More Lies

Now they're swiftboating CREW and everyone else they can think of. From Media Matters:

[Chris] WALLACE: Let me ask you about that, Congressman Kingston. What does [House Democratic Leader] Nancy Pelosi and [Rep.] Rahm Emmanuel [D-IL] -- they, of course, are two Democratic leaders -- what do they have to go under oath about?

{Rep. Jack] KINGSTON {R-Ga}: Well, Chris, what I don't understand is, where have these emails been for three years? Are we saying that a 15-year-old child would have sat on e-mails that were X -- triple X-rated for three years and suddenly spring them out right on the eve of an election? That's just a little bit too suspicious, even for Washington, D.C. We do know that George Soros, a huge Democrat [sic] backer, has a group called CREW, it's a 527 partisan group, they apparently had the emails as late as this April and did not do anything about it.

Facts: CREW is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization; they received the emails on July 21 and the same day sent them to the FBI, which has bungled the matter, or at least can't get its story straight. And isn't it strange that Republicans would consider a group devoted to ethical behavior in government, "liberal"?

Kingston again, as quoted by Digby (scroll down):

"Just as it must be determined whether any Republican Members or political operatives were aware of and attempted to conceal Mr. Foley's activities, it must also be determined whether any Democrat Members or political operatives were aware of, and attempted to conceal these same activities," Kingston wrote in the letter.

Why on earth would Democrats keeps something like this, involving a Republican Congressman, under wraps for any length of time at all?

From Christianist liar James Dobson, as reported at Pam's House Blend:

"(It was released by liberals on) the last day of the session of Congress, when it couldn't be responded to do — the last day," he said. "It is the day you would not want something like this to break. And they've known it for years. They've held it for years, and then they threw it out there on the last day of the session demanding that the speaker of the house resign."

Fact: ABC's source for the emails was a Republican staffer in Washington, which has been publicly stated. But it doesn't really matter:

Dobson again:

As it turns out, Mr. Foley has had illicit sex with no one that we know of, and the whole thing turned out to be what some people are now saying was a -- sort of a joke by the boy and some of the other pages.

The sex part is true, as far as we know. The "prank" mantra is already a howler.