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MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD!!!

DRUDGE [1] is asking the right questions this monring and in the doing has nailed the liberal leaning press once again.

He points out that for all the hollering about extra marital affairs and the press coverage thereof when the subject is John Kerry, they didn’t seem to ahve nearl the trouble asking George W. Bush similar questions on less evidence…

In 1992 top reporters swiftly reacted to a footnote in a book quoting a long dead ambassador.

CNN rushed to get the rumor into the media stream as White House correspondent Mary Tillotson confronted President Bush as he hosted Israel Prime Minister Rabin in the Oval Office.

“There is an extensive series of reports in today’s New York Post alleging that a former U.S. ambassador, a man now deceased, had told several persons that he arranged for a sexual tryst involving you and one of your female staffers in Geneva in 1984.”

Asked NBC’s Stone Phillips to the president’s face at the height of the “rumor mongering”:

“Have you ever had an affair?”

CBS’ Harry Smith then confronted Bush spokesperson Mary Matalin over on-air morning coffee:

“Let me ask you about something else. There’s a book out, or a book that’s just about out that in a footnote names that then-Vice President Bush had an affair with an assistant when he was on a mission in Geneva. Well, that footnote has turned into frontpage news (holding up N.Y.POST), at least in New York, in the N.Y. POST. Albeit a tabloid, it is usually a conservative newspaper. Are you ready to say that accusation is a flat out lie?”

One can understand why the press would be nervous about Matt…