The corporate controlled media may now be forced to investigate Vitter

[NNN0LHI]

Whether they want to or not they may be forced.

Rachel Maddow is hammering on Vitter and the GOP right now real good.

Don

[spanone]

1. good for her...

[Greybnk48]

2. Good for Rachel!! n/t

[CakeGrrl]

3. I'm curious about how blatantly hypocritical the GOP has been

Since I avoid the MSM, I haven't heard how much of it is going on, but I'd think that at least a few of them realize that pushing too hard on this issue may backfire.

[yardwork]

4. In our dreams.

[0rganism]

5. haha! No.

I agree it was a powerful segment, but there are 3 reasons this won't happen.

1) It's Maddow on MSNBC - that's out in left fringe territory, it doesn't drive dialog; frankly, Sustern may have had more of an effect when she asked Priebus about Vitter, and I'm sure she got a talking-to from Ailes as a result. Don't get me wrong, I love Rachel's show, but I just don't see it having any impact on the corporate media.

2) It's Not News - Vitter's sordid stories are what, 4 years old? In a nation that has an attention span of 3 weeks, that dog won't hunt. I doubt even Jon Stewart could resurrect it if he tried. Flynt would have to come through with something new and incriminating on Vitter, and you can bet Vitter covers his tracks real good now.

3) It Doesn't Fit the Narrative - Vitter's a powerful conservative moral leader, no matter his past; Weiner's an outspoken liberal who was just bound to have something nasty in his closet that would bring him down. Plus, Vitter's offense was old-school sex with prostitutes, the only fresh angle was the cell-phone madame. Weiner's story has "social networking" written all over it, and the corporate media loves to run with whatever's trendy, so they can seem hip and relevant.

I wish this weren't the case, but Vitter's risen above it somehow. Really, the Vitter scandal should have come up when Rep. Lee resigned, but it didn't then and it won't now.

[HopeHoops]

6. OOOhhhh - DIAPER pictures!!!

[City Lights]

7. Not gonna happen. nt

[JoePhilly]

8. IF they bring up Weiner ... you have to come back with VItter, Ensign, Sandford.

If we're going to investigate a guy who did not have sex, we should also be investigating these guys who DID have sex.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. I would concentrate more on Diaper Dave and (Whatever They Call Him These Days) Ensign

Even Larry Flynt (my hero!) showed a touch of softheartedness last night on Rachel when he acknowledged that at least Sanford appeared to have done his transgressions out of a sense of love, not lust.