It's amazing what little nuggets you find when relaxing on a sailboat with a two day old copy of the New York Times. There was of course them item of Republican Congressman Foley's resignation and the blowback that is coming down on House Republican speaker Dennis Hastert. I found two separate items in the paper onboard that struck my curiosity. One was about how the story of Congressman Foley broke only two days after Bob Woodwards book about the Bush Administration's bungling of the war etc... The Foley story of course overshadowed the bad news about the war and the Bush bungling in the media.
But, what really struck me as curious is that Brian Ross at ABC News who broke the story was tipped off about Foley by someone in the Republican party. It seems there are some Republicans in Washington will do anything to divert the bad news about Iraq. They were not able to divert the journalistic dogs away from the bad news in Iraq so someone in the Republican party threw the media another piece of red meat (i.e. the Foley story) and dutifully the media ran off to eat it.
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