Leave it to the Media Research Center to steer a conversation about now-admitted child molester Dennis Hastert away from him and to MRC nemesis Bill Clinton.
Mark Finkelstein writes in an April 27 NewsBusters post:
As far-left MSNBC hosts go–an admittedly low bar–I’ll admit to having found Chris Hayes a relatively fair and decent proponent of his misguided policies. But he did two things tonight that made me lose respect for him. First, he literally laughed in the face of Rick Tyler, calling “preposterous” his depiction of Donald Trump as a “northeastern liberal progressive.” This despite Trump’s record of donating to . . . northeastern liberal progressives and describing himself, among other things, as “very pro-choice.” Would Hayes ever be so rude to a liberal guest?
Even worse when it comes to hypocrisy, it is hard to top Hayes’ skeptical suggestion about Denny Hastert’s pattern of sexual abuse of boys: “good Lord Almighty do I wonder whether that just stopped when he left the precints of Yorkville high school?” Come back and reclaim your integrity, Chris, when you wonder the same about Bill Clinton. Did his abuse stop when he left “the precincts” of the White House? Orgy Island, anyone?
“Orgy Island,” by the way, is a reference to Jeffrey Epstein, a political donor who is alleged to have a private island where sexual crimes were committed. Clinton reportedly flew on Epstein’s plane, but there’s no evidence thus far that Clinton took part in any inappropriate behavior.
Epstein has a relationship with Donald Trump too, but Finkelstein didn’t mention that. Nor did he mention that occasional friend of the MRC Alan Dershowitz also has a relationship with Epstein — heck, NewsBusters has ignored that completely.
Finkelstein is taking the ol’ Clinton Equivocation to new levels by trying to deflect from the offenses of a prominent Republican child molester.