Same GOP/Media Complex That Freaked Over Hillary’s Cattle Futures Barely Notices Romney’s $100 Million IRA
Posted by Phoenix Woman on July 15, 2012
Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest makes a good point:
Back when Bill Clinton was President there was a huge media-swarm controversy because a decade before her husband was elected Hillary Clinton had made $100,000 over ten months by investing in cattle futures. Now, skip forward to 2012. Report after report circulates about a candidate for President who owns a secret company in Bermuda, Swiss and Cayman Islands bank accounts and an IRA containing as much as $100 million — and who may have filed SEC documents containing false information (a felony). Huge media swarm this time? Not so much.
As Johnson points out, the feeding frenzy against Hillary took place in the early and middle 1990s — mostly before the rise of the internet, in other words — yet online searches for articles on Hillary Clinton and cattle futures turned up over 350,000 hits; if all the stories written about this subject were put online, the total would likely be significantly boosted.
Those of us who have followed the story of conservative and Republican bias in US media are not a bit surprised by this. Earlier this year, to note a recent example, we saw the FAIR study showing that the guest lists of Sunday talk shows are skewed heavily in favor of conservative and Republican viewpoints.
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Charles II said
Bob Parry:
Phoenix Woman (@PhoenixWomanMN) said
Marcy Wheeler, TBogg and Brad DeLong give Kessler and the Washington Post the mockery they deserve.
Ms. Wheeler’s attack stung so hard that Kessler himself showed up in the comments to whine about it!
Charles II said
See?
Nobody reads the blogs.
MarkH said
People learned long ago not to expect much from Republicans. First, don’t expect transparency because they’ve all been involved in something unsavory. Next, don’t expect them to fulfill promises. They’re long on promises, but they just don’t deliver. Remember the “Republicans are strong on national defense” and 9/11? Remember “Republicans are the fiscally responsible party” and the trillions of debt piled up by Dubya after Clinton had pretty much balanced the books?
Now ask yourself Mr. Ordinary Voter, what’s Mitt Romney’s tax plan?
No answer will be forthcoming because all he plans is to cutt taxes on the rich and shift the burden to everybody else. That’s it. That’s Romney’s main issue.
Obama, on the other hand, is leading America FORWARD. And the more Democrats we have in Congress to work with him the easier it will be.
Charles II said
So, Mark, how come the Republicans have controlled the Congress for 16 of the last 22 years?
MarkH said
Money, smart political campaigners, cheating, lying and sometimes weak Dem candidates. Is it really a mystery?
Charles II said
Mark, would you agree that this means that people expect even less from Democrats than from Republicans?
Dickeylee said
Couldn’t the reason for SEC paper work saying one thing and Willard saying another be that in order to claim carried interest you have to be the principal officer of a fund? He publicly says I’ve moved on to public life (Olympics, running for Governor) but privately claiming–and receiving–income from Bain that qualifies for carried interest taxed at 10%, not the 39.5% top tax rate of the time.
MarkH said
Yikes, this ‘scandal’ keeps getting worse and worse for the Mittster.