Double Standard Alert
Do not expect to see this on the networks or in the major media. Because the pervert involved worked for a Democrat the cone of silence will descend. If it had been a Republican staffer, there would have been updates every three minutes, with continuous scrolling banners at the bottom of the screen. A staffer for Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington has been arrested for trying to arrange a sexual tryst with a 13-year old boy. (He has apparently been fired now.)
Can you say, "Yuck?" I knew that you could.
But the phony outrage will be nonexistent, of course. The wall to wall media coverage will be focused elsewhere. This will be a non-event in the media world. Or it may get a minor writeup here and there, but it will never reach the earsplitting shrieks of faux outrage that it would if a Republican was involved.
We just expect so much less of Democrats, don't we?
(Incidentally, if the media actually does go off on this, I'll be more than a little surprised.)
Others: Wizbang (Jay Tee): (Paraphrasing here): The distinction between Republican and Democrat scandals: Shame. Republicans get caught and feel it, Democrats get caught and don't.
Redstate: Hey, this guy was John Kerry's travel coordinator in 2004. Imagine the fun he probably had on the road!
Jammie Wearing Fool: Uh, yes, he's now an ex-aide. But he wasn't when he was busted.
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By Topsecretk9, December 3, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
Apparently, he was doing the solicitation on Cantwell office computers.
By Mwalimu Daudi, December 3, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
The reaction of the MSM will be in three stages:
Stage 1 - Silence. If the MSM does not report something, it does not exist.
Stage 2 - Equivalency. If it becomes too big to ignore, the MSM will primly inform us that everybody-does-it-only-Republicans-are-much-much-worse. This has been the standard MSM reaction to the growing list of Democrat scandals (William Jefferson, Alan Mollohan, Dianne Feinstein, Johnny Hsu and Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. And that is not including William Jefferson Clinton, who is a one-man scandal machine.
Stage 3 - What’s The Big Deal - If there is a negative public reaction against Democrats, the MSM will go into its famed what’s-the-big-deal-it’s-only-sex routine. Remember their reaction to the pants-down presidency of William Jefferson Clinton and the numerous accusations of sexual assault– after going berserk over allegations concerning Clarence Thomas allegedly talking about a pubic hair on a Coke can?
By Quilly Mammoth, December 4, 2007 @ 6:52 am
It will get the same ammount of coverage that the arrest of past-president of the Virginia ACLU, Charles Rust-Tierney, got when he was caught with child pornography…
By DirtCrashr, December 4, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Stage-4 reaction: Ignore this and re-focus on Larry Craig.