[coloradomom]

Dudge is on the money. Thanks for your post!

[NoLongerLurking]

Drudge better look out, he is starting to sound more and more like a pundit and less like a newsman. He makes good points. But posting this in his section about the Kerry intern thing makes it look like he is just trying to defend himself for printing the story.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Excellent!

[Waco]

And when it was klink's tallywhacker adventures in the news, the media was quick to inform us,,,,it's only about sex. ( Hit re-wind, prepare to re-run,,,it's election year again.)

[Bogey78O]

Nice to see evidence of democratic attack hypocracy.

[secret garden]

Donna Brazile was the one that kept pushing this story to the press, IIRC. I wonder who she is working for this time around.

[BJungNan]

Drudge appears to have changed the ending of the editorial. This from an earlier version.

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Consaon's reason #1?

"He cheats on his wife."

The rumor of President Bush having an affair was never proved by the media that raised the question aloud in the first place, and now claims with a straight face that affair rumors are strictly forbidden.

At least against their candidates.

Developing...

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And the version as it read a few minutes ago

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Consaon's reason #1:

"He cheats on his wife."

The rumor of President Bush having an affair was never proved by the media.

The developing Kerry drama may or maynot join it on the shelf.

[NYCVirago]

Something I wish Drudge would point out -- do you know who was quoted in Joe Conason's 1992 Spy article insinuating about Bush having a "Jennifer"? Hillary Clinton!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BUMP

[new cruelty]

bump.

[The G Man]

Media hypocrisy bump.

[Republican Red]

Good job Drudge. Media hypocrisy spelled out on one of the most popular sites on the web.

I especially appreciate that Jonathan Alter of Newsweek was singled out. What a slimeball.

[kennedy]

That was entirely different. Bush was a Republican. Kerry is a Democrat. If a Republican presidential candidate has had an affair (or there is any rumor that he has) it is news. If a Democratic presidential candidate has had an affair it is not news.

Now, if a Democrat presidential candidate has never had an affair, that would be news.

[Alissa]

Don't forget about what they did to Newt either!

[GoodGrief]

Two things I remember from 12 years ago:

Mary Tillotson was told in no uncertain terms to ask the question by her CNN bosses. She apparently had been reluctant, did it anyway, but found her career at CNN nonetheless on the wane afterward. Did she protest too much?

And second, it was Hillary herself who planted the idea in the heads of the media that she thought it unfair to accuse her husband without probing the Bush rumor. Barbara Bush herself said she was more or less sympathetic to Hillary's anguish during the '92 campaign til she was given the facts about who actually was pushing the rumor about President Bush.

[McGavin999]

Oh big surprise-the media and the dems (I know, I know they're the same thing) are a bunch of sleazy hypocrites. So what else is new! The thing is, I think the American people are beginning to figure this out.

[BluH2o]

Of course there's a double standard in the liberal mainstream media when it comes to imagined, or otherwise, peccadilloes by Conservative Republicans. If the Alex Polier story, or the equivalent, involved Bush somehow the networks would be breaking into regular programming to bring us breathless updates on the sordid details. The liberals have two standards, a very low one for those they identify with most closely, the democ"RATS" ... and a much higher one for Republicans whom they detest.

[mass55th]

I remember the Mary Tillotson incident. I was watching the Press Conference at the time and couldn't believe she had the audacity to ask such a question with Rabin standing right next to President Bush. I was glad when they bounced her back to the studio. After that fiasco, she didn't deserve to be a White House reporter. She did eventually lose her job didn't she? I don't watch CNN at all, so I'm not sure, other than Larry King, who they have working for them anymore.