Speaking of exploiting children. Via the NY Daily News:

The Upstate media today is all about Tom Reynolds' bizarre press conference yesterday, at which he surrounded himself by small children. At one point, reporters asked if he could make the children leave so they could as adult questions, and he refused.

So you're a Congressman who is also one of the key figures in an ongoing investigation into a fellow legislator and potential child predator, and your response is to surround yourself with small children to prevent "adult questions" from being asked?

Putting aside the cowardice of the media ("Mr. Reynolds, it's our job to ask questions about this, so if these parents aren't allowed to let their children leave the room they're going to have to deal with hearing questions about pederasty." Wow, was that hard?), what exactly the point of Reynolds using kids as a press prop anyway? Look, I'm a U.S. Congressman, surrounded by children... and I'm not molesting them! Well I'll be darned.

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