HuffPo - Great Article Exposing The RW/MSM Media Double Standard Re Blago Scandal

[Median Democrat]

Here is a great article that exposes the right wing/MSM double standard in trying to tie Blago to Obama. The article compares this to Bush's relationship with fellow Texan Tom DeLay, who Bush not only failed to denounce, but Bush emphatically supported. Yet, unlike Obama, the MSM did not try to tie Bush to Delay's acts of corruption, and say that Bush himself was corrupt.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/obama-unfairly-tainted-by_b_150011.html

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Let's check the recent historical record. When former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was accused of ethics violations and money laundering, and then was indicted on charges of conspiring to commit campaign finance fraud and consequently resigned from Congress in disgrace, President Bush publicly denounced and rejected DeLay -- a fellow Texan.

Oh. Wait. President Bush didn't denounce DeLay at all. In fact...

Bush Expresses a Belief in DeLay's Innocence
New York Times
President Bush Shows Support to Embattled DeLay
The News Hour
President Says DeLay Is Not Guilty of Money Laundering
The Washington Post
Bush Declares DeLay Innocent
The Washington Post
Lott urges Bush to give DeLay 'aggressive support'
The Washington Times
Bush to Give DeLay a Lift to Show Support
The Los Angeles Times
Read that last headline again. Not only did President Bush not denounce and reject the corrupt Republican leader, but DeLay was literally rewarded with a free ride aboard Air Force One. Both men wantonly tainting each other aboard the presidential aircraft.

Contrastingly, Obama can't even live in the same state as Blagojevich without having to emphatically denounce the governor's crimes and stupidity. And even when he denounces and rejects Blagojevich, he's still defined as tainted.

The double standard confounds reason. Once again, Digby's prescient use of the phrase "intellectual violence" applies here: the shameless ability of the far-right and certain members of the establishment press to violently ignore reality and embrace dishonesty and hypocrisy at a level far beyond that of normal silly-season discourse. A while back, for example, I wrote that it was only a matter of time before the far-right attacked the president-elect for taking a vacation, even though President Bush set a White House record for vacations. And sure enough, it happened.

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Note: Articles linked in HuffPo story.

[ananda]

1. The press is hungry for Dem blood.

If it werent' Blagojevich, it could just
as well be Mrs. O'Leary's cow.

[ProSense]

2. The "press" is an arm of the Republican Party. n/t

[Cha]

3. bushits and the corporatemediawhores thumbed their nose at the American

Public and that is one reason Obama got elected. The corporate media hasn't learned their lesson yet but they will.

Time to start bringing this out again..

FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-30-08 02:14 PM
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[Cha]

4. Oh, and I don't remember the rabid corporatemediawhores

going after palin on her being charged with "Abuse of Power".

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"ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6051927.html

mccain and palin are the only team of presidential and vp candidates to be convicted of unethical conduct. And, I can't even find anything on the internet.

[Median Democrat]

5. Exactly - Yet, The MSM Ignores The Issues Affecting Most Americans

And goes out of its way to try to connect Obama to Blago even though the evidence clearly contradicts any such association. Why didn't the MSM display similar zeal with respect to Bush and Tom Delay?

[uponit7771]

6. Obama has learned that if they treat him like this when his is OBVIOUSLY innocent then they're going

...to be worse when anything close to Bush is present