Haven’t heard much about Charlie Rangel’s failure to pay taxes on property he owns? Barack Obama’s campaign fundraising shenanigans? Of course not. The MSM seems to ignore or bury scandals when the participant has a (D) after his name.
I guess that (D) provides some kind of shield against unethical or illegal behavior.
Well, now, as more information comes out about the extent to which Ohio officials investigated Joe the Plumber because he dared asked a tough question of then-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, at least the Columbus Dispatch is taking notice. An inspector general’s investigation found that Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Department of Job and Family Services
. . . had no legitimate reasons to check on Toledo-area resident Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who was popularized as “Joe the Plumber” by Republican presidential candidate John McCain. It also confirmed she improperly used her state e-mail account to raise campaign money for President-elect Barack Obama.
Ohio’s Democratic Governor Ted Strickland is standing by Jones-Kelly, announcing that she’ll be “placed on unpaid leave for one month.” State Auditor Mary Taylor urged “Gov. Strickland, who campaigned on the promise of running an ethical administration, to ask for the resignation or terminate Ms. Jones-Kelley immediately.”
I mean, c’mon, the governor “issued a directive to state agencies to better control access to information the state holds on Ohioans.” State employees would realize he means business if there are consequences for improperly accessing such information and using state resources for partisan purposes, such as losing your job.
Can you imagine the outcry if a Republican governor has failed to fire an official who improperly investigated a critic of a Republican? The MSM would have canonized the critic as a courageous man who speaks truth to power. So that any investigation of this noble soul would smack of heresy punishable by excommunication. Or worse.
(H/t Instapundit.)
An interesting comparison will be to see what Verizon does to it’s employees that accessed Obama’s phone records without permission. So far they have been suspended.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Blackwell.
and Hunter. someone offended by verizon can just change carriers. While someone can move, I’d have to think some law was broken here.
This is the same Ted Strickland who kept a sex offender who abused minor children as a campaign manager and congressional aide, even traveling to Italy with him.
Democrats just operate under a different set of rules than Republicans.
Livewire, I understand that. I guess my point was that the Verizon folks will probably be swiftly and justly fired for what they did, while an even more egregious breach by a government will go essentially unpunished.
Democrats just operate under a different set of rules than Republicans.Republicans operate under a set of principles. Democrats operate like Democrats.
Well I agree with V the K-democrats have a completely different set of rules and the MSM has bought into that difference. Just look at the coverage the Foley scandal got in comparison to Mahoney, or shoot Dollars in His Freezer Jefferson compared to well, just about any republican with ethics or legal issues.
Not to defend the “mainstream” media or anything, but it wouldnt hurt if Republicans would actually summon the nerve to actually mention what a lot of lying cheating stealing criminals Democrats are every once in a while.
The GOP’s defeat in 2006 was largely because of the Democrats continual banging of the “culture of corruption” drum, over I believe 2 congressmen, one lobbyist to whom they all had ties as well, a creepy gay lech, who was hitting on adults mind you, and phony, fraudulant indictments brought against Tom Delay by a Democrat hack who was the only one acting in a corrupt manner in the matter.
So two real cases of corruption, one bi-partisan corrupt lobbyist, a creepy but not illegal lech, and phony charges….and Democrats use it to get back in power.
I could name at least 10-20 cases of real corruption on the part of Democrats who are still sitting in Congress, and one on his way to the White House, and Republicans are too scared to say boo!
Sometimes I really could throttle those people.
The illuminati MSM surprises me more every day. If only there was a way to publicize these things more!