The Sexually Explicit Foley Communications Were Sent To A Different Page
This is news to me. I had thought that all the communications sent were to the one sixteen-year-old page from Louisiana.
The emails that the leadership knew about were from one page, the 16 year old. The St. Petersberg Times knew about these, and even spoke to the page in question, but chose not to run with it. The kid’s parents apparently wanted it kept quiet.
The more sexually-explicit IM’s—the ones in which a teen seems receptive to Foley’s overtures (not that that makes it right, etc.)—were only recently disclosed, and were written to an entirely different teenaged boy.
So: The Republican Leadership does not seem to have known anything about the truly sexual IM’s—the ones in which it appears cybersex occurs—and in fact does not even seem to have known about the boy with whom these IM’s were exchanged.
Quite right.
It would seem to this observer that attempts by Democrats and their allies in the media to turn the Foley matter into a campaign issue against Republicans in general just isn’t going to work.
