Mark Foley Story Count, Week One: 103 Stories on ABC, CBS, and NBC

MRC's Rich Noyes has calculated the number of Mark Foley/Will Hastert Quit? stories for Week One of the scandal on ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening news programs, from last Friday night, September 29, through Friday morning, October 6. So for evening shows, it's Friday to Thursday. For morning shows, it's Saturday through Friday. (One or two evening stories and a smattering of morning stories are brief anchor updates.)The number's a little shocking: 103 stories. It breaks down like this:

-- ABC: Good Morning America, 23 stories; World News, 15 stories

-- CBS: The Early Show, 17 stories; Evening News, 11 stories

-- NBC: Today, 24 stories; Nightly News, 13 stories

Total morning shows: 64 stories

Total evening news 39 stories

Grand total: 103 stories.

A few quick comparisons to Democratic sex scandals at a beginning point:

-- The 1994 indictment of Rep. Mel Reynolds on teen-sex/child porn charges (total: three stories): ABC, zero. CBS, one evening anchor brief, one morning anchor brief. NBC, one evening story.

-- The 1995 conviction of Rep. Mel Reynolds on all 12 counts against him, including witness tampering (total: 16 stories): ABC, one. CBS, one evening anchor brief, three morning briefs, and a full morning story. NBC, one evening anchor brief, six morning anchor briefs, a morning story, and two morning interview segments.

-- The 1994 sexual harassment filed by Paula Jones against President Clinton, first week (total: 29 stories): ABC, five evening stories and four morning stories; CBS, one evening story, four morning stories; NBC, one evening story, 14 morning stories.

-- The 1999 Dateline NBC interview with Juanita Broaddrick, charging Bill Clinton raped her in April 1978 (total, five stories, two mentions): ABC, two brief morning mentions. CBS, one Saturday night story, one minute and 51 seconds long. NBC, even though it did the Broaddrick interview, zero evening news stories, three full morning stories and an anchor brief.

If it isn't obvious, none of these stories was accompanied by resignation talk.

Bubba was 52 years old when he was "PHYSICALLY ENGAGED" with Monica IN "OUR WHITEHOUSE".

Foley is 52 and talked dirty to a WILLING PAGE who was miles away.

THE Dems are such frigg'n hypocrits.

It's for the children? They preach KILL the children if it's inconvenient. The teach our kids that being a homosexual is "normal". In some ways they are.....but they are seriously different from the norm.

Conservatives need to get a clue.

The Democrats with their accomplices in the media intend on destroying this country... Imagine for a minute when they win the house how they will scream that the country gave them a mandate.. and what did they run on hate Bush, Bush got us into an unwinable war. Vietnamization of Iraq, Impeach him, Get us out of Iraq, Increase our taxes, retreat from the War on Terror, End Surveillance programs, promote enemy rights, treat terror as nuisance and law enforcement, Promote Illegal Immigration, Tear down a fence that hasn't even been built yet. The Progressives are going to run full throttle with their fairness agenda they do not understand our enemy even after 911 major portion of their agenda is to Promote a Foreign Policy which includes Demilitarization, Human Rights and a New Internationalism. They will cut the military budget and turn over the keys to the UN. They fell this will save us from the Islamic threats.

If the Republican base doesn't get serious about thwarting the coming storm prepare for some serious problems regaining control and I am afraid millions of Americans will die.

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