| | "I mean, in a way Obama's standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of God."<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37B_nOdRTAA June 5, 2009, MSNBC interview with Chris Matthews]</ref> | | "I mean, in a way Obama's standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of God."<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37B_nOdRTAA June 5, 2009, MSNBC interview with Chris Matthews]</ref> |
| − | Bill Clinton also was given lots of favor during his candidacy and presidency, to the extent that Time Magazine even openly admitted that they'll let a complaint Bill Clinton slide simply because they liked him during the 1992 presidential election. Likewise, the media, thanks to Clinton supporter [[James Carville]], frequently proceeded to victim-blame several of Bill Clinton's victims, such as Gennifer Flowers and Kathy Willy, by derogatorily referring to them as "trailer trash" among others. In 1994, after the GOP senator [[Jesse Helms]] made a joke that could have been interpreted as calling for the assassination of Clinton, the media expressed outrage and demanded that the [[Secret Service]] investigate him. However, in 2006, where John Kerry, while appearing on the ''[[Real Time with Bill Maher]]'', and proceeded to make a similar joke about assassinating then-President [[George W. Bush]] where he said, in response to Bill Maher's comment about he could have gone to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone, "Or, I [Kerry] could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone." (as well as being shameless enough in the joke that he posted it on his own website after the fact) was ignored by the mainstream media.<ref>http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-kerry-jokes-about-assassinating.html</ref> | + | Bill Clinton also was given lots of favor during his candidacy and presidency, to the extent that Time Magazine even openly admitted that they'll let a complaint Bill Clinton slide simply because they liked him during the 1992 presidential election. Likewise, the media, thanks to Clinton supporter [[James Carville]], frequently proceeded to victim-blame several of Bill Clinton's victims, such as [[Paula Jones]], by derogatorily referring to them as "trailer trash" among other epithets. In 1994, after the GOP senator [[Jesse Helms]] made a joke that could have been interpreted as calling for the assassination of Clinton, the media expressed outrage and demanded that the [[Secret Service]] investigate him. However, in 2006, where John Kerry, while appearing on the ''[[Real Time with Bill Maher]]'', and proceeded to make a similar joke about assassinating then-President [[George W. Bush]] where he said, in response to Bill Maher's comment about he could have gone to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone, "Or, I [Kerry] could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone." (as well as being shameless enough in the joke that he posted it on his own website after the fact) was ignored by the mainstream media.<ref>http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-kerry-jokes-about-assassinating.html</ref> |