June 05, 2007
PBS reporter Jeffrey Brown did an excellent report on the indictment of William Jefferson (D. LA) on the News Hour yesterday. But don’t bother trying to link the text of the story on PBS’s webpage. PBS punished poor Jeff for his lack of vision by depriving the text to his story of a link. There is excerpt on The Newshour’s front page but no link at the top. The only link provided is to a podcast of his story (in real media format no less).
But before you go off on PBS check CNN, MSNBC, CBSNEWS and CNN. Even Fox News only has one video link near the bottom of the page.
To their credit Yahoo News is running an AP story on the matter here.
WASHINGTON - Rep. William J. Jefferson told congressional leaders Tuesday that he plans to take a temporary leave of absence from the House Small Business Committee after his indictment on charges of receiving more than $500,000 in bribes, according to a Democratic leadership aide.It seems to me that a congressman willing to sell his er….uh…. “services†to Nigeria might be big news. The Tom Delay issue was front page news for weeks, hell months.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because Jefferson's announcement had not been made public, said the Louisiana Democrat was stepping down while his legal affairs are resolved. A spokeswoman for the congressman did not have immediate comment.
I’m not sure what the difference is between these two cases. Both seem to be strait forward greed over duty sell outs. Jefferson should get the boot and now. I had the same opinion over the Delay story. If Delay was corrupt he should go and the same should be for Jefferson.
But where is the outrage? Where are the hundreds of Photo Shopped images and political cartoons of Jefferson? Where is the stern rebuke from Nancy Pelosi, who promised, “The most ethical congress in history.�
Someone please help me because I cannot see any difference between the two cases that warrants the overblown coverage of Delay vs. the hush hush coverage of William Jefferson. What is so untouchable about Jefferson that even righty blog coverage seems a bit sparse?
Then again, maybe its just another case of honorable slanting. Whatever that is?
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two cases that warrants the overblown coverage of Delay vs. the hush
hush coverage of William Jefferson.
The difference is obvious: Jefferson is a Democrat, Delay is one of those evil Rethuglikkkans.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 05, 2007 02:06 PM (8e/V4)
Also of course there seemed to be a Republican consensus to protect him, going so far as to change there own rules just before he was indicted. I haven't yet seen any similar moves on the part of the Democrats. Here is a link to the Republican rules change.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54572-2004Nov16.html
My personal choice would be for them to be celled together.
Posted by: John Ryan at June 05, 2007 02:26 PM (TcoRJ)
Posted by: Darth Odie at June 05, 2007 02:28 PM (YHZAl)
A google search for William Jefferson indicted" revealed about 700,000 hits.
Howie where is your sense of racial injustice ??? lol
Posted by: John Ryan at June 05, 2007 02:35 PM (TcoRJ)
"Tom DeLay indicted" has 23,400.
When you remove the quotations, you get more hits for Jefferson because of some guy named William Jefferson Clinton, and the fact that William and Jefferson are more common names for criminals in America than DeLay.
Posted by: wooga at June 05, 2007 03:01 PM (t9sT5)
Denis HASTERT " He will fight this and we will give him our utmost support"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/28/delay.indict/
Nancy PELOSI " The charges in the indictment are extremely serious. While Mr Jefferson, just as any other citizen, must be considered innocent until proven guilty, if these charges are true, they constitute an egregious and unacceptable abuse of public trust and power.
There does seem to be quite a bit of difference between the 2 statements.
Posted by: John Ryan at June 05, 2007 03:02 PM (TcoRJ)
Posted by: greyrooster at June 05, 2007 03:05 PM (1h1Tb)
Posted by: greyrooster at June 05, 2007 03:07 PM (1h1Tb)
DeLay was the victim of a partisan DA who went `jury shopping' to get an increasingly feeble indictment which has had almost all of its charges thrown out of court for lack of evidence.
The reason DeLay resigned was because he was pressured into it by the Bush Administration and the RNC because they wanted him gone for PR purposes.
Tom DeLay was a superb legislator, a stalwart on national defense,on Israel, and on conservative principles. As with other supporters the Bush Administration has thrown under the bus, DeLay's absence has not endeared the president to his enemies, but made things a lot tougher for Bush.
Posted by: Freedom Fighter at June 05, 2007 03:54 PM (+55wR)
Defending indicted Democrat criminals is not a good way to get people to vote Democrat.
Posted by: Good Lt at June 05, 2007 03:56 PM (yMbfY)
Posted by: greyrooster at June 05, 2007 04:02 PM (1h1Tb)
Yes I am odius thus the Darth Odie. I agree if anything Jefferson's alledged crimes are more numerous and serious and involves a foreign power. SB bigger news. Still does not excuse Tom for getting caught up in his mess. You seem to forget he is a politician not the Christ.
Posted by: Darth Odie at June 05, 2007 04:21 PM (YHZAl)
Posted by: Good Lt at June 05, 2007 04:48 PM (yMbfY)
Posted by: TBinSTL at June 05, 2007 07:53 PM (MSiPb)
I see you're defending the indefensible again. You leftards never change. Unprincipled and intellectually cretinous is no way to go through life, son.
Unless you're a leftard, of course.
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