Co-host Matt Lauer even talked to disgraced former Governor Jim McGreevey to get his thoughts on the matter. (However, while NBC made sure to label Sanford a Republican, the Today anchors failed to do so for the ex-New Jersey governor who resigned under a cloud of scandal.)

ABC’s Good Morning America touted the sex scandal for 17 minutes and 26 seconds, featuring seven stories on Sanford. (It should also be pointed out that GMA came within seven minutes of Today’s total, despite the fact that the NBC program is four hours, double the time of ABC’s show.) During one such segment, Sam Donaldson insisted that it’s hard to forgive Republicans who get involved in sex scandals: “They thump the Bible. They condemn everyone else, and when they- human- they don’t have much credit in the bank for forgiveness.”

CBS’s Early Show had the least amount of coverage, offering only five segments over 11 minutes and 44 seconds. As the MRC’s Kyle Drennen noted in his June 25 posting, all three morning shows repeatedly identified Sanford as a Republican (100%). However, during the first week’s coverage of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and his prostitute scandal, he was labeled a Democrat only 20 percent of the time.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/06/26/morning-shows-devote-almost-hour-hyping-sanford-story

It’s always the reporters, no? (John Edwards, Villaraigosa)

I think “handling” is the key word here. Yes, eventually some media cover every scandal, but it’s WHICH media, timing, content, placement, etc. that reveal their bias.

BTW Bill Clinton’s accusers like Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and Kathleen Wiley CHOSE to go public and were very vocal, giving the media no choice but to cover them.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/26/politics/main5116933.shtml

NBC and other networks covered for Clinton as long as they could.

They hammered him and his wife relentlessly throughout his presidency and allowed every kook and weirdo with a hairbrained accusation on the air (Clinton Death List, anyone?).

The MSM wouldn’ touch Edwards. The liberal media conceals labeling a scandal whenever it is a Democrat, yet gleefully, repeatedly labels Repubs.

Oh, you mean like the Republicans exposed in the Flynt Report? Were you aware of all those stories about sexual hijinks involving those members of Congress? No? And why is that? Because although those stories were widely known, sometimes for year, the MSM didn’t report them. All Republicans. All conservative. Not a word. Hell, everyone in DC knew that Newt Gingrich was running around with another woman (who’s now wife #3) for YEARS, yet it was never printed until a reporter from Vanity Fair alluded to it (and didn’t mention the woman by name). I knew about it because she used to work for a member of Congress who lived up the street from me.

For every story you’ve read about a sexual indiscretion on the part of a Republican there are at least 2 – 3 more that are widely known and discussed but have not been printed, including revelations about well-known conservatives who are gay and yet strongly oppose civil rights for gay people.

So no, I don’t see what I want to see. I see what’s there.

Oh, and you might want to brush up on your grammar. Just trying to help.

One last thing: TYPING WORDS ALL IN CAPS doesn’t advance your argument.

The timing of all this seems to fit better with the goals of a scorned woman than a political rival, who would benefit more if the scandal were revealed closer to 2012.

I rule out the wife because as a wife myself, the world being able to read such romantic correspondences between husband and mistress would possibly be the most humiliating and degrading aspect of the whole ordeal.

NBC and other networks covered for Clinton as long as they could. The MSM wouldn’ touch Edwards. The liberal media conceals labeling a scandal whenever it is a Democrat, yet gleefully, repeatedly labels Repubs.

At the end of the day, they WILL report on a scandal, because they get off on the firestorm, and they have to, but the way they handle the stories varies greatly.

I imagine conservatives WERE befuddled that Clinton escaped virtually unscathed. They knew about the charges of rape and affairs that surrounded him for years, and then Monica broke, and he still got away with it. Meanwhile, a Conservative caught in a scandal…?

“But God forbid that they faced the fact that people didn’t want Bill Clinton thrown out of the White House…”

I’m sure they were shocked.

Dealing with two foreign nations on a fairly regular basis because they surround you on three sides.

I Love your sarcasm!