As I have watched the election cycle and news media over the last 2 campaigns, I have seen the Dems get savaged in the media while the Republicans get pretty much a pass.
Like our government, the media has been corrupted and the powers that be will try their best to drive the narrative that fits the storyline that they want it to fit into.
I so remember the constant drum beat of the "Swift Boats Vets" attacks on John Kerry and the attacks on Theresa Heinz-Kerry.
John Kerry was a vet of the Vietnam War and Theresa Heinz-Kerry is worth a fortune.
John McCain is a Vietnam vet and Cindy McCain is worth a fortune, yet John Kerry did not have an affair and Theresa Heinz-Kerry did not steal drugs from a charity organization. What gives ?
Why the hands off treatment for John and Cindy when there are crimes or the hint of crimminal activity in the past ??
John McCain - "Keating 5"
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).
McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981.
Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates. In addition, McCain's wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard Keating's jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln.
All McCain received was a slap on the wrist for poor judgement. Really.
What if this was Barack Obama ??
Cindy McCain :
"As the family bookkeeper, she was unable to find records of her reimbursement to Keating for three vacation trips to the Bahamas on Keating's corporate plane," Kolbe wrote. "The apparent lack of reimbursement - which wasn't resolved until the records turned up months later - became a key ethical charge against the senator."
Cindy explained to Kolbe: "It wasn't my fault, but at the time, you couldn't convince me. (Senate Ethics Committee Chairman) Howell Heflin (D-Ala.) even told me it was my fault."
To avoid prosecution on drug charges, she would enter a federal diversion program.
A federal diversion program ? Excuse me ?
From 1989 to 1992, as the Keating Five made headlines, she was addicted to Percocet and Vicodin. Worse, she had stolen pills from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a relief organization that she founded to aid Third World countries.
Cindy blamed two back surgeries and the Keating Five scandal - a blend of physical and emotional pain - for hooking her on drugs.
Things started to unravel when a Drug Enforcement Administration audit found irregularities in the charity's records, prompting an investigation.
What if this were Michelle Obama ?
Do you think that the media and the radio talking heads would let "Keating 5" i.e. gov't corruption or drug abuse go if this was Barack and Michelle Obama ?
What's really going on here ?
They go after the Kerrys.
They go after the Obamas.
But the McCains get a free pass. Let's get this thing revved up. Where are our 527's ? Where is the Cindy McCain ad of the "Ice" princess truly on "ice" ? Or cookin' the meth on a stove ?
John McCain even gets a pass on his affair. Would Barack have gotten this same treatment ?
I say we need to email the MSM on full blast and call in to the Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Reilly shows and troll them like the troll the progressive radio shows.
Action needs to be be taken here. This is a question about judgement.
John McCain does not have the judgement nor the tempermant to be president of these United States.
His daddy was an admiral and his grandfather was an admiral. He graduates at the bottom of his class and he gets..... wait a minute.. am I writing about Bush or McCain ?
So many parallels between the 2.
This is not change, it's more of the same and in a way worse.
Let's take action !!