TagsTagsWe’ve pointed out at least six examples of mainstream news stories that fail to even mention the word “Democrat” in connection with Eliot Spitzer. It’s so widespread it’s almost laughable. Today Newsbusters’ Rich Noyes looks at the difference in the way the Larry Craig and David Vitter scandals were handled by ...
Just an accident, I’m sure. I mean, who wouldn’t give AFP the benefit of the doubt? Right. (Hat tip: LawHawk.)
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The New York Times should be congratulated for diving to the bottom faster than any other news outlet. Kudos, Bill Keller. Imagine if they spent one tenth as much energy and money investigating the Saudi influence on American mosques, or the Council on American Islamic Relations’ connections to Hamas: Ashley Alexandra ...
On February 14, one day after Eliot Spitzer partied with a prostitute in a Washington DC hotel, the Washington Post published a column by Spitzer in which he wrote that “when history tells the story ... the Bush administration will not be judged favorably.” (Hat tip: RaiderDan.)
The Democratic governor of New York is bailing out right now—with an almost unbelievable self-aggrandizing statement, and his wife standing next to him for some unknown reason. UPDATE at 3/12/08 9:07:11 am: Spitzer continued to the end to insist that this was a “private matter,” with no acknowledgment that he was endangering ...
Is Google in the loop? nys - Google Search. Those links are generated by programs, not human beings. If Paterson is showing up as Governor of New York, it means Google’s web crawlers found something at the New York State web site that generated that link, probably the page title. We’re seeing ...
Latest word on the Eliot Spitzer Apocalypse: the “progressive” Democrat spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $80,000 to get his ashes hauled. ALBANY, N.Y. - With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call-girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens ...
Come on, Spitzer. Just resign, already. It’s only going to get worse. Spitzer has used hookers for six years. March 11, 2008 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, sources tell The Post. The revelation yesterday that ...
Breaking news from Iowahawk: Amid Charges of Spitzer Tryst, Embattled Prostitute ‘Kristen’ Expected to Resign. New York - At a hastily scheduled morning press conference at the headquarters of New York’s exclusive Emperors Club prostitution ring, high priced call girl “Kristen” announced that she would temporarily step aside in the ...
Yet another Associated Press article about the Eliot Spitzer scandal that does not mention the word “Democrat:” Prostitution scandal threatens N.Y. gov. And another CNN article that doesn’t mention the word “Democrat:” Sources: Money transfers spurred Spitzer probe - CNN.com.
Well, there are apparently still words to be said about Eliot Spitzer and his dalliance(s), so here’s another thread. If you’re curious about the women Spitzer callously used while pretending to be an upstanding family man opposed to the activity in which he was participating, Nick Denton’s pseudo-blog Wonkette has ...
Here’s a Kos Kid explaining that Eliot Spitzer can’t possibly be a hypocrite ... because he’s a Democrat, and nobody expects Democrats to have moral standards: Daily Kos: Elliot Spitzer Caught Soliciting Prostitutes. Did I mention that Spitzer is a Democrat? And a Daily Kos diarist? Kevin Drums suggests that the ...
Another thread for the Eliot Spitzer story as details emerge; the latest news is that Spitzer has not actually been indicted as previously reported. And he hasn’t resigned yet, probably because he’s trying to keep his options open for a plea deal to stay out of jail. (Did I mention he’s a ...
The Democratic governor of New York, Eliott Spitzer, has admitted to senior officials that he is involved in a prostitution ring. Did I mention this is a Democrat? I did? Oh, OK. I’m taking a cue from the media, who always make sure to identify Republicans caught in scandals with 80-point ...
In the latest episode of one of our longest-running trumped up political scandals, the lawsuit by Valerie Plame has been tossed out. This is going to drive the Nutroots insane. (It’s a short drive.) WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the ...
Just announced on Fox News: President Bush is going to commute “Scooter” Libby’s prison sentence “within minutes”...
Here’s an interesting piece at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on the scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, featuring interviews with soldiers who had been living at the now-infamous Building 18: Army medical center on the mend, patients say. During Geren’s visit, Army officials talked up some of the most critical changes ...
The Mark Foley scandal is emblematic of everything that reeks about modern US politics. This story has it all: scummy politicians abusing positions of power, cover-ups, overheated accusations, political grandstanding by outrageous hypocrites, and wall to wall salacious coverage from the drooling mainstream media. Judging by this post, Allahpundit is ...
The stupidest scandal of the year just got even stupider: Drudge Report: According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the ...
If what Passionate America claims to have discovered is accurate, the page to whom Mark Foley sent explicit instant messages was 18 years old at the time: Meet Jordan Edmund One Mark Foley Instant Messenger. UPDATE at 10/4/06 5:33:11 pm: This is now the headline at Drudge Report. UPDATE at 10/4/06 6:02:39 pm: Allahpundit ...
Now the Mark Foley story is getting weird. (Yes, I know it’s already weird, but this is weirder.) There doesn’t seem to be any doubt that Foley’s guilty of making advances to teenage boys—after all, he resigned—but there’s something very odd about the email messages being circulated by media and ...
Fatwas are Islamic religious rulings, not just death sentences for hapless writers like Salman Rushdie but also directives about the minutiae of daily life. And clerics seem to derive their mandate to issue fatwas from the fact that they issue fatwas. There is no central organization to ensure fatwa quality, ...
Markos Moulitsas isn’t the only moonbat blogger on the spot tonight, as one of the Huffington Post bloggers charges that the Post’s technology manager was trolling his own site: Huffington Post blogger blocked. (Hat tip: ben_nur.) Influential website the Huffington Post tried to ban one of its bloggers after he discovered ...