You really have to admire the cojones of ABC commentator George Stephanopoulos. His name should become a synonym for hypocrisy. George, of course, is one of the legion of mainstream media types going after Herman Cain and all the allegations of sexual harassment. Not that the story isn't newsworthy, and not that the story is necessarily false. Yet, something is nagging me about Boy George jumping all over this story. I need to jog my faltering memory.
I got it!
It's all coming back to me now. George Stephanopoulos, if I am not confusing him with all the presidents of Greece, past and present, was the mouthpiece for President Bill Clinton, he of Paula Jones fame (and a few others).
Here is what journalist George recently told Republican strategist Mary Matalin:
"But to believe [Cain], you have to believe that all four accusers are lying. Can you hold that line even if they all go public?"
Was he referring to Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick?
Here is what Georgie wrote in his "acclaimed" autobiography, All too Human:
"My goal was to put Paula Jones in the category as Connie Hamzy- women whose stories were so suspect that their accounts couldn't be dignified by the media."
"Most important, I wanted to keep reports of Paula [Jones'] press conference off television...It wasn't a hard sell."
"Knee-knocker" Paula Jones"I have the proof."
A harder sell is when George unsuccessfully tried to convince a network not to run Don Imus' classic speech at the 1996 Radio and Television Correspondants' dinner, in which he roasted the Clintons over things like Bill's womanizing and Hillary's missing files from the Rose Law Firm.
Who knows? Maybe if Cain becomes president, he can hire George as his press spokesman. Then George can beat down all those rumors about Cain's alleged sexual harassment. They call it going full circle. (Or was that coming full circle. I can't remember.)
2 comments:
Is this the same George Stephanopoulos that could have questioned Obama about his religious preference, when he made the statement: "My Muslim religion", when queried about McCain's attack on this candidate? Stephanopoulos quickly stepped up and stated "Your Christian religion?", to gloss over the presidential candid's reveal of his real perceived religion. I do not trust MSM.
Squid
Well, we know what Imus was worth, don't we? I agree on general principles about Stephanopoulos. I remember the debate during the North Carolina primary in 2008 when he kept posing absolutely irrelevant and boring questions to candidates with the intro "The people want to know..."
A candidate named Barack Obama put it all into perspective the next day at a campaign rally, observing that it took 45 minutes of questions before the panel got around to anything of real interest to voters. It seems he was right.
[Squid -- you have lied about this so often, I have to wonder whether there is any truth to this factoid either. But as Colin Powell said so eloquently, so what if he was a Muslim?]
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