In today's attempt to hang the Foley dirty laundry on the Democratic clothesline, the Washington Post
makes a fundamental error in the timing of the original "overly-friendly" e-mails:
The communications that would eventually trigger the scandal were written by Foley in 2004. Foley's e-mails asked a former page from Louisiana for a picture and told him he had just finished a long bike ride and was going to the gym.
But according to the scans of the e-mails posted at Americablog, the first contact from Foley to the former page in Louisiana was July 29, 2005!!!
(Forgive me, I don't know how to post images into diaries...perhaps someone can put this "Do I have the right email?" image in a comment? Thanks)
Now why would the Post make such a fundamental error in reporting this story? Perhaps because they were over-eager to hang this on a Democrat in Rep. Alexander's office?
Those 2004 e-mails -- dubbed "over-friendly" by House Republican leaders -- originally leaked out of the office of Rep. Rodney Alexander (La.), a Republican. But, Republicans say, they still may have come from a Democrat on his staff. Alexander changed parties in 2004..
Perhaps we should contact Jonathan Weisman with two questions:
A - When we will be seeing that correction to the timeline?
B- Why were you and your editors so willing to swallow the Republican efforts to implicate Democrats that you overlooked an ENTIRE TWELVE MONTHS?