For the Media in this country, a Republican presidential candidate must be PERFECT!, A conservative candidate must not be tolerated, and a Democrat candidate must do no more than profess their fillial piety to the altar of Liberalism.
Consider the campaign of GWB, the media harped for 16 days upon a drunk driving charge from 21 years prior while the candidate was in college. They progressed from this to CBS News manufacturing a story using forged documents a month before the election.
Consider Herman Cain, as soon as he begins leading in the polls a media hit piece about an allegation(not charges) of sexual harrassment made 14 years prior against him, without attribution, and the media fawns over it, and builds the story up for days, while the media made a career of ignoring Bill Clinton's serial sexual predations. Dan Rather even going so far as to declare that he would not report on that.
The media places republican candidates through a microscope, while giving the questionable associations of Barack Obama a pass. They attempted to destroy Sarah Pain's family, even postulating that her down's syndrome child might be the result of an incestuous relationship. barack Obama was largely given a pass about his associations with Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, et.al. Bill Clinton was staunchly defended throughout the Paula Jones/Lewinsky case by NOW, The very organization whose purpose is to defend women against this type of behavior.
The hypocrisy and media double standards are stunning to behold. How I long for the days when the NEWS consisted of FACTS, and Opinions were left for editorials.
How true there seems to be no consequences for the slander of the media. Just looking at how the Cain story came to be they released almost no details and than started to bombard him with criticism for not being able to tell them the details of a charge that happened 21 years before hand. I may only be 24 I really don't remember minute details that are not important in my life 21 years later. I guess it should be no surprise that when he got some minor details wrong they wanted to crucify him on a few channels that I was listen to oh how the media has changed form just pretending to be non bias to all out biases bleeding through.
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