Dem Leaders Knew of Massa’s Sexual Misconduct, Will Dems Be Held Accountable Like GOP Was Over Mark Foley

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Dem Leaders Knew of Massa’s Sexual Misconduct, Will Dems Be Held Accountable Like GOP Was Over Mark Foley

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

Remember when Florida Congressman Mark Foley was outed for sexual misconduct with male pages in the House of Representatives in 2006? You’ll recall that the Democrats and the Old Media and the left were in some high dudgeon over the claim that Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert knew all about it before the scandal erupted and played the story endlessly for months on end.

Well now with Congressman Eric Massa from New York we have a Democrat also accused of sexual misconduct with a male staffer and we similarly find out that the Democratic leadership knew all about it. Will the Old Media make as much about Dem. Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer’s knowledge of Massa’s sexual misconduct as it did about the Republican leadership’s supposed knowledge of Foley’s?

Here is a small sampling of the treatment of the story by The New York Times as an example:

Back in 2006 The New York Times had a field day with Foley’s disgusting behavior. Even a year after the incident the Times was still indulging outrage over the “shameful cover-up in the halls of Congress” that was the Foley scandal.

As Dennis Hastert lost his Speakership in Nov. of 2006, The Times pinned it all to his “role in the Mark Foley scandal” because it “became a Democratic talking point and severely limited his effectiveness as an advocate for House candidates.”

The Times even took a break from moralizing about those evil Republicans to poke some fun with a story about a satirical online game about Foley’s actions. The game was described as an, “online game in which Mr. Foley’s head is maneuvered through a Pac-Man-like maze as it tries to outrun Congressional pages.”

The Times wasn’t the only one, of course. Just for a few examples: ABCNews was on the case; so was the Chicago Sun-Times; and CNN also hit the story up for months on end. Any web search of Hastert and Foley’s names linked together will search out hours of reading.

And the left was happy to add to the din. The lefty website Think Progress, for instance, was virtually salivating over the Foley situation and quickly posted an extensive “Foley Coverup Timeline.”

Mary Katherine Ham did a great post tracing the emergence of the story back in 2006 to reveal its race through the Old Media. Patterico also had a good post talking about how the left and Old Media began to beat the Hastert-knew-it-all drum before any facts were ascertained.

In any case, the story was a mainstay in the OId Media for months and has occasionally been brought up in the years since.

Now on March 3 comes the story that first-term Congressman Eric Massa, Democrat from New York, is retiring. He claims it is for health reasons but it looks more like he’s trying to get out ahead of charges that he sexually harassed a male Congressional staffer. Facts are a bit scarce yet, though, so there is no way to judge if the accusations seem plausible. Not that a lack of facts prevented the Old Media from launching a full court press for Foley, mind you.

To add to the news of Massa’s retirement and possible sex scandal, we are also told that Democrat House Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer knew of the accusations against Massa at least as far back as February 8, almost a month ago. Will we see rabid calls of what did Hoyer know it and when did he know it from the press?

Is this any sort of defense of Mark Foley? Certainly not. But as the Massa story develops and we learn more about what charges against him are true, and what aren’t let us pause to judge whether the Old Media rakes Democrat Eric Massa over the coals in the same way it did Republican Mark Foley.

fiscal_conservative

“Foley Coverup Timeline.” Compare apples to apples.

Develop a “Massa Timeline,” and see if it has legs like the Foley incident.

Y’all may, but I have no sympathy for a pedophile.

“we have a Democrat also accused of sexual misconduct with a male page” Warner Todd Huston | 12:57 pm
“made unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer.” John Hawkins | 12:36 pm

Which one is it? A page, or a junior staffer? A little confusing here.
http://www.publiusforum.com Warner Todd Huston

You are right. The very first story I saw said Massa was with a page and I didn’t see the further stories that said it was a staffer. I have corrected the piece. Thanks
rwnewsnut

The answer is: they won’t rake Democrat Eric Massa over the coals. Forgive the haphazard stream of consciousness. As you watch the response to Republican scandals (Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, Larry Craig, Rush Limbaugh…) coming from the left – and the MSM specifically, you wonder since they do not lay claim to traditional family values, a war on drugs, belief in capitalism, what scandal could possibly be as embarrassing and trumpeted?

I guess liberals caught flying in private planes (Nancy Pelosi, many UN Copenhagen summit attendees), driving gas guzzlers (politicians driven in Suburbans or Escalades, check out the Oscars this weekend), living in extravagant houses (Thomas Friedman, John Edwards). Possibly a liberal wearing fur. A liberal carrying a hand gun or their detail security carrying concealed weapons (Madonna) would be an egregious infraction.
Not paying your taxes (Geitner, Daschle, Charles Rangel …). Lefties abusing women (Roman Polanski).

When we protest (Tea Partiers, khaki clad Florida recount protesters), it’s horrendous. When the left protests (Immigration marches, Anti-war protests, California school protests), it’s patriotic.

The Dixie Chicks say something that doesn’t sit well with their audience and the audience responds (destroy Dixie Chicks music, stop listening), the Dixie Chicks end up crying on the Barbara Walters show. When Rush wants to buy a small stake of a football team – the media responds. Did he get to cry to Barbara Walters? No. The media felt triumphant in Rush’s defeat. It was justified. How come they didn’t understand that the rejection of the Dixie Chicks was justified?

But even if there were to be a lefty news-worthy scandal, the lefty gets a reprieve because, let’s face it, in the eyes of the MSM, the leftist has SO many other redeeming qualities. Why throw out the baby with the bath water? Why cause any consternation amongst thieves? This couldn’t be more evident in the John Edwards cover-up. By the way, did Rielle Hunter ever consider an abortion?
fiscal_conservative

Posted by rwnewsnut
2010-03-04 15:04:31
Again, if it has legs, run with it, but by all means compare apples to apples(pedophile to pedophile not pedophile to perv).

Are you intentionally overlooking the years we spent bashing Clinton’s affairs?

I have seen and heard enough about John and Elizabeth Edwards for a lifetime.

As far as an answer for Rush’s situation, the media has quit talking about his Oxy addiction, three trips to rehab, and I haven’t heard anything about his possesion of prescription drugs(Viva Viagra), prescribed to someone else but found by airport security, in a good year and a half. When did ESPN start leaning to one political perspective? and he didn’t have to whine to Barbara, I listened to three hours of it everyday for two weeks on his radio show.

Rielle Hunter? You will have to ask that of her, she has her child, be happy for her that she didn’t choose the alternative.

“nut” you picked a good adjective.
StanInTexas

Are you intentionally overlooking the years we spent bashing Clinton’s affairs?

Posted by fiscal_conservative 2010-03-04 15:36:06

You and Liberal like you have defended Clinton ad naseum… and still do!

And I seriously doubt you have ever listen to more than 30 seconds of Rush.
Tom_Paine_1776

How do I spell thank you? R.o.y. A.s.h.b.u.r.n. Thanks Senator…
rwnewsnut

I’m very happy Rielle Hunter chose life.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Are you intentionally overlooking the years we spent bashing Clinton’s affairs?

Nixon recalls bashing Clinton’s perjury. Perhaps you were somewhere else, since you haven’t been psoting here very long.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

posting, not psoting
Tom_Paine_1776

not caring
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Posted by Tom_Paine_1776
2010-03-04 16:38:27

fuck you noob
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON — Representative William Delahunt will not seek re-election to Congress, the seven-term Democrat will announce tomorrow, ending a nearly 40-year career in elected office and giving Republicans hope of capturing the seat, which stretches from Cape Cod to the South Shore.

“It’s got nothing to do with politics,” the Quincy Democrat said today. “Life is about change. I think it’s healthy. It’s time.”

From the Boston Globe.

They are dropping like flies on the left. Just as Nixon has predicted. So let it be written, so let it be done.
tblrk2006

How do I spell thank you? R.o.y. A.s.h.b.u.r.n. Thanks Senator…

Happen on the job? Didnt think so.
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