Scandal vs. Scandal: Air America vs. Martha

Posted on August 7, 2005
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Captain’s Quarters Compare The Scandals — The Exempt Media has plenty of resources to continue coverage of a single celebrity who allegedly engaged in insider trading over 4,000 shares of ImClone stock, avoiding $51,000 in losses when bad news hit just afterwards. (Stewart wasn’t convicted for insider trading, but obstruction of justice and perjury.) That amounts to 1/18th of what Air America got in misappropriated public funds by sucking money out of Bronx charity — money intended for poor kids and Alzheimer’s patients. Yet the New York Times has mentioned Martha Stewart* in 16 articles over the last 30 days, some of those in-depth reporting on Stewart and her ongoing legal struggles, but have not managed to put “Air America” and “Gloria Wise” into the same article even one time — despite the misappropriation of public funds occurring in the Paper of Record’s own back yard.

It seems the MSM is a little lot more resistant to the idea of exposing one of their own. Liberal “Air America’s” exploitation and damage to the public trust vastly outweighed the effect on the public that Martha Stewart’s crime did…yet we see nobody covering this (except conservative bloggers). Captain Ed “pens” another great article referencing Mark Steyn’s recent column entitled, “The New Democratic Strategy — Almost Winning” about Air America’s ratings being strikingly similar to the U.K.’s new academic rating of “deferred success”. Hey! That was such a hoot! Who says conservatives have no sense of humor! Go over to the CQ and read this article.

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