Posted on 04/16/2005 9:13:04 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Beltway Buzz Eric Pfeiffer Reporting
Sanders Playing Chicken
When media outlets like the New York Times attack Tom DeLay for paying members of his family to work on his re-election campaigns, that's perfectly all right with liberals. But when the local media starts reporting on liberals' own family ties, they don't like it as much.
Earlier this week, the Bennington Banner, a local Vermont paper, reported that liberal House member Bernie Sanders has paid his wife and daughter more than $150,000 in the past few years. The paper got all of its statistics from the government Federal Elections Commission website.
Nonetheless, Sanders is calling their reporting a "lie" and threatening a media blackout over the reporting. However, Sanders' own staff confirmed the numbers and has not attempted to refute the story. From the paper's editorial:
"If Rep. Sanders believes the payments are on the up and up, a completely acceptable practice, he should come out and say so, instead of threatening not to speak with the media." [Posted 04/15 11:30 AM]
Aw, poor socialists don't wike it when they get their wittle fingers stuck in the same twap.
Tough $#!#, Red Bernie!
Seems to me that the old adage holds here: What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
"Shouldn't he be trying to share the wealth with the working class schlubs in his state?"
No! It's 'to each according to his need.'
And elitists NEED more than the serfs....sez them....
Ya can toss all these scumcucking leftist loons into camps and let 'em rot there.
Nothing but a bunch of HYPOCRITS!
Extra Crispy Please!
Bill
Thanks. I appreciate the ping.
More double standard.
No doubt,but gradually the curtain is being pulled back.The MSM just can not control the news as well or as long as they used to.
DeLay has to know this,all he has to do is hang tough.And get in some good jabs of his own.
The original article in the Vermont paper said something about a large number of congress people with famile on staff....where is this information? Also, because of Tom Daschle's wife, where would you find the names of lobbyists?
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