Scrubs

In the wake of any political scandal, I like to check out which websites have frantically scrubbed images that are suddenly rich with an unintended context. As you can imagine, there are lots of images of Mark Foley that are suddenly “no longer available.”

This page, which now advertises the office vacancy Foley left, apparently used to be a gallery of images highlighting his work with young people. Photos that used to be there, but are no longer:


Churches, youth sporting groups, the government—they’re all scrubbing. Scrubbing away every image of Foley with a kid that a week ago they were boldly displaying as evidence that they’re the real moral paragons in America.

Some sites aren’t so quick up on the uptake, like the Red Cross, which still features this:


And here’s another good one from a school in Florida:


I’ll bet he does.

I actually feel a bit bad for the groups who had no idea what was going on with Foley. It's the government sites that now want to remove all trace of a man whose predatory nature they conspired to hide that is truly pathetic.