One of the major reasons Teddy Kennedy destroyed his chances for the Democratic presidential nomination at Chappaquiddick was because the national media loved him dearly. Like his brother John Kennedy, Teddy was protected from any exposure of his increasingly insane personal scandals.
Drunk and womanizing all the time, Teddy Kennedy was a disaster waiting to happen, and it happened at Chappaquiddick. Those of us the media hated were kept in line.
If the media hate you, it keeps you clean. Those of us the media hated had to stick closely to the adage, “Don’t do anything you would not want to be on the front page of the Washington Post tomorrow.”
I have never seen anyone mention this before, but what the media to us was exactly what it is SUPPOSED to do. For us, they acted as watchdogs. No liberal is bothered until he is on his way to prison. Which is one reason so many of them get indicted.
In fact, there is only one exception I know to the rule that the media went after anti-liberals hammer and tong while ignoring anything liberals did. That was the case of homosexuals.
Two hard-core conservative congressmen, Bob Bauman and Jon Hinson, had been cruising the gay bars and, in Hinson’s case, conducted homosexual orgies right there on Capitol Hill. If those activities had been with women, they would have been in the media at the start.
But homosexual scandals, no matter how blatant, were always ignored by the media. So Bauman and Hinson were not discussed until they were being kicked out of congress. They could have been stopped from going to Kennedy extremes if the media had done its job.
When I got my higher and higher security clearances there was no doubt in anybody’s mind that the media had vetted me thoroughly. But when Theodore Sorensen, a good leftist, went for his security clearance for a very high level presidential appointment, he was denied it. The media had ignored all the things that made him a suspect of subversion.
The press only does its job when it hates you.
#1 by willing on 04/24/2005 - 9:26 pm
The liberal media,forever acting to calm the visceral fears of its majority shareholders,regularly attacks
those that they perceive to be real or potential political adversaries.One can readily find
politicians (local,state and federal),who are not radical by any measure,get attacked for
even the slightest infraction.Liberal politicians who criticize the current war to make the world
safe for Israel,colored politicians who expose Jewish activities against their particular
group,Judeo-Christian school administrators who didn’t proactively forbid the mention of Christmas
in elementary schools,etc.They don’t have to have any skeletons in the closet,as one
will be created,if the need to destroy them becomes necessary.