Network Hypocrisy: Two Standards on Sex Scandals and Whistleblowers

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Recall the furor over the Access Hollywood tape in the fall of 2016? In which someone leaked a tape from the NBC show, two days before the second presidential debate, to The Washington Post? The tape had then-presidential candidate Donald Trump making a lewd and gross remark about women to the show’s host Billy Bush? Uproar ensued. Trump issued an apology and Billy Bush was forced to resign. Contrast this with Ronan Farrow’s tale of the very same network’s treatment of Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer. Back in June, Vanity Fair published a piece by Farrow’s NBC producer Rich Mchugh.

Rep. Mark Meadows shuts down MSNBC reporter on air

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On Friday, Mark Meadows interrupted an MSNBC reporter on-air to defend his fellow Republican lawmakers and President Trump. MSNBC’s Leigh Ann Caldwell was reporting live from Capitol Hill about the Trump impeachment inquiry. “Republicans continue to hang everything on Ambassador [Kurt] Volker,” Caldwell told viewers, referring to the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, who resigned from the State Department in September after his name appeared in a whistleblower complaint about a July phone call between Trump and the leader of Ukraine. While Caldwell was reporting, Rep. Meadows walked by with his staff, so the MSNBC reporter attempted to flag him

Sententiae epicuri concludaturque ius no Id mucius

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait… The Earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool. Neanderthals developed tools, we built a wall (we built the pyramids). Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, that all started with the big bang! Lucky there’s a family guy, lucky there’s a man who positively can do all the things that make us laugh and cry – he’s our family guy! Steve Jobs It seems today that all you see is violence in movies and sex on tv, but where are those

Eric Ciaramella Reelects the President?

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So there was this on October 30 from over at RealClearInvestigations, by the reporter Paul Sperry. The headline: The Beltway’s ‘Whistleblower’ Furor Obsesses Over One Name in which Sperry reports this: For a town that leaks like a sieve, Washington has done an astonishingly effective job keeping from the American public the name of the anonymous “whistleblower” who triggered impeachment proceedings against President Trump — even though his identity is an open secret inside the Beltway. More than two months after the official filed his complaint, pretty much all that’s known publicly about him is that he is a CIA

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