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Originally Posted by tater
You lived in the US during the Clinton administration, did you? You followed the news?
I don't even remember the names of Clinton's accusers. But there were even lawsuits. The news even reported on clinton being "teflon," here. Women's groups never chimed in to help stamp out sexual harassment, etc.
I'm sure at some point someone in conservative media will do a lexis/nexis search and do story counts on Clinton vs Cain. And Cain is not president, so his coverage should be an order of magnitude lower than it would be for a President to be accused of rape, etc.
Every single time there is a study of the way the US media covers politicians, it shows that they are harder on the right. This is unsurprising given that something like 80% of reporters are self-identified as liberals or democrats. They point to Fox as if that balances everything, but while Fox owns the cable news market, their total viewers is a small fraction of the network news.
The idea that the press gave Clinton a pass on his pre-presidential extracurricular sex life is uncontroversial.
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So if it's all the big bad media giving Team D a pass on these sort of things, how is it that David Vitter still has a job and Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner don't?
Or maybe you're wrong and the media loves a good sex scandal, regardless. As Tribesman said - bollox.