With the #MeToo
movement in full flight, why hasn't anyone in the legacy media
finally held former U.S. president Bill
Clinton to account for his lifetime of boorish behavior? What of
his string of adulterous affairs with numerous accusers—even within
the Oval Office? What of Juanita Broaddrick's 40-year-old allegation
of
rape? Is it fair for Washington Post columnist Richard
Cohen to slut-shame the sitting U.S. president: while giving
worse
behaved Bubba a complete pass? For one thing, Mr. Clinton's
juvenile high jinks—among them, the Lewinsky affair: a national
scandal that virtually brought the country to a standstill, and led
to Bill's impeachment—happened while he was in office. How is that
comparable to a porn star's allegation of a consensual affair with
Donald Trump, then a private citizen, in 2006?
Where is this
partisan's “honesty, dignity and rectitude”? In reality, Mr.
Cohen engages in the yellowiest
journalism by using language better suited to the gutter: “But
Trump himself is a slut. He is a liar
and a moral harlot who revels in irresponsibility and bad-boy
behavior.” To paraphrase the Bible, “Let he who is without sin
cast the first stone” (John 8:7). That would be good advice for
the Post's holier than thou columnist to heed: especially given his
own sexism
directed at a younger, female subordinate in the workplace. As
reported in June of 1998 by the Washingtonian's Harry Jaffe in “Cohen
Gets Kid-Gloves Treatment in Harassment Case”:
“Among the allegations reported to
[deputy managing editor Milton] Coleman: Cohen asked [Devon] Spurgeon
to come into his office and close the door, then queried her about
her generation's view of oral sex. Also at issue: a conversation
where Cohen said it's too bad Bill Clinton is the only one who can
grope in his office and get away with it. He also is said to have
intimidated her with references to his connections with top Post
editors, such as Tom Wilkinson, who can hire and fire.”
How is it not beyond
creepy for a then 57-year-old man to question a then 23-year-old
editorial aide about sexual mores? At the time, the Post's response
was simply to move his office to a different floor. As for curbing
potential misdeeds, that's about as effective as moving an accused
pedophile priest to a new perish. Indeed, all these years later,
where's Richard Cohen's, or The
Washington Post's, integrity and transparency regarding these events?
As of now, this stone thrower is still employed there. In fact,
sanctioned for decades to point fingers at others while ignoring his
own less than chivalrous conduct. (As was typical in the Clinton era
of “bimbo
eruptions,” the wagons were circled and the young woman in
question was blamed.) Unfortunately, his journalistic old boy's club
is still stuck in Clintonian amber. Neither Clinton nor Cohen have
yet received their deserved
comeuppance in 2018.
Upon reflection, how was the lurid, sex
scandal-plagued Clinton era not a shadowy reflection of recently
exposed Hollywood sex scandals (read: Clinton friend and donor Harvey
Weinstein), and the #MeToo movement? In both cases, didn't prominent
Democrats misuse their lofty positions to exploit underlings for
sexual favors? Specifically, when Bubba chased Monica around the
resolute desk in the Oval Office, wasn't Bill's bad-boy behavior
(with her and others) equivalent to the adulterous antics of a
bathrobed Harvey? Rightly, today's press has excoriated the
disgraced movie mogul Yet, Bill's extramarital affair with then
22-year-old White House intern Monica
Lewinsky is still treated with kid gloves. Ironically, his still
traumatized former paramour, now 44, couldn't bring herself to hold
the Clintons responsible in her candid March 2018 Vanity
Fair article: he for his arguably predatory behavior; she for
calling Lewinsky a “narcissistic
loony toon”. Shouldn't the Clintons be held to the same
standard of conduct that the media is rabidly trying to hold The
Donald to?
The
hard left media continuing to protect the coddled
Clintons conveys the message that questionable actions, or words,
have no bearing on character or a president's ability to lead the
nation. And despite the sea change regarding sexual
harassment, Bill and Hillary have survived their various imbroglios,
haven't they? So, it stands to reason that President Trump
will also survive the supposed peccadilloes of his past.
Before applying such blatant double standards to U.S. presidents,
Democratic
surrogates of the biased MSM need to take a long look in a
mirror. Not to do so shows the truth of what they are: untrustworthy
mudslingers of salacious leftist propaganda.
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