House Votes to Investigate Dem Leaders

As I’ve noted before, the Democrats’ handling of Massa was different than the GOP’s of Foley:

There’s also the small matter that, as far as I’ve heard, at least, no one has accused Massa of preying on children. Seems to me that’s worth at least mentioning.

Well, Rahm certainly knew about Foley–why no mention of that?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/10/AR2010031003832.html?hpid=topnews
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Seems they knew something was afoot in October of last year. Guess things move slowly in Congress.

Seems to me it depends on whose ox is being gored, hmmmmm???

Yes, well, even when it’s an attempt to be even-handed, we’re deep into false equivalence territory in all these “sex scandals”. The repressed homosexual Democrats who tickled some guy has resigned in disgrace while the lying, two-timing, hush-money-paying Republican Senator from Nevada, not to mention the lying, two-timing-with-a-prostitute-while-wearing-a-diaper and the lying, two-timing, AWOL-from-his-job-while not-hiking-the-Appalachian-Trail Republicans, are keeping their government jobs.

Actually, Fox at the time was putting up chyron that stated it was Mark Foley D-Florida being investigated. That is journalism! Since the MSM continues to consider Fox a sister news org, y’all get to get tarred with their brush!

Well….Fox is whipping them in ratings so suggesting that they’re not a “sister network” would be a very hard sell.

Seriously. If the Republicans are going to insist on that Congress investigate Massa, maybe they could agree to look into Ensign and Vitter too.

Exactly!

But it’s alway amusing when dimbulbs like SheperdWrong continue to try and make a moral relevance argument that their guywas worse than our guy tortured arguments.

From the link in your last sentence –

The disparities between Fox’s coverage of the reports surrounding Massa and its coverage of the Republican leadership’s handling of the Foley situation are especially striking given the differences in the two stories. After the Foley scandal, the House ethics committee confirmed reports that Hastert was likely told about Foley’s inappropriate emails yet took no action. The ethics committee further found that Republican leader John Boehner failed to show “any curiosity regarding” the Foley emails and failed to ask Hastert to do anything about them.

By contrast, there is no evidence that Pelosi personally knew of allegations about Massa before the matter became public, and majority leader Steny Hoyer’s office says that Hoyer ensured that the allegations were referred to the ethics committee as soon as he was made aware of them.

Pelosi says she first learned of Massa allegations in March 2010. As The Wall Street Journal reported on March 11, “Pelosi said she personally learned about allegations of misconduct [by Massa] March 3. The speaker said her staff knew about the allegations of sexual harassment around the time they were reported to Mr. Hoyer’s office in early February.”

WSJ: Leadership aide says Pelosi wasn’t informed of “October discussion” about Massa. While Pelosi’s staff was reportedly informed of “concerns” about Massa in October 2009, the Journal reported that according to a senior Democratic leadership aide, “Pelosi wasn’t informed of the October discussion, and the matter was not referred to the House ethics committee because it did not involve allegations of inappropriate behavior or sexual harassment.”

It looks like Ensign’s naked bribery and hush-money will be his undoing:
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/emails_shed_new_light_on_ensigns_efforts_on_hampto.php?ref=fpc
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But only a Democrat can lose his office for a “sex scandal” that didn’t involve any sex.

Seems to me it depends on whose ox is being gored, hmmmmm???
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Well, that explains the disparity in Fox’s coverage, absolutely.
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If there was a Dem coverup for Massa on the same scale as the what the Repubs did for Foley, I’d want them out of any leadership position. Based on the information available right now, ‘tho, Massa’s taking an adult staffer to dinner is nowhere near equivalent to Foley’s propositioning of teenagers.

Jay said: “having their leaders probed.”
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heh-heh

“If the Republicans are going to insist on that Congress investigate Massa, maybe they could agree to look into Ensign and Vitter too.”
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Forget them fools. How about investigation the previous administration’s action re: Torture and this administration lack of action on the subject.
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Oh wait. That would be looking back and bad for the country. Never mind.

Spob, being gay is not an ethical violation. Thus, rumors of being gay — or of using profanity while gay — are not rumors of unethical behavior.
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Your pathetic attempts to conflate rumors of homosexuality with rumors of unethical behavior are not lost on any of us.

Freep, is that you?
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It’s hard to believe you’d make this criticism. In a previous thread you jumped from a lesbian being banned from the prom to a student being asked to remove an offensive t-shirt.
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I think someone hacked your screenname. You’re the King of Topic Changes and False Equivalencies. I’d hate to see someone tarnish your hard won reputation.

Believe it or not, there are people in Washington who prioritise government over politics.

And this time around, apparently some media outlets (ahem, Fox News) are also handling the stories differently.
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What?! A double standard at Fox News? I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you!