Is Rangel A Victim of the Liberal Media?
By Don | December 2, 2008
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) who is under an ethics investigation lashed out at the New York Times for its coverage of his case.
From the Politico.
He may fear “death by a thousand cuts” — a stream of damning newspaper stories, private grumblings from Democratic colleagues, a pending ethics investigation — but insiders say House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel has no intention of giving up his powerful post.
To the contrary, the New York Democrat is launching a concerted counterattack against The New York Times, which reported last week that Rangel helped retain a multimillion-dollar tax loophole for an oil drilling company at the same time that the company’s CEO was pledging $1 million to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.
You know things are bad when liberals attack the liberal media.
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We have many dead fish in Congress. The stench is overwhelming. If we had term limits, they eventually could not buy their jobs with goodies to their constituents.
No, Rangel is NOT a victim of the Liberal Media, he is a victim of his own doings, it is only that the Dems want him out that the story was even printed. He like many other Democrats are as crooked as a mountain road.
The bigger problem are congress are people such as Pelosi and her cohorts.
I only hope that if Rangle is tried, he names names of others in Congress.
Wesley in Dallas, Post 3;
Your comment:
“He like many other Democrats are as crooked as a mountain road.”
And, of course, Republicans like Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon, Duke Cunningham, Ted Stevens, et al, AREN’T “as crooked as a mountain road”?
Holier-than-thou hypocrisy seems to be an ailment often experienced by many God-fearin’, Lord-praisin’ GOPpers, don’t you think?
Rangel a “victim?”
Best laugh I’ve had since the Nov 4 hijacking!
Term limits would alleviate most of this. But also…these people keep getting reelected…hello!
Funny how the extremist rightwinger ideologues generally, always in a lemming-like and cultish way, absolutely H-A-T-E The New York Times and excoriate it at E-V-E-R-Y opportunity (whether or not such excoriation is factually, logically, or reasonably based) - - but - - in this case, the cultish lemmings P-R-A-I-S-E the Times for its reporting on the Rangel matter. (???)
(And AIM even has a “Boycott The New York Times” website!)
So, I guess the GOP party line here is that “The New York Times is a pro-Democrat, pro-liberal newspaper except when its not a pro-Democrat, pro-liberal newspaper” (???)
Hypocritical crapola.
Extremist rightwinger is an oxymoron. “Extremist rightwinger” is a euphemism for the extreme, enslave the people leftocrats, eg., National Socialists, ie, Nazis. Remember them? Left wing!
Speaking of which, unlike the Marx prattling, Maoist mimicking, Christian bashing, Kool-Aid drinking, special interest group schmoozing, truth suppressing, race voting, woman hating gLiberal left, the cogent, moderate right believe in open dialogue and credit where it’s due.
Even if we might consider that the NY Times may be taking Rangel down in favor of a new or upcoming candidate, we’ll credit them for where they are now.
Their journey of a million miles to rational, balanced, ethical and impartial journalism may have begun with this single step.
TK post #7:
>>>(And AIM even has a “Boycott The New York Times” website!)
So, I guess the GOP party line here is that “The New York Times is a pro-Democrat, pro-liberal newspaper except when its not a pro-Democrat, pro-liberal newspaper” (???)<<<
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TK, after all these month of us sparring, you are like a bad penny, you just keep showing up to contest the truth you do not want to hear. You only listen, watch, and read unber Liberal nonsense, and actually believe what they say. Don’t you ever get tired of being wrong?
It was not praise for the NYT, it is just that they wrote a story telling the partial truth about Rangel, or any other Dem, it was surprise…Until it was found the Dems wanted the story written.
AIM does not have a Boycott Page, there is a paid for link to the page, geez, tell the truth for once.
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Dara, nice post. 
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I am involved in the NYT Boycott you mention, myself and another group of people first started Boycotts back when Clinton was in office. We created a site called one-sided media and collected 16.8 million people to stop subscribing or buying the NYT and their advertisers. Due to the power of the people, this group who does it now joined our site and had the $$$ to get it out as advertizing the boycott petition.
If the NAACP knew what was going on (and they may know), they would or will be involved in this and go after Pelosi), the sad thing is, he is likely to keep his seat.
They (Dems) mostly do not like that he is a regular Fox News Analyst, as is Bob Beckle, Juan Williams, Mara Liaison, Charles Krauthammer, Susan Estrigde and so many more.
Now that the Dems did not get the “Super Majority” thanks to Chambliss’s land slide victory in Georgia, if they bring up the Fairness Doctrine again, to avoid a filibuster, they will have to include television news stations and newspapers to be equally fair as talk radio.
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Blame the press, but it appears the press didn’t make up his failure to pay taxes on resort property earnings, his use of three subsidized apartments in New York City, his storage of an antique car in the congressional parking facility,or his private workout room near his congressional office. Best way to handle these revelations is to bluff through ,hang tough and refuse to step down from his chairmanship. He is counting on time passing and memories growing dim.
Representatives and senators who stay too long are like dead fish….they stink.