Posted on 09/02/2007 8:44:35 AM PDT by IrishMike
Just last fall, as the networks exploded with coverage of Mark Foley's creepy instant messaging, we noted the networks (like ABC) had a very different way of covering Republican sex scandals -- especially the gay-themed ones -- than they did for Democrats. The best example is Barney Frank.
Notice how the networks define hypocrisy, and how liberals never seem to qualify. Frank was a lawmaker with a male-prostitution ring in his house, not to mention a lawmaker who kept getting the pimp's parking tickets waved off. Notice how they all mention "the voters" will decide, instead of going searching for legislators and party activists to underline his need to resign.
The people who manufacture the news in America are very persistent at writing the narrative exactly as it helps liberalism emerge victorious. On ethical scandals, they're very good at making sure Republicans force theirs to resign, and they're also very good at keeping Democrats shamelessly in power.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Just more heart and soul of America on display there.
dems actually make money off their wrong doings. While Republicans have to resign and be made an a%% out of.
Republicans correct, Democrats re-elect.
The bias of the media becomes more apparent every day.
The reason Frank didn’t have to resign is so very clear: He never advocated against prostitution rings, so he’s not a hypocrite in the eyes of brainfrozen liberals.
Only hypocrites have to resign, doncha know?
Wrong or right, Larry Craig received no support from his own party, Barney Frank did.
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Frank is one of very many, the GOP even defended Johnson when the FBI raided his ice cubes.
Don’t forget a certain senator from Massachusetts who’s guilty of vehicular homicide.
Do we think the fact that the two incidents happened 18 years apart might have anything to do with it?
This sort of thing doesn’t resonate. McGreevy is far more recent, and I suspect he isn’t mentioned in these stories because he did in fact lose his job. Most people don’t remember, don’t know, or just don’t care about Barney Frank. And that makes all the difference.
It’s to the Republican party’s credit that they expel their deviants... Complaining that Frank is still in office misses the point completely.
We can’t dictate how the Democrats take care of their own. We can only dictate how we take care of the Republicans. First before we speak of the Democrats, Vetter needs to go from Louisiana and then we can talk about Dems. Let’s take care of our our trash before we take care of theirs. It pisses me off that Vetter is still in the Senate. Like it or not, we are the party of Family Values and I like it that way. Vetter did not uphold his bargin in maintaining our standards and should go. Yes it is hard having principles but that is what makes us great!!!
Democrats have NO moral values.
That's because it isn't the liberal voters they are trying to get to, it's the Republican ones- divide and conquer. A Democrat fag never looses a single liberal vote, as Frank proved, because of deviant sex life, no matter how disgusting.
But by digging up, even fabricating news to make the Republican seem like the most disgusting sexual deviant to ever exist, they play on the moral sensibilities of the Republican voter. Divide and conquer.
Foley could probably still be electable in a strong Democrat region. He never lost any support from the deviants at all.
I think it is important to note that the Republicans have only strengthened the double standard.
They doggedly attack their own when something goes wrong but never hold the Dems to the same standard.
Expecting the Dems to clean their own house is naive and has foisted this environment of hypocrisy upon us.
I am as pissed at Larry Craig as the next guy. And truth be told, I am only mad because of the position he has put all conservatives in, forcing us to play defense again.
We should be talking about Norman Hsu and the new culture of corruption instead of a Senator from Idaho who played footsies in a mens room.
And another senator and close pal of his that is guilty of war crimes by his own admission, or if he claims he was lying, then guilty of another crime, lying. Not to exclude a whole stack of others.
Anyone listen to Chris Wallace/Fox News Sunday? Juan Williams openly admitted that the Democrats don’t give a hoot about their own members with personal scandals. He said that Republicans care about ethical violations; thus their members need to remove themselves from congress! I got the distinct impression that the Dems will be going after 4 more elected officials soon.
"The only way I couldn't get elected is if I was found with a dead girl...... or live boy!"
EW Edwards~ D La. Convicted Felon
Seems like an elected officials job requirement for mASSaChutesits!
This goes far beyond a double standard. This is the Democrats holding the Republicans to a standard of perfection while at the same time insisting that they be held to no standard at all. For Democrats, obeying the law is merely an option when they agree with the given law and it doesn't hurt them politically. When the violation will hurt them politically, they resort to quibbling about the intent and wording of the Law and inevitably come to the conclusion that their case is different.
When it comes to the Republicans, however, the letter of the law must be carried out to it's fullest, no matter the circumstances. Guilt is irrelevant as well. Republicans need only to appear to be guilty in order to merit expulsion from the political class. This is not a double-standard. This is a very popular, political weapon of destruction that the Democrats deliberately wield at every opportunity they can find.
I agree with your observations about McGreevy. He got a little late comeuppance for a few hours when his self-serving book was released and his wife got a few words in about his deceitfulness, but there never was much of a firestorm about trying to put his lover (?) on the payroll as a security chief. Personally, I don’t think his deciding he’d leave office on such and such a date should have ended the public scrutiny on that front. Like, was this isolated, or was it part of a pattern, etc.
This CAN help the Republican Party by:
~ pointing out that when this stuff happens...even when it involves tapping your toe in a public restroom, REPUBLICANS DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT...IT INVOLVES JUDGMENT AND OUR PARTY STANDS FOR DECENCY.
~You can EXPECT DECENCY and VOTE REPUBLICAN,
OR...
~You can have...or should I say you're LEFT with those that hold prostitution rings in their basement, hide 90K in their freezer, and stuff documents from the National Archives down their pants.
YOU MAKE THE CALL
McGreevy is far more recent, and I suspect he isn’t mentioned in these stories because he did in fact lose his job. .....................
He did also quit.
Barney Franks is a good homosexual. He toes the Democrat line, therefore he has immunity.
Ping me when either one of these guys is found taking cash from the Chicoms.
Barney Frank is a dirty dung-puncher. The Dims condone evil in their own house. It is time to out the Dims for all their wrong-doings, including past sins not recognized by the evil Pelosi and Reid.
My prediction was 3, but 4 may be true. Now that there is a precedent of the GOP expelling members who aren't "perfect", they can't later on start to defend their members against the dems. I used to be p.o.'d at Larry Flynt for running this anti-republican operation, but he's absolutely right. He can make the GOP lose senate seats over something completely trivial compared with democrat behavior. For everyone who thinks it's great that we are getting rid of all the perverts in the GOP and think the public will "reward" them in the elections for their purity think again. It will never happen.Every time a republican resigns it's another TV ad by the DNC/Unions about how corrupt the republicans are. How about 3-4 lost senate seats?
FROM THE OFFICE OF SEN. TED KENNEDY
TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN GERRY STUDDS
December 2, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
(As Prepared for Delivery)Gerry lived a wonderful life of service and dedication to others. We miss him very much, and we’ll never forget him...Gerry was a Congressman of immense courage, vision, and compassion...Washington became a magnet for a new generation of young, brilliant, and committed Americans...
Two years later the grassroots army he assembled with MarDee Xifaras became the irresistible force that made the immoveable object move. He’d learned Portuguese, and that was the final straw. The incumbent Congressman decided not to run again...
Gerry was a reformer from the outset. He never forgot that his mission was always to improve the lives of his constituents and the life of the Cape too. He never accepted things as they are, when the opportunity was there for lasting change.
He also pushed for major overhauls of the way Congress does its work. I swallowed hard over one of his early proposals, to require term limits for members of the House and Senate.
Many years later, a campaign opponent tried to attack him for abandoning his reformer’s zeal for term limits and succumbing to the old order on the Hill. Gerry responded immediately that his passion for the issue hadn’t faded at all. In fact, he said, he intended to stay in Congress just long enough to enact that reform.
No one did more to conserve this magnificent part of God’s creation than Gerry Studds, and with global warming coming at us, we miss him more than ever now.
He also inspired us all with his commitment to the creation of the Harbor Islands Trust, and his vision of opening up the beauty and magic of the sea to hundreds of thousands of children in the Greater Boston area. ...as Stewart Udall said so eloquently at the dedication of the National Seashore on the Cape, “We yearn for the long waves and beach grass; we see white wings on morning air, and in the afternoon, the shadows cast by the doorways of history.”
Gerry had no doubt, as a former teacher, that he could impart the same awe he felt about the sea and its treasures to every future generation of youth.
There was no better way of understanding the awesome responsibility we have to protect our natural resources than spending time with Gerry Studds.
We’ll never forget as well that Gerry did all this in a world that was too often hostile to him simply because of who he was. He was a lesson to each of us on how to handle adversity, and to persevere in the face of intense opposition. He knew that to reach our goals in life, we sometimes have to sail against the wind to reach the port of heaven.
As the first openly gay member of Congress, he was a trailblazer for gay rights, and I admired him all the more. It was a great joy for all of us that, after so many years of fighting the good fight, our Commonwealth saw the light, and Gerry and Dean were able to affirm their love for each other in the full majesty of the law of our Commonwealth.
The Republicans and conservatives still need to successfully get this point across to the majority of the general public, and they should be successfully hitting this issue out of the ballpark! What Tom Delay recently did on the Today Show needs to be repeated and often!
What do you expect from the party of Abortion?
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