Fox had Foley emails, chose not to run

[LynneSin]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Fox_had_Foley_emails_chose_not_1003.html

Fox had Foley emails, chose not to run

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday October 3, 2006


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Fox News had copies of emails written from Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) to a Louisiana boy, but chose not to run the story, according to a passage in an Associated Press report.

The relevant excerpt follows:

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The FBI has begun an inquiry into Foley's computer contact with pages, and Hastert wrote a letter to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush asking for an investigation into whether state laws were broken.

Meanwhile, Florida newspapers — who were leaked copies of the e-mail with the Louisiana boy last year — defended their decision not to run stories. Both The St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald were given copies of the e-mail, as were other news organizations, including Fox News.

"Our decision at the time was ... that because the language was not sexually explicit and was subject to interpretation, from innocuous to 'sick,' as the page characterized it, to be cautious," said Tom Fiedler, executive editor of the Herald. "Given the potentially devastating impact that a false suggestion of pedophilia could have on anyone, not to mention a congressman known to be gay, and lacking any corroborating information, we chose not to do a story."

[C_U_L8R]

1. What does Hannity have to say about THAT????

republican sex creeps - yuck !!!!!!

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[daleo]

3. I thought he wasn't "known to be gay"

This sounds like they are grasping at straws. Would they have held back from investigating if it was a 52 year old heterosexual male who was sending "creepy" emails to 16 year old girls? Well, maybe they would have, if he was Republican.

I wonder if all they knew about were those emails? Those incriminating text messages must have been circulating for a while too.

[Demit]

4. How is that excerpt relevant to why FOX didn't run them?

It's quoting why the Herald didn't run them. Nothing in there about Fox.

[zonkers]

5. God bless our "Citizen journalists" That includes you, too, Skinner...

You're like a cyber version of Ed Grant.

[OKNancy]

6. This story is by Andrew Taylor of the associated press

I thought it was a duplicate.
However, I don't see it.



http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/ap/politics/4231327

Hastert defends handling of page scandal
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Monday defended his office's handling of questions raised about Rep. Mark Foley last year, saying the parents of a former male page were concerned about an e-mail Foley sent their son but didn't want the matter pursued.


Hastert said neither he nor other GOP leaders were aware until last Friday of far more lurid computer exchanges two years earlier between the Florida Republican and another page.

Hastert, R-Ill., acknowledged that Foley's 2005 e-mail to a Louisiana boy seeking a photograph raised a "red flag" with the Louisiana congressman who sponsored the page, but he said his staff aides and Rep. John Shimkus, another Illinois Republican who chairs a board of House members who oversee the page program, did not know the contents.

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The FBI has begun an inquiry into Foley's computer contact with pages, and Hastert wrote a letter to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush asking for an investigation into whether state laws were broken.

Meanwhile, Florida newspapers _ who were leaked copies of the e-mail with the Louisiana boy last year _ defended their decision not to run stories. Both The St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald were given copies of the e-mail, as were other news organizations, including Fox News.

[NVMojo]

14. there it is:

Meanwhile, Florida newspapers _ who were leaked copies of the e-mail with the Louisiana boy last year _ defended their decision not to run stories. Both The St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald were given copies of the e-mail, as were other news organizations, including Fox News.

[Auntie Bush]

7. I didn't know he was gay before this incident. How did I miss that?

IMaybe the MSM never bothered mentioning that. Soooo how did everyone know he was gay?

If they knew he was gay...why the hell was he allowed to work and have contact with all those young boys/pages?

Of course, it's OK to repeat a story that Bill Clinton was "interested" in Demi Moore. No qualms about that! :mad:

I'm beginning to think most ALL Republican candidates stink to high heaven. The smell of hypocrisy makes me want to :puke:.

[pinerow]

9. For the record...being "gay" does not necessarily make one

a pedophile...let's keep things in perspective...

[Auntie Bush]

11. Sorry to insinuate that. My bad.

But, no older gay men sould be in contact with young venerable or impressionable young boys without close supervision. That's why gays are thrown out of the Scouts and teachers lose their jobs and why we have don't ask...don't tell.

Republicans and Fundamentalists are the ones who made those rules.
I personally don't go along with most of those ideas. I'm all for all Gay rights...so please don't get me wrong. :(

[MissB]

20. I'm not getting what you're saying here.

It still sounds like you're suggesting that gay men can't be trusted around young boys or men.

[annarbor]

21. Good point....

What do they call the grown men that get busted soliciting 14 year-old girls for sex over the internet?

"Heterosexuals"? I think not! Enough of this bullshit. If the boy was fifteen when and if he solicited him for sex, and the story broke when the boy was sixteen, then the man is a pedophile and in Michigan he could be charged with the felony of soliciting a minor for immoral purposes (sex). The same rule would apply if it was a fifteen year-old girl.

Ann Arbor

[951-Riverside]

10. Removed.

[Auntie Bush]

16. No!

No, not at all, but Republicans DO and according to their principles...they were being irresponsible. I guess I did a poor job of pointing out their hypocrisy. See post #10.

By the way, I have two very good friends who are gay...the nicest women you'd want to know, The best teacher my 4 children (3boys) ever had was gay and we all knew it...no problem. However, today with these Christian Rethugs that's a no no...unless of course you're a Rethug. Their own rules don't apply to them. I hope I'm forgiven.

[LynneSin]

17. It's the Mary Cheney type of gay

I think everyone including us knew he was gay but because now we're mentioning it 24x7 on the news it's "None of our Business"

[951-Riverside]

22. His sexual preference shouldn't be a factor

It doesn't matter if he was targeting a girl, boy, dog, cat, goat, etc he is a sick sexual predator. Only a homophobic lowlife would make a big thing over him being gay.

[OKNancy]

8. As a reminder to LBN readers

Try to post the original article if possible

LBN rule #5.
.......Please make an effort to link directly to the original source of an article, instead of linking to sites that have re-published someone else's content, or re-packaged someone else's content as their own......

[NVMojo]

12. add "aiding and abetting a pedophile" to their list of journalism crimes

[gratuitous]

13. "Lacking any corroborating information"

Gee, it took Brian Ross of ABC all of, what, three hours to corroborate, find more, and go on the air? What kind of inept doofuses work at the Miami Herald that they couldn't do that in all the months they had the e-mails? Is it because they couldn't corroborate or wouldn't corroborate?

[daleo]

15. "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"

That may be the mode they were in.

[JerseygirlCT]

18. Is it me, or does that quote make it sound like

being gay is far worse than pedophilia?

Screwed up thinking.

[rainbow4321]

19. Next question: Did Tony Snow know about it when he worked there?

And if so, what does his current boss have to say about him not revealing a pedophile?