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This is how the Associated Press covers Democrat scandals.
HOBOKEN, N.J. – Mayor Peter Cammarano III resigned Friday, just three weeks after taking office and a week after vowing to stay in office and fight federal corruption charges against him.
Cammarano, who won a June runoff election, was snared last week in a sweeping federal corruption probe that resulted in the arrests of 44 people, including rabbis and dozens of public officials.
The 32-year-old — Hoboken's youngest mayor — sent a letter to the city clerk on Friday saying his resignation was effective at noon. City Council President Dawn Zimmer entered the city council chamber to a standing ovation and was sworn in moments later as the city's first female acting mayor...
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There is exactly one mention throughout this entire article of the fact that Cammarano is a Democrat, and even that was indirect. No big deal, right? It wouldn't seen like it except for when you examine the coverage of Republican scandals.
See for yourself. This is how the same people covered the Ted Stevens "scandal" (which, incidentally, was eventually laughed out of court):
Ted Stevens Indicted, Longest-Serving GOP Senator
The corruption investigation of Alaska back-room deals began in 2004, mostly targeting state legislators and businessmen. On Tuesday, prosecutors aimed much higher with federal charges on the other side of the continent against Ted Stevens the nation's longest-serving Republican senator.
...He is accused of lying on his annual Senate financial disclosure reports between 1999 and 2006 an indictment that caps a lengthy FBI investigation that has upended Alaska politics and brought unfavorable attention to both Stevens and his congressional colleague, GOP Rep. Don Young. Both are running for re-election this year.
Stevens' indictment further damages Republican prospects in the November election as Senate Democrats, who now enjoy a 51-49 majority, try to capture a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. Stevens faces both Democratic and Republican challengers who are trying to capitalize on his legal woes.
...He said that in line with Senate GOP rules he was temporarily giving up the ranking positions his seniority has given him. If the Republicans were to take over the Senate, the party's most-senior senator would be in line to become president pro tempore, a mostly symbolic title but one that would make him third in line for the presidency after the vice president and speaker of the House.
Tuesday's charges tarnish one of the most powerful and savvy of the GOP lions in the Senate. Stevens has coasted to re-election six times in Alaska but this year is in what has been viewed as the toughest race of his career against Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich.
...Throughout the investigation, Stevens has remained an iconic figure in Alaska. A moderate Republican, he has served almost 40 years in the Senate, where he unabashedly steered money to his remote and sparsely populated home state. He often drew criticism from outside Alaska for going around the traditional appropriations process to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars for pet projects.
Tuesday's indictment comes a year after another Republican senator, Larry Craig of Idaho, pleaded guilty to charges arising out of a Minneapolis airport men's room sex sting.
Another GOP colleague, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said, "I've known Ted Stevens for 28 years, and have always known him to be impeccably honest."
The last sitting senator to be indicted in federal court was Republican Sen. David Durenberger of Minnesota, who was charged in 1993 with conspiring to file fraudulent claims for Senate reimbursement of $3,825 in lodging expenses.
That's 11 mentions of the fact that he was a Republican...in a single article.
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The difference: Democrats seldom make themselves out to be moral arbiters of society. Republicans (whose sex scandals, particularly, outnumber those of Democrats') do. If Republicans would stop expressing, by their actions, "Do as I say, not as I do," while attempting to force everyone else to live by their "moral values"-in-lip-service-only, they might find themselves forgiven a lot more easily and quickly. Bust them all for criminal activity -- but stop pretending to be so surprised when the rest of us come down, hard, on these flagrant hypocrites for preaching "morality," then going home to feel up the hired help.
Democrat sex scandals far outnumber republican ones, only the media tries to cover up and dismiss democrats caught in the act and make a federal case out of every republican. there have been three democrat presidents just in the last 100 years that had sex scandals while in office. out of 7 democrat presidents, 3 had sex scandals. would you like to count republican presidential sex scandals? when a republican screws up, and they do, they admit to it. they dont lie to a grand jury, bomb our allies over seas, and attempt to divert attention away from their mistakes. Lavanderliberal, i will give you the same advice i give all uneducated liberals, go read a book (anything by george orwell is a good choice) and stop listening to the liberal propoganda machine
Signed, Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Lavender...What a steaming load of crap
Conservatives daring to have some form of actual standards and direction in life beyond "if it feels good, do it" is not them trying to be moral arbiters of anything. It's them being normal.
What's extreme here are the bitter, shallow relativists so threatened by having any societal expectations at all on their behaviors or their decisions questioned in any way that they need to constantly lash out at those with even the most basic moral compass.
And it took 10 months to get anywhere near as many news media stories on John Edwards knocking his mistress up (while dragging his wife around the country for cancer-pity votes) as they ran on Sarah Palin's DAUGHTER getting knocked up.
So please don't insult our intelligence with this lame "it's about the hypocrisy" smokescreen.
And no, Republicans don't even come close to Democrats in scandals...Democrat scandals just get buried at every turn (and vice versa) as the article demonstrates
Oh, and Lavender, actual hypocrisy would be more like fraudulently inventing a "Republican culture of corruption" to get elected and, promising that this would be "the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history," and them putting Republicans to shame with rampant scandals and corruption.
Well said, Gideon.
Thanks for letting me know I hit a raw nerve with you guys -- especially you, Mr. Moon. You let me know I'm doing something right. I'll stop scratching at that nerve now, and let y'all rant amongst yourselves about us horrible lib'ruls. Have fun!
Whoo-boy, Lavender. It's a good thing you didn't mention Conservative Babylon. The poo would have *really* hit the fan...
Lavender...
Posturing, taunting, and hurling juvenile smears...let me know when you come up with something vaguely resembling a counterpoint.
I love "debating" with liberals.
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