GOP Hitman Matt Drudge Blames Kids For "Playing Foley"

The Republican coverup for La Cage Aux Foley has put all the tentacles of the right wing noise machine into overdrive.  Did you ever wonder how low they could limbo to keep themselves in power?  Wonder no more!  Making excuses for sexual predators who abuse their authority as elected officials and  prey on kids online?  No problem! 

On MSNBC we learn from Mike Viqueria that it's all just the Democrats trying to use this as an election stunt and kids were routinely warned about LOTS of Congressmen so No Big Deal; Tony Snow says on behalf of the President it's nothing more than a few off-color emails; Dennis Hastert thinks the important thing to investigate is who leaked the IMs in the first place (probably a danger to national security); and now Matt Drudge says -- yes, wait for it -- it's the kid's fault for (I kid you not) "Egging the Congressman On" (says the Eggman).

No surprises here really; as Atrios noted this morning, even the NYT is being remarkably compliant, featuring the one article that promoted Foley as a poor, sick fellow and back paging everything about the coverup.  Well, it's all about the coverup.  Just ask Richard Nixon.  

Please please listen to these Matt Drudge radio clips at Crooks & Liars, because this is where the GOP Protection Racket that Hastert has run for years is going with this.  Drudge is, after all, their flagship:

Clip #1:  And if anything, these kids are less innocent -- these 16 and 17 year-old beasts...and I've seen what they're doing on YouTube and I've seen what they're doing all over the internet -- oh yeah -- you just have to tune into any part of their pop culture.  You're not going to tell me these are innocent babies.  Have you read the transcripts that ABC posted going into the weekend of these instant messages, back and forth?  The kids are egging the Congressman on!  The kids are trying to get this out of him.  We haven't got the whole story on this. 

I'm sorry but this really does take the cake for just about the worst thing I've ever seen the right wing try to apologize for.  Isn't that what pedophiles always say?  It's the kid's fault for seducing them?  Right.  And it gets better.  Back to you Matt:

Clip #2:  You could say "well Drudge, it's abuse of power, a congressman abusing these impressionable, young 17 year-old beasts, talking about their sex lives with a grown man, on the internet."  Because you have to remember, those of us who have seen some of the transcripts of these nasty instant messages.  This was two ways, ladies and gentlemen.  These kids were playing Foley for everything he was worth.   Oh yeah.  Oh, I haven't...they were talking about how many times they'd masturbated, how many times they'd done it with their girlfriends this weekend...all these things and these "innocent children."  And this poor congressman sitting there typing, "oh am I going to get any," you know?

I swear I am not making this up.  Listen to it.  Drudge is so hopelessly perverse it's really, really disturbing, but to know he's doing it on behalf of the official Bush-Hastert-Boehner-Reynolds GOP coverup is the truly demented part.

No limits to how low they will go.  Absolutely no limits. 

Jane Hamsher blogs regularly at firedoglake.com.