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.
Drudge's report that Cain is considering quitting is disturbing.
If your scenario is accurate (and I hope it is) - and if the reports of Cain's possible quitting are also manufactured - then he should stay in the race just on principle.
The trouble is, to paraphrase Rumsfeld, we don't know what we don't know.
What I find interesting is this
Their are common threads MNJ. Quayle, Palin and now Cain...
* Bright Conservative burst on the scene.
* Has the potential of being another Reagan and steering the party to towards true Conservatism.
* It started with Quayle, destroy him personally, ( he is stupid ) and make him radioactive.
* They did it to Sarah with the 18 lawsuits in 9 months, Again Destroy at any cost, this time Soro's and his minions doing it via the legal angle, not to mention all the personal ....
* With Herman, they are destroying him personally via the angle he is a womanizer, Anita Hill Redue on Steroid's.
The common thread is to destroy their credibility to the point where they can run again and be effective leaders, I hate to say it on all three accounts they have won.
I will take some heat for the 1st one, but the world is a worse off because we never had a President Quayle.
Ditto that a President Palin or President Cain....
Their are common threads MNJ. Quayle, Palin and now Cain...
* Bright Conservative burst on the scene.
* Has the potential of being another Reagan and steering the party to towards true Conservatism.
* It started with Quayle, destroy him personally, ( he is stupid ) and make him radioactive.
* They did it to Sarah with the 18 lawsuits in 9 months, Again Destroy at any cost, this time Soro's and his minions doing it via the legal angle, not to mention all the personal ....
* With Herman, they are destroying him personally via the angle he is a womanizer, Anita Hill Redue on Steroid's.
The common thread is to destroy their credibility to the point where they can run again and be effective leaders, I hate to say it on all three accounts they have won.
I will take some heat for the 1st one, but the world is a worse off because we never had a President Quayle.
Ditto that a President Palin or President Cain....
Seriously, I do believe that the MSM will go to unprecedented lengths to destroy Cain. But is it possible that they found one of his weaknesses to exploit?
I'm just saying... this is a discussion group and I'm "discussing" the possibilities.
Does that still make me an evil person?
Has it been determined if they where to or from her phone? I had a crazy women call my cell 60 times in one day. I never Answered once.
Anything is possible but you have to match the bullet to the gun to make it a fact—and there ain’t no gun nor bullet here.
No. It makes you a very gullible person.
...Doocy weakly supported....Gretchen kept trying to keep it temperate, restrained....
..but Brian did it for me....the tv went off, and my blood pressure was officially up.
I cannot believe they've allowed it to go on so long.
...He was aggressive and mean spirited in his assumptions this morning about Cain....
..his attitude was so rancid to me, I turned them off.....
..disappointing and scary to think this may be the real Brian.
If what you say is true, Cain’s main backers should be eager to lynch the lynchers.
The phone records are easy to refute, or explain if Cain had some business or professional relationship with White. I imagine the text messages are still available. A 13 year relationship has a lot of verifiable history, or not.
Why hasn’t a defamation suit been filed by Cain? If this woman is lying, surely he must want to clear his name & retaliate against a liar & slanderer.
These allegations strike at the heart of Cain’s credibility. He must refute these allegations immediately & vigorously, or lose his conservative support.
You see, my problem with this is HOW Cain handles crises.
If he “fumbles the ball” every time he is challenged, then he is not fit to be President. If he cannot deal decisively & brutally with liars, then he will fail miserably in Washington, DC. We already have a Fumbler-in-Chief - we can’t afford another!
This latest gal has already been outted as another money grubber, scketchy employment, and bills out the wahzoo so much that she, like the previous gal, is being evicted.
I never thought I’d be saying this, but at this point I don’t care what they do behind closed door, I want a president who has the guts to take back the country.
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media “vet” the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.
This “election” will be a non-election...featuring the state approved “candidates”-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.
The msm couldn’t stand it when the Cain family came on tv. They will do anything to take him down now. Evil doers.
Go, Cain!
....it merely points out an inherent unfairness in news coverage that we all know about already.
Pointing out the inherent unfairness in news coverage is what Brent Bozell does.
Only the gullible fans of Cain believe that he is guilty.
The non-gullible fans of Cain believe that he is INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
Someone is coordinating these attacks. Probably the White House. But some of these GOP contenders are also spreading the opposition research.
For me...it is how Cain has handled (or should I say mis-handled) these bimbo eruptions coupled with his ridiculous statements on foreign policy just frustrate the hell out of me.
I can’t find the energy anymore to support Cain. I really thought he could have made a big difference but he probably is just another deeply flawed narcissist.
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