They’ve known about Foley for almost a YEAR?

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One of the many questions that beg answering in the Foley disaster: How exactly, now that we’ve all lived through a decade’s worth of Catholic priest scandal and outrage over institutional hierarchy whitewashing–how, after all that, do you go from late 2005 to September 2006 convincing yourself that “suspiciously friendly” emails from a powerful man to a teenage boy are not a problem? How, Bishop Hastert?

Now for the cluelessness sweepstakes:

Rich Galen, a Republican political strategist, worried that voters might lump Foley’s name with former representatives Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.), all of whom were forced to resign or were indicted amid various scandals this year.

No, Rich. You’d be lucky if people thought this was only as bad as Ney/DeLay/Duke.

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