Emails were "no big deal," but the IMs were sick. OK...

Does it take some special kind of mental talent to understand that the emails and IMs were being fired off IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD?

The page who got the emails called them "sick sick sick sick." All these pundits reading the emails are trying to pass them off as nothing, innocuous, just overly friendly.

Maybe, juuuuuuuuust maybe, the page who described the emails as "sick" did so because he was also getting these insane, lascivious, disgusting IMs from the same guy in the same time period.

They are trying to separate the two things, the emails and the IMs. But the nausea-inducing content of the latter is what makes the contents of the former so unutterably creepy.

It does not take a rocket scientist to see this. Or am I wrong?

Maybe foley made the emails seem less blatant, because he thought that would be a record of what he said that could be used against him, and maybe he didn't know that IM's could be logged.

Meg

They are trying to say that Foley's emails weren't as Pedophilia serious as the hardcore IM Pedophilia......the Repugs are some sick bastards.....

bottom line is the type of contact (Email/IM) was inappropriate for a 50 year old man to have with 16 year old teens.

should have called for some type of investigation......he believed foley? YEAH RIGHT.....he was on kmox st louis today....said he was angry anyone would accuse him of not looking out for the pages.....

You know it when you receive it. They had interaction with him in person too. I'm sure the vibe was obvious. They wouldn't try to brush
these guys opinions off if it were a DEM under scrutiny.
What bullshit.

males. I'm thinking back to the stories I heard when I was in my teens, from hearing the boys talk. They knew. They knew the teachers who were all right to talk to, and the ones who were trying to be too palsy and WHY. Even when I was 13 or 14, I'd hear my altar boy friends talk about which priest not to go into the sacristy with. Teenagers aren't stupid. Now, I'm a city kid from a working class background, but I'll bet even these privileged Republicans had their encounters with "innocuous," overly friendly men. They caddied—don't tell me there weren't some overfriendly men at the ole country club.

knew about this and did nothing, so they are trying to make it seem like the e-mails were no big deal. But your point is dead-on.

'nuff said.

to know a preditor starts with the overlyfriendly. an adult knows we donot toalk to kids or teen in htis matter. this is the huge red flag to stop.... a preditor. their inquiring overly friendly first attempts incommunication

it was a sure sign of what was to come

we as a nation have been educated on this. we are aware. and the preditor follows a consistant pattern in finding htese kids

every step of the way these kids were failed

you odnt "ask" foley

no one gave the kids a safe, anonimous environment to talk to kids to find out what was up. the investigation was bogus, and turning away from the problem