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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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But pages don't routinely talk to members of Congress. The oversight of the page program is done by the Speaker's office, and that's where all problems are channeled. If you know of a Democratic member that knew about the problem, name names. Otherwise, your accusations are a strawman.
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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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See your point #3. I haven't seen anyone here single out Fox News, but if they got a page or his family to go on record and then didn't run with the story, then they should be pilloried. If they didn't run with it because they didn't have a source (same as everyone else), then they did the right thing and didn't slander Foley (which is what it would have been with no sources to back it up).
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Conclusion: Republicans tried to hide it; Democrats wanted to save it until a month before the election. I don't see either as having the higher moral ground.
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Where's your proof that the Democrats knew anything? I haven't seen anything of the sort anywhere, even by the Republicans themselves, who you would think would be the first to make the accusation.
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Originally Posted by _God_
3. The parents of the page asked that it not be made public.
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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Who knew he was gay? One of my best friends lives in that district, and he didn't know. I have another friend who's a Democratic lobbyist in DC, and he didn't know. This is another stawman.
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It is not inconceivable that "persecution" charges would be tossed around in regard to Foley's homosexuality. Barney Frank was able to play the victim when a prostitution ring was being run out of his basement--why wouldn't Foley's playing the victim (which he is doing, but in a different way) work equally well?
While I don't agree with it, I can certainly see why the Republicans weren't calling press conferences, particularly since there was no evidence of any actual sexual contact.
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The Republicans didn't do anything at all with the information. That's the problem here, and by all accounts, Foley was demonstrating predatory behavior.