Posted on 10/03/2006 9:03:44 AM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
Well, I appreciate your post even if the head-in-the-sand types don't.
. . If true. . .then obviously the 'who' of 'who gave' is a Repub or they would be shouting DEMs did it. but we would not expect MSM to credit a Repub with taking any kind of responsible initiative here; without having to; for sure..
Seems it was mentioned that these e-mails; the early ones; were said to be creepy; but nothing more. ..
What came later; interestingly; only the Dems; so it seems; or FOD;, apparently; knew about.
NO matter; this story will be framed. . .from beginning to end. . .as if the devil himself is a registered Repub.
The emails were not the problem, the Instant Messages were the problem. The emails came to light in 2003. The Instant Messages came to light in July 2006.
Petersburg Times, Miami Herald 10/03 09:38 AM, Press Patterns Via a House leadership office, the Florida papers' defenses:
From the AP:
The St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald, which had been given copies of the e-mail with the Louisiana boy last year, defended their decisions not to run stories.
"Given the potentially devastating impact that a false suggestion of pedophilia could have on anyone, not to mention a congressman known to be gay, and lacking any corroborating information, we chose not to do a story," said Tom Fiedler, executive editor of the Herald.
From The Miami Herald:
Some newspapers — including this one — knew of this message as well and did not find it worthy of a news story because it seemed innocuous. Thus, Democratic charges of a ''cover up'' of Mr. Foley's activities by the Republican House leadership seem not only premature but crassly political. But the discovery of other, more explicit, messages and confusion over who knew what and when raise questions that require answers — preferably, under oath and soon.
—KJL The Foley Scoops That Never Ran 10/02 06:28 PM, The Markup, Videos Howard Kurtz produced a report for CNN this afternoon on those Florida newspapers that had part of the Foley story last year but never ran it or followed up on its implications.
These two papers strangely find themselves in the same boat as Dennis Hastert: Tipped to something big in their own backyard, they failed to follow up on it.
Video here.
and p.s. on NRO's leading headline:
Miami Herald Publisher Resigns 10/03 12:47 PM - Media Culture Jesús Díaz Jr. will resign as publisher of both The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald and will reinstate two reporters who were fired after it was revealed that they had done paid work for Radio Martí and TV Martí — two U.S. government networks that broadcast into Cuba. . .
I read about this last night on one of the Foley threads
Note .. they are NOT telling the difference between the emails and the IM's
This, if true, is catastrophic.
I think this must be when Melanie Sloan at that CREW group sent those emails to the FBI.
""fake but accurate""
During the fake but accurate accusations Bush didn't resign and go hide under a rock.
I don't believe that for one second!
In fact, the FBI said they didn't have enough evidence to investigate the matter!
What a load of crap!!!
I don't see anybody quoted in this POS either.
It could have been Mike Rogers of BlogActive, who said he had info up to 2 years ago, and held it till just before the midterms.
I would believe the National Inquirer, before I would believe CBS.
In light of the unholy ruckus over House intervention after the FBI raid on Congressman Jefferson's Capitol Hill offices, I sincerely doubt that anyone asked the FBI to back off.
Good point!
Actually, in november of 2005.
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