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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (304931)	9/29/2006 9:05:41 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572259

The bottom line is that we are fortunate to have an honorable ethical leader after eight years of slime. Maybe you can select his wife for another term of slime. Do you work for the Ministry of Spin? At a dangerous time for the American democracy, you play your silly games and continue to reside in the land of denial. Very sad.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (304931)	9/29/2006 9:44:48 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572259

"The bottom line is that we are fortunate to have an honorable ethical leader after eight years of slime." That would be nice. I guess in comparison to Bush, anyone could come off as ethical and honorable...

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (304931)	10/2/2006 3:32:02 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572259

Foley's Showdown With ABC On Friday afternoon, a strategist for Rep. Mark Foley tried to cut a deal with ABC's Brian Ross. The correspondent, who had dozens of instant messages that Foley sent to teenage House pages, had asked to interview the Florida Republican. Foley's former chief of staff said the congressman was quitting and that Ross could have that information exclusively if he agreed not to publish the raw, sexually explicit messages. "I said we're not making any deals," Ross recalls. He says the Internet made the story possible, because on Thursday he posted a story on his ABC Web page, the Blotter, after obtaining one milder e-mail that Foley had sent a 16-year-old page, asking for a picture. Within two hours, former pages had e-mailed Ross and provided the salacious messages. The only question then, says Ross, was "whether this could be authenticated." The St. Petersburg Times last fall obtained the earlier e-mail, asking the 16-year-old for a picture, and interviewed the boy, who wrote a friend that he considered the message "sick." But the boy would not go on the record. Executive Editor Neil Brown says the paper's policy against making accusations based on unnamed sources was a factor. "We just didn't feel like we had the story," he says. "We had a lot of stuff implied. . . . If I had it to do over again, I think we probably would have been more organized about pursuing it. But hindsight is 20/20." The paper did interview Foley, who assured a reporter that the e-mail exchange was innocent, Brown says. washingtonpost.com