On Monday, NewsBusters wondered how much coverage the sex scandal involving Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fl.) -- the Democrat Congressman who in 2006 won the seat previously held by the disgraced Mark Foley -- would get.
Early indications suggest that as far as the television news outlets are concerned, the answer is "not much."
In fact, though all three broadcast network evening news programs covered the Foley sex scandal when it was first revealed on September 29, 2006, not one of them felt that the man who replaced him admitting to having an affair with a former campaign staffer was at all newsworthy.
PBS's "The News Hour" also covered the Foley affair on the day it was first revealed, but passed on the Mahoney story Monday.
As for CNN, although the Mahoney affair was first reported by ABCNews.com early Monday afternoon, its first mention was during 7PM's "Lou Dobbs Tonight." By contrast, "the most trusted name in news" did seven stories about Foley on the day the scandal first broke two years ago beginning with 3PM's "Newsroom."
At this rate, this story could be over by the time the stock market closes on Tuesday, which could make it one of the shortest Washington, D.C., sex scandals on record.
Liberal media bias? What liberal media bias?
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What about the multiple Obama sex and cash affairs
October 14, 2008 - 02:47 ET by Lame CherryI came across some exclusive information no one has yet tied together in the Obama/ Vera Baker connection which seems exactly like the Obama campaign in a whole lot of not what anything it appears to be. There are dual businesses running out of these Obama supporter and former employee addresses.
This comes out of Florida too in the offices are there in various dual businesses at the same phone numbers. The Department of Justice would have red flags flying in a West Indies company, no businesses, but businesses with no business, people who worked for Obama stating in media stories how professional they are and yet looking unprofessional and yet have tons of cash off shore to theaten the British press and somehow keep the lid on what looks like another Obama criminal caper by one of his people.
This has to be looked at to what money is coming into the campaign if any from this link to Vera Baker if it is a money laundering location as these "businesses" are all hidden.
It seems to mirror the Pakistani money flow by Obama's associates.
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Vera Baker: It is Red Alarm Time in Funny Business
The red alarms should be going off in the Vera Baker and Barack Obama connection as something just does not add up.
Ms.
Baker threatened the British Press with her legal counsel immediately
after they hinted of an adulterous affair between Obama and herself,
but the larger problems in this are
Cape Caribbean, LCC and BizCarib.
Why you might ask?
Both of these "businesses" list out of the same Martinique offices and Miami offices with the same linking telephone numbers.
Yet
for businesses, the Miami office is not even listed in an online
reverse search of the phone number to try and ascertain the office
location.
Cape Caribbean's website was immediately scrubbed from
the internet as this story broke. BizCarib has the strangest only
contact link and a very, very poor jpg image of a website front "as the
website".
It is not that difficult for someone of any business
caliber to grab a screenshot and save it in a high quality image so it
does not bleed. For Ms. Baker's noted resume in working for the
messiah, working in Chicago traders and founding the black
Congressional caucus fund raising business in Washington, DC, it is
very odd that she could not even create a professional screen grab nor
had the knowledge to do it.
This all brings up the red alerts as
anytime a business is running dual "businesses" out of the same office
and they are offshore and in Miami, let us just say that the Department
of Justice would be most interested in just what is going on when sites
disappear after a story appears, because a legitimate business is not
about to disappear.
As a side note, GoDaddy which seemed to be a
common gathering point for the people harassing Lawrence Sinclair was
hosting the pulled Cape Caribbean site.
Interestingly, Yahoo is
listed as the host in the BizCarib site and Yahoo has been the source
of Obama supporters in it's employ harassing people in censoring their
emails concerning information dealing with Barack Obama.
In a
search of the Yahoo information, BizCarib is listed with the owner,
Vera Elizabeth Baker, of New York City, 14th Street address, who
created the site in March of 2007. The site states it will launch in
September 2008, but no launching of any business as of October 2008.
Just the taking down of the Cape Caribbean site once the British press started sniffing around.
The
14th Street address lists coops there from $378,000 to $827,000 with
mark ups in sale prices from 2007 ranging to $60,000 to over $127,000.
This
is not a poor neighborhood and for someone not living there the taxes
would be quite expensive for Ms. Baker while setting up websites with
dual businesses in the West Indies.
A Marc Merlini is listed
with the BizCarib site who appears to be listed with more sites that
offer business ventures out of Paris, France in website development.
quote:
Real
estate website: A new Caribbean owned and operated website
www.BizCarib.com, based in Martinique, offered in English, French and
Spanish, is seeking to capture the attention of the Caribbean business
community, said Marc Merlini, Chief Marketing Officer on March 3.
BizCarib is offering discounted listings in advance of their April 2008
launch. Details: +0596 696 30 88 86 or +1305 910 0140 or email
sales@bizcarib.com.
unquote.
Frankly,
none of this looks kosher in the same way the Obama campaign was
contracting with CSI of New Orleans to do stage work which it does not
do, but it does have over 20 businesses operating out of the same
address.
All of this looks exactly like all of Barack Obama's
financial dealings in great deals of money flowing around, slum housing
or in this case slum internet sites not professional and things which
do not add up in the least all tracking offshore.
As no one else
in journalism has found it fit to actually look into this strange dual
registry of business, it is here for the public to ponder.
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The liberal media would
October 14, 2008 - 03:11 ET by Rush FanThe liberal media would hesitate to report this affair anytime, but they define a democrat scandal so close to an election as a definite suppression.
Surprisingly the very liberal Los Angeles Times has an article about the affair titled: Rep. Tim Mahoney, who replaced scandal-scarred Rep. Mark Foley, now has his own.
Also NOT surprisingly, the Daily Kos is reporting: Was Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-FL) set up by Patricia Allen?
And Lo and Behold Wikipedia already has posted regarding the "sex scandal."
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The liberal media continues to sacrifice ethics for the greater cause: The Election of Barack Hussein Obama to the Presidency of the United States.
Noel...NOTHING!!!
October 14, 2008 - 03:06 ET by TheSterI specifically watched CNN with Wolf Blitzer, and Hard Ball for this "MAJOR SCANDAL"...
NOTHING.
All Palin/McCain and the HATE/RACISM, "Should McCain pull out of Penn.?"...and how many times did Obama mention "PIES".
NOTHING.
Ster.
I live in Palm Beach County
October 14, 2008 - 07:38 ET by Nortonalecand watched the local network stations last night. ABC and CBS were all over it, with multiple reporters and segments. Both stations kicked off their programs with this story as well.
As for the NBC station, they did their story after the first commercial break, and with only one reporter.
I did not see any mention of Mahonney on any of the morning shows today.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."~David St. Hubbins
I'm sure the local stations
October 14, 2008 - 07:57 ET by Indiana JoeI'm sure the local stations couldn't ignore it. And I can see that affiliates may possibly be less in the liberal tank than the corporate hq.
But ABC and CBS have no excuse for not spreading this like they did Foley. They had the story, all gift-wrapped, from your local affiliates. They just chose to ignore it.
And that's the problem.
Jesus Christ was crucified by "community organizers."
MSM questions:
October 14, 2008 - 07:43 ET by Red JeepSince Foley didn’t have sex in his sex scandal and was forced to resign and sought counseling, seems like Mahoney who did have sex in his sex scandal should definitely resign and get help, no? Or is Democrat sexual affairs cleaner? Is a heterosexual affair more exceptable than a homosexual affair? Or is a heterosexual affair less serious than a homosexual sending sexual messages to congressional aides? Did Larry Craig have sex with anyone….?
Red Jeep,
October 14, 2008 - 08:02 ET by Indiana JoeSeems to me the only folks who actually had sex in any of these scandals are Mahoney, Gerry Studds, Edwards and Clinton. Not to say that no Republicans have ever been caught actually having illicit sex, but I can't think of one name.
Funny that Foley and Larry Craig are the only ones that have resigned, yet they were never even alleged to have had sex. Doing the time without doing the crime must really suck.
Or maybe the MSM does consider gay relations somehow less "clean" than hetero ones. Hmm....
Isn't that called "homophobia?"
Jesus Christ was crucified by "community organizers."
Mahoney has called on the
October 14, 2008 - 08:06 ET by Hunter12Mahoney has called on the House Ethics committe to investigate his actions in this "hearsay" story. He'll be on the docket right after they finish with William Jefferson. His speedy probe may finish before he gets re-elected in Novemeber (you pick the year).
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Too bad Edgar Bergen is
October 14, 2008 - 08:41 ET by cocodrieToo bad Edgar Bergen is gone. He could have gotten Linda Greenhouse, aka Mortimer Snerd, to team up with Mahoney. Bergen could have revived his act with these two dunnies. Bergen even started his career in Chicago.
DELETE
October 14, 2008 - 08:48 ET by cocodrieBetter sober up. I'm seeing double again.
Well, guys, Her Speakerness
October 14, 2008 - 09:06 ET by motherbeltWell, guys, Her Speakerness didn't learn about it until yesterday.
So expect whiplash-fast action on it now!
Right.
Not only didn't Foley have
October 14, 2008 - 09:49 ET by MazziNot only didn't Foley have sex in his sex scandal, but from what we know, he did not use TAXPAYER MONEY and CAMPAIGN FUNDS to cover it up, as Maheney is alleged to have.
Hello? That is the kind of thing that is making Americans want to shoot blood from our eyes. How DARE these guys use our money, and the power that WE have given them, to hide their bad deeds?
These politicians act as if that big ole pot of money that they have access to is theirs. They are no less than common thieves, except they are wearing power suits and ties, and not baggy jeans.
And, just like common crooks, they will figurative "pop a cap in ya" before they'll leave your money alone.
"We just want truth, we want fairness. We want that balance." ~ Sarah Palin (re: hypocricy of the press)
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
What is this, like the 10th
October 14, 2008 - 10:51 ET by GameGridWhat is this, like the 10th Democrat to be involved in a scandal this year and pretty much no one knows about it? I'm losing track (hey maybe it's time for a video montage on youtube of all the people caught in scandals this year, the list of Demos would be the longest). You would think that at least Fox would pounce on it. This is why I only listen to talk radio and check sites like this for news.
Problem, what problem?
October 14, 2008 - 12:29 ET by jaywlHe's a Democrat. What? What's the problem?