Good morning. Did anyone hear what Tom Delay had to say on the 'TODAY' show this morning? Very interesting....

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He had a li'l something to say about the political coverage of the mainstream media.

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DELAY: The double-standard in the media is amazing. The feeding frenzy, the sharks in the water that's going on right now because of a Republican. Where is the frenzy on Alan Mollohan from West Virginia or William Jefferson from Louisiana?

LAUER: I think you mentioned William Jefferson. There was an awful lot of coverage of William Jefferson when that story broke, congressman.

DELAY: Yeah, for just a couple of days and then we went on. In the case of a Republican, believe me I've experienced this, it's day in and day out in the media, and they write this story over and over and over again. We all know the double-standard in the media -- it's amazing.

LAUER: I'm not going to let it, you know, end with that assumption, congressman, because I clearly don't agree with it, but why don't we just say . . .

DELAY: You exhibited it, Matt!

LAUER: You know what, congressman? I think it's unfair. Because I listed a list of problems and then immediately --

DELAY: All Republicans.

LAUER: Well we're talking about the Republican party. You just said, I invited you on to talk about the GOP.

DELAY: Because you don't want to talk about the Democrats.

LAUER: And I also started, congressman, and then said "is this a misperception that there is a party embroiled in scandal when we may just have two bad apples?" That's exactly how I started my first question.

DELAY: No, you started the first question by listing a bunch of Republicans and didn't mention one Democrat.

LAUER: Because we're talking --

DELAY: About the situation that's going on in Washington today and including both Democrats and Republicans. There are scandals that need to be addressed. Republicans address them, Democrats re-elect them.

LAUER: Alright congressman, I'll let you have the last word. It's good to have you on.

DELAY: Thank you.

Answer 1

In typical far-rightist fashion, Tom DeLay will stray off the topic at hand and use any way to deflect attention away from the misdeeds of his own party to focus solely on another. What's that about personal responsibility again? The double-standard within the arch-conservative fringe of the GOP is amazing.

Answer 2

Go for the jugular, Tom. It's true. How can anyone honestly not see the double standard? You have to have an incredibly short attention span. Sandy Berger stealing classified documents, the obvious cover-up of Vince Foster's murder, Al Gore's campaign money-laundering, senator Jefferson with the $90,000 in bribe money found in his freezer. These stories spend less than a week in the news, and at the first sign of scandal the media and democrats in congress demand that everyone with an (R) next to their name resign. What did they want to give Scooter Libby for misremembering a small detail during a bogus trial when they set up a perjury trap for him? Ten years? The death sentence? Evading the question, my ***. The question was loaded and immaterial. It was basically just, "So, are all republicans evil, Tom, or is it just a small percentage?". What a crock of ****.

Answer 3

I actually saw Delay on the Today Show trying to defend Republicans by attacking Democrats and the media. Delay’s sorry defense consisted almost entirely of trying to shift attention to the Democrats and accusing the media of double standards.

It’s the only defense that the Republicans can think of now because it is apparent that the hypocrisy of the “moral values” Republicans is being exposed.

At least Matt Lauer tried to focus Delay on the actual issues, which is more than most interviewers try to do under similar circumstances. On the other hand, why would the Today Show have someone like Delay on to discuss this issue? It should have been anticipated that Delay's presentation would consist of deflection, attacks and lies.

Craig is not the last Republican who will be exposed as a lying hypocrite—just the latest. Republicans are being exposed, one by one, as the closeted deceptive pretenders that they really are, rather than the moral values advocates that they claim to be. Their sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitude is a sham to distract the sheep from real issues while the Republicans funnel taxpayers’ dollars to their favorite defense contractors’ and borrow enough money to keep the nation in debt for generations.

Attacking the media and pointing at the Democrats is a tactic that Delay has practiced before and is well versed in.

Answer 4

Delay's an idiot. That's all there is to say about that. There was an ENORMOUS amount of coverage about William Jefferson at the time that was going on. And look at the media's reaction to all the investigations Republicans launched against President Clinton while he was in office. Every damn day there was a news story about something else they wanted to look into.

Republicans just get pissy when you point out the flaws in their own party because it knocks them off their high horse a little bit, but the truth is that scandals on BOTH sides are reported with the SAME amount of exposure. And I think it's sad that a member of the U.S. Congress felt the need to get on TV and whine about how unfairly his party is being treated by the media. All politicians need to grow up.

Answer 5

I can't believe you agree with Delay. The story was about Republican scandals...and so they asked about...suprise, suprise...Republican scandals. I remember a similar thing when the Jefferson scandal broke and they didn't mention the other Republican scandals happening at the time, the Today show linked it to Geraldine Ferraro's husband. This was typical Today show garbage this morning, but Delay was out of his mind about liberal conspiracies.

Answer 6

Delay never answered Lauer's first question. Instead he turned around and pointed out a few Democratic scandals that are decades old for the most part.
It's like me asking if you like ice cream and I start talking about motorbikes. It made THAT MUCH SENSE.

Answer 7

Republicans are making it so easy for Democrats to keep the scandals in the news. And if you start trusting what Delay says again that is going to leave to more scandals. I think that Delay is just trying to promote his book.

Answer 8

Delay is absolutely correct, but Democrats won't admit to it because they always slack off of anyone in the Democratic party. Most of them would stick to their party no matter what. There's real integrity for you.

Answer 9

Ninety percent of the media is solidly behind the liberal version of the democrat party - what else is new? Liberals are the brats in the check out line that whine, scream, and complain until they get what they want. Problem is, once they get it they ain't gonna like it, but it will be someone else's fault!

Answer 10

Haha! Delay was so right! Look it got top billing while the real evil was the story of H Clinton and her campaign finance buddy- Hsu.