They’re doing it again: Our Liberal Media has its collective panties in a wad over the House Democratic leadership elections, in part because the American Spectator — the putative “intellectual review” that served as central command of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy in the 1990s — uncovered 26-old-videotape of Rep. John Murtha not taking a bribe from an F.B.I. agent in disguise.
The cable newsers have also put themselves in a dither of the race for House majority leader between Murtha and the winner, Rep. Steny Hoyer. While they have been reading from GOP talking points critical of Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi’s support of Murtha in the race, they have had little to say about the corollary dust-up on the Republican side.
In the race for minority leader, two rightwingers, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas and Rep. Mike Spence, ran against the current majority leader, Rep. John Boehner. Barton later dropped out, but if he was the victim of strongarm tactics from Boehner, I guess we’ll never know.
Boehner won in a landslide but there has been nary a mention of his ethics violation. Unlike Murtha, Boehner was guilty and apologized — and it wasn’t 26 years ago either:
John Boehner actually handed out checks from the tobacco industry on the floor of the House to fellow Congressmen in 1995 when they were considering a bill to end a tobacco subsidy.
It would be interesting to know if C-Span has video of Boehener handing out these checks.
The disparity of treatment between Democrats and Republicans by the mainstream media is appalling.
Thanks to Drudge, et al. we even know the size and curvature of Bill Clinton’s penis but we don’t even know how many times George W. Bush has been arrested!
The media also has been silent about Robert Gates and James Bakers’ extremely checkered pasts. These men are criminals who belong in a federal prison and the mainstream media treats them like great statesmen. Disgusting…