In Wednesday's Washington Post, media columnist Margaret Sullivan read between the lines of a Rupert Murdoch memo to Fox News employees about the resignation of co-president Bill Shine. All Sullivan could read was happy talk and denial in a tainted culture of sexual abuse:
Shine, by all reports, was a primary enabler of the abusive Roger Ailes, who also “resigned” last summer after many women who had worked for him accused him of creating a disgusting culture in which sexual favors were expected as payment for career advancement....
Nowhere in Murdoch’s note is a word about the treatment of women and minorities at Fox. Nothing about cleaning up its tainted culture.
She concluded: "What’s happening at Fox may look like a thorough housecleaning. But it’s really more like a cleaning crew who believes that dimming the lights and sweeping the dirt under the rug are acceptable substitutes for what’s really needed: a mop, a bucket and some industrial-strength disinfectant."
This same Margaret brought an entirely different attitude to the abuse-enabling world of the Clintons. They needed no mops, no buckets, no disinfectant. It was the opposite. Bringing them disinfectant was a twisted, evil act. Why? Because supporting feminist causes strangely made the Clintons, man and enabling wife, immune to being measured by feminist ideals as they created their own tainted culture.
When Donald Trump brought to the second presidential debate the Clinton accusers Paula Jones (he dropped his pants and asked me to kiss it), Kathleen Willey (he put my hand on his crotch in the Oval Office), and Juanita Broaddrick (he raped me while biting my lip until it bled), the feminist disparaged them as a "twisted version of The Last Supper" -- apparently, the apostles of Christ transformed into the lying apprentices of Trump.
Breitbart News’s tone (and its millions of devoted followers) have come to define the tone and discourse of the Trump campaign: nasty, truth-averse and no-holds-barred. There’s Bannon to thank for much of that.
His approach certainly was on display Sunday night, particularly in the surreal gathering of women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct, going back to the 1970s.
That pre-debate tableau in a hotel meeting room might as well have carried Bannon’s signature at the bottom. With Trump flanked at a long, narrow table by the Clinton accusers, it looked like a twisted version of “The Last Supper.”
Why is Fox presumed guilty when it settles sexual harassment cases and the Clintons presumed innocent when they settled for $850,000 with Paula Jones? Liberal bias. The news is fake when it's not pleasing to liberals. An objective media would want the truth in both cases.
