hey cnn, why the fuck didn't you run this before the election?

[spanone]

we wouldn't want to inform our audience, now would we? real fucking funny.



Bad boys survive to win re-election

(CNN) -- You know that Republican doctor who got one of his patients pregnant and then demanded that she get an abortion? Yeah, he won Tuesday night.

How about the indicted guy who threatened to throw a reporter over a Capitol Hill balcony? Yep. Him too.

Election Day was packed with surprises — and some of the biggest were in House races.

Two Republican members of Congress managed to win despite federal investigations and bad behavior so far-fetched that even the writer's room at "Scandal" would take a pass on their stories.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/05/politics/scandal-congress-digital/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

[nc4bo]

1. Good gawd absolute gall.

Phuckers.

[MelungeonWoman]

2. Um, because rich people own CNN

And I'm guessing they would like to see Republicans win so Republicans can legislate more money funneled to rich people.

I never understand why people want the MSM to 'see the light'. They have their agenda. They're working it exactly how they want to.

[Botany]

3. How about Rep. "how come we have no surgeon general" Chaffetz getting re-elected?

Results as of 11 p.m. Tuesday showed Chaffetz dominating the polls with 72.7 percent of the
vote, leaving Wonnacott behind at 22.3 percent.

[AtomicKitten]

4. IOKIYR

[spanone]

5. rats, i forgot!

[AtomicKitten]

15. silly wabbit

[hfojvt]

6. CNN is a national network

and these seem to be local stories.

Even if they aren't, do you really think more local people watch CNN than watch the local news or read the local papers?

[spanone]

7. of course they're local, so why report on them now?

[gratuitous]

8. They didn't want to influence the election

You know, like when the New York Times sat on its domestic spying story about the Bush administration. The Times had the story vetted and ready in October 2004, but didn't publish until December 2005 because they didn't want to be accused of influencing the 2004 election. See, getting hollered at by Rush Limbaugh is that much worse than an out-of-control spy agency compromising the constitutional rights of every citizen, so I think we can all agree that the Times made the right choice.

Similarly, CNN had to sit on each and every one of these stories and not give them any oxygen because it would have looked "partisan" or something to report the truth. The only thing worse than having these schmucks elected to office would be to call them the schmucks they are before the election when it might influence the outcome. Once again, acting totally out of fear or favor, a major media outlet avoids being called partisan. And I think everyone agrees that being called partisan is just the absolute worst, right?

Right poor people? Continue living in poverty.
Right women? Continue to have your health compromised by Republican policies.
Right people of color? Continue to be denied your constitutional rights.
Right citizens? You don't deserve a representative government anyway. Just vote the way the billionaires tell you to vote, and everything will be okay.

[Kablooie]

28. More specifically they didn't want to risk votes for Republicans.

[gratuitous]

36. Whoa . . . !

You're right! Each time it happens, it happens in favor a Republican! What are the odds? Especially from the liberal media? I'll bet Billo gets on this toot frickin' sweet!

[Enthusiast]

39. +1

[Enthusiast]

38. +1

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. Like a prosecuter sitting on evidence that would help the defense show their client is not guilty

Because, you know, they wouldn't want to influence the court.

[KamaAina]

9. Jon Stewart has been all over Rep. Grimm's race

The Dem candidate was so bad that Stewart felt he had to mock him.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. CNN is very sensitive to the "liberal media" tag...

Because of this shyness, they cannot report anything negative about either party (well, since the tag references "liberal media", they feel the need to suppress one side to placate the other).

[stillwaiting]

43. Too bad they're not sensitive to the "corporate media" tag. nt

[malaise]

11. So true

This morning ABC Miami was gushing about gas prices saying gas was cheaper than milk.
They never said it all of last week though. Fuck M$Greedia!!!

[cheapdate]

12. I can promise you that the Tennessee voters who reelected Rep. Scott DesJarlais

don't give a shit what was said (or not said) on CNN. He beat his Democratic challenger by 23 points. I'm in that asshole's district.

But I get your point and I agree wholeheartedly. The fucking group-think media narrative is as pernicious as it is powerful.

We need a thousand leaders like Alan Grayson, Al Franken, Howard Dean, and Independent Bernie Sanders who will go forth into media land and raise holy fucking hell 24/7.

[hrmjustin]

13. Recchia was never going to beat Grimm.

Recchia was a mistake and unless Grimm is convicted I think this district will be stuck with him.

[Nye Bevan]

14. You seriously think that the Staten Island voters didn't know about Grimm's indictment,

and thuggish behavior? They all did, but Recchio was such an embarrassingly, cringingly awful, unintelligent, inarticulate candidate that it didn't matter.

Watch, cringe, and weep.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Yeah, just like a whole slew of others.

Rick Scott, Scott Walker, Nathan Deal, Nikki Haley... Everybody knows they're corrupt, yet they've all been elected and re-elected. All that matters is that they have an "R" after their name to the dummies who vote for them.

[Nye Bevan]

20. Well yes, but this guy is just about to go to trial on a 20-count Federal indictment,

which puts him in a bit of a different category compared to those other Rs you mention. With an intelligent, articulate and prepared Democratic candidate this would have been an extremely winnable seat.

[hrmjustin]

30. I voted for Recchia but he was not my choice to be the candidate.

The dccc forced others out of the race.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Note that they don't mention the party these guys are in....

That's in keeping with the CNN claim that "BOTH SIDES DO IT" when they don't.

[bigwillq]

17. Both sides-all sides-have done things like this

Some scandal or another.

It's not a D or R thing. It's a human thing. Sometimes humans do not so nice things.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. But CNN is happy to mention the D but not the R.

[bigwillq]

23. They did mention it in this story. (nt)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. But not on the air.

[tritsofme]

19. Um...it's right there in the lede

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Watch the video.

[tritsofme]

27. I'd rather not.

I'll take your word for it. I only watch cable news once or twice a year during big political events, and after last night I've more than had my fill.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. I watched a little but I already knew the results....

Despite all the talk the mid-terms are always low turnout.

[SCVDem]

21. These are America's values voters.

I never want to hear that bullshit again!

[KansDem]

26. CNN = "Corporate News Network"

[Voice for Peace]

31. grr but this brings to mind, now that all these criminals are in office,

so many are facing investigation or indictment.. maybe we
are in for some fun after all.

[Cha]

32. What!? And expose one of their own!!!!!!!?

[spanone]

33. exactly!!!

hey Cha!!!!!!!!

[Cha]

35. Hey spanone!!!! Speaking of mediawhore$ and other assorted presstitutes..

sfpelosi @sfpelosi
Follow
PBO so cool he doesn't even eyeroll Q about why he didn't work harder to bond with GOP who vowed INAUGURATION NIGHT to make him a 1 termer.
10:27 AM - 5 Nov 2014 103 Retweets 50

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/05/the-press-conference-a-tweet-or-two/

[Todays_Illusion]

34. Why does anyone think we have news in this nation. We were carefully manipulated

and prepared for this election and they were not only the information owners, they convinced you to believe them and you still are?

How does this election make sense? The billionaires bought it with voter disenfranchisement laws, stripping registration lists, and any method they could work, and it was spent in each precinct as needed, any with a margin that could be moved.

[PatrynXX]

37. and one killed a beagle

grrrrrrrr what is it with Republicans and abusing dogs? if dogs spoke english and could vote Republicans would lose

[onenote]

40. why do you think they didn't?

I certainly recall the Grimm story making the national news, including CNN. As for Desjarlais, I don't recall one way or the other. I think it was probably more of a story in 2012 and 2013 and during the repub primary (which Desjarlais would have lost had not the repub vote been split among five or six candidates -- as it is, he only finished 38 votes ahead of his closest challenger). Once he had the nomination in hand (after the story had been out for well over a year), he was a lock for reelection in a deep red district (ranked +13 R).

The voters in these districts knew exactly who they were voting for.

[sammy750]

41. The news media and cable TV was for the GOP

The news media stays silent on the GOP felons and criminals. They want them to win. Our new media is the most corrupt.

[jonjensen]

44. republicans are evil

republicans are evil and will burn in hell! and yet people vote for them anyway over democrats why? when I try to explain why my posts are hidden. so ask people why they vote republican and they will tell you why they vote for these evil people over democrats.

[raging moderate]

45. No, they won't tell you why.

They won't tell you the real reason why. It's more fun to insult and threaten people. Besides, many of them lack the requisite introspective capacity.

[jonjensen]

48. they tell me why

because the republicans won't take away their guns or gas guzzling sub's or raise their taxes while they are doing evil and democrats will. the last time I said this my post was hidden.

[beam me up scottie]

46. "You know that Republican doctor who got one of his patients pregnant"

[Odin2005]

47. Because the MSM is carefully choreographed to promote the interests of the 1%.

[Shoonra]

49. I am no good at reading tea leaves ....

The ugly and shameful deeds for both these Republicans were already publicized ahead of Election Day, and the voters knew of them. Even if the local newspapers softpedaled these scandals, they were plenty emphasized on cable TV news commentaries.

And yet these guys won. The voters knew and still voted for these guys. WTF. How bad do you have to be to be disqualified as a Republican candidate and how bad do you have to be for voters to go against you??!!