The problem is that the Dems can fight the Republicans and the MSM goes out of their way to help them.
Republicans try to fight Dems, and the MSM buries the news.
As a part of the Republican's offensive, they need to illustrate how the msm helps the democrats. Rub it up both their noses.
One Republican makes one retort and that's it. The Republicans have no coordinated game plan. Democrats find some filth and plaster it in the media for weeks. We wimper and moan and just take it.
The DBM won't drive by in the case of Harry Reid. The story will be pushed only when they determine that it is sufficiently damaging. They won't just throw it out there and repeat it over and over to see if anything sticks the way they did with Foley.
The more we learned of the Foley case, the less incriminating it was in that Foley seemed to hold off on the raunchy stuff until the (former) pages were 18 years old. If Brian Ross knew that in the beginning, he conveniently buried it to ensure that the story would be as salacious and damaging as possible.