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1/29/2013

A Rhetorical Question About the Media

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:25 am



How does a guy being investigated for sleeping with underage prostitutes appear on This Week and not get asked about it?

35 Responses to “A Rhetorical Question About the Media”

  1. DIng.

    Patterico (8b3905)

  2. Who exactly are the whores in this scenario?

    JD (b63a52)

  3. What’s sad is we know the answer to that question. Poor widdle Martha didn’t want to embarrass herself by asking.

    PatAZ (f54535)

  4. the hotairs are saying that it looks like one of cnn’s propaganda skanks is in for some rolicking funemployment… the soledad one

    you need a yippy dog to hump your obama-loving leg you need to get on it before someone snaps this one up

    happyfeet (ce327d)

  5. How does a guy being investigated for sleeping with underage prostitutes appear on This Week and not get asked about it?

    Wait, I think I know this one! Is it because he caucuses with the Democrat party?

    JVW (4826a9)

  6. They really are only interested in “the truth” as the elites tell it to them.

    Icy (32c21b)

  7. Very simple:
    http://www.archive.org/stream/americandemocrat00coop#page/124/mode/2up

    Read that and the next two chapters, then check the publication date.
    I know it is a bit long, but it will explain it.

    “The biggest lie the Media ever told the world was that It (the Media) was unbiased.”

    Sam (133e2f)

  8. The fix was in, Menendez was guaranteed he wouldn’t be questioned about his teenage hookers, otherwise he would never have put himself in such a vulnerable position.

    And this isn’t the first time. When this story initially surfaced a few months ago Menendez’s daughter, a regular FOX NEWS contributor was on then and on several times since then and the issue was never brought up.

    ropelight (9b2438)

  9. “How do you feel about reports that your daddy pays teens for sex?”

    A daughter isn’t responsible for answering questions about her father’s misdeeds.

    Pious Agnostic (6ff605)

  10. Maybe he was laying the ground work for the c.i.a.

    mg (31009b)

  11. The question mark should have appeared after “appear on This Week”.

    And of course the answer is given by JVW in #5.

    beer 'n pretzels (6ef50f)

  12. Ageists!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  13. Pious, it wouldn’t be your daughter’s responsibility to answer such questions, or mine, or even Bill Clinton’s daughter, but Alicia Menendez isn’t a private citizen. She’s a professional Democrat Party activist with a lengthy career of vigorously attacking GOP candidates and conservative causes.

    She got the same noblesse oblige considerations on FOX that her father got on ABC and that’s a legitimate part of the big picture.

    ropelight (9b2438)

  14. Former Florida Congressman Mark Foley must be wondering when Bob Menendez will become the butt of David Letterman’s jokes.
    Then Mr. Foley remembered, “Oh yeah, that’s right, I’m a Republican.”

    Elephant Stone (23e451)

  15. “She got the same noblesse oblige considerations on FOX that her father got on ABC and that’s a legitimate part of the big picture.”

    ropelight – What can you tell us about your father’s whoring around with teen Dominican prostitutes?

    I’m sure the Senator has shared all the details with his daughter.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  16. Soledad O’Brien was last seen wise-cracking with her old computer-generated avatar named “Dev.”

    Neo (d1c681)

  17. Nice puff piece on the Senator in Philly’s pathetic excuse for media. Not a single mention of any allegations.
    http://tinyurl.com/bypowxe

    Jack Klompus (6fc1b1)

  18. 2. Who exactly are the whores in this scenario?

    Comment by JD (b63a52) — 1/29/2013 @ 7:57 am

    Clearly the voters. The media as well, but let’s face it. The Obama administration has just discovered it didn’t have to make I.C.E. arrest and deport that illegal Peruvian alien/registered sex offender who was interning in Menendez’s office. (Unless that’s what passes for professional courtesy in Democratic party circles; sex offenders stick together.) They could have arrested and deported the guy before the election and it would have been a) a minor story if reported at all and b) a non-issue to the voters who could care less as long as guys like Menendez are promising to buy their votes with federal bennies paid for with other people’s money.

    Ted Kennedy proved that if you’re promising people enough free stuff you really can get caught red-handed with a live boy or a dead girl and still keep getting elected.

    Steve57 (5dbebd)

  19. *The Obama administration has just discovered it didn’t have to make I.C.E. delay arresting and deporting that illegal Peruvian alien/registered sex offender who was interning in Menendez’s office.*

    Steve57 (5dbebd)

  20. Laws are for little people. Not for people in the political and media elite.

    The Most Ridiculous Law of 2013 (So Far): It Is Now a Crime to Unlock Your Smartphone

    ADVISORY

    BY DECREE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

    IT SHALL HENCEFORCE BE ORDERED THAT AMERICANS SHALL NOT UNLOCK THEIR OWN SMARTPHONES.

    PENALTY: In some situations, first time offenders may be fined up to $500,000, imprisoned for five years, or both. For repeat offenders, the maximum penalty increases to a fine of $1,000,000, imprisonment for up to ten years, or both.*

    That’s right, folks. Congress has delegated to the Librarian of Congress the power to issue exemptions to the Digital Millenia Copyright Act.

    And, therefore, the power to rescind those exemptions and as the language of the above demonstrates rule by decree.

    How much you want to bet David Gregory or Charles Rangel can’t get arrested for this.

    Steve57 (5dbebd)

  21. And why wasn’t the good senator asked in his Gang-of-8 appearance about his unique situation?
    Well, he’s not a Republican.

    askeptic (b8ab92)

  22. Off Craiglist via Gateway Pundit:

    “What Obamacare did for me

    I thought it would be great, free health insurance, then I got a job. Boss says 28 hours a week is all they are offering now because over 30 requires insurance. Great, 30% pay cut right off the bat. But it gets better. My 28 hour week gives me about $18,000 a year which is too much for any government insurance. So now by law I have to buy my own ($5000) or pay a fine. I’m f**ked and every year the fine goes up. So what I thought was a sweet deal turned into an a** f**king. Thanks Obama, I wonder how many people like me turn 27 and find out you screwed us?

    Posted: 2013-01-27, 3:14PM PST”

    Too late sprout, you’ve been jobbed.

    gary gulrud (dd7d4e)

  23. So, now you ask questions about what happens if?

    askeptic (b8ab92)

  24. I hope Leviticus, who is still on his parents’ policy, sees your 3:56 post, gg.

    elissa (82092a)

  25. instrument of fame
    one of Menendez Brothers
    he felt so ashamed

    Colonel Haiku (29924c)

  26. can’t make this stuff up
    first chimp mullah to teh M00n
    teh Thirteenth Mahdi?

    Colonel Haiku (29924c)

  27. 25- We’re still waiting for those who heckled and defamed minority Members of Congress to be identified, or even found on tape (Breitbart Bet).

    A lie in furtherance of the narrative, that is what the media is for these days.

    askeptic (b8ab92)

  28. I do not know this Chris Cuomo propaganda slut person who is taking the soledad’s job

    it’s almost unthinkable that he could be as bad as her though

    but I am but a naive little pikachu

    happyfeet (4bf7c2)

  29. Another fun game of “Name that Party!”

    Kevin M (bf8ad7)

  30. Remember, this is old news to the media, they knew about this months ago – it’s so last year. Since it’s old news, why bring it up. Afterall, what difference does it make at this point?

    (Do I need to put the sarc tag? ok…)
    /sarc off

    Dilligas (cc8ddb)

  31. Driving home last night I heard an interview about the Clinton interview who’s only mention of the recent hearings was a joke – no mention at all of the fact she’d admitted responsiblity for 4 embasy deaths!

    But that’s New Zealand. You get that a lot here anyway.

    scrubone (30903f)

  32. #15, dailyrocks, my father wasn’t a Senator and I’m not a professional activist, both he and I are private citizens therefore not public figures.

    But Senator Menendez and his daughter are both public figures and when he was exposed as involved in a teenage prostitute scandal involving receiving improper gifts and illegal compensation from a long time supporter who just happened to be in big trouble with the IRS, it would have been legitimate to ask his daughter about it, she’s often acted as his representative to the media.

    It wouldn’t have been necessary to quiz Alicia on the salacious details of her father’s dalliances, those issues are better left for the investigators, but questions about the free plane trips and her father’s efforts to help out his bosom buddy with tax problems would have been legitimate, timely, and newsworthy.

    ropelight (979d9e)

  33. The official time tested Democrat policy towards Democrat leaders and young women (or men) is that only if the senator kills more than ONE (1) young woman, he can be asked to leave.

    Otherwise, it’s nothing.

    RS (410442)


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