Posted on 07/17/2002 7:19:36 AM PDT by Retired Chemist
NewsMax.com
Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:35 p.m. EDT
Watchdog Group Blasts Dems' Nantucket Junket, Loses Media Fans
Last week the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch received a deluge of positive media coverage for the lawsuit it filed against Vice President Dick Cheney claiming that Halliburton, the company he once headed, had cooked the books.
But the same reporters who were quoting Judicial Watch officials left and right a few days ago aren't particularly interested in the group's latest complaint.
On Monday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton blasted Friday's Democratic Party fundraising junket to Nantucket, where Wall Street scandal crusaders Sens. Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle climbed aboard a luxury corporate jet rather than fly commercial with the hoi polloi.
"It's the height of sleaze," Fitton told the New York Daily News. "If not outright illegal, it's unethical. They're in bed with the businesses that they're purporting to hold accountable."
In contrast, Hillary's Senate colleague Chuck Schumer flew on U.S. Airways rather than take advantage of the Learjets and Gulfstreams offered by firms like BellSouth, FedEx and Eli Lilly.
For some strange reason the media didn't find Judicial Watch's critique of Hillary and her fellow Dems anywhere near as fascinating as the group's Cheney lawsuit.
Only the News covered Fitton's remarks, and then only on its gossip page.
And the much-deserved praise Judicial Watch received last week for trying to hold both sides of the political aisle accountable had also suddenly vanished.
After reporting the quotes slamming Democrats as unethical, the News reverted to standard mainstream media practice and described Judicial Watch as "a conservative gadfly group."
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"If it's illegal???" "If??" Doesn't Fitton or Klayman know whether or not it's illegal? Aren't they hotshot lawyers? Such good ones they sue VP Cheney in an area of law that's supposed to be extremely complicated? Or, is this just a reaction to the story by Fitton? I cannot find any press releases on JW's web site (their financials either, been looking for years too) about this.
So, will JW sue the parties involved? Hillary and Daschle? I bet not. Anyone want to take that bet?
"My broom is in the shop."
Yeah, right. LOL
Kinda sums up the Perjury Party - eh?
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