Vanity: Help Ignorant "Talking Heads" Distinguish Between Weiner and Vitter on Talk Shows

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[RavenATB]

I was just watching Lanny Davis lying his way through an interview about Anthony Weiner, on Fox News. Of couse, Davis took the opportunity to pretend that there was a good comparison between the Weiner story and the story of David Vitter's scandal. The female "talking head" was so ignorant about the Vitter case that she allowed Davis to grossly mischaracterize the Vitter incident.

So, I think we should offer these talking heads a little data to help them understand the difference. Because it's obvious that neither the Fox News on-air staff, nor the bone-heads they hire to offer opinion, know the details.

[RavenATB]

Vitter-- 1. Confessed to his wife years before the scandal became public, without being confronted by anyone over the incident 2. Asked for his wife's forgiveness 3. Stopped the behavior years before it became public knowledge 4. Never tried to blame anyone else, or smear anyone else to cover his tracks 5. Has never been accused of attempting to seduce girls less than half his age

Weiner-- 1. Slandered an innocent citizen (Breitbart) in an effort to cover his tracks 2. Preyed on young girls who did not initiate the lude behavior 3. Lied about his lured activities to media, his family, his friends, and his staff 4. Only confessed to his wife after he found it no longer possible to lie with any hope of being believed

Please add your own thoughts to this. Hopefully some 'talking head' or Fox on-air news-reader will stumble across this thread and become a bit more enlightened about the differences between the Weiner scandal and the Vitter scandal, so guys like Lanny Davis will have a harder time lying to uninformed Fox viewers.

[ripley]

“Slandered an innocent citizen....”

The most obnoxious and dangerous of all.

It’s like making a blanket accusation of the “rich”,
“big oil”, “big pharma”, etcetera, ad nauseum in order to gain access to all that wonderful, never-ending tax money that’s available just for the taking.

IMHO

[frankenMonkey]

Weiner uses visual aids...

[pburgh01]

This a childish tick in the liberal mind. Anytime you are caught in an intellectually tenuous position defending someone, grasp out for an analogous situation and mischarachterize it. I have to say it's like brain junk food and most people buy it, the old..well he did it to. We as conservatives have to stop trying to covert the nonconvertible, they need to be ignored, shamed and defunded. I am sick of arguing with idiots as Glenn Beck's book likes to say. Some people are reprobate and cannot be saved, they love their hate, envy and ignorance, it makes up the patina of their lives, fixated on the wealth, success and happiness of others and trying to squelch it.

[ken5050]

It's like arguing with a potted plant. No point.

Look, the Dems do have some merit that those who campaign openly on a family values/faith platform should be held to a higher standard.

[Siena Dreaming]

As smarmy as infidelity is, Weiner's in a different class.

The pervert class.

[ken5050]

It's like arguing with a potted plant. No point.

Look, the Dems do have some merit that those who campaign openly on a family values/faith platform should be held to a higher standard.

[philman_36]

Please add your own thoughts to this.
Okay...

So, I think we should offer these talking heads a little data to help them understand the difference.
Have you ever seen somebody digging a ditch, who you know is getting paid to dig it, and offered to step in and dig it for them for free?

[VeniVidiVici]

Weiner is nothing more than an internet flasher who sent unwanted pics of his genitals to woman who didn’t ask to see such things. Some of these women were minors.

The fact that the Democrats liberals are out there defending Weiner and his crimes is just plain creepy.

[Tribune7]

I'm OK with bringing up old sex scandals to defend Weiner.

What are the differences between Weiner and Bill Clinton?

1. Weiner didn't commit perjury and lose his law license.

2. Weiner didn't use police officers to acquire his girls.

3. Weiner didn't forcibly rape anyone.

4. Weiner didn't threaten unruly girlfriends with death and disfigurement.

5. Weiner didn't commit sodomy with a cigar.

6. Weiner was condemned by his fellow Democrats.

Anything else?

[RavenATB]

Unless they can say that VItter campaigned on family values, I don't see your point as valid. Democrats have no trouble arguing for “integrity” (see Pelosi “drain the swamp” comments) when it suits their purpose, so let's not pretend that the “right” is the only side that attempts to make an argument based on what we used to think of as “traditional” values.

[drjimmy]

You call it a Vitter “incident,” “scandal,” and “case,” but don’t say what exactly Vitter did. Of course, Vitter himself never confessed publicly to what his “sin” was. A more apt comparison of politicians would be Vitter and Eliot Spitzer, since both broke the law by patronizing prostitutes. Except Spitzer resigned and Vitter didn’t.

[RavenATB]

I’m not hoping we’ll change the minds of a single Democrat/Liberal... That’s not the point.

[Kirkwood]

Vitter did campaign on family values. I used to respect him and now I see him as just another hypocrite. The fact that he stuck around has been a terrible decision. I realize he was just following the lead of Clinton, but I just wish he would resign even now and do us all a favor.

[ken5050]

You miss my point. I hold myself to a higher standard than most liberals. And I also hold those whom I support politically to a higher standard. Vitter was hypocritical, and he should have resigned.

[Major Matt Mason]

The fact that the Democrats liberals are out there defending Weiner and his crimes is just plain creepy.

Probably an apt description of the Democrats - A Party of Creeps. Sadly, so is a large portion of this country, it would seem.

[RavenATB]

Did he campaign against prostitution?

[RavenATB]

Actually, it's you who miss my point. I'm not trying to argue that Vitter was “right,” nor that he should or should not have left public office due to his acts. The point is that this is not a fair/accurate comparison to the Weiner issue, and the TV “talking heads” should already know that.

[ken5050]

OK..we’re not arguing, and I see the pont you’re making..but it’s useless to try and argue with the MSM/potted plants

[ken5050]

Let let expound. Would you see any purpose or reason to try and have an intelligent conversation, or any conversation, with Chris Matthews, for example? I wouldn’t waste my time, nor the oxygen. He’s totally deranged?