Posted on 12/14/2008 3:36:39 PM PST by chessplayer
The media defense of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and corruption in politics continued Sunday morning as new "Meet the Press" host David Gregory, along with his guests, actually defended Blago's actions as "pay to play" business as usual that's just "part of the system" and "how the world works."
Such seems an astounding about face from the press's disgust and incessant focus on the so-called "Republican culture of corruption" that surrounded the reporting of former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay's travails in 2006, as well as the attention given to Jack Abramoff the same year in order to assist the Democrat takeover of both chambers of Congress that November.
The corrupt obamedia reporting on corrupt politicians overseeing a corrupted Wall Street. Who to believe.
Pray for W and our Troops
Completely predictable.
Maybe the world but not America. If it’s been “working” then the law breakers just haven,t been caught yet but they will, eventually.
And give me a show of hands to those who didn’t see this type of covering up coming.......
Turn off your tv. Let other people watch and report on the internet.
Television has made a radical turn. First it was the fictional dramas and finally the hard left of the news outlets(out of the closet). It is truly an idiot box.
If it's just business as usual, why do Madigan, Quinn and others in IL politics have ants in their pants for Blago to resign, be impeached, be removed by the IL Supreme Court or carted off to the looney bin?
Don’t you think the selected President-elect to-be could dress better than the local thugs (when he knows there are photographers waiting for him)?!
Maybe in their world but not in mine! Imagine if this was a Republican! What a bunch of HYPOCRITES!
I read somewhere that Rahm Emanuel was caught on the Blago wire tapped tapes. That should be interesting to say the least. drip...drip...drip...
MTP is on the downhill side. Good riddance.
RIP Tim, you were the better man.
So, let me get this straight. “It’s part of the system”..so that makes it right???
Every line that is crossed, because it is the way things are done, whether it is ethical or not..is a slide down the slope of lack of moral responsibility.
Seven plus One has the right answer in Post #5, randita. Every day Blagojevich hangs on is another day that his name is linked with Obama's on the front pages of our newspapers, and on the evening news; and the longer the spotlight shines on the den of vipers that is Chicago politics. They need Blagojevich gone, and they need him gone yesterday.
The media did the same “everybody does it, it’s no big deal” defense of Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
You are so right. I maybe crazy, but our young people don’t regard “Clinton Sex” as real sex due to that incident.
I guess this is just another lowering of the bar.
Don’t worry, McCain said the actual truth will come out on this whole affair. It always does he said. He said that right after trashing the RNC over basically asking for the truth to come out about this whole affair.
I agree, but the MSM isn’t helping with Blago’s ouster by making the case that this is only “business as usual”.
If it’s to Obama’s advantage to have Blago out of office and off the front page, it doesn’t compute that the MSM is out there making excuses for Blago.
I guess maybe the Obama team has been so discombobulated this past week, they neglected to get the talking points out to the Sunday show hosts.
It was telling that no one from the Obama transition team was on any of the Sunday shows.
Ah...”Everyone does it. We just got caught.”
THAT IS NOT TRUE. DECENT PEOPLE DO NOT “DO IT,” YOU CHEATING SLIME!
“Completely predictable.”
Especially for the paid and played MSM.
“The Way the World Works” by Jude Wanniski is a better perscription.
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But Now we have BO’s approach:
“Welcome to New Kenya (Africa U.S.A.)
“Where the law of the jungle has replaced the Law of the Land”
de Texas Fossil
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