Posted on 11/30/2011 5:07:35 AM PST by Kaslin
From the breaking news, one might think that with a woman who claims she had a 13-year affair with presidential candidate Herman Cain, someone is being seriously exposed as a hypocrite. That would be the press. The media can't deny they continue to display a lousy double standard. For Republican candidates, scandalous news is instant. For Democrats, it's eventual, if at all!
Ginger White's charges sound a lot like Gennifer Flowers in 1992, when she said she had a 12-year affair with Bill Clinton. So many in the press pounce on Flowers as unequivocal evidence of the media's sense of balance. After all, they will remind us, just look how we covered that scandal!
Yes, look. It's a wonderful exercise in media disinformation. Political junkies will recall that Flowers held a press conference carried live on CNN on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 23, 1992. It had all the elements for snappy news. She played audiotapes of phone conversations with Clinton. Despite all this, the first network mention was a short story by NBCs Lisa Myers, more than 24 hours later. Other than that, the three broadcast network morning and evening newscasts waited to breathe the name "Flowers" for four days.
nd then they dismissed the scandal as a non-scandal. On ABC, anchorman Peter Jennings (who was married four times) set the tone: "At several stops today, talking about Gennifer Flowers, Gov. Clinton denounced what he called 'trash for cash'. And there appear to be quite a few people who agree." Jennings declared a quick ABC poll found only 26 percent wouldn't vote for an adulterous candidate. "But our polling unit points out that at least half of those people who said no are Republicans and unlikely to vote for Gov. Clinton anyway."
The networks rewarded Clinton with all this tolerance because, as liberal journalist Hendrik Hertzberg explained, at the time, reporters loved Clinton's potential: "(T) hey think he would make a very good, perhaps a great, president. Several told me they were convinced that Clinton is the most talented presidential candidate they have ever encountered, JFK included."
Herman Cain is the polar opposite of Bill Clinton to these people. Political reporters consider him an under-educated buffoon and, as a black conservative, possibly self-loathing to boot. So there are no reasons to delay adultery charges. In fact, they should be rushed on the air, followed by sneering political death notices.
"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams was the first network anchor on the scene. This is the same anchorman that just expressed great joy and delight that NBC will be blessed by a woman with zero journalistic experience named Chelsea Clinton. Williams oozed on CNN that Chelsea was "super smart and worldly and curious," an "impressive, impressive woman" with a "very, very unique viewpoint." Grovel, grovel, grovel.
But here's what's sick. Ginger White makes an adultery charge against Cain and she's on NBC within hours. But when Juanita Broaddick accused Chelsea's father of raping her in a 1999 Dateline NBC interview, then-anchor Tom Brokaw never allowed one second of her voice to break into the NBC Nightly News.
By morning, Cain was dismissed as a political corpse, or a ghost. On ABC, anchor Robin Roberts suggestively asked, "Do (White's) shocking revelations spell doom for his troubled campaign?" On CBS, political analyst John Dickerson proclaimed, "It's hard to see how he comes back from this...At the worst, it's a death blow to the campaign."
But NBCs Chuck Todd was the most colorful, citing movies: "Now we're in sort of 'The Sixth Sense' mode. Everybody knows this candidacy is basically dead except the campaign." Todd then suggested he wasn't so much a ghost as an object: "I think that Cain is not necessarily hurting the field anymore. He's become a sideshow. It's almost a shiny, metal object at this point."
These death notices may be entirely accurate, but that's not the point. What is salient here is that Cain's scandals have been covered aggressively from day one by the same media that summarily refused -- and to this day refuse -- to cover allegations against Bill Clinton that are a hundred-fold more serious.
To my knowledge, the only TV reporter to ask Clinton directly about the rape charge (twice) was Sam Donaldson. Did it not send red flags skyward when both times instead of denying the charge, Clinton referred the matter to his attorney?
Night after night and morning after morning, the broadcast TV "news" makers demonstrate their "journalism" is carefully managed and manipulated into tidy packages designed to provide the maximum political benefit to liberals and the maximum political damage to conservatives.
Why am I not the slightest bit surprised that a Washington Post employee is tweeting over the Internet: "Hey Tweeps: Looking for outlandish/incorrect predictions and quotes from Newt Gingrich's past. Any ideas for me?"
Gingrich, it's your turn.
Or the women are being blackmailed into doing it. Or maybe both. Poor Mr. Cain. I’m still in his corner.
My husband is a manager to a lot of people, several of them odd women. One of those women was known to file false claims of sexual harassment and he got the risky job of having to fire her.
If one is in upper management somewhere, they will undoubtedly know floozies and unscrupulous women. Unavoidable...
The Gennifer Flowers media festival was most certainly a different order of magnitude. Tapes of Bubba’s private remarks to her were played. And very protein-rich tapes they were!
Ginger White has offered nothing but her own assertions about Cain, plus a few about her own seamy background.
Politically, I don’t like Cain at all, but death by smear is not the way to knock him out.
No rock solid evidence? STHU or prepare to be sued.
“The unfortunate thing is that smoke usually indicates fire.”
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Sometimes. But sometimes it’s just a smoke machine.
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Did Herman Cain sign a book to this latest accuser, “friends are forever, everything else is a bonus”?
It’s crap like that and 60 texts/calls to his private cell phone in the last few months that disturb me.
There will always be this double standard. There would be NO accusations against Cain, if equal scrutiny and censure was sure to apply across the board. In this sense, the MSM has become a petri dish for all the smut in the known universe.... It is no longer credible about anything.
On Fox & Friends this morning, Brian stated that the woman had 80 messages FROM Cain...
WOW! I missed that story......
I don’t mind opinions, but to just make up facts- sheeshk....sad....Brian was my fave....I don’t mind disagreeing- but I don’t put up with NBC making stuff up- why should I put up with it from FOX- no matter who says it....
I know Brian is a sports guy- but the sports announcing color guy does NOT make up stats....
Some Bronx cheers are in order for Cain supporters too — the ones who ripped up their tickets before the race had even started, just because of dirt spewed by a self-confessed tramp.
Apparently some people will fall for anything.
Interesting
My family has always been involved with skilled labor industries. Don't have a lot of experience with corporate lap-dancers.
Fox is not even close to fair or balanced. Fox manufactures news just like all the rest and ignores stories when they don't fit into the Fox story line.
So am I and plan to vote for him in our primaries March 6, 2012 unless he drops out
You don't think GE escapes taxes for no reason, do you?
It doesn't help that Drudge's report last night said Cain is considering bailing.
Has anyone found out if the latest story's emails were all sourced FROM her TO him?
That would put a lid on the whole story.
Yeah, Walter Crankshaft was a RATagandist.
There are some women in the work force that are always looking to get a free ride somehow. Sexual charges is the easiest one. They make the rest of us lookd bad and have to work twice as hard to overcome them!
This is all so contrived. To anyone with a sense of fairness (not to mention political intuition), the uniform histories of these women has to be a sign of collaboration. Some of us have given our ideas of the source(s), yet who knows. Obama (Axelrod), Perry, Romney, Gingrich?
Regardless, it’s a coordinated attack and it’s purpose, IMO, is to get the one Black GOP candidate out of the race and out of people’s minds. Whoever is behind this wants to insure there will never be a viable Black GOP candidate. Does the phrase “Keeping them on the plantation” come to mind?
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