Homosexual Congressman Studds of Massachusetts got reelected
after seducing male interns. He survived the scandal,
but conservative Representative Crane of Illinois, who
seduced a female intern the same year, was defeated in
the next election.
What a public servant gets away with depends
entirely on his constituents.
The media hated those of us who were on
the right.
If they got anything on us, they would not
downplay it the way they did the Studds affair. We all
know that if Teddy Kennedy had been a conservative, Chappaquidick
would have destroyed him.
So the right had to follow the old rule,
"Don't write down anything you are not willing to see
on the front page of the Washington Post tomorrow." As
a result, the press did a bang-up job of riding herd on
us and exposing corruption on our side.
That, after all, is the function a free
press is supposed to serve: keeping public servants honest.
By the same token, this also means that
the media does not do its job when it comes to the left.
So one of the things Congressman Condit
says is true. He is indeed getting meaner treatment from
the media than Clinton did.
This is because Clinton was needed by the
political left, so he got full backing from the press
for anything he did, no matter how sleazy.
Condit is not leftist enough or important
enough to earn the same free pass Clinton had.
If Condit finds this surprising, he must
have been living under a rock.
A totally corrupt person can survive in
politics if the press and his constituents give him a
free pass. We all know that the left, constituents and
media, will quite literally let their servants get away
with murder.
So when we hear big-time paid commentators
tell us that everybody they know about in politics is
immoral and corrupt, they are telling you all about themselves.
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