November 16, 2024
Sexual Armageddon
Timothy Birdnow
If one wants to see how the media twists things with the assumptions they make and the way they frame issues one need but look at this Politico story about the House Ethics Committee and the fight over whether to release the report on Matt Gaetz.
Here are a few snippets:
Now the article fails to mention the fact that Biden's own Department of Justice under the extreme partisan Merrick Garland had already investtigated these charges and dismissed them. There were no charges filed against Mr. Gaetz. This ethics investigation only began when Gaetz alienated the Republican establishment by opposing McCarthy and then Johnson. But you have no way of knowing that by reading this article.
Furthermore it acts as if a committee leak would be highly unusual, but it happens all the time. The assumption here is Gaetz is guilty and it's pure politics holding this up. It may well be quite the opposite, with the report exonerating Gates. That may be why the Democrats on the committee are so reluctant to make this a hill to die on - it could well show Gaetz is just another victim of the Deep State.
Here's more:
Uh, Speaker Johnson was the guy Gaetz tried to remove from office. He tried to stay out of this to avoid the obvious conflict of interest charges that would be made. But now he doesn't want it released. You cannot tell me it's because he wants to PROTECT Gaetz! More likely he wants a cloud hanging over the Attorney General Nominee. If Gaetz is exonerated there would be no reason to not confirm him, and from Mr. Johnson's perspective that would be a bad thing.
Gaetz resigned precisely because Trump was offering him a better job, dummies! Notice how we aren't told WHICH Republicans are incensed. We know who they are though; they are the ones who have always knifed the conservative wing of the party in the back.
TEN paragraphs into the article they finally mention the DOJ pressed no charges against Gaetz. They were hoping most people would have stopped reading by then.
The House Ethics Committee is a group with five Republicans and five Democrats, so it does not have proportional representation. And the ranking member is Democrat Susan Wild, who took over in January of 2023.
It is chaired by Michael Guest, a Republican from Mississippi, a solid Conservative.
This may not be a partisan committee but with a fifty-fifty split you can bet your bottom dollar it leans against anything smacking of MAGA, even if the chair doesn't support it.
Already we have anonymous sources claiming they saw Gaetz In flagrante delicto. How many times have we heard THAT before? Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh both come immediately to mind. The fact is IF this is true this witness sure chose an interesting time to come forward. Again, there was no charges filed after an investigation done by Biden's own DOJ. So either this woman didn't worry about a teenage girl being statutorially raped by just a Congressman but is quite concerned now. It fails the smell test. It's just like Stormy Daniels suddenly coming out with claims Trump fondled her.
I remember when Bill Clinton was credibly accused of all manner of sexual misconduct and James Carville said "drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park you never know what you'll find" when sued by Paula Jones. Yet every utterance against Republicans by every trailer park bimbo is Gospel because "women don't lie about such things". It's pretty much true - as far as Conservative women are concerned.
Democrats aren't much concerned when it is they doing the misconduct. Ashley Biden wrote in her diary that her father had sexual intercourse with her, taking naked showers with her when she was underage. This seems totally outrageous except we know and have seen videos of Mr. Biden inappropriately touching and fondling small children. Yet the Democrats didn't worry about that because "that's Joe!"
So drop the holier-than-thou posture; you guys have no problem at all with sexual misconduct provided the person doing it holds the "correct" political positions. Like Carville used to say, Bill Clinton was "the most moral man in America" not because of his personal conduct but because he was a leftist.
If you guys want a sexual armageddon I have little doubt we have plenty of targets too.
If one wants to see how the media twists things with the assumptions they make and the way they frame issues one need but look at this Politico story about the House Ethics Committee and the fight over whether to release the report on Matt Gaetz.
Here are a few snippets:
"Lawmakers on the historically bipartisan committee have two main options: Release their long-running report into his alleged misconduct and risk incurring President-elect Donald Trump’s wrath, or keep it under wraps and face accusations of burying potentially scandalous information about a nominee for attorney general, the most powerful law enforcement official in the country.
And if leading members decide to go rogue and leak it to the press, they could destroy the bipartisan reputation of the committee.
And if leading members decide to go rogue and leak it to the press, they could destroy the bipartisan reputation of the committee.
Now the article fails to mention the fact that Biden's own Department of Justice under the extreme partisan Merrick Garland had already investtigated these charges and dismissed them. There were no charges filed against Mr. Gaetz. This ethics investigation only began when Gaetz alienated the Republican establishment by opposing McCarthy and then Johnson. But you have no way of knowing that by reading this article.
Furthermore it acts as if a committee leak would be highly unusual, but it happens all the time. The assumption here is Gaetz is guilty and it's pure politics holding this up. It may well be quite the opposite, with the report exonerating Gates. That may be why the Democrats on the committee are so reluctant to make this a hill to die on - it could well show Gaetz is just another victim of the Deep State.
Here's more:
"Plus, Speaker Mike Johnson just added pressure to keeping the report buried, telling reporters Friday morning that he doesn’t believe it should be released — a switch from a couple of days ago, when he said he wasn’t involved in the decision.
"I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set,” he said Friday."
"I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set,” he said Friday."
Uh, Speaker Johnson was the guy Gaetz tried to remove from office. He tried to stay out of this to avoid the obvious conflict of interest charges that would be made. But now he doesn't want it released. You cannot tell me it's because he wants to PROTECT Gaetz! More likely he wants a cloud hanging over the Attorney General Nominee. If Gaetz is exonerated there would be no reason to not confirm him, and from Mr. Johnson's perspective that would be a bad thing.
"And many lawmakers — including Republicans — are incensed by their belief that Gaetz resigned specifically to avoid the release of a report that is rumored to hold explosive allegations against a potential attorney general. They’re publicly pressuring the panel to share the report, though they have no power to force its release."
Gaetz resigned precisely because Trump was offering him a better job, dummies! Notice how we aren't told WHICH Republicans are incensed. We know who they are though; they are the ones who have always knifed the conservative wing of the party in the back.
TEN paragraphs into the article they finally mention the DOJ pressed no charges against Gaetz. They were hoping most people would have stopped reading by then.
The House Ethics Committee is a group with five Republicans and five Democrats, so it does not have proportional representation. And the ranking member is Democrat Susan Wild, who took over in January of 2023.
It is chaired by Michael Guest, a Republican from Mississippi, a solid Conservative.
This may not be a partisan committee but with a fifty-fifty split you can bet your bottom dollar it leans against anything smacking of MAGA, even if the chair doesn't support it.
Already we have anonymous sources claiming they saw Gaetz In flagrante delicto. How many times have we heard THAT before? Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh both come immediately to mind. The fact is IF this is true this witness sure chose an interesting time to come forward. Again, there was no charges filed after an investigation done by Biden's own DOJ. So either this woman didn't worry about a teenage girl being statutorially raped by just a Congressman but is quite concerned now. It fails the smell test. It's just like Stormy Daniels suddenly coming out with claims Trump fondled her.
I remember when Bill Clinton was credibly accused of all manner of sexual misconduct and James Carville said "drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park you never know what you'll find" when sued by Paula Jones. Yet every utterance against Republicans by every trailer park bimbo is Gospel because "women don't lie about such things". It's pretty much true - as far as Conservative women are concerned.
Democrats aren't much concerned when it is they doing the misconduct. Ashley Biden wrote in her diary that her father had sexual intercourse with her, taking naked showers with her when she was underage. This seems totally outrageous except we know and have seen videos of Mr. Biden inappropriately touching and fondling small children. Yet the Democrats didn't worry about that because "that's Joe!"
So drop the holier-than-thou posture; you guys have no problem at all with sexual misconduct provided the person doing it holds the "correct" political positions. Like Carville used to say, Bill Clinton was "the most moral man in America" not because of his personal conduct but because he was a leftist.
If you guys want a sexual armageddon I have little doubt we have plenty of targets too.
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