that the page has gone out and hired a lawyer, Stephen Jones, who represented McVeigh. It doesn't matter who the lawyer is. The fact he's McVeigh's lawyer is not relevant to me, but why get a lawyer If you are totally innocent, and if you are the victim, why get a lawyer

I said, "Okay, maybe you gotta prepare for Foley to say later on, 'This is all made up! This never happened!' Why get a lawyer Maybe you want to negotiate book and movie deals." Why get a lawyer Maybe, maybe the page -- my original theory -- is out there engaged in some kind of chicanery. You know, kids play pranks, too. Maybe they were laughing at Foley in the page room. Maybe Foley's making these advances, and maybe they said, "Let's egg this guy on." You know, I've done my share of pranks. So it's for that reason that I ask: How in the world did these instant messages find their way into the public domain after such a long time

Now, the Radar website (it's sort of a gossip page out there) ran a piece last night, "The Bogus Blog Behind Foley's Fall -- ABCNews.com brought Mark Foley's boy-chasing to national attention, but it wasn't the first website to flog the story. That dubious honor belongs to StopSexPredators, a pseudo-vigilante blog filled with plagiarized, hastily-assembled posts, which no one seems to have heard of, visited, or linked to before last week -- and whose operator has a suspiciously savvy grasp of the news cycle. In other words, a blog whose sole [reason for existing] seems to have been to get the Foley ball rolling. If its time/date stamps are to be trusted (like most free blogware, Blogger allows its users to backdate posts), the pervert-outing anony-site was set up on July 28 as a 'clearing house for the public to report sex predators and as a resource for concerned citizens.'

"One early post, headlined The Sickening Six, naming and shaming the 'kinds of sick people who hunt minors for their own sick purposes,' is basically an amalgam of plagiarized entries from Crimelibrary, Wikipedia, and Answers.com. (Click here, here, and here, for examples.) After running just six posts over the summer, the site picked up steam on September 21 when its author wrote, 'the blog has been noticed and some shocking emails have been received!!!!' and posted four emails purportedly from 'interns' outraged by the heretofore unmentioned Foley and his penchant for teenage boys. (Of course, if these emails are legit, it means the 'interns' somehow stumbled upon the blog, despite the fact that it had not yet been linked to by any other sites, and was virtually indetectible [sic] to Google, which ranks sites according to the number of incoming links.)

"One 'intern' wrote: 'I came to Washington because I care about the future of America. I wanted to be around good and decent men like President George Bush. Instead, I feel like a piece of meat. The worst part of it for me is there appear to be plenty of my fellow interns who don't mind Foley's particular 'path to power.' Three days later, the blogger posted the now infamous 'Emails from Congressman Foley to 16 Year Old Page!!!!', claiming they'd been sent in by a reader (despite the fact that they appeared to be scans of faxed printouts). Persons unknown then seeded the link to various political sites - including Wonkette, which initially dismissed them as fakes. ABC, of course, took them more seriously. Whoever promoted the story on DailyKos did so only 12 minutes after the fateful post went live at 11:06 a.m."

So an obscure website that you couldn't even find by searching Google because it had only six hits opens in July, asks for e-mails from people on sexual predators over the Internet, ends up with Foley e-mails. ABC looks at them. While others think they're fake, ABC says, "Ooooooh, we're on to something," and bam! The ball gets rolling. "The Bogus Blog Behind Foley's Fall." So I ask: How did these instant messages get out there How did they find their way into the public domain

This is an election season; the Democrats are on a tear trying to get Hastert to resign. Speaking of Hastert I hope he gets to the bottom of this, and I hope they're able finger all the perps out there on this, folks. But I'm telling you, this is something that is about far more than what we are being led to believe by the Drive-By Media who's doing their usual drive-by hit job on this, taking this as an occasion to tar and feather the entire Republican Party and leadership, gay-bashing, equating gay behavior with pedophilia. That's what they have done, I think accidentally, but they could be called on it. So I ask again, how did these e-mails reach the public domain, and why has the page hired a lawyer

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Read the Background Material

(RadarOnline: The Bogus Blog Behind Foley's Fall)
(National Review Online: Thoughts on the Bogus Blog)
(American Thinker: Worst October Surprise, EVER - Patrick Godfrey)

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