O'REILLY: So you did not want to run it on your show.
RATHER: I did not want to run it on....
O'REILLY: What about the Juanita Broaddrick thing?
RATHER: Juanita Broaddrick, to be perfectly honest, I don't remember all the details of Juanita Broaddrick. But I will say that - and you can castigate me if you like. When the charge has something to do with somebody's private sex life, I would prefer not to run any of it.
Yet, last summer I'll bet Dan Rather and SeeBS were only too happy to trumpet allegations against Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan based on his personal life. And, with Ryan it really was his personal life, not alleged rape as with the Clinton-Broaddrick situation. (I don't watch them except on rare occasions.)
Media outlets (not SeeBS), as willing accomplices to the Dems, sued to unseal the divorce records of Jack Ryan. Talk about going after the guy's personal life.
The unsealed records revealed that his former wife, in the heat of a bitter divorce, had initially charged that Ryan had tried to get her to have sex with him in a sex nightclub. Possibly a false charge fabricated for leverage in the divorce or possibly Ryan was somewhat kinky.
None of it had anything to do with his public life or his ability to be a senator. But he was GOP, so the press actually sued to go on fishing expedition into the guy's private life. Finding a juicy story, the media played the "sex club" allegations up until they had run Ryan out of the race.
in response to why he didn't report on the Betty Broderick/Clinton case.
Since when is rape a "private" sex life?
lol
Remember when he said that an honest man will lie.
RATHER: Juanita Broaddrick, to be perfectly honest, I don't remember all the details of Juanita Broaddrick. But I will say that - and you can castigate me if you like. When the charge has something to do with somebody's private sex life, I would prefer not to run any of it.