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     Kommentar till en text av GEORGE POPE
Ärende: Re: The Foley Matter
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-=> GEORGE POPE wrote to TIM RICHARDSON <=-

 GP> Okay, the blog is opportunistic -- are you saying that means Foley
 GP> WASN'T a sexual predator?


Tim's a long time Gay rights activist if memory serves.

 TR> On 10-03-06, LEE LOFASO said to BOB KLAHN:
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 TR> LL>Hello Bob,
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 TR> The Bogus Blog Behind Foley's Fall
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 TR> SPANKED FoleyABCNews.com brought Mark Foley's boy-chasing to national
 TR> attention, but it wasn't the first website to flog the story. That
 TR> dubious honor belongs to StopSexPredators, a pseudo-vigilante blog filled
w
 TR> plagiarized, hastily-assembled posts, which no one seems to have heard
 TR> of, visited, or linked to before last weekuand whose operator has a
 TR> suspiciously savvy grasp of the news cycle.
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 TR> In other words, a blog whose sole raison d'etre seems to have been to
 TR> get the Foley ball rolling.
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 TR> If its time/date stamps are to be trusted (like most free blogware,
 TR> Blogger allows its users to backdate posts), the pervert-outing
 TR> anony-site was set up on July 28 as a "clearing house for the public to
rep
 TR> sex predators and as a resource for concerned citizens."
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 TR> One early post, headlined The Sickening Six, naming and shaming the
 TR> "kinds of sick people who hunt minors for their own sick purposes," is
 TR> basically an amalgam of plagiarized entries from Crimelibrary, Wikipedia,
a
 TR> Answers.com.
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 TR> After running just six posts over the summer, the site picked up steam
 TR> on September 21 when its author wrote, "the blog has been noticed and some
 TR> shocking emails have been received!!!!" and posted four emails
 TR> purportedly from "interns" outraged by the heretofore unmentioned Foley
and
 TR> his penchant for teenage boys.
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 TR> (Of course, if these emails are legit, it means the "interns" somehow
 TR> stumbled upon the blog, despite the fact that it had not yet been linked
 TR> to by any other sites, and was virtually indetectible to Google, which
 TR> ranks sites according to the number of incoming links.)
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 TR> One "intern" wrote:
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 TR> "...I came to Washington because I care about the future of America. I
 TR> wanted to be around good and decent men like President George Bush.
 TR> Instead, I feel like a piece of meat. The worst part of it for me is
 TR> there appear to be plenty of my fellow interns who don't mind Foley's
 TR> particular 'path to power.'"
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 TR> Three days later, the blogger posted the now infamous "Emails from
 TR> Congressman Foley to 16 Year Old Page!!!!", claiming they'd been sent in
 TR> by a reader (despite the fact that they appeared to be scans of faxed
 TR> printouts). Persons unknown then seeded the link to various political
 TR> sites including Wonkette, which promptly dismissed them as fakes. ABC,
 TR> of course, took them more seriously.
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 TR> Whoever promoted the story on DailyKos did so only 12 minutes after the
 TR> fateful post went live at 11:06 a.m.:
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 TR> Six minutes later, the same person, again writing under the handle
 TR> WHinternNOW posted the following:
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 TR> Back on Sept. 5, however, that very same WHinternNOW posted a
 TR> suspiciously more informed-sounding take on the congressman:
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 TR> Whoever is behind the blog hasn't responded to emails from Radar or any
 TR> other outlets, and seems to have lost interest in the site.
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 TR> "I'm thrilled that so many folks are looking at this simple blog...."
 TR> the author wrote on October 2, the last day the site was updated. "If you
 TR> have any ideas that I should post, please let me know. I'm happy to pass
 TR> along information about the current situation, but would much prefer to
kee
 TR> marching toward the large goal or stopping sex predators. I don't think
 TR> we'll see it in the Congress anytime soon, so let's focus our energy
 TR> elsewhere."
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 TR> What, leaving the party so soon?
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