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Witnesses at the Impeachment Trial
Really quite amazing the hypocrisy of the dominant liberal media. One can only look at the clips below, compiled by the great folks at Media Research Center – News Busters, and realize how in-the-tank they were for Clinton. Their attitude now is collectively 180 degrees from then — now wanting the theater of witnesses, mostly to accentuate some, and any that don’t fit their predisposition, to discount or ignore.
Witnesses can make for great copy, (depending on the treatment, biased copy) and one would expect that editors, reporters, publishers would uniformly salivate over such, that is but for their biases. What would have made better copy than an extensive string of witnesses at the Bill Clinton impeachment trial, so sensational the topics? The thing is it also would have been harder to not report. And they wanted to protect Clinton.
They limited the digging and reporting about Clinton’s affairs and sexual abuse record, all the Clinton scandals. But the blue dress had to be acknowledged, even by them. They did so as much to incredibly decry those sensation-monger Republicans out to hamstring this fine but flawed man who was just trying to do the people’s business, and to scandalize and denigrate the accusers. Remember their treatment of Linda Tripp and Paula Jones.
Hypocritical ‘News’ Media Have Done a Complete Flip-Flop on impeachment (allow a moment to load)
Back then the media was all “move on”, get back to the people’s business, all presidents are flawed. Clinton’s obstruction, witness tampering, abuses all excusable, bla bla bla. No need for witnesses.
