Hello! READ A BOOK media!

Stephen Spruiell on Mark Foley & Media on National Review Online has it right. I'm so sick and tired of the media not distinguishing from the admittedly creepy and wierd but NOT sexual emails that Foley sent pages and that the leadership knew about and did something about and the sick twisted and evil Instant Messages that they found out about last week. Doesn't the AP have at least one person who knows the difference? Hastert didn't know about the im's - how could he? They disappear into the ether when you log off, unlike emails which last forever. To save an IM actually takes a little effort (or so I remember - I haven't IM'd in forever - I go old school and use the "phone"). Which begs the question - who had these, and why haven't they released them before now. Shouldn't a predator like Foley been removed immediately by whoever had these and not when it was politically best for the Democrats?