Posted on 10/12/2006 11:28:52 AM PDT by hawkaw
Why is it that none of the major television networks or newspapers have managed to pay attention to the biggest real scandal of the 2006 campaign season, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's real estate shenanigans? According to yesterday's AP report, Reid pocketed a $1.1 million windfall on the sale of some Las Vegas property he didn't own at the time of the sale. This makes Hillary Clinton's futures trading venture look like amateur hour. And it's time for conservatives to act because the biggest scandal is that the media are burying the story.
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Just imagine if this were Bill Frist, not Harry Reid. Calls for his resignation from Senate leadership (probably the Senate itself) would be loud and long, the Senate Ethics Committee would have already convened an investigation, the FBI would have been called in to verify the deeds and signatures and the 527 Media carrion crows would be in full cry. There would be front-page stories about connections to organized crime and lead items on the evening news about how this will sink the Dems' chances in November. But it isn't Frist, or any other Republican. It's Reid, on the verge of what the media hope is his tenure as Senate Majority Leader. So there's no reason to cover the story, right? The media culture says that's so.
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Every talk show host should be booking the editors of the NYT, WaPo and LA Times, the news directors of CBS, ABC and NBC to ask why they aren't covering this story. Every columnist should be calling them for interviews. Just ask, "why aren't you covering this story?"
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One reporter has to ask this of Hillary!
Boy, did Babbin ever nail that. If it had been a Repub the Dims and the enemedia would be giving it 24/7 coverage and probably up to election day if Frist didn't resign.
And the enemedia tries to tell us there is no left leaning slant to what they report and that is why they are slowly dying.
We should pick one Republican on the Senate Ethics Committee and bombard him with emails.
This scenario would have been nirvana for Dems. Can't you just hear them crowing: First Watergate, and now Landgate!
"Not to make too big a deal of this, but falsifying that report - as Reid apparently did - is a federal crime. Under Title 18 US Code Section 1001, it's a false official statement. For which Reid could be sent to jail. If you're looking for this on tonight's network news or on the front page of tomorrow's New York Times (next to the newest revival of the Foley minutiae) you won't find it."
Time for the Republicans to start calling for Reid to at least step down from his leadership position.
Oh sure, Reid and the lie-berals will call it gutter politics, a political move to sway the elections, yada yada yada.
So, Republicans should then shout for his resignation even louder. Go on EVERY talk show they can. Question the land sale, the shady characters involved, ask if anyone other than a politician could get away with this.
Ask why the EPA allowed this development to go through when there was evidently an 'endangered species' there? Who pulled the strings to get around that one.
Yup, Republicans should beat this into the ground, bring Dingy up on ethics charges, and maybe even legal charges.
Well, I won't hold my breath.
Fox News is covering it.
We know the answer to that one. We also know that the pajama-clad Freepers can keep pushing this story and give it legs so that we FORCE the MSM to pick it up. We did it before and we will do it again. Keep it alive my fellow Freeps.
There were also some land trades between Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas, carried out by the Interior department that seemed to have been connected to this whole scheme.
More info please? When was this?
That information was in the original AP story from yesterday. It is also included in a release by GOPSenators, now posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718275/posts
"Just imagine if this were Bill Frist, not Harry Reid. Calls for his resignation from Senate leadership"
Actually they may demand that Frist and Hassert resign anyway because they should have checked his papers. However Harry doesn't need to becaue he "thought it was ok".
A couple of decades ago, this country's journalism establishment used to make fun of Russia's Tass and Pravda for their lack of objectivity and outright propaganda. However, today's MSM has proven to be no better than the state controlled press it used to disdain. Interestingly, many Russians didn't believe their own media, a situation we see occurring today with regards to the reporting by our domestic outlets.
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