NRCC Wants Reeps to know ...

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Boy this is LAME! Here's their big fat response to the Foley Scandal -- they evidently didn't READ through the second editorial they've sent out:

To: NRCC Supporters and Activists
From: NRCC Chairman Tom Reynolds, M.C.
Re: Important News Update

The NRCC wants to alert you to some important articles that have recently appeared in the media. Please take a moment to read these articles and forward them to other proud Republicans. For more information on the latest news relating to Congress, visit www.NRCC.org.

Two Florida Newspapers Defend 2005 Decision Not to Run Stories on Original Foley E-mails, 10/3/2006

From the Associated Press (10/3): "The St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald, which had been given copies of the e-mail with the Louisiana boy last year, defended their decisions not to run stories. 'Given the potentially devastating impact that a false suggestion of pedophilia could have on anyone, not to mention a congressman known to be gay, and lacking any corroborating information, we chose not to do a story,' said Tom Fiedler, executive editor of the Herald.
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And from an editorial in today's Miami Herald: "Some newspapers -- including this one -- knew of this message as well and did not find it worthy of a news story because it seemed innocuous. Thus, Democratic charges of a 'cover up' of Mr. Foley's activities by the Republican House leadership seem not only premature but crassly political. But the discovery of other, more explicit, messages and confusion over who knew what and when raise questions that require answers -- preferably, under oath and soon.
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