Cover Tim Mahoney’s adultery, dammit!
That’s the central message of Tim Graham’s Oct. 24 post, which, like a previous Graham post, expresses annoyance that Florida congressman Mahoney’s adultery isn’t on the lips of people the same way the page-buggering of the man Mahoney replaced in Congress, Mark Foley. This time around, he complains that Mahoney was rated by Newsweek as slightly more dignified than the outright lie told by Sarah Palin about the Troopergate scandal.
Graham went on to whine that “Time and Newsweek blatantly enjoyed the Mark Foley scandal two years ago, and Foley’s face “graced” the cover of Newsweek,” adding: “Foley wasn’t just a massive story, it was also the subject of major media polls. Newsweek assertively polled and found that 52 percent thought House Speaker Dennis Hastert tried to cover it up.” Graham fails to note that there was, in fact, actual evidence that Hastert and the Republican House leadership knew about Foley’s inappropriate behavior toward pages for years but did little about it.