Congressman Thomas Reynolds held a press conference to answer questions about his role in the growing scandal over Rep. Mark Foley’s suggestive and graphic emails to an underage teenage page.
And, apparently believing imagery is the name-of-the-game, he surrounded himself with….did you guess?..a literal SEA of kids. We’ve heard of using human shields, but this is ridiculous….
And people thought Senator Rick Santorum exploited his kids in his TV ads? This one is so blatant, it can’t have been done on the advice of a political consultant because it’ll probably backfire.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.