This is what they do to people like Charlie Rangel and Shelly Silver. It's an MSM adaptation of the cynical-cop meme that every man's a thief and woman's a whore.
They ambush Rangel on his use of stationary. In fact, the NY Times writes a Big Times editorial about it:
For all his angry denial of any wrongdoing, it is commendable that Representative Charles Rangel is calling for an ethics inquiry into his use of Congressional letterhead to trawl for financial support for an academic center, the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York, which is expected to cost tens of millions of dollars.
At the same time, it’s puzzling that Mr. Rangel insists that there is no need for any vetting of another case of his relying on the kindness of well-heeled friends — for years he has leased four rent-stabilized apartments at below market rates from a New York landlord who seems to favor politically elite tenants.
While the tool box at the New York Post writes about Shelly Silver's inability to discern Michael Boxley's psychosis:
Cavalier. Outrageous. Disgraceful.
Those are the exact words that pit- bull Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman used last week to describe the conduct of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in handling multiple sexual-assault allegations against his former chief counsel, Michael Boxley.
Here's something you can bet the Post editorial board won't talk about. Other organizations also "guilty" of not discerning sexual predation include NAACP, Department of Defense, US Congress, I'm no expert on this stuff, but it appears to be a pretty big problem. from Malaysia to Egypt to Japan. How these people find their way into positions of trust like Boxley had with Silver, I have no idea. I'm not a psychiatrist nor social psychologist. Neither is Silver. Did Denny Hastert know, or should have known, that Mark Foley's a nut? What about Larry Craig and the entire state of Idaho, should they have known? Point being, there's a lot of un-well people out there, all over the world, doing bizarre and creepy things, with no one the wiser until they get nailed doing them. Now should the Post come up with a list of shrink-wrapped, surefire warning signals and "dump overboard" instructions for sexually predatory psychopaths like Boxley, they should mail it in to these people. McManus might get himself a Nobel Prize. He's already shooting for one in Hindsight Nano-Optics.
But again, the context of these attacks on Rangel and Silver is remarkable. New York recently had a governor attempting to destroy another branch of government with the help of the State Police. A recent state comptroller stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars and sweet-dealing its investment business. And an ex-Senate majority leader under FBI investigation. The list goes on, but I'm sure you get the point.
So within this context, what do the Times and Post do? They go after squeaky-clean Rangel for stationary abuse and Silver for not being a profiler. And sic investigative reporter Serge on David Paterson's personal life.
Great work, folks. Tell me again, why the MSM is slouching into self-important heap of utter insignificance?
