Scandals and Liberal Media Bias

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Here is a partial list of the liberal media hypocrisy I have found thus far.

1) When Democrats leveled false accusations of cocaine use against George Bush just before Election 2000, it was reported as a corroborated fact on the front page of every major paper and led the news until Election Day. When Democrats falsely accused Bush of ditching his National Guard duty based on a forgery and the word of a Kerry Campaign operative, again JUST BEFORE ELECTION DAY, the media covered it unquestioningly. If you remember, certain media people lost their jobs over their slanted coverage of these “scandals.”

2) When President Clinton’s umpteenth sexual harassment/rape charge surfaced by yet another card-carrying Democrat, Gennifer Flowers, and Republicans sought to ask Clinton about his most recent conquest, Ms. Lewinsky, to establish a pattern of sexual misconduct, the media overwhelmingly responded by questioning the motives of Republicans.

-Maureen Dowd, from the New York Times, wrote, "Washington is so vile now, so filled with sulfurous partisan revenge tactics, so devoid of principle and accomplishments, that the idea of escaping to a parallel universe is more alluring than ever."

The New York Times. October 14, 1998. Page 23. Liberties; Last Tango in D.C. MAUREEN DOWD

-Here’s how fair and balanced, CBS covered the impeachment:

"We've heard a lot of talk around here about 'the rule of law,' but these partisan proceedings have made a mockery of our constitutional process. Across the nation, they have been denounced as...partisan posturing, a soiling of the Constitution, a circus, a kangaroo court, 'an attempted coup.' Do not let the politics of cynicism and smear prevail. Listen to the American people, let us vote on censure and let us bring America together again."

http://web.lexis-nexis.com.proxy.li...z-zSkVA&_md5=8c0bdc24ffd6861d984a5bc028be991d

CBS News Transcripts. CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT. December 19, 1998. IMPEACHMENT VOTE. BOB SCHIEFFER.

-“I think women should get out their presidential kneepads and line up to thank Bill Clinton for keeping abortion legal.” This is what NPR’s objective, Nina Totenburg had to say when she wasn’t attacking Lewinsky’s credibility...until Lewinsky was proved right.

NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. AUGUST 17, 1998. Transcript# 98081710-212

- Here’s Chris Matthews claiming that the voters, NOT the Democrat leadership should decide whether or not Garry Studds (D) should be removed:

“MATTHEWS: Gary Studds, who had the relation--the gay relationship with the youn--with the male page, he was allowed to stay in because he had a more liberal district in the--in--in the Cape.

Mr. NORDLINGER: Yeah, wasn't Phil Crane, though--wasn't...

MATTHEWS: It depends on the district.”

HARDBALL. August 24, 1998. HEADLINE: MORE INFORMATION BROUGHT FORWARD REGARDING THE CLINTON-LEWINSKY AFFAIR


-Other New York Times writers said things like this:

“Whose sex life will be paraded before us next? That of media stars covering the scandal? Of other politicians either defending or attacking the President? The trouble with witch hunts is that once ignited, they can't be controlled. The public seems to understand this potentially explosive equation, even as the many commentators who express utter bafflement about the polls have not.”

http://web.lexis-nexis.com.proxy.li...z-zSkVA&_md5=4c908e3fc008992e470bf718ccc7ff5b

The New York Times. February 11, 1998, A; Page 29; The Body Count BYLINE: By FRANK RICH

- Here’s some more objective NPR reporting on Bill Clinton’s attempts to bribe Monica Lewinsky into silence: “The idea that well-connected people in Washington help other well-connected people get jobs became the object of intense scrutiny and passionate debate here during the Monica Lewinsky investigation, as if no one had ever heard of such a thing before.
is this just politics being carried on by other means?”

NPR TALK OF THE NATION April 7, 1999. Ray Suarez.

-The NYT wrote one article listing off the results of their "random" surveying across the country about Clinton's scandal. Amazingly, 100% of the citizens they "stumbled across" had the same opinion: "It's partisan, it's unfair, it's a witch hunt,"

-The New York Times. December 20, 1998. Page 29; Column 6. IMPEACHMENT: THE REACTION; Americans Benumbed By the Crisis In the Capital. By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

 

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3) When Bob Packwood (R) went down for sexual harassment the New York Times attacked Senate Majority Leader, Bob Dole for not ditching the procedural rules and kicking him out “soon enough.” When Clinton’s (D) sexual harassment scandal broke, the New York Times tore the House of Representatives apart for impeaching him.

4) When Juanita Broaddrick made the very credible, evidenced charge that Bill Clinton raped her and told the entire story to Lisa Myers, NBC spent months investigating every detail of her claims. The polls showed people overwhelmingly found her accusation credible. When NBC couldn’t undermine her story, they refused to air it until Clinton was acquitted.

Dan Rather wouldn’t cover the event because he wanted to respect Clinton’s “private sex life.”

Tom Brokaw informed us that it was out of place for Republicans to care about rape victims.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2000/onespin.asp

5) On Aug. 25, 1989, The Washington Times revealed Rep. Barney Frank's (D) male-prostitution scandal. Frank's lover, Stephen Gobie, ran an illicit gay sex ring out of Frank's home, and Frank fixed his local parking tickets. Did Frank resign? No. Was there a wave of media pressure on this lawmaker with lawbreaking going on in his own home? No. He's still in the House today.

6) In 1994, news emerged that Democratic Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-Ill.) had a consensual sexual relationship with Beverly Heard beginning when she was 16. Heard said Reynolds gave her cash at each meeting and supplied her with his pager number and apartment keys. In taped phone conversations, they even plotted group sex with a 15-year-old Catholic high school girl Heard had said wanted to have sex with him.

The infamous Reynolds reply: "Did I win the lotto?" He asked Heard to take photos of the girl's private parts. Reynolds was convicted of criminal sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. The networks barely touched on this story as it broke in 1994, and ended with conviction in 1995, which is why, dear reader, I bet you don't even remember it.

7) -Don't forget 1983, when Republican Rep. Daniel Crane and Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds were censured by the House for sexual affairs with teenage pages (Studds with a male). Crane was defeated in a Republican primary; Studds arrogantly continued in Congress another 13 years.

On July 14, 1983, when the House ethics committee recommended action, ABC's Peter Jennings made sure the viewers at home knew Daniel Crane was a hypocrite, who vowed to stand up for the "God-fearing" people when Congress considered legalizing most sex acts in the District of Columbia. He had no embarrassing old quotes for Studds.

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2006/10/05/1005edequal.html

-The Washington Post spun the Studds scandal as a gay witch hunt, but with Foley, they treated it as pedophilia:

"In the cases of Bauman and Studds, of course, the primary impetus for 'coming out' was involuntary: One was in trouble with the law and the other with his colleagues, and both for reasons of homosexuality."

The Washington Post. August 29, 1983. Prejudices; C1. Private Matters in The Public Eye. By Jonathan Yardley

8) -And here’s our objective news media putting on people to instruct Hastert on how to apologize for not being psychic enough:

“I made a misjudgment, we should have done it differently; we're going to investigate this, and I am sorry.”

National Public Radio. October 5, 2006. Former Clinton Official on Political Damage Control. STEVE INSKEEP

-And here’s the New York Times trying to misrepresent testimony that pertained to the harmless emails Hastert was alerted to years ago that have nothing to do with the graphic instant messages that caused Foley to step down.

“Even as the House ethics committee entered the second day of its inquiry, several contradictions had yet to be resolved, particularly whether Mr. Hastert's staff had been alerted to complaints about Mr. Foley before 2004. Kirk Fordham, a longtime aide to Mr. Foley who resigned this week from the office of another congressman, said he alerted Scott Palmer, the speaker's chief of staff, to Mr. Foley's behavior up to three years ago.”

Aps was also caught trying to misrepresent this story the same way.

The New York Times. October 7, 2006. Pg. 13. Republicans Hope Hastert's Words and a Committee's Action Can Quell Uproar. CARL HULSE.

-And here’s NPR again, insisting that some Republican other than Foley take responsibility for Foley’s actions.

“You know, you say that Speaker Hastert has won a reprieve from you. You're no longer calling for his resignation. But if he doesn't step down, then who does take responsibility for this?”

National Public Radio (NPR) All Things October 4, 2006 Conservative Groups Call for Accountability on Foley ANCHORS: MICHELE NORRIS

-The Washington Post ran this headline: “A Few Conservative Voices Still Speak for the Speaker,” grossly misrepresenting some mass exodus of Republicans away from Hastert based on a small handful of Republicans who immediately called for Hastert’s resignation before the facts of the case came out. October 4, 2006. A02. Dana Milbank.

-I ran a Lexis Nexis search of news transcripts with the words, “Hastert,” “Foley,” and “resign,” and it returned more than 1,000 documents. I replaced the word, “Foley” with “Studds” and there were 22. So Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats can vote to reward Gerry Studds (D) for having sex with a minor by voting to give him a prominent chairmanship and standing ovations, then turn around and claim that Republican leadership should have to resign for not being psychic enough to know about some instant messages they were never shown…AND THE MEDIA ALL BUT COMPLETELY IGNORES THE GAPING HYPOCRISY.

Yeah, the 90% of the media that’s run by admitted far leftists and even former liberal operatives isn’t a conflict of interest. Corporate bias is the real threat. :roll:

 

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Before anyone else starts claiming that Hastert had seen the instant messages before this scandal broke, please note that the emails people are talking about that he saw were NOTHING like the ones Foley resigned over.

This would be why conservatives have relented on calling for his resignation:

“You know, you say that Speaker Hastert has won a reprieve from you. You're no longer calling for his resignation. But if he doesn't step down, then who does take responsibility for this?”

National Public Radio (NPR) All Things October 4, 2006 Conservative Groups Call for Accountability on Foley ANCHORS: MICHELE NORRIS

 

[Stinger]

I checked on AAR radio yesterday to see if they were still broadcasting live. Rhodes was on and in 5 minutes must have spoken a dozen out right lies. For instance she, as some still do here, claimed Clinton was impeached because he had sex with Lewinsky. Then, get this, claimed that the Republicans in the congress, particularly naming Gingrich, REMANDED him to a grand jury where he was FORCED to lie about his private sex life.

And the libs hold her up as an icon or well researched information.

 

[Captain America]

Hmmmm.....

And all this time I thought Randi Rhodes was the lead guitarist for Ozzy. :rofl

 

[Deegan]

There is no doubt about this being the case, I was especially concerned when the bias was intensified when the Republicans took the House. This is all about the liberal view on religion, and keeping it separate from the government. They can't seem to fathom that the representatives speak for their district or state, and if your people are pushing for Christian values, that it is impossible to keep that separate from your policy. The peoples voice should not be the fair game for a liberal media, but we live in a free country, and they have the right to their bias. It is when known untruths are leaked, then picked up as if by accident, and passed around for it's effect, this is the problem.

FOX news has countered this, and their success speaks volumes, so does the reaction from liberals, and neo-liberals. This is a desperate attack on a runaway success, a Juggernaut that has them feeling their grip loosen, and it's gotten ugly.

 

[easyt65]

Hmmmm.....

And all this time I thought Randi Rhodes was the lead guitarist for Ozzy. :rofl

No, no, no! RANDY Rhodes is the son of famous wrestling star Dusty Rhodes, right?!:doh

 

[Stinger]

No, no, no! RANDY Rhodes is the son of famous wrestling star Dusty Rhodes, right?!:doh

Why do you guys want to insult Randy and Dusty

 

[Captain America]

I put Randi Rhoads right up there with Ann Coulter.

Both make their bones doing their best to divide in a nation that gets it's strength from it's unity.

Shucks, with people like that, who needs terrorists?

 

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The media is also now demonstrating its double standards favoring liberals in 2 other situations:

1) Ted Strickland (D), who protected the job of a convicted pedophile and then took a vacation alone to Europe with him (note that, unlike Dennis Hastert, Strickland KNEW, protected the pedophile, and THIS guy had actually been CONVICTED of a pedophile crime!)

http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news/14521-governors-race-turns-ugly-title-changed.html

Outrage by liberals? None. Reporting by the media? Nearly none.

2) Nancy Pelosi gleefully marching in a parade with NAMBLA.

"Surely this is a different Rep. Nancy Pelosi from the one who currently has on her website as Minority Leader the following statement:

'Republican leaders admitted to knowing about Mr. Foley's abhorrent behavior for six months to a year and failed to protect the children in their trust. Republican Leaders must be investigated by the Ethics Committee and immediately questioned under oath.'

Abhorrent behavior? If men having sex with children is 'abhorrent behavior' then it seems it would be quite logical for a United States Congresswoman to stand up and protest the presence of one of its leading advocates having a place of honor in a civic parade -- a parade in which she herself would be marching mere steps behind him.'

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10450

 

[Deegan]

They certainly look like they are stuck on stupid with this Foley story, I don't think anyone can deny the obvious attack on this administration, and the party in the media. Now you might say it is because they are screwing up, it is, they are, but so are the others. What was the outrage in the Jefferson story........the fact that the Feds busted in to his office, not the 90 grand in his freezer, it's that the authorities had the audacity to do their jobs!:roll:

No, it's more clear by the day, the Dems own the MSM.:shock:

 

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What was the outrage in the Jefferson story........the fact that the Feds busted in to his office, not the 90 grand in his freezer, it's that the authorities had the audacity to do their jobs!:roll:

No, it's more clear by the day, the Dems own the MSM.:shock:

THAT is precisely where liberal media bias stands out clearer than ever-when covering scandals. Their coverage routinely contradicts itself depending on which party is involved.