Harry Reid buried by MSM.

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I mean the story about him is essentially being buried. Does anyone see any perversion of news in the way the MSM is handling it? Here's one perspective. The Anchoress
AJ Strata is doing big time investigative work on the Harry Reid story, and Ed Morrissey is asking good questions about Harry Reid’s land deals and troubling forgetfulness when it comes to income reportage, and such.

I had a question of my own and asked someone who actually makes a living as a journalist the same questions Hugh Hewitt is asking today: why it was that the Reid story was getting so little attention from the MSM.

“Not sexy enough. The Foley (R - Creep) story had sex. That’s better tv.”

Hmmm…I couldn’t help remembering that Dan Rather didn’t want to report on the “salacious” Gary Condit (D -Chilling Creep) story, even though that had sex in it. And it was Newsweek, wasn’t it, (and I think, Rather, again) who did not want to report on the Lewinsky/Clinton (D- Big Creep) story.
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I was living in Nevada around the 2004 elections. Lots of Harry Reid ads on TV, but unless you read the teensy weensy print at the end of the ads, you'd never know he was a Democrat.

The same thing is happening here in Florida. The well heeled GOP candidates keep their party affiliations very low key.

If (and I would assume yes) Harry Reid is abusing his political position for personal gain, he should be smacked down. Although it seems all politicians do this, the more that this news is out there, the better we can slowly cleanup this mess that we call democracy.

Charlie (only export democracy when we have it right) Monoxide
 
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BobK said:
Whether they are donkeys or elephants, once they get in and learn how to game the system, most of them morph into self-serving bas***ds.
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And please don't think for a moment this kind of behaviour is limited to US politicians. In fact, it's the rule! The exceptions are usually those who are not on the take...
 
BobK said:
I mean the story about him is essentially being buried.
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If it's being buried why did I read it on the front page of USA Today?
Harry Reid of Nevada is awaiting word from the Senate ethics committee on whether he failed to properly account for a business deal that resulted in a windfall profit, the Associated Press says today in a follow-up to an "exclusive" report Wednesday. The Washington Post and New York Times carried similar reports this morning in response to AP's investigation, which has generated partisan tongue-wagging and head-scratching. Reid denied wrong-doing to the Reno Gazette Journal, calling the AP story "just wrong" on several counts.
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MSM=powerful and coordinated enough to bury Harry Reid story
MSM=not powerful and not coordinated enough to bury WTC 9/11 CT story?
 
BobK said:
I mean the story about him is essentially being buried. Does anyone see any perversion of news in the way the MSM is handling it? Here's one perspective. The Anchoress
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Only if the story is actually, you know, something worth reporting. And I've seen that story and if it had legs don't you think FOX news would be all over it? They're quite desperate to have something bad to say about a Democrat that in any way equates to Mark Foley, Bob Ney, Jack Abramhoff, Tom DeLay, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera . . . I mean they were dragging up Gerry Studds and Barney Frank stories two weeks ago.

I think they only reason it's buried is because it doesn't have a lot of life to it.
 
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I think they only reason it's buried is because it doesn't have a lot of life to it.
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I think it's buried because you have to pay attention to understand the story, and actually have to think a little bit, and most people can't think at all, except in short bursts. It takes a paragraph or two to explain what Reid did, and most people don't have enough of an attention span oh, look at the bunny rabbit!

Foley, OTOH, well, any bucket of rusty wrenches could understand "Foley sent dirty email to kids", so most people could, too. I told my cat yesterday and she understood it (she didn't think it was such a big deal, BTW...)

Interesting. People can grok the Foley story in five seconds, but it's been on the front page for two weeks now. The Reid story requires more explanation, but it gets stuck on page A3 for a day, then vanishes. Too complex for people to understand? Or too complex for the MSM to investigate?

Or is it that it doesn't have the necessary salacious sex angle?
 
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I am posting this because it presents an alternative view. I don't have an opinion as to whether Reid has acted ethically or not.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/11/175829/67

ETA: Hopefully somebody will sort through all this and tell me what I should think. I just can't get my mind up for another government scandal right now.
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"House Speaker Dennis Hastert denied Thursday that he pushed for federal funding for a proposed highway in northeastern Illinois so he and his wife could reap about $1.8 million from land deals near their home in Kendall County.

The Sunlight Foundation, a newly created group whose declared aim is to inform the public about what members of Congress do, has accused Hastert of not divulging connections between the $207 million earmark he won for a highway, the Prairie Parkway, and an investment he and his wife made in nearby land."

"There are others -- Reps. Jerry Lewis, Richard Pombo, and Gary Miller for starters. This isn't a case of "everyone does it". It's a case of projection -- accusing Reid of doing something Republicans have made a habit of doing."

Well, all I can say is that two wrongs don't make a right. Oh, I mean, three wrongs don't make, er, four wrongs...Oh skip it. They're all scum.
 
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