Getting Out In Front?
AJ Strata has a very, very interesting take on a revelation published in the Washington Post. In it, the reporters admit that the Foley scandal was being shopped around by Democratic party operatives since at least November, 2005. A number of media outlets had the damaging emails for almost a year and made no effort whatsoever to report the matter to authorities.
It’s about time. Once again the blogosphere is doing the detailed analysis and the antique media is playing catch up. Today the WaPo finally realizes there is more to the story than has been reported, and much is coming from the media themselves:
But there are indications that Democrats spent months circulating five less insidious Foley e-mails to news organizations before they were finally published by ABC News late last month, which prompted the leaking of the more salacious instant messages. Harper’s Magazine said yesterday that it obtained the five e-mails from a Democratic Party operative, albeit in May, long before the election season.
And they sat on them. As did the St Petersburg Times and many other media outlets. All the while none alerted the House leadership or law enforcement. And we are to believe all these media outlets and the democrat operative shopping them were concerned about the Pages?
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The only reason the WaPo would report on the problems with their sources is to head off some pending news. They are desperately trying to get out in front of some damaging news. Interestingly, the Rep Page decided to come forward to protect the kids, unlike his Democrat counterpart:
If AJ is correct, the WaPo knows something really bad is coming. Bad for them, that is. I expect that there may be a big of an implosion about to start on this whole matter.
Blogosphere, Media, Politics | Gaius Wednesday, 11 October , 2006
By Black Jack, Wednesday, 11 October , 2006 @ 11:01 am
Anyone know who the “Democrat Operative might be? My guess is Lucy Ramirez, she’s well know to have good contacts in MSM, and has been especially helpful just prior to elections before.
By Ed, Wednesday, 11 October , 2006 @ 11:53 am
“All the while none alerted the House leadership or law enforcement.”
Uhhh excuse me. Point of order! These are the ‘overly friendly’ emails that the House leadership (and/or their staff) already had and had done nothing with, are they not?
I know it doesn’t quite fit into AJ’s view of reality but let’s not just start making things up, okay?