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The Wall Street Journal plays twister with reality trying to turn the Foley scandal into an attack on "liberals":

...in today's politically correct culture, it's easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no grounds to doubt Mr. Foley merely because he was gay and a little too friendly in emails. Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert's head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and young boys. Are these Democratic critics of Mr. Hastert saying that they now have more sympathy for the Boy Scouts' decision to ban gay scoutmasters? Where's Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on that one?

Hilarious.

Ok, line by line we go:

...in today's politically correct culture

As opposed to back when it was ok for Congressman to sexually trawl for teenage pages...

it's easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no grounds to doubt Mr. Foley merely because he was gay and a little too friendly in emails.

Right, that's what was going on; he was "gay" and "a little too friendly in emails." Right.

Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert's head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices

Um, yeah -- between consenting adults. Not between a Congressman and a teenage Congressional page.

This really isn't that hard to understand.

and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and young boys.

Er...what? Who's leaping to anything, and what has gay got to do with it? We're talking about a person in a position of authority angling in on teenage interns. Anywhere else in America Foley's behavior would have set off alarm bells, whether he was zeroing in on boys or girls. His behavior -- even before his explicit IM messages became known -- was way out of line.

Only in the GOP-controlled Congress did his actions not bring censure.

Are these Democratic critics of Mr. Hastert saying that they now have more sympathy for the Boy Scouts' decision to ban gay scoutmasters? Where's Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on that one?

So...if we condemn a sexual predator we have to condemn all gay men? Is that it?

What a load of crap.

What we're wondering is how the Republican leadership can on the one hand smoothly explain away their not dropping the hammer on a Congressman with a long history of sexually prowling for teenagers, but on the other go apoplectic and grind the entire country to a halt over the consensual sex Bill Clinton had with an adult woman.

How is that?