The Blog That Broke Foley

Radar, digging into the short history of StopSexPredators, the blog that broke the Foley Affair before ABC.com did, calls the site:

a pseudo-vigilante blog filled with plagiarized, hastily-assembled posts, which no one seems to have heard of, visited, or linked to before last week—and whose operator has a suspiciously savvy grasp of the news cycle.

Meaning, partisan dirty trick, right? The blog exists soley to write about emails sent to Congressional pages by former Republican Rep. Mark Foley (or Masturgate, as it's being called.)

Meanwhile, "My plans are to remain anonymous for the foreseeable future," the blogger writes CNN, anonymously.

Forget about the blog's story, counsels Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit:

does this really help the Republicans given that the charges seem to be true?

He then links conservative  Roger Simon's observation:

Meanwhile, does anyone think it is ironic that so-called progressives who excoriated eavesdropping on terrorists are feasting on the publication of supposedly confidential email and IMs? You can forget about privacy.

Roger Simon's observation is terribly flawed.  Foley sent those emails and IMs from his work computer as I understand it.  Privacy is not guaranteed or given for any communications done on one's workplace PC.  

Also, I would love to see our House leaders take a bipartisan stand and demand a total investigation into this matter.  Who knew what and when?  This matter is bigger than politics.  Of course, that will never happen, especially so close to an election.  

Radar piggybacked on the reporting of numerous bloggers, including yours truly, and reported it as if what they had found was brand-new. In fact, they could have written the story entirely based on the blog posts linked here. It's not clear that they did much "digging" at all.