If Michelle Obama Had Gone 4 Years Without Paying Taxes Would The MSM Report It?

[malik flavors]

I don't have cable, so i'm not sure if the Cindy McCain "La Jollagate" is getting any play or not, but I've noticed none of the major political blogs are talking about it. So I was wondering, if it were Michelle Obama that had gone 4 years without paying taxes, would the MSM be so kind? Probably not. She'd probably have to put out a statement and Barack would have to tell republicans to "lay off" again.

Why are none of the major media personalities talking about the McCains and their forgetting to pay taxes. When you combine this with McCain improperly using his wife's plane I think you start to see a real problem.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. 24/7

[liberal N proud]

2. Beverage company wins bridesmaid auction

Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain.

[jobycom]

3. You ain't expecting this to be fair, are you?

Our opponent isn't John McCain, it's the media.

[babylonsister]

4. Jed noticed; it's that double standard thingie the m$m is so fond of:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6429481&mesg_id=6429481

The media confirms its double-standard


I've been waiting for something like this to happen -- the emergence of media-friendly personal character scandal about John McCain. It's not that I've been wishing ill-will on McCain -- rather, it's that I wanted to see how the media at large would respond.

And now it has happened, with the revelation -- ironically coming from Newsweek, an MSM staple -- that the McCains were in tax default on one of their properties, their payments delinquent by four years. I haven't watched the TV shows yet today, but I just looked through the print pages of the major newspapers and other than the initial report, there was not a single word, not a single mention, not a single story on the tax default.

Now I beg of you to consider, as Media Matters and debrazza have pointed out, that when John Edwards got a $400 haircut, that fact alone was used as a shorthand to describe his entire campaign.

But when John McCain, who has inveighed against Barack Obama as an elitist, has a tax default on one of his ten (or more) properties, total, complete silence.

It's a double-standard, and it's bad for America.

more...

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/06/the-media-confi.html?_... (direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=148775223

[malik flavors]

7. I'm glad somebody's talking about it. It's really sad this story went nowhere.

[JuniperLea]

5. Another DUer posted these links...

For another reason... I think we should use them to ask to hear about La Jollagate!


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[Coexist]

6. not a word have I heard today.

[Seen the light]

8. It's not featured because it's not featured on the front page of Sludge

If it's not there, the MSM doesn't mention it.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. They sure as hell reported Al Franken's income tax dispute.

And the right wing blowhards were all over the story.

[bluestateguy]

10. I tried to tell all of you that this story would disappear down a rathole

nt

[uponit7771]

11. If Michelle inhaled the wrong way they'd be all over it. The MsM is being OVERTLY obvious now

[flakey_foont]

12. Absolutely!

Hannity, etc would be frothing at the mouth about how awful it was

[City Lights]

13. It would dominate cable nooze for days.

:argh: