Is Big Media Suppression Protecting Kerry From a Sex Scandal?

Oregon Magazine ^ | February 15, 2004 | Larry Leonard

[WaterDragon]

Once again Matt Drudge has run across a Democrat shocker. Once more, the mainstream media seems to be ignoring it.

Will this one turn out to be as true as the Monica Lewinsky story? If it does, all hell is going to break loose inside the Democratic Party, and once again proof of Leftwing media bias will emerge....(Snip)

It is certain that the networks and America’s large news organizations, including the press services and newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, have been suppressing this story, defending such suppression on the basis that there is no “smoking gun.”

This does not compare favorably with their approach to a similar charge against George Bush Sr.

In 1992 top reporters swiftly reacted to a footnote in a book by Susan Trento, wife of CNN reporter James Trento who was the source of the original rumor -- apparently.

CNN rushed to get the rumor into the media stream as White House correspondent Mary Tillotson confronted President Bush as he hosted Israel Prime Minister Rabin in the Oval Office.

"There is an extensive series of reports in today's New York Post alleging that a former U.S. ambassador, a man now deceased, had told several persons that he arranged for a sexual tryst involving you and one of your female staffers in Geneva in 1984."

NBC's Stone 'Stone' Phillips to the president's face at the height of the rumor mongering: "Have you ever had an affair?"

CBS' Harry Smith then confronted Bush spokesperson Mary Matalin with the rumor over morning coffee:

"Let me ask you about something else. There's a book out, or a book that's just about out that in a footnote names that then-Vice President Bush had an affair with an assistant when he was on a mission in Geneva....(Snip)

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[ThirstyMan]

they know they lie, but it's for "the cause", so it's ok. Because the left has rejected moral absolutes, even lying, bias, slander and so on are virtuous if it helps their guys stay in or regain power.

It's a crazy world we now live in. What you say is true. Zell Miller's book _A National Party No More_ takes them to task for their unpatriotic behaviors that threaten National security, to favor their aims.

[OldFriend]

YES!

Who would doubt that the media is protecting it's own.

Also explains why Jennings asked General Clark that loaded question about Bush being AWOL in the national guard. A diversion of massive proportions but they didn't realize that the president was going to release all his records.

[Lewite]

No doubt the liberal demoncraps are a bunch of Clinton-Kennedy scum bag predators and the truth is not in them! Kerry picked up votes when it was found that he has the morals of a bitch dog in heat!

[trebb]

That's right - no smoking gun. That should be thrown in their faces everytime they trash a Republican on hearsay and lies. Unless we do it, nobody will...

[WaterDragon]

their unpatriotic behaviors that threaten National security, to favor their aims.

The liberals seem to have completely lost their marbles.

[WaterDragon]

Hey, trebb....I wonder whether it was pleasure or pain that induced the denials from Alexandra and her parents?

[trebb]

Probably nausea - isn't it interesting how her Daddy first called Kerry a scumball and now says he intends to vote for him?

[WaterDragon]

Yes. Wondering what changed for him.

[WaterDragon]

I think I read that he's a registered Democrat....that would partly explain why voting for a sleazeball is no problem for him.