That is a flat-out lie.
Foley resigned because ABC called him up and read him the salacious instant messages they'd just received from God-knows-who. CREW published the emails online AFTER ABC had already reporting on the emails and quoted the relevant substance. Not to mention, I published the emails online at the same time, as did RawStory, as did ABC I suspect and many others. So what exactly is CNN's point here?
Oh that's right, CNN and MSNBC and the rest of the mainstream media are trying to blame the Democrats for the fact that the Republicans coddled a child molester. I forgot that "fairness" means blaming both parties even though only one screwed up.
Foley resigned last week after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning watchdog group, posted some of the e-mails he exchanged with the former male page in 2005, who was then 16 and had worked for Rep. Rodney Alexander, a Louisiana Republican.And if CNN tries to claim that their sentence is factually correct - Foley did resign after CREW published the emails, even though the two events were unrelated - then I hope CNN will also correct their story to include the fact that Foley resigned after Wolf Blitzer showered. After all, that is factually correct as well (I'm going on a limb here and assuming Wolf showered on Friday).
