GOP Scandals Get More Press

Ken McCracken • September 3, 2007

Associated Press reporter David Espo did a story Thursday (“GOP Reeling from Money and Sex Scandals”), which mentioned Sen. Craig, the recent FBI raid on the home of Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens and that the telephone number of Louisiana GOP Sen. David Vitter was found in the phone book of a Washington, D.C., madam.
Mr. Espo said nothing about the financial scandals swirling about Ms. Clinton and ACT. He referred back to the 2006 scandals involving GOP former Reps. Bob Ney and Mark Foley, but said nothing about the FBI’s investigation of West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan, whose net worth soared from $500,000 to more than $6 million in four years.
Every Republican tainted by scandal in 2006 either resigned his office or was defeated for re-election. Rep. Mollohan and Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson, D-La, in whose refrigerator the FBI found $90,000 of bribe money, were re-elected by comfortable margins.
When a scandal involves a Republican, his or her party affiliation is mentioned in the lead. When it involves a Democrat, party affiliation typically is mentioned deep in the story, if at all.

Funny how that works, isn’t it?
But don’t you dare accuse the world truth-seeking journalists of bias or anything.
Don’t. You. Dare.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Media, Politics

http://Array robert108

…its obvioulsy just disorderly conduct.

It’s a matter of record, but facts don’t bother you, do they?
The color of your computer screed(TMI) is strictly a matter of what you are.
To put some truth into your hypothetical, if a Dem was caught actually having a gay brothel in his home(Barney Frank), his denial would be sufficient. I frankly don’t care. I do care about Hillary taking campaign money from felons, though. Where’s the wall-to-wall coverage of that real crime?
robert108

He agreed to the cruising behavior identified in the complaint. HE AGREED to it! HE ADMITTED IT!

He admitted disorderly conduct. Why did the police, voluntarily and without a lawyer present, offer disorderly conduct, if he was guilty of more?
If they could have convicted him of more, they would have; this way, they get a conviction, and can lie their way to gay smear in the bargain, without having to face cross examination in court. Sweet!
robert108

MSM is owned by the same bunch of a$$holes that control and run our government.

The owners aren’t the ones manufacturing the news; those are the lefties who lie and fabricate their biased tales on a daily basis. More leftie lies from you.
robert108

So again, R108, he agreed to the facts in the complaint, which included his cruising behavior. To continue denying what he did is just ludicrous.

You are denying the facts, as usual, Sparkie.
Fact: He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, which pretty much embraces doing anything a cop doesn’t like.

Fact: The police, voluntarily and without a lawyer present, offered disorderly conduct in place of a sex charge. Why did they do that?
Puzzlefeet

r108 writes:

It’s a matter of record, but facts don’t bother you, do they?

Let’s review one more time since R108 just can’t seem to comprehend:

What Sen. Craig agreed to (in part):

I have reviewed the arrest report and/or complaiint relating to the charges against me.
I now make no claim that I am innocent of the charge to which I am entering a plea of guilty.
I and/or my attorney have reviewed the rights I will be waiving by entering this plea.
I understand I have the following constitutional rights which I knowingly voluntarily and intelligently give up by entering this plea of guilty.

So again, R108, he agreed to the facts in the complaint, which included his cruising behavior. To continue denying what he did is just ludicrous.
Puzzlefeet

R108, I think you just posted on this using a MSM WaPo article. You answered your own question.

R108 questions:

Why did they do that?

Can I use your response earlier? I don’t know, why don’t you ask them?

What Senator Craig agreed to:

I have reviewed the arrest report and/or complaiint relating to the charges against me.
I now make no claim that I am innocent of the charge to which I am entering a plea of guilty.
I and/or my attorney have reviewed the rights I will be waiving by entering this plea.
I understand I have the following constitutional rights which I knowingly voluntarily and intelligently give up by entering this plea of guilty.

He agreed to the cruising behavior identified in the complaint. HE AGREED to it! HE ADMITTED IT!

Or are you going to switch topics to Hillary?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

MSM is owned by the same bunch of a$$holes that control and run our government.

Riiiiiight! Bush, his oil buddies and Haliburton own all the media and savage themselves regularly in a Rovian plot to remove all suspicions from the minds of the American Idol audience!
Another half-assed analysis from…half fast eddie!
Fasteddie753

MSM is owned by the same bunch of a$$holes that control and run our government. It’s all about who will protect their power and control ie: wealth. Instead of fighting each other, we should be fighting them!

London Hyperinflates Dick Cheney

Increase DecreaseSeptember 1, 2007 (LPAC)–If there was ever any doubt that Vice President Dick Cheney is London’s stooge-in-chief at the Bush White House, the Sept. 1 Financial Times cleared up any remaining confusion.

Executive Office Building:
Who really is running the Executive Branch?
In a half-page promo, headlined “Cheney the survivor without challengers,” the FT, exclusively citing “former” Cheney aides, Cheney official biographer and American Enterprise Institute scribbler Stephen Hayes, and former Cheney spy-in-chief at the State Department John Bolton, promoted the hyperinflated notion that Cheney is now more powerful than ever, and is the “last man standing” beside President Bush when the “decider” does his deciding. The FT made no bones about the fact that they are cheer-leading for Cheney to cap his career as London’s point-man inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, by inducing the President to bomb Iran–an action that the British are pushing as hard as they can. Middle East regional sources, recently interviewed by EIR, reported that everyone expects the United States to bomb Iran sometime in the next 12 months, and that such a needless bombing campaign, regardless of the impact on the Islamic Republic, would “finish off the United States” as we know it.
robert108

Another question for you, Sparkie.
Why is this gay smear against a Republican Senator such a big story, and the real crimes by Hillary taking campaign money from foreign felons such a small story?
robert108

MSM is owned by the same bunch of a$$holes that control and run our government.

I guess that explains why the MSM is in a feeding frenzy over Sen Craig over a gay smear manufactured from a disorderly conduct conviction, while the Hillary campaign money scandal gets a pass. Not.
Puzzlefeet

Oh but it’s far from over. http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/149810.html

The republicans in the Senate save for Spector are going to go nuts over this.
robert108

Once again, P, you deny the facts to get in your homophobic smear. If they could have proved sex charges, they would have made them. Instead, to avoid cross examination in court, the cops voluntarily and without a lawyer present, urged disorderly conduct.
Puzzlefeet

R108 writes:

He admitted disorderly conduct.

And…..he admitted the facts contained in the arrest report. He could have gone to trial but voluntarily and knowingly and intelligently decided not to go that route. “free people making free choices.” Hmm…where have I heard that one before.
robert108

P: You keep proving the premise of this thread, every time you post on your obsession with a misdemeanor, while ignoring the felony allegations against Hillary.
Thanks for proving Rob’s point.
Puzzlefeet

Once again, r108, you deny what Craig agreed to in his plea agreement. You steadfastly refuse to admit that Craig agreed to the facts in the complaint as if you keep denying them that changes what he did.

It is you who keep bringing up the gay smear, it is you who are “gaysmearing”.
robert108

It is you who keep bringing up the gay smear, it is you who are “gaysmearing”.

Even for you, P, this is utterly stupid. I don’t assume anything gay from a disorderly conduct conviction, but you do. How does that work again? You are speaking more nonsense than you usually do.
Once again, Craig was not a free person making a free choice, contrary to your lie. He was under arrest, so he wasn’t free, and he was coerced into signing by the cop lying to him; it’s right there on the tape. So, his decision to sign was not free, or even a choice. You lie both times. The only indisputable facts are that he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, and the cops offered this after threatening him with sex charges, voluntarily and without a lawyer present.
robert108

Rob: Some of us have been saying this all along. The MSM is the propaganda arm of the Dems, pure and simple.
This is why there is wall-to-wall coverage of a disorderly conduct/gay smear of a Republican Senator, while real crimes like Hillary’s taking money from felons is downplayed and excused by the MSM. Res ipsa loquitur.
robert108

BTW, P, the more you parrot your leftie gay smear, the more you prove the original premise of this thread. Read the title. What do you have to say about Hillary’s taking campaign money from felons? You get so self-righteous about a Republican Senator on disorderly conduct, what about Hillary’s crime? Do you care?
robert108

Sparkie, Puzzlefeet; whatever. Got any answers yet, P? Or are you just repeating your leftie talking points?
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r108
De-nial is not a river in Africa.

Its cases like this that are amazing. THey really expose your totally unethical, lying soul! If it was a Dem, you’d be riding him to Hell’l doorstep like a cowboy on crank, but since its a repubo… its obvioulsy just disorderly conduct. Soliciting homo sex acts for money in the bathroom of the airport and lying your ass off is totally ethical and fine, right r108? Maybe it should be our new meter of stupendousness for senators! My ass. You are so full of shit, my computer screen is brown.

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