Drudge has a world exclusive, as most readers already know. According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal... Developing... They have to get up a lot earlier in the morning to pull this sort of thing off these days. The MSM may be dumb but we aren't. Present state of play——the Dems and CREW are implicated; ABC's Brian Ross has his own Rathergate, the FBI and Ethics Committee are going to find out which Dems were involved and CREW will probably lose their tax exempt status. The Dems have shown themselves to be perfectly willing to use homophobia to win when they have no saleable platform or issues; the Republican base is charged up and once again Soros turned his gold into Dem dross. Foley will become a living example of the Dems'...(Read Full Post)