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Bloggers Still Covering Snowballing Foley Scandal
 Few blogs that cover blogging, politics or the media are missing out on covering the Foley scandal that continues to snowball. Mark Foley's name is still among the top Technorati searches a full week after the story broke. The number of posts have dipped from the peak of around 8,000 on October 5th, but there are still between 2,000 and 3,000 posts containing the keyword "Foley" being posted each day. The story has grown from the intial news about Congressman Mark Foley's emails and IMs with a page to the GOP's efforts to coverup the scandal. Here are some more highlights from the blogosphere.
The Blogophile column from CBS News calls the Foley Scandal a perfect blogstorm.
Spectator: "'With a story like this that sucks the energy out of the base, your concern is that it doesn't keep snowballing, from one man [Foley] to others," says a former RNC staffer. "What I'm worried about isn't just Foley. I'm worried about the stories the Democratic machine is going to be churning out for the next four weeks.'"
The new Time cover shows the rear end of an Elephant.
Abhorrent I-mails: Roscoe Bartlett (R - MD) has his emails and IMs crossed. Wonkette reports that Bartlett called the emails and IMs between Foley and the page "abhorrent I-mail messages."
Ralph E. Hanson has posted a wide range of media stories about the Foley scandal. (via Fishbowl DC)
Some corporations are monitoring and logging your IMs.
Capitol Hill Blue reports that Rep. Jim Kolbe knew in 2000: "Rep. Jim Kolbe, the only openly-gay Republican member of Congress, knew about Rep. Mark Foley's sexually-explicit emails to young male pages at least six years ago and told the now former Congressman to cut it out."
Media Cynic: "Leaving Hastert in power is a political gamble which is doomed to failure. Hastert coached high school boys' wrestling and has campaigned to stop cyber-predators from using the Internet to prey on children. He absolutely knows what it means when a 52 year-old man asks an boy to 'send him a picture.'"
Media Matters says James Dobson thinks it was a prank by pages. More from Media Matters on the scandal can be found here.
MSNBC.com reports that there were rumors on blogs that Foley was gay days and months before the emails and IMs were published by ABC News.
WROC TV says bloggers are fueled the Foley scandal.
What will this mean for Speaker Hastert's DOPA idea?
Some bloggers are talking about Pink Elephants now that the New York Times has mentioned them. Unclaimed Territory asks does the Foley scandal prove the existence of God? "The Foley scandal is so perfectly tailored -- one could even say artistically designed -- to expose every character flaw of this country's Republican leaders (and their followers), and it has evolved so flawlessly (like the most brilliantly coordinated symphony), that one is almost inclined to believe that it was divinely inspired."
A lot of bloggers are linking to this story indicating a possible 50 seat GOP loss in the house thanks to Dennis Hastert's decision to not resign as Speaker. Andrew Sullivan writes, "The base of the GOP has been fed homophobia and gay-baiting for years now. It was partly how Rove won Ohio and the presidency. Gay-hating is integral to their machine. Now, the very homophobia these people stoked and used is suddenly turning back on them."
Pirate's Cove says if the Dems win they will push an ultra-left agenda. "Put simply, they will attempt to push their ultra-Left agenda, as we well know it. They will push tax increases, expanded social programs, taking God out of everything (in violation of the First Amendment), gay marriage, abortion rights, etc. You know the drill."
Alec Baldwin on embarrassed Republicans: "Sad to think that it took the Foley situation to get the 'Embarrassed Republicans' to start voicing their embarrassment. Nearly six years of lies, incompetence, lies, hate, lies, corruption, lies and war. Misguided, meaningless war that has destroyed the landscape of Iraq and the souls of the Iraqi people. And what has the war done for us, other than line the pockets of Bush, and his father's friends?"
Nola.com reports that the Louisiana teenager who received the suggestive emails has been threatened by some bloggers.
Vacancy notice already posted on Foley's House website. The Huffington Post says MarkFoley.com has also been removed.
BlogPulse reports that politicos are realizing the Foley scandal is not fading away.
Hotline reports that conservative voters may be more upset by the fact that Bush may pocket-veto the Secure Fence Act than by the Foley scandal. Michelle Malkin is also blogging a possible pocket-veto. The Bush administration is also facing fallout from the Woodward bombshell.
A former page says he had sex with Foley when he was 21.
The Huffington Post says Drudge is playing the victim card.
BlogPulse.com: "Maybe the runup-to-the-election question isn't which party can best protect Americans from terrorists...but which party can best protect Americans from its own Congress?"
Radar Online and CNN look into whether a mysterious blog named Stop Sex Predators outed Foley first.
Huffington Post has a game called Help Hastert Hide the Perv
Think Progress says the Wild Bill blog outed the page who exchanged the notorious IMs with Mark Foley
Katherine Harris gives her thoughts on the scandal. Google's YouTube has the video.
Wrong Party: GoogTube also has a video from Fox News incorrectly labeling Foley as a Democrat. Boing Boing has a screen grab of Fox News calling Foley a Democrat. Brad Blog has more on Fox's "innocent mistake."
Media Girl: "I am just totally disgusted. I never thought anyone would stoop so low -- not even those Republicans in Washington who are driving the country right into a ditch."
A blog post from the St. Petersburg Times explains the order of events related to their coverage of Rep. Mark Foley and his email exchanges with teenagers he met through the congressional page program.
The politician truth predictor software that Google's Schmidt is talking about could be very helpful for situations like this Foley scandal.
Filed in Foley Scandal.
Posted on October 9, 2006
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Bloggers Cover Foley Scandal and Coverup
Bloggers are covering the developing scandal about Mark Foley's (R-FL) alleged perverted emails and IMs with a minor. ABC News broke the story about the instant messages and released a PDF file containing excerpts from instant message logs between Foley and the 16-year-old boy, who was a former congressional page. Some snippets can also be read here on the ABC News website. Reader discretion is advised for both of the ABC News links. Foley is Maf54 in the IM exchange.
Ironically, Mark Foley was the chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. Mark Foley has already resigned but the scandal may not end with him because it appears that several Republican congressman, including Speaker Dennis Hastert, John Boehner and NRCC Chairman Thomas M. Reynolds, knew about Foley's email messages months ago. It is often the coverup that causes the biggest problems for politicians in political scandals.
The scandal, which is already being called Foleygate, Pagegate and Predatorgate by some bloggers, has landed Mark Foley on the list of the top Technorati searches. His name will probably stay on the list of top search terms for a few days at least. There have already been thousands of blog posts written about the story even though it didn't really fully develop until over the weekend. Here are some highlights from the blogosphere.
News.com had an article
about blogs covering the Mark Foley scandal including Reid Blog, The Florida Masochist and Shakespeare's Sister. This story is about the emails and was written before the more graphic instant message logs were published by ABC News.
Media Cynic: "So the Republican leadership knew that this creep was hitting on teenagers and kept it quiet for almost a year. They didn't launch an investigation, they didn't confront Foley and they didn't warn the parents who had entrusted their children to the page system. That is simply despicable."
SFist blogs that Nancy Pelosi's pagegate resolution was prohibited from passing.
Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters, a prominent conservative blogger, writes, "Republicans have to act swiftly to remove the stench of Foleygate from the party. They need to demand the resignation of Hastert as Speaker, as well as Boehner as Majority Leader if he lied to protect Hastert. Allowing Foley off the hook was a mistake in judgment, but this is a betrayal of those who trusted Hastert to lead the House with dignity, honesty, and integrity." The National Journal's Beltway Blogroll is also blogging about Morrissey's post.
The Richmond Democrat writes, "Apparently other Republicans are unwilling to take the fall for Hastert's actions. The common theme in their stories is that they reported Foley to Hastert, expecting him to take action."
Joust the Facts does not think there is a cover-up.
TMPMuckracker writes, "The disgraced ex-congressman's seat is now seen as essentially a gimme for Democrats, since Foley's name must remain on the ballot -- and convincing folks to vote for Foley, even if the votes go to his replacement, is a big challenge."
BuffaloPundit: "The story isn't that a creepy congressman from Florida got caught doing this almost a year ago. The story is that Denny Hastert claims not to have known about it, but Tom Reynolds admits that he knew about it a year ago, and told Hastert about it."
Talking Points Memo has posted a video clip of Mark Foley on America's Most Wanted talking about his anti-child predator bill. In the video Foley says, "If I were one of these sickos, I'd be nervous with America's Most Wanted on my trail." Josh Marshall of Tallking Points Memo also says in another post, "I'm not sure I've ever seen this big a train wreck where leaders at the highest eschelons of power repeatedly fib, contradict each other and change their stories so quickly."
PoliPundit thinks Foley's name can still be removed from the ballot.
There are dozens of other Mark Foley videos here on YouTube.com.
Politik Ditto: "This scandal could've and should've just been about that disgusting creep Mark Foley, but it sounds like instead of reporting him to the proper authorities immediately upon finding out that he was a pedophile, the GOP was more concerned about protecting one of their own. And if that's the case they deserve all the heat just waiting to fall on them."
Blogging Baby: "I think the only thing worse than a child sexual predator is one who pretends to be the opposite - especially one who is in a position of power and privilege. I hope this was brought to light prior to any actual physical assaults."
The Carpetbagger Report thinks Hastert is being hung out to dry.
Atrios blogs about whether Foley's behavior was criminal or not. "I believe the age of consent in DC 16 - is it illegal to 'solicit sex' over the internet from an underage person even if that person is of age in their respective state? That's rather odd.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not defending Foley's behavior, I'm just curious about what makes it rise to the level of criminal."
Pajamas Media has a roundup of more blog posts about the Foley scandal.
Andrew Sullivan: "From what I've read, Foley is another example of this destructive and self-destructive pattern for which the only cure is courage and honesty. While gays were fighting for thir basic equality, Foley voted for the 'Defense of Marriage Act'. If his resignation means the end of the closet for him, and if there is no more to this than we now know, then it may even be for the good. Better to find integrity and lose a Congressional seat than never live with integrity at all."
Think Progress has posted a Foley Coverup Timeline.
Posted on October 1, 2006
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Even Pro Wrestlers Blog
 Three-time WWE Champion Mick Foley has a blog called Foley is Blog. It is unclear why the blog is named "Foley is Blog." An interview in the Pro Wrestling Insider says Foley doesn't even like the name blog. He will only call it a weblog. Most people would probably be too afraid to argue with him.
Foley says that Todd knows the name. Todd says he is trying to let Foley get all the glory. Todd says the choices were "Foley's Hardcore Diary" which Foley liked but no one else liked. Todd says they chose "Foley is Blog." Foley says it's a rib on him because he hates the word "blog." He refuses to call it a blog, instead calling it a web log. He said he had two conditions. He said he would do one in Afghanistan on a one time basis, but he ended up doing three. They were pretty lengthy pieces and he wrote for 6-7 hours on the way back from there. He was really into writing, but there would be long stretches of time when he wouldn't write anything. So this kind of forces him to do something every week and it would be something he would enjoy and hopefully fans will enjoy. So he refuses to call it a blog and if they wanted to put up his column, they would have to decipher it from his handwriting. He fed-exed them 16 pages about Stacy and said "good luck with it."
In addition to blogging Foley is also the author of a novel called Scooter. Avoidinglife.com has found more wrestling blogs. For more pro wrestling scoop you can also try the Wrestling Blog.
Posted on February 16, 2006
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