Perhaps I am out of fashion with the times but I don’t get this obsession with the “Foley” story. While I admit that I have an almost innate propensity to go in the opposite direction of conventional wisdom and modern social and political currents, I suspect that I am not alone in this view.
What Foley did may have been within the confines of codified laws in both Florida and Wahsington, DC where the “age of consent” is 16 years, but his behaviour violated every tenet of moral and ethical decency and sound judgment. It is a sad fact of our age that what men find acceptable in the law is usually those vices which they themselves wish to partake and since most people wish to do that which conforms to acceptable social norms, one seeks to have the desired vice written into law. That being the said, Foley has resigned and this should have been one-day story.
In comes the media and the Democrat political machine (though it is difficult to distinguish the two).
Democrats have had this information for some time and chose to make it a “news” story on the eve on an election. Much like the Dan Rather story about George Bush’s National Guard service. This accounts for the daily drip, drip of information which serves only to keep the story alive. For Dems this is a welcome distraction from the issues of the day since they were losing ground in that regard. The media is all too wiling to go along with it since it serves their own political agendas and lust for the prurient. What amazes me is that Republicans are once again showing themselves to be easy marks.
Conservatives on talk radio are helping to fuel this story by turning their shows in to “All Foley, All the Time.” I have ceased listening to talk-radio which I love. I cannot abide this daily Foley-Fest.
Enough of it already. Let’s get back to the real issues of this election year.
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