Posted on 11/14/2009 3:29:43 PM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
Former Congressman William Jefferson, the New Orleans Democrat with bribery cash hidden in his freezer, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison, the longest-ever for a Member of Congress on a corruption charge -- yet the CBS Evening News didn't utter a word about it, just as that newscast ignored his August conviction, while ABC's World News didn't bother to mention his party affiliation.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams noted Jefferson's party in this short item: “Former Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson made headlines a while back when the FBI found $90,000 in cash hidden in his freezer. Today, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for taking bribes.”
ABC's Charles Gibson, however, the MRC's Brad Wilmouth noticed, failed to identify Jefferson as a Democrat: “Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for his conviction on federal bribery charges. Authorities found $90,000 wrapped in foil in Jefferson’s freezer, part of the half million dollars prosecutors say he received for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.”
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If we had an honest media, Obama would be below 40% approval, maybe 30% and the Dems in Congress would be in single digits. It’s pathetic.
The big three should just run reruns of “happy days” instead of trying to do a nightly newscast. They’d get much higher ratings.
Yup, doesn’t surprise me. The LSM must protect their masters (DNC) at all cost.
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People forget how much it’s changed. They equate 0 to Carter, but they forget that the media tried a lot harder to appear to be actual news & not just leftist propaganda in the 70s.
They just shoot fish in a barrel now.
Think the term “misery index” would enter the public consciousness today?
“If we had an honest media, Obama would be below 40% approval, maybe 30% and the Dems in Congress would be in single digits. It’s pathetic.”
Such is propoganda. The Soviet Union had TASS and Pravda; the Nazis had Goebbels and Streicher.
If we had an honest media, 0bama would still be organizing for ACORN.
Please, please, please, someone put up the video of the hag bitch Pelosi at her first news conference screaming like the Harpy she is about how her party, the SlimeRats, were ushering in a new era of respectability as opposed to the criminal behavior of the GOP!!!! Just give me one minute with this bitch! Just one! I’ll give her a new kind of facelift!
Yeah, if he’d been a Republican, it would have been the sole news story for the past two years. The MSM is shameless and needs to go ahead and finish dying off.
If Jefferson was a GOP ... REPUBLICAN would be in the HEADLINE... and there WOULD be a Headline ...DAILY until he gets OUT OF JAIL
If Jefferson was a GOP ... REPUBLICAN would be in the HEADLINE... and there WOULD be a Headline ...DAILY until he gets OUT OF JAIL
CBS is filled with mush headed idiots.
I guess they think by not mentioning this it will remain unknown. Idiots!
They don't have to close Gitmo. Put the politicians there and make them watch TV 24/7 showing how Americans are putting their country back together.
But is he actually in prison ... or maybe he's out on his own recognizance pending appeal? Is it possible Gibson failed to tell the whole story? Hmmmmm .... I wonder.
Now for Rangel?
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