Drip, Drip, Drip ...

Dan Flynn gives us some PR advice on how political operatives like to drag out a negative story (about their opponents). If you've got negative information on your opponent, resist the urge to present all the "evidence" at once. Instead, bring out the negative info slowly ...

Notice that the least damaging information came out first. We learned that Foley offered a birthday present to a high schooler and solicited a picture of him at the beach ... But when the next round of messages are released, they've made fools of themselves as the new electronic notes show the congressman stating his desire to remove a sixteen-year-old's shorts ...

... Whoever released these textmessages likely had all of the material from the start.