DRUDGE - Stuck in the sludge again

Matt Drudge "can reveal" now that at least part of the Republican Foley debacle was a "PRANK GONE AWRY". This will no doubt be part of the enormous spin job coming at the electorate in the next few weeks to pull the GOP out of the POT.

There is a problem with this spin, however. It is fair to say that very few, if any, 50+ year old elected officials who ARE NOT pedophiles could be "goaded" into asking a 16 year old to measure his penis, or asking how he masturbates or with what lubricant or tell the 16 year old what type of lube he uses or wonder if they could meet up and wonder what might happen, etc.

Just in case Matt and Karl Rove are going to start playing-the-victim-of-a-prank card to excuse the Republican slime in Washington D.C., it won't work.



XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 5 2006 22:01:25 ET XXXXX

CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE CHATS WERE PAGE 'PRANK GONE AWRY'
**Update**

According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, said he goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.

The primary source, an ally of Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund. Both are fearful that their political careers will be affected if they are publicly brought into the investigation.

The prank scenario only applies to the Edmund IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others.

Developing...

posted by Stash @ 12:02 PM