The failure of the U.S. media to properly vet the candidacy of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign can be cited as one of our country’s most harmful periods. Yet,we see the same pernicious cycle being perpetrated against Herman Cain just four years later. They refuse to follow up on substantial allegations against Obama like those made against him by Larry Sinclair,but run with vapid lies from gold-digging phonies. To understand the media’s use of its enormous power against Republican,and especially conservative,candidates,we need to remind ourselves of how Clarence Thomas was cruelly treated during his Supreme Court hearings in the early ’90s. Running under the current of a black man who steps away from his deemed allegiance to the Democratic Party,liberals sought to punish Thomas by using the sub-rosa theme of a black man’s sexuality to bring him down. Ted Kennedy’s savage attacks on Robert Bork could not be repeated on Thomas,so using the old canard of he-said/she-said,the mainstream media reached way out to Oral Roberts University’s teaching staff and brought Anita Hill into the spotlight. One blogger says,“The mind reels imagining the acrimony and snide remarks that would be made had a victim of Bill Clinton been employed at Oral Roberts University.” I was visiting a doctor and his wife in Japan right after the hearings,and he told me how much the Japanese viewing audiences…. Read more. |
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Suzanne Eovaldi,FloydReports.com
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