He will also get a pass.
Posted on 05/13/2005 11:02:35 PM PDT by Libloather
Hillary gets a pass, DeLay is assailed
Posted: May 14, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
WorldNetDaily.com
It's really a good thing that Sen. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat. If she were a Republican, she would have been the topic of dire front-page headlines in the New York Times and at the forefront of "CBS Evening News" broadcasts over the past several days with her name being connected with a shadowy political fund-raising imbroglio.
What's that? You say you weren't aware that Mrs. Clinton was at the center of a significant controversy?
No surprise there. Like I said, she's a Democrat. So her story has been buried or ignored by the big media bosses.
Let me tell you about what is going on: In 2000, a big-event fund-raiser for Sen. Clinton was conducted in Los Angeles with a bunch of trendy Hollywood stars attending. A man by the name of David Rosen, who was at that time Mrs. Clinton's chief fund-raiser, organized the event. He is now charged with falsifying federal campaign filings by significantly underreporting the actual cost of this event. He claimed it cost $400,000, while the actual cost may have been closer to $1 million. By underreporting the cost, Mr. Rosen set aside funds that could subsidize Mrs. Clinton's Senate campaign. He is going to trial over this fund-raising event.
Mrs. Clinton says she knows nothing of the alleged sham. And since she is a "rising star" of the Democrat Party and a woman who shares symbiotic sisterhood with the so-called mainstream media – in other words, she's dutifully pro-choice and anti-Bush – she gets a pass from the networks, the Times and Times wannabes.
Now, let's compare Mrs. Clinton's scandal with that of a Republican leader, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
First, understand this: Tony Perkins of the conservative Family Research Council recently praised Rep. DeLay for his "stalwart defense of American values." With that said, do you think that maybe a man who loyally defends traditional values might be targeted by the "mainstream media" a bit more than a woman who robustly upholds the same "mainstream" values that are held in most metropolitan news centers?
You betcha!
The DeLay controversy surrounds allegations that a lobbyist named Jack Abramoff paid the travel expenses of the congressman and some of his aides. Mr. DeLay has promised that he did nothing wrong.
But the media has gotten a whiff of Republican blood.
Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, calling the media action regarding the DeLay situation a "feeding frenzy," observed how the media are at the same time "curiously quiet about [the] brewing scandal that could deeply complicate Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential ambitions."
One would have to be blind (or a liberal) not to see the double standard.
Mr. Bauer rightly noted that the Clinton scandal "involves larger amounts of money than the DeLay travel controversy." He added, "The person under indictment was working for Sen. Clinton at the time of the alleged crime – unlike the key lobbyist in the DeLay controversy."
Here's the bottom line: "It lacks one key ingredient – it can't be used to pummel conservatives or the Bush administration," Mr. Bauer said. "Instead, the political left could suffer, and that fact is keeping the Hillary fund-raiser on the back-page, while DeLay gets attacked week after week."
That's the political landscape in which we find ourselves in 2005, folks.
Level playing field?
Forget about it.
Impartial reporting?
Think again.
The "mainstream media" have largely adopted the search-and-destroy philosophy that defined the Clinton White House for years because they typically have the same agenda.
As a result, conservative lawmakers who espouse the Judeo-Christian values that were embraced by our founders are defined as "extremists," and they must endure the smear tactics their liberal counterparts typically sidestep.
Thankfully, conservative leaders are gathering around DeLay and defending him against the charges that have been made against him. I join them in supporting this good man and I pray that the flies nipping at his heals will be quickly cast aside so that he can continue his effective congressional leadership.
That would either make her dumb as a rock, or the smartest woman in the Milky Way. Sounds like yet another perp will do time for her crimes...
And people seem to miss the fact that she's claiming ignorance by way of incompetence.
Her lawyer claims she has first amendment rights that protect her from crime and corruption.
That wasn't a joke...
::scratching head:: Huh? Must be some newfangled kinda lawyer speak for a right held by Democrat pols. Those who claim the right to a free press don't have to report wrong doings by any of their fellow travelers?
Has anyone in D.C. with a Hish-Scholl education, or higher, asked Hillary to return the FBI files she stole? Reid seems to know a lot about FBI files, maybe he could ask he? Why are so many in this nation so bent on shoving this pig up the USA'a ass?
Has anyone in D.C. with a Hish-Scholl education, or higher, asked Hillary to return the FBI files she stole? Reid seems to know a lot about FBI files, maybe he could ask he? Why are so many in this nation so bent on shoving this pig up the USA'a ass?
It sure was not. The Clinton lawyers will put out the talking points and the press will dutifully report them as the final word on the subject.
Newt must have missed the news on Hillary. Hey Newt do not watch MSM, You might end up looking like an Idiot.
"Has anyone in D.C. with a Hish-Scholl education, or higher, asked Hillary to return the FBI files she stole? Reid seems to know a lot about FBI files, maybe he could ask he? Why are so many in this nation so bent on shoving this pig up the USA'a ass?"
I doubt we could get the files back, but we can win with less than that. If we could just get the message out to the "middle voters" that helped defeat Kerry about what she did, she will lose in 2008.
However, that is a bid if. It has to be done without MSM. I don't think Fox News has even done antyhing on it.
But I am with you---this is one of the 2 or 3 big stories. Her 50 murders are also of interest.
Hillary Clintoon always saying she's never been sprayed by a stinky skunk called scandal...your nose tells you different.
** Has anyone in D.C. with a Hish-Scholl education, or higher, asked Hillary to return the FBI files she stole?**
Good question for MSM to be asking, however I doubt it will happen, even on FOX. It's sickening to imagine the Clintons using FBI files to get their way in DC.
Wasn't the guy who managed to get all those files a so called buddy of Hillary's? Seems his former job was that of a nightclub *Bouncer* or something??
He will also get a pass.
Ms. Clinton wanted to sue gun makers out of existence because they "should have known" that guns don't magically stop working when a criminal uses them. Clinton favored laws that would charge a gun owner with a crime if someone breaks into his house and steals a gun. The owner of the gun and not the criminal who stole it would be held responsible for any crimes committed with the stolen gun because the gun owner "should have known" that in the future a someone would steal the gun.
Typical leftist. Clinton wants the little people to be punished for not having perfect knowledge of future events not under their control. But when a leftist is caught breaking the law, the defense is that "I didn't know what was happening" or "those laws are only for the little people and not important leaders like me."
You know ,,, the MSM is just doing there job . Dems do no wrong , you know .. .. ..
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Ken Starr v. CBS
twist the news
mold the views
burn the pews
CBS:"... yeah? so what? whaddya gonna DO about it"?
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To me, this is the shot heard round the world. The fact that the MSM can't get DeLay to resign is devastating. It shows how little credibility they have with the American people these days.
Thanks for the refresher on who the perp was who took the fall for the 900 FBI files. He got what Sandy Berger got for his illegal deed - nothing.
Even demos must be shocked, but giddy over the dual standard for Republicans and Demos. The MSM should be ashamed.
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