Posted on 10/07/2006 1:24:10 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
Likable and popular with female pages, a committed Republican who even as a teenager knew how to parlay chance meetings into political friendships, Jordan Edmund has emerged as a key figure in the Foley page scandal.
The former House page has been targeted by conservative blogs as the young man on the receiving end of former representative Mark Foley's sexually explicit online instant messages, which have engulfed the GOP in a scandal that could affect the outcome of the Nov. 7 congressional elections.
Edmund has hired a lawyer, Stephen Jones, who will not acknowledge whether his client was the one who corresponded extensively with Foley for nearly a year. Jones said he is going public with his client's name to help Edmund fend off conservative attacks and a barrage of media inquiries. He said he will represent Edmund when he is interviewed early next week by the FBI.
"I did not discuss the messages with him," Jones said. "I'm not saying they're his. At this time I don't know."
Jones declined to discuss his client's involvement in disclosing the instant messages to the news media.
"To me that's a side issue," he said. "The issue is whether Congressman Foley or anyone else violated the law, not whether Jordan had good judgment or not."
--Snip--
The message transcripts show a humorous, sometimes self-conscious high school student who showed an easy familiarity with Foley. Engaged in a typical round of teen dances and lacrosse games, he at one point asked the congressman for help getting into a fundraiser for Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.).
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
By the way, we're left to rely on newspaper's judgments about what the IMs say because, as far as I know, they've only selectively released the most lurid portions of the IMs on their websites. We're unable to determine whether this was a prank and just who was leading on who. The MSM obviously has more IMs than we do. I guess we're just too plain stupid to make judgments on our own.
But why should we trust the MSM, which has been sloppily mixing up IMs and e-mails from day one in their reporting? If we are to believe ABCNews and their bretheren, they should release the IMs without identifying information and let us decide whether their reporting has been biased. After all, if they've been fairly reporting the story, what do they have to hide?
ABC has released the entire IM transcript. It's been up since at least Wed.
Sounds like Edmund is the next Bill Clinton.
I just love this choice of word, "The former House page has been targeted by conservative blogs...".
Hey, how about replacing 'targeted' with 'identified'?
What kind of lawyer? WaPost doesn't want its readers to know that Edmund hired a top **CRIMINAL DEFENSE** lawyer. Nor that this was Timothy McVeigh's criminal defense attorney.
Then WaPost drags Duke Cunningham's name gratuitously into this. Also, multiple mentions of right wing attacks (no evidence presented, just hearsay, though the WaPost doesn't so much as hedge with "alledged right wing attacks" but rather states them as proven facts.
Numerous mentions of Edmund being a teenager (he's now 21), too. He was 18, an adult, when he logged his IM's from Foley.
Which is to say, the WaPost is clearly nervous to be doing this much spinning this early.
It would be very interesting indeed, to view the IM's from Dems on the Hill to their pages. ABC News where are you on that issue?
Not on the same page, apparently :-)
ABC's page reads "Destroy the GOP" & 'Promote the Dems'. Just one month prior to the November elections. How convenient :)
This is strange, what kind of representation is this lawyer giving if he has NOT ....
"I did not discuss the messages with him," Jones said. "I'm not saying they're his. At this time I don't know."
What could they have possibly talked about?
Maybe they were just IMing each other.
No bias there in reporting... no sir.
Before Editing:
“The former, underaged House page has been fingered by extremist, rightwing conservative blogs as the boy on the receiving end of disgraced, former representative Mark Foley's homo-sexually explicit online instant messages, which have sunk the GOP into a repulsively odious scandal that will affect the outcome of the Nov. 7 congressional elections and bring about Bush's impeachment!”
But one day, probably over a couple of beers, this Page Jordan Edmunds gets a bright idea. Let's pull the old fag's chain. So they start the instant messaging, save them and print them out so they can pass them around and all get a chuckle. And then the messages happen to get into the hands of some democrats and the rest is history.
I can relate because it is something I probably would have done.
How's Tim doing?
"...he at one point asked the congressman for help getting into a fundraiser for Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.)."
They claim to have 52 IM exchanges. You're telling me that ABC has released all of those exchanges in full?
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