The Washington Post reports that the list of Congressional Democrats calling on Anthony Weiner to resign is growing, currently at eight Democrats, including the head of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-PA). We at the Peak are wondering where in the name of righteous indignation are all the Colorado Democrats calling on their fellow Party member to step down and return the money he's donated to them?
We're also wondering where the Colorado media coverage is on the lack of Colorado Democrats calling on Weiner to resign. They certainly kept score on resignation calls during the Mark Foley scandal. And Foley did resign, unlike Weiner who is still refusing today to step down. Even worse, Weiner lied about it for 10 days. So it's not just his perverted behavior, but his bald-faced lying to the country that makes it imperative Weiner resign. Even the liberal hordes over at ColoradoPols have picked up the growing calls for Weiner to resign and think the lying requires him to do so.
With the media refusing to cover a sex scandal closer to home, has there been an agreed upon moratorium on covering any Colorado aspect to Democrat sexual shenanigans?
This is, after all, slow season in politics. We know reporters have time to place calls to the Colorado's Congressional Representatives and Senators' offices and at least report whether they were willing to publicly call for Weiner's resignation or not. As Sal Pace has announced his Congressional campaign, it's also a question he should answer as well.
While the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Hill have covered Weiner's donations to other Democrats, the Colorado media has not reported on the fact, as we have at the Peak, that Ed Perlmutter received $1000 from Anthony Weiner. As the Times reports, Democrat Betty Sutton of Ohio has donated the $1000 she received from Weiner to charity. Why hasn't Perlmutter done so as well?
Please, dear Colorado media, let us know why you have been so strangely silent on the issue?
must be on vacation. I honestly can’t see her passing up this golden opportunity to have fun with the word “Weiner”.
Donut Day last week. But she found the time to write about a city council candidate knocking on her door last year, so thankfully she’s practicing her hard-hitting journalism.
But WesternReserve, didn’t you see the Post is too busy reporting (gasp!) Tipton used a town hall service which happens to be one of a dozens of vendors who contract for his nephew’s firm? The same firm used by dozens of Dems and R’s. They even quoted C.R.E.W. the DC-version of CEW, but failed to mention their bias, much less that they also defended John Edwards this week too. Oh and Allison Sherry found a way to bring in John Murtha’s nephew getting a $4 MILLION no-bid contract, because, you know, that’s the same as $7k in constituent services–the same John Salazar used too.
Not to rant, but the Post is an F-ing joke. The manufactured McGinnis scandal, failure to follow up Hick’s Chinook Fund, his statements about rural Colorado, Hancock’s Hookers…the Post is trash.
She may stray into the “People Magazine” type story too often, but she is generally a top-notch reporter.
Allison Sherry is no Lynn Bartels so it’s not fair to compare the two.
The Post has serious credibility issues right now, but I’d argue that’s more Dean Singleton than the newsroom.
Denver media has become a joke, and yes Singleton has done the most damage. He has no qualms about running the Tipton thing, probably because Tipton comes from outside Denver.
Not covering Weiner’s contributions to Perlmutter is indeed strange–mainly because Singleton doesn’t like Perlmutter, and Singleton likes using the Post to settle personal scores.
If they do cover it, they’ll try their hardest to make sure they mention times when Republicans had past scandals. The media can’t help itself from playing the “fair and balanced” card when reporting on Dem scandals, though they have no problem ripping Republicans outright.
What I really don’t get is the Weiner story is huge — everyone, even those not normally interested in politics, is reading and talking about it. Why Colorado press wouldn’t try to give their readers the Colorado angle to the story is beyond me.