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Cleveland Scene on Social Media. Most Popular Most Read. November , Newsletters Never miss a beat Sign Up Now Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox. Calendar Events. So here is Boehner having an alleged affair at the same time that the Republican Party was impeaching President Bill Clinton for lying about having an affair. The author of the piece cited above used the Mark Souder scandal of last year as another way to put things into perspective.
You may remember Mark Souder as the Indiana Republican House Rep who was a strong advocate of abstinence only sex education that got busted having an affair with one of his staffers.
When that happened, Boehner pushed Souder to resign immediately. Christopher Lee of NY infamy resigned after trying to cheat on his wife via Craigslist. Under John Boehner's leadership, any allegations or proof of affairs are not to be tolerated, unless your political career is Too Big To Fail, as is John Boehner's, apparently.
I am curious as to why Senator David Vitter and his well documented dalliances with Hookers while wearing diapers was totally ignored by the national media even though Vitter ran for re-election last year, and largely continues to be ignored to this day.
When the story broke about John Boehners' affairs in The National Enquirer, the media quickly got bored with it and the story went away. When the story broke about John Edwards' affair in The National Enquirer, well, that story didn't quite go away, did it? If a Democrat is accused of a scandal, the media will demand that they resign immediately and pursue the story to the ends of the earth. If a Democrat has a scandal the Foxaganda complex will beat it into the ground and the leadership of the Democratic party will swiftly throw the accused Dem under the bus and demand investigations.
If a Republican has a scandal the Foxaganda complex will ignore it and the leadership of the Democratic party will not demand investigations. Anybody else starting to notice a disturbing pattern? So where is the media follow up stories to the allegations of John Boehner's reported affairs? I know we can hardly expect John Boehner to launch a ethics inquiry against himself, but it sure would be nice to have an independent investigative media in this country that could do that kind of thing, wouldn't it?
Is there a compelling tweet, or a blue stained dress, or even a wide stance that could act as proof of the claims against House Speaker John Boehner? But there wasn't proof against John Edwards until the National Enquirer reported about his affairs, and the media did some research. Would it kill the media to apply the same journalistic effort into the claims made against John Boehner in the same publication that brought down John Edwards?
Would it kill them to remind the public over and over of David Vitter's history, or the role Tom Coburn played in the Ensign Affair, which is still under investigation? I will tell you one thing that this story of John Boehner's alleged affairs has put into perspective for me, when it comes to hounding politicians over alleged or truthful sex scandals the GOP is Too Big To Fail in the eyes of the media. There is one set of rules for the media when handling Dem sex scandals and another set of rules for handling GOP sex scandals, and since Fox and the Right Wing Noise Machine drives the national media narrative, guess how those two sets of rules usually work out.
It's the same reason David Vitter does not still have an ongoing scandal and John Edwards does. With all that being said, I would like to say that if anything I have written about Leigh LaMora or Lisbeth Lyons turns out to be false I will gladly apologize. I am not saying that there is definitive proof of any affairs involving Leigh LaMora or Lisbeth Lyons and House Speaker John Boehner, I would just like to know why the media gave up on that story and other stories pertaining to Republicans embroiled in sex scandals who refuse to resign like David Vitter and Tom Coburn.
After living through the Clinton Impeachment and the swift resignations of Democratic officials like Governors Elliot Spitzer and Jim McGreevey, I think that puts the right wing media bias and other things in politics in a new perspective, doesn't it?
The media has one set of rules for Democrats and another set of rules for Republicans. Republicans are allowed to lie about WMD's, torture, Death Panels, the cause of the deficit, anything and everything, including their sex scandals until the moment they get busted, and then the media gets bored and moves on, but Democrats aren't allowed to lie about their sex scandals, and the Democrats who do get caught are never EVER allowed to forget about it.
Republicans are allowed to lie and Democrats can't push their own ideas because the media has framed the debate around whether facts like Climate Science is even really a science while the guy who swore to heaven that Armageddon is coming if Health Care reform passes into law is allowed to be like the pastor who predicts the end of the world, and then when it doesn't happen the media pretends he ever said that and just invites him on Sunday Morning talk shows next week where he will make outrageously alarmist claims and spout misinformation over and over.
This is the recipe for the one sided national conversation where the far right meets the center right and decides what is best for everyone, this is the recipe for the funny memory hole the media has towards the long history of failed GOP policies over the last decade. That can not be any more clear than when we witness the media's unwillingness to pursue the allegations made in the past year that John Boehner is having multiple affairs.
Putting John Boehner's 2nd alleged Mistress in perspective. Community This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Please log in or sign up to continue. Recommend Unrecommend Add to Blog. Edit Tags. Done Editing Tags.
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