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Jewish World Review April 22, 2005 / 13 Nisan, 5765 DeLay feeding frenzy By Joe Scarborough
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The blood is in the water. The sharks are circling. Now it is time for the main course.
Lower the tank and drop in the political corpse of Tom Delay.
Democrats are whipping themselves into a frenzy — as are their allies in the press — over the impending political death of Tom DeLay. The Majority Leader is helping fan the flames by holding up rifles at NRA rallies while asking for more bullets.
But if you are scoring this one at home sports fans, expect to see a flurry of revelations coming out about the Democratic leaders in the coming days.
Even now we are learning that the very Democrats who are attacking DeLay for taking a foreign trip on a lobbyist's tab are themselves guilty of...you guessed it...taking foreign trips on lobbyists' tabs.
The media will slowly get around to reporting this fact but not in time to help DeLay.
The smear campaign has started, just like it did with Newt Gingrich. The Democrats and the media will keep throwing out any charge they can find even if the behavior attacked is legal, ethical, and practiced by other members in Congress.
A great example is what happened to DeLay's family a few weeks back when Americans were given the shocking news that Tom DeLay paid his wife and daughter for working on his campaign.
After the New York Times and other outlets howled to the high moon about the financial arrangement, breathless editorials slammed the Majority Leader and predicted his imminent demise.
A few days later, the Associated Press reported that many politicians on both sides of the aisle share the same arrangement with their family members.
But most Americans didn't read that story. Instead, they heard the first wave of DeLay attacks and read the editorials branding him as a political sleaze.
Now the same is happening with these foreign travel stories.
But do not fear.
The mainstream media will not let the facts get in the way of their anti-DeLay machine. You will keep reading stories as you did with Abu Ghraib, because it fits into the MSM's political agenda. And right now, their top priority is getting Tom DeLay.
The Majority Leader is no saint. But he lives in a town where his attackers live in large glass houses.
They need to watch out. Because the rocks are about to start flying, and before long, expect to see a full blown political war on Capitol Hill not witnessed since the ugly Impeachment battles of 1998.
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Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) hosts “Scarborough Country,” 10 p.m. ET, weeknights on MSNBC. He is the author of the recently published "Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day : The Real Deal on How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Other Washington Barbarians are Bankrupting America". (Click HERE to purchase. Sales help fund JWR.)Comment by clicking here. © 2005, MSNBC |
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