Pedafoleya Round Two

by poputonian

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It wasn’t with the same lightening speed as RatherGate and the forensic fonts, but it’s the same play out of the same playbook. Apparently, the chess-master in the White House has moved a blog-pawn one square in order to out the identity of Mark Foley’s victim. And like Pavlov’s Dog, the right-wing reptiles know without thinking what to do next: attack the media and attack the victim. (Yesterday’s post outing the young man already has 21 trackbacks and 61 technorati links, and the story is seeping into the MSM.) For those keeping score at home, the victim is being accused of being of age at the time he was allegedly victimized by the pedafoleyac, and ABC News is being accused of knowing that. Raw Story, however, refutes what the chamber is currently echoing. My take is that this will only be a temporary obfuscation of the larger story and won’t grow legs like RatherGate did.