Posted on 08/07/2002 9:16:58 PM PDT by StopDemocratsDotCom
Hardly a radio or television news broadcast transpired on Wednesday without prominent mention of the handful of hecklers who attempted to disrupt Vice President Dick Cheney's speech to the Commonwealth Club of California with shouts of "Cheney is a corporate crook."
The media's near blanket coverage of the anti-Cheney chanters comes despite the lack of a single witness alleging any corporate crookery whatsoever against the VP. The stunt alone, it seems, was newsworthy enough for most editors.
The Clinton administration, of course, never had to worry about scandal driven heckling.
It's not that protesters didn't show up regularly throughout the ex-president's two terms. It's just that when they did, the press helpfully declined to cover the confrontations.
Throughout 1999 and 2000, for instance, hecklers routinely dogged both Bill and Hillary Clinton over the claims of Juanita Broaddrick, the Arkansas businesswoman who maintains she was raped by Mr. Clinton 24 years ago.
Nearly every weekend during that two year period, a hearty band of demonstrators from the Web site FreeRepublic.com staked out their appearances in Washington and New York; colorful signs, costumes and catchy chants at the ready.
Mainstream media interest in covering the anti-Clinton demonstrations was nearly nonexistent. Even when two of them were beaten up at one Philadelphia protest by goons wearing T-shirts reading "Teamsters for Clinton," the press by and large looked the other way.
The media's breathtaking double standard has finally begun to take its toll on the Bush administration, with Mr. Cheney now effectively sidelined in order to dodge an all but certain media mauling the next time he pops his head into the sunshine.
This would be the same bunch of dogged investigative journalists who asked Mr. Clinton one time and one time only about the rape allegations pending against him. Then, when his lawyer told reporters to move on, they obediently did so.
For the sake of their own political survival, not to mention the interests of the people who voted them into office, the Bush political team needs to force the issue.
Reporters should to be told in no uncertain terms: The White House will entertain no further questions on the accounting practices at Halliburton and Harken Energy - until Mr. Clinton and his wife are pressed for answers about the most heinous crime ever alleged against a President of the United States.
When reporters finally browbeat the truth out of the former first couple, then and only then should they get their Cheney press conference.
Like this?
Frankly, FNC and damned few others aside, they make me want to puke.
We have a major problem on our net. My post from you said "NewsMax" not FOX. You are exactly like Dimocraps, take the answer out of the air. Don't worry about facts, huh?
I guess they also forgot to cover the cheers of the crowd when they saw the raggedy little protestors being removed.
Did you really mean to say "hate radio"? While I've heard plenty of hate radio (two hate radio stations that I know of broadcast in this area), none of it is conservative. And it has nowhere near the audience that Rush has.
Stating the facts about the current administration's actions is hardly "hysterical". A better illustration of hysteria is to be found on the daily W worship thread and in the posts of the people who frequent that thread when they wander out onto the forum to screech at anyone who dares to make observations on what the current administration is doing.
They aren't? To judge by what is being passed by Congress and signed by the president, you could have fooled me. "I'm glad it's their turn to protest and not mine."
Amazing.
I believe the 1st time I heard the term was from Rush actually .
I first "coined" the term a couple of years before I discovered the Great One, when (for reasons I will not elaborate) I had to listen to a lot of extreme leftist radio. There was no other way to describe the bilge they spewed.
Give my best to the clean and wholesome .
No--thank YOU!
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