**”You’re ACTUAL position is, “They do it to us all the time and get away with it. Now they are doing it to one of their own, and as such, he deserves what he gets.”**
Wow, you sure missed the boat with that strange claim.
It does seem to be a version of what you believe though, that this is just a conspiracy to get your man, so you have to choose his side in a larger war and defend him on those grounds.
It would serve you to look into the story more and actually learn something about it.
“It would serve you to look into the story more and actually learn something about it.”
No it wouldn’t serve me, or you. That’s what the press wants from you. They do this because:
1. You’ll click to read the story.
2. You’ll leave comments on the order of ‘hanging is too good for him.”
3. This gets other people reading the story.
4. The publisher gets to raise the CPM rate of his ads from $4.00 per 1000 to $5.00 per 1000.
If these stories could be ignored, then they wouldn’t publish them. I’m not naïve to think that would happen, but then again me learning more about the story is me subsidizing this sort of cowardice too.
By cowardice, I mean the sort of act one resorts to if your ideas can’t prevail in the marketplace. Democrats haven’t been able to win because their ideas are better since LBJ. This sort of press is the only thing propping them up.
The funny thing to watch, of late, is seeing the press have to take Obama behind close doors and tell them, “Look, we understand the business model. We help you and you help us, but we aren’t magicians. You keep doing this sort of thing, at some point our ability to spin it decreases to the point that we have to decide whether to go down with you or recover what shred of credibility we still have.”
I can very well see how whacking Cosby became the consolation gift. Obama just whacked a very carefully negotiated tax bill Reid put together with the GOP because Reid’s staff threw Obama under the bus after the massacre.
I also recall what happened to Tiger Woods. Tiger’s not the first golfer that has slept around prodigiously on his wife on tour. He got on the wrong side of somebody and the press took him out. Full stop. If Phil farted in the wrong key, the press could have a field day with him too.
There are traditions to be honored. There aren’t rules in all of this, but there are traditions. You don’t violate them or it all falls apart.
In the mafia, you don’t sleep with another made guy’s wife. You don’t do it. That’s the tradition.
It’s there because history has shown if you do it will cause the sort of collateral damage that can upend carefully cultivated arrangements that allow for loads of money to be made with the very least amount of effort and investment.
The above is the ONLY THING IN THE WORLD that can explain why someone with Lena Dunham’s diminutive talent is allowed to get away with leveling a rape charge, IN PUBLIC, IN A PUBLISHED MAINSTREAM BOOK, on a guy who may not actually exist, and still get rich and be the toast of hollywood.
You want information that is ACTUALLY going to benefit the press folks on our side AND do something for you as well, check out that story on Breitbart. At least when we click on his stories, its our friends that benefit, not the left’s.