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1. There is no way in hell that some Democratic members of Congress did not know about this situation. Pages talk.
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This is the Hastert defense and there is no evidence to support it. There is evidence that the Repub chairman of the House Page Board was told last year by a fellow Republican (that same Repup did not tell the Dem co-chair of the Page Board) that Foley was exchanging "friendly" e-mails with a minor.
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2. Among the media sources who seem to have withheld the story are the New York Times and the LA Times. It wasn't just Fox News.
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So ABC took a more aggressive approach. I dont see where this is an issue at all.
ABC’s Brian Ross “dismissed suggestions by some Republicans that the news was disseminated as part of a smear campaign against Mr. Foley,” the New York Times reports. “I hate to give up sources, but to the extent that I know the political parties of any of the people who helped us, it would be the same party,” Mr. Ross said, referring to Republicans.
Was it just a "slip-up" that Fox News labeled Foley a Democrat on O’Reilly's show last night?
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3. The parents of the page asked that it not be made public.
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Congress has a responsibility to ensure the safety of all the Pages which overrides the wishes of any one page's parents.
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4. Foley was known to be gay. It doesn't go over well these days to imply that a gay person has ever done anything wrong. If you doubt the aggression that is increasingly emitted from the gay community, scroll back in this thread.
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Have you read the gay bashing from the anti-gay community? #28.