MY OPINION:  Dirty politics with the Clintons,  even during the Tom Delay Scandal.   AIM REPORT:  POSTED 11-27-2005.   Sooooooo I assume they are trying to play with Obama the way they did Tom DeLay.  New York,  when this skank is running for election again,  dismiss her.  Most likely they will.  These dirt bags need to disappear.

DeLay Vs. Hillary

The coverage has been relentless, not only of late but so too going

back a number of years as a result of DeLay's hard-charging tactics on

Capitol Hill and run-ins with the House ethics committee, formally

called the Committee on Standards.

DeLay, much like some predecessors from both political parties,

makes for an easy target of erstwhile newsmen in search of good copy.

And with so many high-profile lawmakers, even opposition party members

don't need to do much to bring about negative coverage.

Media Targets

But a question needs asking: What are the standards used by the

press to determine who gets caught in the cross-hairs? And does this

standard get applied evenly or does it (like so many in the public

believe) vary from target to target?

Consider the contrasting coverage of DeLay with that of Sen. Hillary

Rodham Clinton. Virtually every detail of alleged DeLay transgressions

gets reported and in very great detail. But scant coverage has been

given to equally serious allegations against the junior senator from

New York.

There have been no front-page stories in the New York Times, the

Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Miami

Herald or any other so-called major daily with respect to serious

allegations of wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton and her Senate

election campaign committee.

While tens of thousands of inches (and scores of hours on broadcast

and cable TV) have been used up to discuss allegations that DeLay

"laundered" about $190,000 from corporate donors in Texas through the

Republican National Committee and then back to GOP candidates in Texas

races, there's been virtually nothing mentioned about accusations that

Hillary Clinton and senior Democrats "laundered" nearly $2 million of

improper or illegal gift-giving during the summer of 2000 when she

began her run for the Senate.

Whether one is for or against Hillary or Tom DeLay is irrelevant

when it comes to a simple truth that generally is taught in journalism

schools, or even at home. Apply a single standard and stick with it.

But in the cases of Clinton and DeLay that's far from daily practice.

For example, one would have thought that it'd be big news that the

California Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that both Hillary

Clinton and her husband could be sued in a civil case filed by Peter

Franklin Paul involving serious allegations of wrongdoing. But

virtually nothing has been mentioned.