Media bias isn’t just about how the news is covered. It’s also about what they chose to cover. If an item doesn’t fit their agenda, they breeze right on by. If it is something that fits, they stay, park their satellite trucks and cover the story endlessly.
Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) has been under investigation by the FBI since last April.
Wall Street Journal
Lawmaker Bought Farm With CEO Who Gained From Appropriations
By JOHN R. WILKE
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, the West Virginia Democrat whose real-estate holdings and financial disclosures have drawn federal scrutiny, last year bought a 300-acre farm with the head of a small defense contractor that had won a $2.1 million contract from funds that the congressman added to a 2005 spending bill.
The joint purchase of the farm, which sits on the Cheat River in West Virginia, is the most direct tie yet disclosed between Rep. Mollohan and a beneficiary of the federal spending he has steered toward his home state. It raises new questions about possible conflicts of interest by Rep. Mollohan and his use of such spending. House ethics guidelines warn lawmakers to avoid business deals with those who benefit from their official acts.
Rep. Mollohan is the new chairmen of the very committee that oversees the Justice Department’s budget. Now you would think this was big news, especially since the Democrats ran on a platform against a ‘culture of corruption’.
I guess it depends on what their definition of ‘corruption’ is? When asked this week about Rep. Mollahan, here is what Speaker Pelosi had to say,
“Quite frankly, I think the Justice Department is looking into every member of Congress. I always say to everybody, ‘You’re now going to get a free review of your family tree — past, present and future, imagined and otherwise,'” Pelosi said.
Remove the name Mollahan, and insert the name Tom Delay, and what do you think Nancy Pelosi would be saying?
The Culture of Corruption surrounding new Speaker Pelosi doesn’t involve just one man. Let’s not forget Rep. John Conyers ethics problems just because most of the media has. Here’s the Washington Examiner,
Pelosi should withdraw Conyersâ?? appointment as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee because he is unfit for the position and because the ethics mess simply cannot be cleaned up with such an individual leading the House committee most directly concerned with upholding the majesty of the law.
According to Captains Quarters,
The House Ethics Committee released its report on Conyers on New Years Eve, a move apparently timed to slide under everyone’s radar. It scolded Conyers for using official staff to work on his re-election campaigns and to perform personal chores for him. The latter is a breach of ethics, but the former is a violation of election law. It’s a big problem, especially for the man who would run the House committee on law enforcement.
And let’s not forget Nancy’s choice for head of the Intelligence Committee, Alcee Hastings, a corrupt federal judge who was impeached and removed from the bench before he became a congressmen. In case you were wondering, Pelosi voted in favor of his impeachment and removal. Maybe she believes in redemption? When Hastings wouldn’t fly, even within her own party, she turned to Rep. Silvestre Reyes, a guy who doesn’t know anything about the enemies we face. He doesn’t know Shiite from Shineola.
Amazing how much Nancy got worked up over even appearances of corruption by Republicans and how much tolerance she has it for members of her own team.
Even with non-stop, fawning media coverage for Pelosi this week, her poll numbers are even lower than President Bush’s. It’s all downhill from here Nancy.