The Washington Post has a report today asking why are we only hearing about Trump's involvement with

[still_one]

a porn star now? Reporters from ABC, Fox, and others were pursuing this story, yet no one went with it, even though it was right on the heels of multiple sexual assault allegations against Trump, and the controversy of his "Access Hollywood" vulgar remarks.

The "Journalists say they held back because they couldn’t independently corroborate key elements of Daniels’s account, including in one instance from Daniels herself. The story, in other words, failed to rise to journalistic standards, never mind that it involved a man who regularly attacks the news media for lacking standards."

Journalistic standards? what a crock

[Chasstev365]

1. The fact that the fix was in against Hillary is undeniable

[Cattledog]

2. Would they have held back if this was about Bill Clinton?

If this was BC instead of DT in 2016 it would have been front page news.

[Orrex]

4. Or about Hillary Clinton?

If she'd paid to cover up a tryst with a male porn star, does anyone doubt that the story would be saturating the airwaves 24/7?

But if it's Trump? Meh.

[Control-Z]

16. Of course it would have.

And Hillary would have been expected to answer for her husband's behavior.

[greymattermom]

26. So are they asking Melania

her opinion about this story?

[Control-Z]

31. I haven't heard anything.

She is pure to wingnuts.
They won't say a word about her or to her. And neither will any journalist or reporter. Besides, she is having affairs of her own.

[yardwork]

3. Instead, Trump brought all the Bill Clinton accusers to the debate.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I've heard rumors that Trumps accusers have been invited to the SOTU.

What's sauce for the goose . . . .

[yardwork]

8. It won't have the same impact. The fix was on in to defeat Hillary and the media rode along.

[Blue_Adept]

10. but it will have some impact

Because it will be talked about through the news outlets and we're now living in a post-weinstein period. So the conversation will be very different.

[DBoon]

30. It won't have the same impact. Sociopaths cannot be shamed.

nt

[underpants]

6. A writer from Slate also sat on this story

and apparently Stormy sat on Donald - he only f's up

[CatMor]

7. I'm surprised the Post hadn't heard about the....

involvement when the others did.

[still_one]

15. Me too, and for all we know they dropped the ball also

[Sunlei]

9. I don't give a shit about trumps sex life, let his wife deal with her husbands failures.

[Blue_Adept]

11. It comes back to the same issues presented with Clinton and Lewinsky

The potential for being blackmailed, and not just by the persons involved.

It's not just his "sex life"

[Sunlei]

12. those kicked off the stage Rs are probably angry 'someone' didn't use the dossier EARLY.

[Ilsa]

13. Trump and his handlers thought it was damaging enough

to pay off the women involved. It was definitely blackmail material.

[Blue_Adept]

14. And with Bannon indicating that there are a lot more of them out there...

can you imagine how many are being sought out as potential blackmail candidates by various agencies, even if never used but just to have on hand?

[DBoon]

29. How many are already being used for blackmail?

I'm sure the Russian FSB knew about all this long before we did

[unblock]

20. it's not the crime, it's the cover-up.

agreed that him having a consensual affair isn't really our business.

him paying her off to buy her silence definitely is.

unclear whether the payoff was his idea or hers, but either way, it indicates a vulnerability to blackmail and a willingness to cover up damaging information and a willingness to lie about matters the public should care about (the payment and the cover up, not the affair itself).

all this assumes there was no money involved in the affair itself. if it was actually a prostitution relationship, then that's even more important for the public to know.

[unblock]

17. did coverage of the birther "scandal" rise to journalistic standards? how about travelgate?

or the vince foster "murder"?

or the whatever-the-hell-bad-thing hillary supposedly did or didn't do about benghazi?


how is it that the media can soberly and seriously cover fake scandal after fake scandal against democrats and then they suddenly talk about "journalistic standards" when it protects a republican candidate?


did al franken get the benefit of the same "journalistic standards"?

[still_one]

23. Or the swift boating of John Kerry

[unblock]

24. or misquoting al gore's internet boast in order to claim it was a lie.

and the list goes on....

[still_one]

25. We could do a drinking game with this, but i suspect I would get drunk fairly quickly

[knightmaar]

18. The difference here may have been consent

From the report Colbert did on it, it sounds like it was consensual, but gross ... and that she was paid off to not talk about it.

[world wide wally]

19. Amazingly, I haven't heard any Trump denials about this lately

[SeaDoo77]

21. It's Like Bob Woodward Knew Who The Valeria Plame Leakers Were

And sat on the information so Bush could get re-elected.

Our media is GREAT!!!!

[NewJeffCT]

22. yes, Fox beat the drum for Benghazi, Pizzagate and more

hours, weeks and months without a shred of evidence...

[cilla4progress]

27. Wonder

how hard they tried

[DBoon]

28. same reason we did not hear about Arnold Schwartznegger's love child until he was out of office

Cowardice on the part of reporters and right wing media owners

[nadine_mn]

32. I'm going a different route: Trump WANTS us to hear about it now

Same thing when the Hope Hicks affair news was asking rounds a few months back.

Trump doesn't think there's anything wrong with how he treats women (nor does his base)

He gets his rocks off whenever he is associated with a beautiful woman.

He LOVES seeing the pics of him next to a beautiful younger woman. It adds to his macho virile fantasy.

He NEEDS to be in the news daily (remember he pouts if a couple of days go by and he is not) and he would much rather have the news be about him and a beautiful blonde having sex (he is such a virile man that has to have sex...even if Melania can't because of her lame excuse of giving birth... a man has needs amiright? has to prove that little button works).

This is like when he called gossip columns as John Barron

[Cha]

33. "journalist standards" Ha.. No. I call

Bullshit.

[still_one]

34. ...................

[Cha]

35. This is on the NYT.. trumps polls are

down in the toilet where they should be.. so what does the NYT do?

Posts only positive letters from his fan club. Unreal

[still_one]

36. What is most concerning about that is that it is an attempt to intentionally distort the

picture

[Cha]

37. Exactly. NYT does that a lot.