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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
The prank only suggests that the page isn't gay. So what? If nothing else, it wasa good sting operation. Foley still went for it.
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But it also suggests that Foley might not be the raving pederant he was originally painted as, so the dominant news story designed to help the Democrats retake Congress is a red-herring, as the investigations everyone is calling for now only concern "What did they THINK they know, and when did they act on that mistake?"
The Democrats chose to run their campaigns united on a national level, where the Republicans planned to run their campaigns locally. The national media is wrapped up in covering what's turned out to be a prank where nobody was hurt instead of talking about Iraq, taxes or anything else the Dems wanted to debate. Unfortunately for the Dems, the Foley story invovles at least talk of perverted sex, so America's tuned in for at least another week.
The Dems also played this wrong. They're running around giving the impression that gay is inherently evil, nevermind that gays are largely Democrats. The original e-mails only looked bad in the context of Foley's homosexuality, so I guess Hastert was supposed to resign over not disciplining a gay congressman for talking to a kid. What, gay is the same thing as probable evil pedophile now?
Any investigation into the IMs is going to hinge on the fact that IM logs are easily edited text files, so nothing at all will come of it. Meanwhile, gay Democrats have every right to be really offended at their party and Joe-Six-Pack gets a nice reprieve from hearing about how shitty the Iraq war is going. Listening to his country music, only catching the news a few times a day, he's allowed to slip into the Republican fantasy world that he's safe, our soldiers are doing God's work, and homos, while evil, are getting caught before they get to our teenagers.
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