The 1st Thread For 3/4/10: Let's Stop This Now Before It Becomes The Memo
Even though my efforts will be painful futile. As news broke on Eric Massa would be resigning from the House for reasons we don't know, it became somehow incumbent on Luke Russert to just assert that the " Democrats could have a Mark Foley " problem. Huh? Media Matters' Jeremy Schulman explains very well how Russert shows the latest example of how sad our media is: Just to refresh Russert's memory, the "Mark Foley situation" wasn't limited to Foley's inappropriate emails and explicit instant messages to teenage House pages. It also involved the widespread failure of Republican members of Congress and their staffs to appropriately address Foley's behavior when they had the chance. Or, as the House ethics committee put it in their report on the matter, "The Investigative Subcommittee finds that few of the individuals who ultimately came to participate in those events handled their roles in the manner that should be expected given t...