"Faith and Family — Where I stand”

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-18-2008
"Faith and Family — Where I stand”
17
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 12:47pm

That was a much catchier slogan than the more accurate "So I Screw Around on My Wife and Paid Off my Girlfriend to Keep her Quiet". I guess a sex scandal is only a sex scandal if it involves a Republican.

TV Newsers Who Fawned Over Foley Sex Scandal Ignore Mahoney

By Noel Sheppard
October 14, 2008 - 02:11 ET

On Monday, NewsBusters wondered how much coverage the sex scandal involving Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fl.) -- the Democrat Congressman who in 2006 won the seat previously held by the disgraced Mark Foley -- would get.

Early indications suggest that as far as the television news outlets are concerned, the answer is "not much."

In fact, though all three broadcast network evening news programs covered the Foley sex scandal when it was first revealed on September 29, 2006, not one of them felt that the man who replaced him admitting to having an affair with a former campaign staffer was at all newsworthy.

PBS's "The News Hour" also covered the Foley affair on the day it was first revealed, but passed on the Mahoney story Monday.

As for CNN, although the Mahoney affair was first reported by ABCNews.com early Monday afternoon, its first mention was during 7PM's "Lou Dobbs Tonight." By contrast, "the most trusted name in news" did seven stories about Foley on the day the scandal first broke two years ago beginning with 3PM's "Newsroom."

At this rate, this story could be over by the time the stock market closes on Tuesday, which could make it one of the shortest Washington, D.C., sex scandals on record.
<>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/10/14/tv-newsers-who-fawned-over-foley-ignore-mahoney-sex-scandal

That Tim Mahoney sounds like such a nice guy!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5998929




Edited 10/14/2008 12:53 pm ET by frozenmargarita4me

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 3:05pm

I am sure that MSNBC will report on it tonight. I don't really think its an issue of left or right...I think it has to do will a few things: 1) same-sex and underage partners - definitely reported. 2) Up for re-election in a few weeks - again definitely reported.

I live in SoFl and it was on the front page of the Palm Beach Post this a.m.

I'm agreeing with the OP, let it unfold.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-07-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 3:11pm
Maybe the democrats only disapprove of gay scandal.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-17-2007
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 3:50pm
Just to be clear, do all democrats defend Bill's behavior in the white house? I look forward to the day that we don't have to hear about anybody's infidelity's but when I hear of them I don't defend them. I guess I'm not a democrat. thanks for pointing it out.



iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 4:02pm

Sopal

<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" />

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 4:03pm
Naw it seems to be the Republicans who are constantly fixated on what goes on in
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-07-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 5:10pm

"The governor of my state (Jim Gibbons) is a staunch Republican who has pretty much gotten a free pass for his cheating ways.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 5:24pm

Can I absolutely prove it?

 

Pages