This is How the Spin will Go Down
I just read this article at CNN's site. The title, "Hastert ignores call to resign amid Foley fallout" is telling enough. But the rest of the article lays out the format of the repug talking points on the Foley scandal. Our "liberal" media will print these talking points verbatim (as evidenced by, well by the fact that I just read them in a news article!). From the link:
"No one in the Republican leadership ... saw those messages until last Friday, when ABC News released them to the public," Hastert said. He added that if Foley had not resigned, "I would have demanded his expulsion from the House of Representatives."
Two Republican Congressmen -- Rep. John Shimkus, chairman of the House Page Board, and Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee -- have acknowledged knowing about an "overly friendly" exchange between Foley and a former male page.
The e-mails, which occurred in 2005 between Foley and a page from Louisiana, were not sexually explicit.
Shimkus, of Illinois, has said Foley assured him nothing inappropriate had taken place with the page, and Foley was then told not to have any further contact with the teen and to watch his conduct around pages.
In a news conference Monday night, Reynolds said that Rep. Rodney Alexander, a Louisiana Republican who sponsored the page e-mailed by Foley in 2005, informed him about the notes earlier this year. Reynolds said he did not actually see the e-mails.
Reynolds said he then informed Hastert because he thought it was appropriate to tell his "supervisor" about allegations of possible sexual misconduct.
Reynolds insisted that he, too, did not know about the more explicit messages from 2003. Once he saw them Friday, he said he began working "swiftly and immediately" to get Foley to resign.

The Republican leadership cares nothing about children, democracy, or America. They'll do, and are doing, anything to stay in power. Our corporate media is no better.