Reply #9: I realized the American media was a joke in July 1992...

[monchie]

...though many things they did had been raising my eyebrows since 1981.

The incident that really opened my eyes happened wrt a bimbo eruption during the 1992 campaign--and no, it wasn't Clinton's. Remember that just 6 months earlier, in January 1992, Clinton had been relentlessly and viciously raked over the coals about Gennifer Flowers, yet he managed to survive the media feeding frenzy. Now, Spy Magazine, which was a then-popular NYC-area publication, came out with a cover story about Papa Bush's mistress, Jennifer Fitzgerald.

Did the media go into a feeding frenzy, complete with satellite trucks lining the streets of Ms. Fitzgerald's neighborhood? Hell no. The media did its best to ignore the elephant in the room.

One reporter, CNN's White House correspondent Mary Tillotson, dared to ask Papa Bush about the alleged affair. Instead of answering the charge, Bush went into a rage and pulled the oldest trick in the book: the non-denial denial. He said something along the lines of "I won't dignify that question with an answer"--which of course was treated as an actual denial by the tiny portion of the whore media that even mentioned it.

Years later, I learned that Tillotson immediately had her WH press credentials lifted--and not a single reporter wrote about that at the time. She was eventually reassigned by CNN to host a "The View"-type program during the weekday late morning hours, not exactly CNN's prime time. She disappeared from CNN in the late 90s, and last I saw, she was working for some website that I'd never heard of.

I think Ms. Tillotson's colleagues in the SCLM got the message about what happens to your career if you get too uppity with the Bush Crime Family.