With the Mark Foley scandal at full tilt just weeks before elections, watch for a little trick we’ve seen before. An accusation against him will surface. Something worse than we’ve heard so far. It will come in the form if some kind of document. That document will subsequently turn out to be inaccurate or even a forgery. This will turn the scandal into a story about the accuracy of the reports about Foley and the veracity of his accusers, not Foley and his gross misdeeds.

Ring any bells?

Hopefully the news media are not going to bite on this kind of thing again, but I wouldn’t put it past them. I wouldn’t put it past FOX or someone of their ilk to knowingly run with something like that so they can be the ones to turn things around.

Yes, I am that cynical and jaded.

Yes, I DO think US politics is that sick.