Fundie freak: The Man is trying to keep a right-wing adulterer/governor down

[marmar]

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Because no one made a big deal of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, of course.



from the American Family Association's OneNewsNow, where the crazy bus rolls along:



Media on Sanford - a 'double standard'
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 7/7/2009 7:00:00


A conservative media watchdog says the mainstream media has once again demonstrated its bias in the way it has given exhaustive coverage to the infidelity of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.

Tim Graham, the director of media analysis at the Media Research Center (MRC), says if it were not for the death of Michael Jackson, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford would undoubtedly have received even more coverage than what the networks have given him to this point. Still Sanford has received a substantial amount of news time, and the MRC says reporters and anchors have taken every opportunity to mention that Sanford is a Republican.

According to Graham, the networks would never give this much coverage to a Democratic governor in the same circumstances.

"If you took a Democratic Sanford, a Democratic governor having one mistress, they would all yawn over that," he contends. "They would really not find that very interesting at all, and yet these people will find Republican mayors cheating as an interesting national story."

According to Graham, the liberal media knows that many conservatives are not going to tolerate Sanford remaining in office.

"They know that people like you and me are disgusted by a Mark Sanford -- and they know that that guy will be toast. And they know that adultery is not going to hurt a liberal," he adds. "When we discuss how the media behaves, we understand that the same people who are all making an enormous, big deal out of Mark Sanford thought that there was absolutely nothing wrong with what Bill Clinton did (while in office)."

Graham calls it a clear double standard.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=593232

[HopeHoops]

1. Yeah, he would have to be a Democratic PRESIDENT to get that much coverage!

What an asswipe.

[YOY]

2. Anyone who uses the word "Liberal Media" as if it exists needs to be ingnored

Tim Graham is one of them.

I seem to remember a certain recent Democratic presidential candidate who fucked big time...the media was all over him...but he knew when to keep his mouth shut about the affair.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I've always said that if the media was liberal, GWB would have never been elected.

No one would have taken him seriously if it were not for the media hype.

[monmouth]

3. I was going to comment but then my brain started to hurt while I was

looking for something tangible to take out of that. It's just not worth trying to make sense of it..

[Fumesucker]

4. Not a Crazy Bus.... A Crazy Bullet Train.. n/t

[GodlessBiker]

5. Being from NY, I can tell you that the Elliot Spitzer thing was in the papers non-stop.

This guy is full of shit.

[Javaman]

6. So soon he forgets about Spitzer.

another repuke tool from their oft used toolshed.

[BOSSHOG]

7. If it weren't for Michael Jackson's death

FARAH FAWCETT'S story would have sucked the oxygen out of newsrooms. If sanford doesn't have a long and winding press conference on a daily basis the evil liberal media wouldn't cover him. If pukes like graham and sanford wouldn't tell the world how holy they are and that others should be like them, that segment of the story couldn't be told. Clinton didn't moralize and "christian conservatives" are idiots and extremely high maintenance. Lordy why don't they find their own theocracy so they can commit adultery while in a perpetually forgiven state.

[VWolf]

8. You know what?

A repug sex scandal SHOULD get more coverage than a Dem one, for the simple reason that the R's are the ones preaching "sanctity of marriage" and all that.

Memo to Graham: It's the hypocracy, dumbass.

Oh yeah, and the other minor issue of Sanford VACATING HIS OFFICE for 5 days.