Why isn't the "liberal"media reporting the Romney Fundraising scandal but hammering Clinton over Hsu?

Question

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/03/romney-fundraising-scandal-ignored-by-liberal-media-clinton-gets-hammered-over-hsu/
Romney campaign took a huge hit when it’s national finance committee co-chairman, Alan B. Fabian was charged in a 23 count indictment, including charges of money laundering, mail fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice. It’s reported Fabian, a former Bush Pioneer, allegedly ran a scheme that netted him millions of dollars which were used to purchase beach front property and travel. The Romney campaign said they would return Fabian’s $2,300 campaign donation, but not funds donated by others through him. Fabian stepped down from Romney’s campaign shortly after his August 9th indictment

Answer 1

The “liberal” media always finds that damaging stories about Hillary are more interesting and worthy of reporting.

I suppose the media doesn’t think that the public is as interested in Romney and that it might adversely affect their precious ratings if they paid much attention to his campaign's misdeeds.

Answer 2

Good point, there are tons of examples of this type of thing all the time.

Further, Fabian was an integral high-ranking member of Romney's campaign staff, while Hsu was just a donor to Hillary. Anyone with a modicum of impartiality would conclude that the Romney scandal is much more serious.

Given the thousands of donors to any presidential compaign, it is not surprising that some turn out to be crooks, but Romney directly put his trust in a thief. Sort of reminds me of Giuliani and his support for Bernard Kerik as Homeland Security Czar. Serious lapses of judgment.

Answer 3

Because "the liberal media" consists of The American Prospect, The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, and Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's "Countdown." And, right now, they're after bigger fish, such as Adolph Giuliani, and, oh yeah, the current Maladministration.

With David Brooks, the New York Times is not liberal. With Charles Krauthammer and James Glassman, the Washington Post is not liberal. With Jeff Jacoby, the Boston Globe is not liberal. With Cal Thomas, the Los Angeles Times is not liberal. With Joe Scarborough, MSNBC as a whole is not liberal. With Larry King fawning over John McCain and (still) Nancy Reagan, CNN is now liberal. And if CBS was liberal, it would have stood up for Dan Rather when he dared to tell the truth about Bush's war record -- the war he wasn't in then and the war he still forces on us now.

There is a "liberal media," but it's pretty small, almost pathetic. Not the evil monolight that Fox News (a.k.a. Fixed News, Faux News and Fox Noise), the New York Post, the Washington Times and their ilk claim.

Answer 4

The mystery of Norman Hsu, the wealthy Clinton donor who turned out to be a fugitive from justice, took a bizarre twist yesterday when Mr. Hsu, who skipped out after pleading no contest in a California fraud case 15 years ago, disappeared yet again.

Mr. Hsu, who turned himself in to the authorities last week and posted $2 million in cash as his bail, was to have appeared in Superior Court in California at 9 a.m. yesterday to hand in his passport and ask that his bail be reduced.

But with the judge, a deputy state attorney general, the news media and Mr. Hsu’s lawyer all waiting in a courtroom in Redwood City, Calif., Mr. Hsu was nowhere to be found.

“We do not know where he is,” said James Brosnahan, Mr. Hsu’s lawyer. “We hope he will be in court today.”

According to the state attorney general’s office, based on information from Mr. Hsu’s lawyer, Mr. Hsu arrived at the Oakland airport at 5:30 a.m. on a charter jet. From that point on, no one had any information on his whereabouts — or any they would reveal. Adding to the intrigue is that he may be on the run with his passport: Mr. Brosnahan said that he had sent an assistant to Mr. Hsu’s Manhattan condominium this week to retrieve it, but a 90-minute search proved fruitless.

“Next, we have to find Mr. Hsu,” Mr. Brosnahan told reporters outside the courtroom yesterday.

Should Mr. Hsu turn up, he will be in deeper legal trouble than before. Judge Robert D. Foiles of San Mateo County Superior Court ordered Mr. Hsu’s bail revoked, issued a new warrant for his arrest and said that if Mr. Hsu was arrested again, he would go directly to jail.

His disappearance added to an already embarrassing episode for Democrats, and especially the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, which had enlisted Mr. Hsu as a “Hillraiser” — a major bundler of donations from others. But last week came the revelation that Mr. Hsu was a fugitive, having skipped out on a California sentencing hearing related to a business fraud case and moved back to Hong Kong.

Yesterday, the Clinton campaign called for Mr. Hsu to turn himself in.

“We believe that Mr. Hsu, like any individual who has obligations before the court, should be meeting them, and he should do so now,” the Clinton campaign said in a statement.

Even those who had initially defended Mr. Hsu when his legal problems became public were baffled. Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator who is president of the New School in New York City, where Mr. Hsu was a trustee, could not explain Mr. Hsu’s behavior.

“I don’t know what is going on in his mind,” Mr. Kerrey said. “I thought that I knew him, but obviously I didn’t.”

Answer 5

Maybe because of the......................

73 House and Senate witnesses who have pled
the 5th Amendment and the 17 witnesses who have fled the country to avoid testifying about Democratic campaign fund raising. Not to mention the 19 charges, 8 convictions, and 4
imprisonment's from Whitewater AND the 55 criminal charges and 32 criminal convictions (so far) in the other " Clinton " scandals.

I realize that you probably won't like my answer, but you asked for an explanation and I'm trying to offer you one. In other words, the Clinton's haven't exactly been "above board" when it's come to campaign contributions. That's not my opinion, it's just a simple fact.

Answer 6

Fact is if things were fair we could end most of the suffering of people in this nation .

Add up sometime all the money that is taken from hard working people everyday and you can see that in order for others to get rich they must deceive others .

Its common practice in business to keep one hand from knowing what the other is doing in order to protect the income generated and how its obtained .

Answer 7

learn plenty??? there is this neat component on your laptop pronounced as a seek engine...Google,bing etc. I googled it or maybe Huffington placed up is reporting on it...and that for the duration of accordance to Cons is the main liberal media there is... Soooo advantageous attempt,yet epic fail

Answer 8

Well, we all know the truth about the so called "liberal" media. It pays in every way politically to be a Republican. However, they do hang themselves with hubris and hypocrisy, witness, Foley, Haggard, Craig, etc. Vitti got off because the Gov. of Louisiana is a Democrat.

Answer 9

Why do you read those Liberal websites?

Romney's story was in my paper. What are you talking about? Hillary only gets positive headlines here in New York.

Answer 10

Romney did not do anything illegal. Mrs. Clinton did.