10.06.2006

Right Wing Blogger Outs A Former Page Then Whines About the Blowback

It turns out that the former page is working for a Republican US House member who is running for Governor in Oklahoma. Not a skulduggerous Liberal, but a Republican.

Okay to stop you from taking up time googling that the US Representative Ishtook (R-OK).

This "miracle blogger" did the incredible job of looking up the the young man's AOL profile from a transcript that was apparently not redacted enough, and he needed help doing that.

I will not mention the name myself. This is between Republicans, but the unemployed blogger gave an interview to NewsOK.com which he described as the "Daily Oklahoman", and I would be willing to believe is a real newspaper in Southern City, especially the way they focused only on the blogger and got no balancing statements from anyone else. I must say that the blurb hinting that Senator Inofe may have been in danger in an airplane cause me to try to open up 2 new pages on their site at one time and I guess you just can't do that at newsok.com at least not in the same 10 minutes. So maybe that's an indication of the quality of publication they have there.

But back to the miracle blogger who can look up AOL profiles. The man went through his previous troubles with the law and the military and how his wife supports the family and they get foodstamps, whines about "threats" to his family. (Like I said, this is between Republicans, remember?) But he nevers seems to waste a moment worrying about the other guy, and if that guy is receiving threats. That is a sad commentary on our miracle blogger guy. I'm sure the young man is getting death threats.

The right wing is also trying to confuse the issue of which former page was underage when.

The young man in this incident is the young man who, in California, that received contact from Foley years ago ("I wish I had jumped you in SD" said one of Foley's missives) when he was under 18. He is not the young man in Louisiana that received the more innocuous IMs last year. One thing I do know is California and the age of sexual consent in CA is 18. It does not matter if the young man Foley was talking about a date in San Diego with continued to talk to him, because in California it is statuatorily considered harassment until the age of 18. As is well understood, teens may get together when both are underage, but older people (for Pete's sake Foley's 54!) had better keep their hands and their IMs off.

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