Posted on 06/08/2011 5:22:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Last July, ABC and NBC highlighted a temper tantrum from Rep. Anthony Weiner, alleging on the House floor that the Republicans were denying health care to the heroes of 9/11.
To Diane Sawyer, Weiner spoke for all of America: "Every now and then, someone seems to express the nation's frustration with the endless wrangling and delay in Congress."
Remember Weiner when liberal journalists roll their eyes at the stupidity of conservatives. Weiner's social-media sex scandal was underplayed by the national media precisely because they thought their ultraliberal star was far too smart to commit these stupid sex pranks with women he barely knew on the Internet.
The Old Media were clearly slow to jump on this story, even when Weiner all but admitted his guilt when he refused to deny he'd taken a picture of his own crotch and then couldn't deny "with certitude" that this was his body. They knew what these answers meant, and yet they still waited for some other media — the New Media — to get to the bottom of it.
Andrew Breitbart and his blog Big Government began this story, and they finished it, at least in terms of forcing Weiner to confess he lied to everyone — spouse, staff, media and public. Breitbart was right in explaining why: There's an obvious double standard when the liberal media cover political scandal. They're a pack of hungry lions to devour Republicans; they are mellow leaf-eaters when Democrats cross an ethical line.
Let's recall the quick and dirty end of Republican Mark Foley's career in 2006. When the story came out that Foley had sent lewd Internet messages to male congressional pages, the networks filed an amazing 152 stories over the first 12 days, almost all of them after Foley abruptly resigned.
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MSM’s double standard.
I hope Sarah never does one single interview with any of the MSM as she runs in ‘012
Must be one of those fancy weiners if it comes in a case.
Time and Newsweek offered cover stories plus 15 Pages to Mark Foley in 2006; but about 160 Tiny Words on Weinergate. Talk about your double standard.
The moment Weiner resigns, the press will call off the dogs and you won't hear/read a peep about it after that. "Not fair to pile on," they'll say.
If it wasn’t for double standards, the media would not have any at all.
Keep up the great work Brent!
Absolutely astounding, even by MSNBC standards!
“Weiner’s social-media sex scandal was underplayed by the national media precisely because they thought their ultraliberal star was far too smart to commit these stupid sex pranks with women he barely knew on the Internet.”
BS. There’s not a person on the planet especially those in the press who ever believed that contrived horse puckey about being hacked. The press simply lied to protect a fellow Marxist.
Oh indeed. That they were literally forced into reporting on Weiner, was in large part I think because of the unfortunate name of Weiner. The temptation to run the story was I think, too much for even the MSM to resist.
I wrote this piece back in 2006 when the Foley scandal was in full swing.
http://knewshound.blogspot.com/2006/10/worst-october-suprise-ever.html
The parallels are remarkable, not the least of which was Foley resigning in disgrace while the Weiner hangs on in order to “do the work of the people”.
Despicable.
Cheers,
knewshound
Cheers
Janey
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