VIDEO: Hannity Insists Liberal Conspiracy Behind Timing of Foley Email Release
VIDEO: Hannity Insists Liberal Conspiracy Behind Timing of Foley Email Release
Last night on Fox News, Sean Hannity devoted a large part of his show to the Foley scandal. But rather than discuss Foley’s behavior and the possible cover-up by the House leadership, Hannity focused on the timing of the release of Foley’s inappropriate emails and IMs, and wondered if they were “held back to maximize the political impact before an election.”
Watch it:
The House leadership, not those who released Foley’s inappropriate conduct to the public, should be questioned about the timing of their actions.
ABC News reported, “Foley’s obsession with 16- and 17-year-old male pages has been known to Republicans on Capitol Hill for at least five years, but, other than issue a warning, little else seems to have been done about the congressman.” Among those informed were House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), and Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), who chairs the three-member House page board. None of these officials apparently ever contacted law enforcement about the emails. None of them informed the Democratic member of the page board. Foley was permitted to retain his position as a member of House leadership and as the co-chair of the congressional caucus on exploited children.
Transcript:
HANNITY: Do you find it a little more than curious that some of these instant messages that went back and forth are, you know, several years old, and were only released after the Republican primary election was finished, which makes it difficult to replace him on the ballot? Do you find the timing, the fact that they’ve had — some people have known about these for years, and that they’re only released at this point? Is that curious to you? [Snip]
HANNITY: Who knew? Why did they leak it now, 30- some-odd days out of an election, when they had this for three years? That’s a big question in my mind. [Snip]
HANNITY: But do you suspect that this is — do you suspect that there is some funny business going on? Do you suspect politics may be involved here? [Snip]
NEGRON: The reality is that what he did was wrong and he needs to pay the consequences.
HANNITY: I got that part.
NEGRON: I’m asking voters to give me a chance.
HANNITY: But do you think politics is involved in the timing of the release of this, after the Republican primary in Florida, which makes it difficult to replace his name on the ballot, which you can’t do, in other words, to replace the candidate? [Snip]
HANNITY: We see a lot of things unfolding just before an election. You see that this is just pure politics. Is there any principle left? [Snip]
HANNITY: Apparently some of these instant messages are three years old. So I think we all have to have a question raised here. I want to know why these instant messages were held back until now. Who knew about them? Why did they hold them back? Did they do it for political reasons? In other words, were they held back to maximize the political impact before an election?
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How about ask if his own employer was trying to hold back the news until after the election to *minimize* impact. It’s a double-edged sword
October 3rd, 2006 at 1:59 pmOh sean…SHUT UP….and put your pants fire out…can’t you ever deal with the truth….see a Dr.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:01 pmchrist…it was the house leadership that held this back. Any qualified flak knows that you get all bad news out of the way and as much of it as possible and as soon as possible.
Oh wait, Hasert is a liberal. Hannity you silly smirkin’ jackbooted man you.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:03 pmIf Sean thinks that argument will make a difference to most people, then by all means let him run with it. I think dems should run an ad with these clips of SH and follow them up with the statement that the republican leaders of the house did nothing with the information they had for several years, so the responsibility rested with the democrats. Yup, sounds like a pretty good characterization of the two groups to me.
Maybe we can even buy some ad time for that one on H&C.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:15 pmYeah, it’s all the liberals’ fault. That’s the ticket. We shoulda known.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:15 pmIf it becomes widely known that FOX had these email and held back the story Hannity is going to look like an even bigger jackass.
And all the conservatives who riduclued the ‘vast rightwing conspiracy’ accusation will all buy into Hannity’s vast leftwing one without a trace of irony or awareness.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:16 pmIn Nazi Germany, Hannity would have been one of the last ones in the bunker to chomp down on a cyanide capsule.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:16 pmHANNITY : Sexual Predator Apologist
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:16 pmI think it’s great because Fox is being forced out of it’s “hole.”
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:17 pmThey are showing who and what they really are. It’s called:’
flushing out the enemy. It’s positive I think because more people are getting it as they try to defend the indefensible.
Adding to my previous comment, here’s the tag line for the ad: “Even Sean Hannity understands that democrats acted while the republicans sought to cover it up”.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:18 pmHANNITY: Apparently some of these instant messages are three years old. So I think we all have to have a question raised here. I want to know why these instant messages were held back until now. Who knew about them? Why did they hold them back? Did they do it for political reasons? In other words, were they held back to maximize the political impact before an election?
The guy asks excellent questions - then answers them with idiocy. If Democrats had these messages three years ago, they could have released them for the 2004 Presidential and Congressional elections, Sean-boy! If Republicans have been holding them, hoping they’d NEVER get out, it was probably a Republican with a conscience who finally leaked them. Gee, I wonder which is more probable?
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:19 pmSean Hannity: Supporter of sexual perverts. He simply needs the ever-lovin’ shit beat out of him! Another right-wing sicko!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:19 pmturn about fair f-ing play, then, if that’s what it is…
of course he wouldn’t focus on republican foley’s behavior…
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:20 pmIn Nazi Germany, Hannity would have been one of the last ones in the bunker to chomp down on a cyanide capsule.
Comment by Bob’s+Your+Uncle
No, he probably would have let everyone else off themselves then get a fake tattoo on his arm go on a three week fast and claim himself a victim.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:20 pmI bet Negron doesn’t really want to be associated with some goofy conspiracy theories. The look on his face in the screencap says it all.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:20 pmSo what if there was? Not like the GOP has ever supressed stories, info, or hell, VOTES right before an election. Ain’t that right Ms. Harris? Mr. Blackwell? Anyone? What about Rove’s “October Surprises” that always come out? Is it okay if you ANNOUNCE the screw job prior to pulling the trigger?
Idiots.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:21 pmWould you buy a GM car from this “upstanding” Mr. Hannity ?? ha ha
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:24 pmGOP: “No fair! Everyone’s supposed to help keep our crimes a secret. Waa-a-a-a-a-ah!!!”
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:25 pmNo, he probably would have let everyone else off themselves then get a fake tattoo on his arm go on a three week fast and claim himself a victim.
Comment by dlet — October 3, 2006 @ 2:20 pm
So true!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:27 pmOne needs to look no further than Barbara Boxer’s first senate campaign in 1992 to know that Democrats are perfectly capable of this kind of dirty trick [See, San Francisco Chronicle of 11/4/01, or go to:
http://www.flashreport.org/ commentary0b.php?postID=2005120208400292&authID=2005081622025042&post_offsetP=0
Politics ain’t beanbag, and both sides play rough, so please spare me the phony indignation!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:27 pmWaaaa, waaaaaa, waaaaaaa, waaaaaaaa!!!!!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:29 pmThat’s exactly what The Daily Show was satirizing last night: it’s all the Democrats fault. Hannity is a partisian hack (to say the least).
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:29 pmPolitics ain’t beanbag, and both sides play rough, so please spare me the phony indignation!
Comment by Citizen+Dad — October 3, 2006 @ 2:27 pm
That’s exactly what Hannity’s expressing–phony indignation. I’m glad that you see it that way too.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:30 pmHannity makes a fallacious argument. He ignores that the leadership KNEW of this for years and didn’t take any action - Hannity, as usual, blames the messenger.
I have not forgotten that ABC was the taget of my wrath recently for its refusal to back down from the propaganda movie - but their investigative journalist, Ross, seems to have opened a Pandora’s box for Bush&Co.
I compare Hannity to the White House bunch who once praised Woodward for his insightful books on Bush, now lambaste him for his less than flattering portrayal of them.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:31 pmYeah, Hannity, because liberals and ABC are good buddies. That’s why ABC is breaking this now. My advice to Hannity is not to hug this tar-baby.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:32 pmIf anybody “released” said info for political gain, it would be the far-too-right republican part to keep our attention off of … something else.
If you want me, I’ll be hiding under my tin-foil hat.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:32 pmAw, gee, Sean, if you’re selling this shit that hard, did you partake of those boys yourself and leave an IM trail, or something?
Or was just a standard Republican-issue donkey?
Methinkst the lady doth protest too much…
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:32 pmhow about asking why this was a ’secret’ for 5 years?
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:32 pmAm I not mistaking that the Democrats were actually kept in the dark about this whole affair? The Michigan Congressman on the Page Committee was by-passed.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:32 pmConservatives seem to really like to coddle pedophiles.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:33 pmHmmmm–would this be the same type of “liberal conspiracy” used by the New York Times to hold back information on the NSA spying program in order “not to maximize the political impact before an election” in 2004?
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:34 pmWhy hasn’t anyone brought up Delay’s name? He was House leader a few years ago. He had to be part of this. Why didn’t the FBI do anything until now?
Sean is a total idiot. Does he think anyone is going to believe what he says.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:34 pmSlannity is truly a ‘Great Communist’.
Didn’t serve.
Wants a 1 party system.
Lies nightly to cover Neocrook’s asses.
Always defers to ‘Der Fuhrer’.
Thinks Cheney is an honest man.
Geez, Slannity, are you responsible for Fux News’ ratings slump?
That’s the only reason I can see for GM hiring you, they know a
loser when they see one.
Slannity & GM, both losers!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:35 pmon Rawstory:
“Fox News had copies of emails written from Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) to a Louisiana boy, but chose not to run the story, according to a passage in an Associated Press report.”
Faux news had the story and decided not to run it, now they are tryingto downplay and spin it.
They are just as guilty of trying to cover it up as the Speaker of the House. Disgusting asshats.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:37 pmIt’s hard to fathom the kind of moral cowardice needed to turn this fiasco into a positive for Republicans.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:38 pmHannity’s hypocrisy shines once more. Didn’t Hannity have on the swift boat crowd on his show regularly before the 2004 election to talk about things that happened decades ago? Did he question their timing?
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:40 pmThere is something particularly shameful about how, throughout this sordid affair, all you hear from the Republicans is defense, denial and how this little thing is going to affect their ability to maintain control of the House and Senate in November.
Check out this report from the Washington Post. The entire thing is dedicated to Republican strategist talking about how this is going to hurt their chances in November and the best way to handle the situation so that it doesn’t threaten their majority status.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2006/ 10/ 02/ AR2006100201463_pf.html
It’s really sick!!
As a former Republican who left the party years ago because I couldn’t stomach their huge swing to the right and their fundamentalist Christianist ties, I’ll say now as I said then, Republicans have blind allegiance to Party above ALL.
No matter what the Republican Party does, or where it goes, you have those who will blindly follow and fight to the death, even when it is contrary to their own conscience. Torture? Yes: Pork barrel spending? Sure!: Big, Centralized Government? Whay not!: Usurping States’ rights? Live for it!: Breaking the law? What’s the problem?: Molesting kids? Kids will say the darndest things!
Thank God I got out!!!!!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:41 pmConspiracy..the conspiracy is the tin foil hat Hannity is now wearing.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:44 pmI thought no one could be worse than O’Reilly .. until I met Hannity
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:44 pmHannity is guilty of providing aid and comfort to the pedophiles. Waterboard his ass.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:49 pmRight, if there was a conspiracy NOT to investigate, it was a conspiracy that included Fox News, which had the original “sick sick sick sick sick …” e-mails for a year, as well as Bush’s FBI, which had the e-mails for a couple of months. The House leadership, Fox News, and Bush’s FBI are the ones who refused to investigate!!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:51 pmExSqueeze me!!! This story came to light when one of the current pages spoke up about some more recent messages. Is Hannity accusing that highschool kid of getting his “creepy” feelings on a convenient schedule?
Way to go Sean! Blame the victim!
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:54 pmSomebody needs to slap Fox News upside the head on this one. Would Fox News have sat on those e-mails for a year if the boy was accusing a Democrat of a “sick sick sick sick …” interest in him? Hell No! Even a few Fox News watchers would see through that one.
Fox News would have had a huge team assembled to investigate the allegations if it had been a Democrat.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:57 pmAnd didn’t the White House recently refuse to open an NIE regarding the Middle East situation until January of 2007 to avoid having an impact on the elections? That’s an example of “timing!”
Hannity is just politicizing predators and pedophiliacs!!!!
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:05 pmI think the Dems are whistling past the graveyard on this. People are beginning to wonder whether or not Democrats may have held onto their knowledge of Foleys’ 2003 emails - which apparently were quite explicit - until they could be used to maximum political advantage in a “culture of corruption” election campaign. If so they sat on this information while Foley was in a position to sexually harass and pursue other teen pages. I agree that Speaker Hastert should be held accountable, but I also want to know when, where and how this story first came to light.
Who first learned of Foley’s conduct? What did he do about it? To whom did he report it? Clearly someone held onto information about the explicit IMs, because these were never brought to Speaker Hastert’s attentioin until they appeared in the media. . This begs the question: did Democrats withhold this information for political gain, against the interests of young pages for whose welfare they were responsible?
If the answer to that question shows that Democratic operatives did know about Foley’s salacious 2003 IM’s, but withheld them for political purposes while pages were still at risk, the outrage will undoubtedly shift toward the Dems.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:08 pmSlannity, sleaze, sex and pedophiles…
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:12 pmthey go together like apple pie, baseball & Chevrolet.
And before you buy your new Suburban Assault Vehicle,
check with Slannity, he’ll throw in a pedophile in the back
seat for free. No interest! No payments until the Neocrooks
lose the majority or Hell freezes over.
Is it cold in here?
#46 The Dems had no knowledge of this. This is all REPUBLICANS NOT DEMOCRATS. Get a life.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:16 pmAnd speaking of timing… Someone needs to ask this self righteous blowhard to explain the political motivations that Fox News had in sitting on this and not reporting a story of a middle aged Congressman trolling for children:
http://www.rawstory.com/ news/ 2006/ Fox_had_Foley_emails_chose_not_1003.html
Could it have anything to do with the fact that this dirtbag was a Republican?
Nah… Fox News wouldn’t do that. Would they?
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:18 pmFox News decided NOT to investigate the Lousiana boy’s allegations because the sordid behaviour involved a loyal Republican. Let’s see that one investigated! Did Roger Ailes himself veto the investigation into a Republican pedophile for political reasons? He probably did.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:20 pmClearly someone held onto information about the explicit IMs, because these were never brought to Speaker Hastert’s attentioin until they appeared in the media.
Comment by Citizen+Dad
Clearly you like to misinform and lie.
The goper leadership knew of this as early as 2001 and were warning pages then. They knew and were covering up. for the last 5 years.
You sir are dishonest.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:28 pmFox News involved in the Cover-Up.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:30 pmHell yeah it’s a liberal conspiracy. It was planned since 2001, when liberals planted these pages to lure Foley into a trap! Foley used to be normal before 2001, and the liberals got to him. We also have many more in the hopper just waiting to be sprung. You conservatives ain’t seen shit yet, we are setting up and framing all of you. Ha.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:33 pm“They”? Hastert had it for 3 years.
Does he think Democrats had this info 3 years ago?
Before the 2004 election?
I guess Hannity is saying that the Republican leadership held it back for political purposes?
Oh yeah, the FBI knew about this too!!
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:36 pmThey only looked into it AFTER ABC broke the story.
What’s up with THAT?
Yeah, see, Democrats got Foley drunk first! And we all know that when you get drunk, you want some teen boy action. Doesn’t everyone? Then the Democrats teased him with cute male pages and set up a IM account for him, and got him drunk AGAIN and made him IM those boys and send them emails. All so they could get at some House member from Florida. That is one strategic seat, I tell you.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:43 pm“Democrats may have held onto their knowledge of Foleys’ 2003 emails - - until they could be used to maximum political advantage”
like in 2004?
Who cares if the timing is suspicious. Its called politics. The Rethugs could have had Foley quietly resign and ran a different candidate this time. But they didn’t, so now they get to suffer the consequences. Its great to see the fat pig Hastert sweat. Tome Reynolds and the rest of the slime balls get to deomstrate their true colors. Say good bye the kleptocratic predators.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:45 pmYes… Hannity is right. Foley, Hastert, and Reynolds are all part of a vast left wing conspiracy which plots to embarass the Republicans before the midterm elections.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 pmThe Repugs wouldn’t even invite the Democratic member of the Committee on House Pages to attend their “strategy” meeting. Doesn’t that point to Democrats not being aware of what was going on?
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:19 pmThe timing was controlled by those who conspired to hide Foley’s actions; good thing for America though.
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:31 pmEverything bad that happens to the Republicans is, by definition, a liberal conspiracy.
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:38 pmBut wait, I want to know those people’s responses to Hannity’s harangues after they heard his absurd questions. The whole reason this scandal is so bad for Republicans and their supporters at Fox News is that the “other side” (liberals, Democrats, Clinton, what have you) knew nothing about this while the conservative Republican House Leadership did and chose to hide it and/or do nothing.
I mean, seriously, this kind of spin just can’t work. Even if they manage to somehow bury Foley in a matter of days there’s still Woodward’s book, Colin Powell’s book, deaths in Iraq (was it 9 American soldiers we heard about today on top of the 7,500 Iraqi deaths in the last 3 months?) 485 contacts between the WH and Jack Abramoff, the Democratic hearings about the Iraq war planned for the next month, desperately stagnant wages on top of desperately expensive health care (doughnuts anyone?), and on and on.
I think the Republicans have finally jumped the shark. While I think (hope) the Republicans can’t pour sugar onto the Foley thing and have it go down for the American public any easier there’s just so much more beyond Foley that American’s seem pretty fed up with to take either his or the House Republican leadership’s oleaginous place.
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:55 pm[…] In times of stress, as Al Franken wrote in one of his books, people often do what comforts them. In the case of republicans, this means blaming democrats. Check out Hannity spinning away to this effect. HANNITY: Apparently some of these instant messages are three years old. So I think we all have to have a question raised here. I want to know why these instant messages were held back until now. Who knew about them? Why did they hold them back? Did they do it for political reasons? In other words, were they held back to maximize the political impact before an election? […]
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:30 pmI heard Fox news had the Email story months ago, but they sat on it, hoping it would go away. Like the NYT had the story on secret prisons but sat on it before the elections in 2004.
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:43 pmThe media is complicit in much of this.
If the Foley story is really a “democratic conspiracy” as the repugs want to say, then why didn’t they release the story when they had it long BEFORE the election, when it could have been forgotten by now? They were sitting on a time bomb, playing chicken - and it blew up their ass.
Citizen Dad, Thanks for filliing in for the other trolls, who have at least enough intelligence and self-respect to stay the hell away from this poisonous cut-and-dry case of GOP morality brought to light. I at least take some comfort from the fact that your kids will rebel so hard against your dogmatic, irrational, cowardly and hateful view of the world that the ‘teens and ‘twenties decades of this century will be a period of upheaval that puts the ’60’s to shame. I think it’s awesome that born-again fundie-con’s are outbreeding progressives and liberals, because it guarantees the future will be chock-full of new liberals and progressives. God, you guys are dumb!
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:24 pmI heard somewhere that Hannity’s viewers/listeners are four times more likely than non-Hannity viewers/listeners to go on armed rampages, and five times more likely to be closeted crossdressers (all apologies to closted crossdressers who are not Hannity viewers/listeners)
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:27 pmA. It has been pointed out elsewhere (and probably here) that if Dems knew about his 5 years ago, why didn’t they release it during the presidential election? Are we enablers by holding it back, or inept strategists by putting it in the papers now? Hmmmm, Sean?
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:34 pmB. And considering that anybody who has criticized a Republican for anything in the last 5 years has been accused of treason, why do you want to change that policy now? Keep giving us contradictory orders and we’ll have to stop listening.
I don’t know about you but, does it get any better than this?
Abramhoff–Foley–Hastert–Woodward–Colin Powell–Kathern Harris and Macca Santorum?? O.k , maybe if Tweety is “Involved” with Foley–that would be better.
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:36 pmHannity is an asswipe. Literally.
October 3rd, 2006 at 7:05 pmI hate name-calling, but hannity is the proverbial douche-bag-guy that we hated in high school.
October 3rd, 2006 at 10:15 pmhey hannity… when is the proper time to expose a pedophile? before or after you re-elect him? do you ride the bus or take your lunch? do all the non-sequitors hurt or are you an amoral retard who practices psychological splitting? why speculate about a democratic conspiracy when there is known republican conspircacy to cover this up and exclude all the democrats on the page committee who would routinely be apprised of such a matter.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:02 amMore stupid people here. Lets see, we have the Hannity supporter of perverts idiot. We have the Hannity is providing aid and comfort to the enemy, waterboard him, idiot. We have the throw out some made up stats about the type of listeners Hannity has idiot. We have the guy who talks about how he would have hated him in high school, but probably wishes he could be half as successfull idiot.
You guys… Pathetic really. There are so many reasons to disagree with Hanity, and so many views to dislike him on, and you take the intellectual argument of a 4 year old, along with the reading comprehension of one and approach it from that angle. When ones opponents act like fools, it makes you look good. I’m sure Sean is having a ball reading comments like that.
EVERYONE, Hannity included agrees what Foley is a piece of crap that needs to be dealth with. Jail would not surprise nor dissapoint me. Hannity has said it’s sick, it’s wrong. But you then say it’s wrong to ask any questions about the timing. (Sounds a lot like calling people who question the war unpatriotic)
So questioning the timing means supporting the sex offender? What brain fart led to that logic leap. Please tell me you aren’t old enough to vote.
As far as the 2004 election cycle, Foley ran unopposed last time. There was no candidate to take advantage of a scandal.
Foley needs to go to jail. Whoever sat on these and decided to give them to the press rather than calling the cops also has some explaining to do.
If they were interested in the welfare of the child, the authorities would have been contacted FIRST.
When is the proper time to expose a pedophile? As soon as possible. They could have done it before ballots were printed, but they waited until afterwards. Now you have Foley’s name on the ballot and it can’t be replaced. So you have the choice of voting for the name of a pedophile, or some guy on the Democrat side that never would have gotten a vote. Tell me that’s not political. They let Foley continue to do what he was doing in order to maximize political gain. That’s just as sick.
If Hastert had any part in hiding this, he needs to go and maybe be charged as abbeting a crime if Foley is convicted of one.
I honestly don’t think Hastert intentionally covered it up. What I think is you had another lazy politician who doesn’t bother to read anything that comes across his/her desk because they are too busy taking money from groups to get re-elected.
Engage the brains people. Really. Try an intellectual debate, where you actually have to think before you open your mouth, and where you have to make logical convincing arguments. This is the entire Democrat strategy it seems.
If the Democrats are to win back a majority, they need to use more than 2 brain cells and actually put ideas out there people will vote FOR, instead of trying to get people to vote against the other side.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:56 amIf Foley actually committed any crimes, (and it has not been established that he has), then ANYONE who knew about it and didn’t report it is guilty of conspiracy. That includes any Republicans who attempted a cover-up, but also any Democrats or reporters who sat on the information for months, or even years until releasing it could do the most political damage. There’s plenty of blame on both sides of the isle.
omegageek
October 4th, 2006 at 7:00 amWTF? said “As far as the 2004 election cycle, Foley ran unopposed last time. There was no candidate to take advantage of a scandal.”
Ah, but if they knew about it 3 years ago, that’d be 2003, which would mean that they WOULD have run someone against Foley, and leveraged this IM to tarnish Bush by association, thus increasing Kerry’s odds of winning. Wouldn’t that be the political game to play?
October 4th, 2006 at 10:30 amHow many times does the republicans have to let Americans down before they are voted out of office. People need to get their butts off that couch and vote the perverts out of office.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:19 pmHow many times does the republicans have to let Americans down before they are voted out of office. People need to get their butts off that couch and vote the perverts out of office.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:19 pmHow many times does the republicans have to let Americans down before they are voted out of office. People need to get their butts off that couch and vote the perverts out of office.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:19 pmHEY TP! - how come #1 Mom’s multi-post (no offense to you Mom- you’re cool) nuked my super-erudite response to the bunched-pantied WTF? It wasn’t anything out of bounds, and it was up here for a minute - give a guy a break!
October 4th, 2006 at 1:40 pmOk, Foley is a Scumbag, no doubt.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:44 pmThere are Scumbags on BOTH sides.
And BOTH sides are always guilty of timing on their stories.
There is nothing new here. This is dumb.
Puny Hermaphrodite…
…as usual…
…is delusional…
…once again Puny…
…Your Repulsivescum cohorts released the emails (according to the reporter who broke the story)…
October 4th, 2006 at 3:02 pmI hope it was the liberals that got this out in time for the election - it would show that they’ve finally developed some cajones.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:34 pmHad anyone thought to get Gerry Studds reaction to all this? Or his then-17 year old victim?
October 4th, 2006 at 7:01 pm[…] The Florida newspapers were certainly negligent in not bothering to follow up on the story. I think that Fox’s inaction was worse, though, because Fox would have pursued this story vigorously if it had been a Democrat at the center of the scandal. In fact, in the past couple of days, Fox analyst Sean Hannity has been pursuing Democrats over their role in leaking the story more vigorously than he’s been pursuing either Foley or the Republicans who were protecting him. […]
October 5th, 2006 at 3:06 am[…] Sean Hannity: HANNITY: Apparently some of these instant messages are three years old. So I think we all have to have a question raised here. I want to know why these instant messages were held back until now. Who knew about them? Why did they hold them back? Did they do it for political reasons? In other words, were they held back to maximize the political impact before an election? […]
October 5th, 2006 at 8:40 am#84 - you ever think about just cutting to the chase, and transcribing mann coulter’s remarks verbatim instead of wasting all that time paraphrasing them? I’m sure (s)he wouldn’t mind - she doesn’t think plagiarism is a bad thing. While you’re at it, why not go all the way back to the hellfire club for examples of politicans’ sexual peccadilloes.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:42 pmI’ll tell ya what TP - my post was back up here this morning, and I copied it - and I’m reposting it - so there. neener neener neener.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:04 pmAs a foreigner watching this debacle - I am ashamed for the US. It can not be overstated how the present Administration has done so much harm to the “good standing” of the United States.
I watch fox news on cable and I cannot believe that the Republicans thinks this requires a strategy to attack others for their party to hold on to power. It requires MUCH MORE!
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.’ - a quote by Lord Acton
The way to deal with this is to PURGE! the wrong doers from your Party and demonstrate with tenacity that your love TRUTH comes before love of POWER
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