Everyone in the liberal media is newly obsessed with North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Trump-endorsed black conservative Republican that CNN has apparently found making bizarre comments on a pornographic website. It happens in many election cycles, that they use one scandal-plagued Republican to try and tar and feather the entire GOP.
ABC, CBS, and NBC all jumped on this story out of the gate, even as they added the warning "we haven't independently confirmed" any of it. Remember how they wouldn't touch the Hunter Biden laptop until they confirmed it for themselves?
We can go back through old election cycles: in 1994, the networks hammered Republican Senate candidates Oliver North and Michael Huffington (they lost).In 2010, they hammered GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell in Delaware as a "witch."
In 2012, they launched at Rep. Todd Akin as he ran for the Senate against Claire McCaskill. His claim that "legitimate rape" wouldn't lead to pregnancy drew 96 minutes of outraged network coverage. It's far more than the networks mustered for the rape accusations Juanita Broaddrick lodged at Bill Clinton.
Beyond that, we know that scandalous Democrats can be indicted, convicted, and jailed, and the networks never find it, or give it about 30 seconds. I thought of corrupt Reps. Corrine Brown and Chaka Fattah. The other filthy little tendency is to skip the Democrat label when the scandal figure is a Democrat as Rich Noyes has laid out.
As they obsess over Mark Robinson, we can look at what they weren't covering. For example, none of them covered what the New York Times covered about Dr. Jay Varma: "The official in charge of New York City’s pandemic response participated in sex parties and attended a dance party underneath a Wall Street bank during the height of the pandemic." Or this Covid story in the New York Post: "Cuomo personally altered report that lowballed COVID nursing-home deaths, emails show – contradicting his claim to Congress."
Hillary Clinton made the rounds of her fanboys and fangirls in the leftist media, and the biggest fanboy so far is Joe Scarborough, who claimed his conservative friends are distraught at "how much I loved you from the start."
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