An enterprising reader has alerted me to the possibility of yet another page scandal, just about to break.  I wish I was a better man, but two weeks before Election Day, I cannot help but dive into the gutter.  Care to join me?


The rumor swirling through Washington, D.C. is that a midwestern Republican congressman close to House Speaker Dennis Hastert had an inappropriate relationship with a 16 year old female congressional page.


We move from Political Wire to the Washington Post's Dana Milbank on the subject:

Last night on MSNBC, Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank told Keith Olbermann that “there are rumors now about a third [page scandal], this one involving a 16-year-old girl.”


Be sure to watch the clip attached to the above link, with Today's Lies hero Keith Olbermann interviewing Milbank in detail.  Archpundit also makes an almost totally baseless claim of his own.


Sometime, probably in the next 48 hours though I'm betting sooner than later, an Illinois Congressional race is going topsy turvy. It's another pick-up for Dems.


I found the comments section of Archpundit's above blurb also insightful, with lots of people giving their two cents, asking for more information, or criticizing Archpundit for tossing this out there without any evidence or sources to back it up.

Is this for real?  Why is there absolutely nothing about it on the Drudge Report?  Nothing on Buzzflash?  Nothing on Huffington Post, except to link to the same rumors originating with Dana Milbank?  And of course, nothing, as of yet, on any mainstream news sites.

This could be going somewhere.  But at the moment, it appears similar to the "scoop" Jason Leopold of Truthout.org dumped on the world in May of this year, when he said he had it confirmed that Karl Rove was going to be indicted in 48 hours, and had already told President Bush.  As we know now, that was a false story with no apparent sources, told by a writer with a history of making things up.

I'll follow up when more information is released, if any ever is.