Why isn't this being mentioned in the mainstream media?
Dec 4, 2014 10:47:33 #
If he was a Republican, you'd know who Terry Bean is. But since he's a wealthy Democratic donor, a gay-rights activist, and a personal friend of Barack Obama, The New York Times has said nothing nothing! about Bean facing sex abuse charges involving a 15-year-old boy.
* Article by M. Malkin
If real estate mogul and deep-pocketed White House donor Terry Bean were a Republican, he'd be a household name by now.
Bean's face would be splashed all over the covers of grocery-stand newsweeklies. The garrulous hostesses of ABC's "The View" would be haranguing the GOP to return his campaign contributions. Child-welfare advocates would be demanding his resignation from top political advocacy and civic groups.
Media satellite trucks from NBC's "Today" show would be parked outside the Lane County, Ore., Circuit Court on Dec. 3 for his first appearance.
And The New York Times archives would be teeming with thousand-word editorials and multiple lead stories about his grand jury indictment on horrifying sexual abuse allegations involving multiple victims -- including a 15-year-old boy.
Instead, a search for "Terry Bean" on the left-wing paper of record's website on Tuesday yielded exactly one story dated Jan. 16, 1880, about a Westchester County, N.Y., elder with that name -- plus a sponsored advertising link to retailer L.L. Bean.
So, who is Terry Bean? He's a wealthy, high-flying liberal and celebrated gay-rights activist who co-founded the influential Human Rights Campaign organization. He is also a veteran member of the board of the HRC Foundation, which disseminates Common Core-aligned "anti-bullying" material to children's schools nationwide.
Bean shelled out more than $500,000 for President Obama and the Democrats in 2012. He was rewarded with an exclusive Air Force One ride with Obama. The president also gave the developer a special shout-out at an opulent fundraiser in Portland, where Bean's family had established a longstanding political and corporate fiefdom. Bean gleefully rubbed elbows with first lady Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton -- and made sure everyone on his Flickr photo-sharing site knew it.
A relentless schmoozer, the campaign finance bundler introduced the commander-in -chief to his 25-year-old ex-boyfriend, Kiah Lawson. The pair posed for a cozy snapshot beneath an august portrait of George Washington in the White House library in 2013.
Late last month, however, the former lovebirds posed for a seedier set of pics: their creepy mug shots at the Multnomah County, Ore., Detention Center. After a sweeping investigation led by the Portland police department's sex crime units and two county district attorney's offices, authorities charged Bean with two felony counts of third-degree sodomy and one misdemeanor count of third-degree sex abuse. Lawson was indicted on third-degree sodomy and third-degree sexual abuse.
Allegations of Bean's lurid sexual trysts with young men, which Lawson says the Democratic donor secretly videotaped, first surfaced in the local Willamette Week newspaper in June. Police say the pair enticed a 15-year-old boy to a hotel in Eugene, Ore., after meeting him through the iPhone app Grinder, which helps men locate "local gay, bi and curious guys for dating.''
Consider this: Harry Reid has taken to the Senate floor to repeatedly demonize GOP donors and upstanding businessmen Charles and David Koch for exercising their First Amendment rights. Hollywood celebrities Alec Baldwin, Kathleen Turner, Jason Alexander and Stephen Colbert have all targeted conservative Citizens United for its historic role in protecting political free speech. All are mute on a powerful Democratic donor actually accused of heinous sexual abuse crimes against a child.
While The New York Times has spilled gallons of ink on the campus rape epidemic, the GOP's Mark Foley underage page scandal and the Catholic Church's pedophilia problem, it has remained silent the past six months on the alleged child rape scheme of one of the Democratic Party's most prominent campaign contributors and activists.
On Tuesday, the paper saw fit to run a 652-word A-section story on an obscure GOP aide who was forced to quit her job after criticizing Obama's daughters on her Facebook page.
Nothing on Terry Bean.
* Article by M. Malkin
If real estate mogul and deep-pocketed White House donor Terry Bean were a Republican, he'd be a household name by now.
Bean's face would be splashed all over the covers of grocery-stand newsweeklies. The garrulous hostesses of ABC's "The View" would be haranguing the GOP to return his campaign contributions. Child-welfare advocates would be demanding his resignation from top political advocacy and civic groups.
Media satellite trucks from NBC's "Today" show would be parked outside the Lane County, Ore., Circuit Court on Dec. 3 for his first appearance.
And The New York Times archives would be teeming with thousand-word editorials and multiple lead stories about his grand jury indictment on horrifying sexual abuse allegations involving multiple victims -- including a 15-year-old boy.
Instead, a search for "Terry Bean" on the left-wing paper of record's website on Tuesday yielded exactly one story dated Jan. 16, 1880, about a Westchester County, N.Y., elder with that name -- plus a sponsored advertising link to retailer L.L. Bean.
So, who is Terry Bean? He's a wealthy, high-flying liberal and celebrated gay-rights activist who co-founded the influential Human Rights Campaign organization. He is also a veteran member of the board of the HRC Foundation, which disseminates Common Core-aligned "anti-bullying" material to children's schools nationwide.
Bean shelled out more than $500,000 for President Obama and the Democrats in 2012. He was rewarded with an exclusive Air Force One ride with Obama. The president also gave the developer a special shout-out at an opulent fundraiser in Portland, where Bean's family had established a longstanding political and corporate fiefdom. Bean gleefully rubbed elbows with first lady Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton -- and made sure everyone on his Flickr photo-sharing site knew it.
A relentless schmoozer, the campaign finance bundler introduced the commander-in -chief to his 25-year-old ex-boyfriend, Kiah Lawson. The pair posed for a cozy snapshot beneath an august portrait of George Washington in the White House library in 2013.
Late last month, however, the former lovebirds posed for a seedier set of pics: their creepy mug shots at the Multnomah County, Ore., Detention Center. After a sweeping investigation led by the Portland police department's sex crime units and two county district attorney's offices, authorities charged Bean with two felony counts of third-degree sodomy and one misdemeanor count of third-degree sex abuse. Lawson was indicted on third-degree sodomy and third-degree sexual abuse.
Allegations of Bean's lurid sexual trysts with young men, which Lawson says the Democratic donor secretly videotaped, first surfaced in the local Willamette Week newspaper in June. Police say the pair enticed a 15-year-old boy to a hotel in Eugene, Ore., after meeting him through the iPhone app Grinder, which helps men locate "local gay, bi and curious guys for dating.''
Consider this: Harry Reid has taken to the Senate floor to repeatedly demonize GOP donors and upstanding businessmen Charles and David Koch for exercising their First Amendment rights. Hollywood celebrities Alec Baldwin, Kathleen Turner, Jason Alexander and Stephen Colbert have all targeted conservative Citizens United for its historic role in protecting political free speech. All are mute on a powerful Democratic donor actually accused of heinous sexual abuse crimes against a child.
While The New York Times has spilled gallons of ink on the campus rape epidemic, the GOP's Mark Foley underage page scandal and the Catholic Church's pedophilia problem, it has remained silent the past six months on the alleged child rape scheme of one of the Democratic Party's most prominent campaign contributors and activists.
On Tuesday, the paper saw fit to run a 652-word A-section story on an obscure GOP aide who was forced to quit her job after criticizing Obama's daughters on her Facebook page.
Nothing on Terry Bean.
Dec 4, 2014 10:51:20 #
Smdh...........
Its kind of like the Sandusky situation.
No excuse, depending on who you know,
ya gets a free pass.
Thats some sick shit
Its kind of like the Sandusky situation.
No excuse, depending on who you know,
ya gets a free pass.
Thats some sick shit
Dec 4, 2014 10:58:41 #
And it's not just Terry Bean...
http://www.headlinepolitics.com/former-dem-aide-pleads-guilty-rape-media-yawns/
Former Dem Aide Pleads Guilty to Rape; Media Yawns
Rape
By Bethany Mandel
How does a criticism of the First Daughters made on ones personal Facebook page compare to rape for the mainstream media? As we reported yesterday, GOP Congressional aide Elizabeth Lauten has been the subject of a media firestorm over a friends-only Facebook post made criticizing the outfits and attitudes of Malia and Sasha Obama at the White House annual turkey pardon.
Yesterday, the Washington Post made a passing reference to a far more serious situation involving a Congressional aide,
A former Democratic congressional aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting two women in 2010.
Donny Ray Williams Jr., 37, who served as a staff director for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse, two misdemeanor counts of sexual abuse and one count of misdemeanor threats.
Prosecutors say that on July 22, 2010, Williams invited a female congressional colleague to his Capitol Hill apartment and promised to introduce her to Senate employees. At the house, prosecutors said, Williams spiked a drink with Ambien. The woman, according to court documents, fell into a deep sleep, at which point Williams raped her.
A month later, prosecutors said, Williams invited another woman to his home and gave her alcoholic beverages. They said he had sexual contact with her when she was too intoxicated to give her consent.
Perhaps the news vans parked outside of Lautens parents house should relocate to Williams and ask some pointed questions. Williams worked in the Senate for over a decade. Was this the first time he used his office to sexually assault women? Was this tactic used when Williams worked for other prominent Democrats like Elijah Cummings and Jan Schakowsky? These are questions the media should be asking but as usual, are not, because the perpetrator is a Democrat.
Today on The Federalist Mollie Hemingway eviscerated the medias coverage of the Lauten story, to the exclusion of other, much more worthy stories. She wrote,
There are some tenacious and wonderful reporters. But the overall picture in many newsrooms is getting worse. Under no circumstances should scarce newsroom resources be diverted from real stories onto fake ones that have already been covered more than a Beatles hit.
There is a huge liberal bias problem in the media (fun recent graph related to the problem here). Pretending its not there is not going to make it go away. But pointing out the problems year after year isnt making things better. Some of the media behavior post-election seems more like a toddler temper tantrum than a dispassionate news judgment.
The whole post is worth a read, and for the media, Hemingway is absolutely correct that some serious introspection is in order. Many blame the Internet for the demise of traditional journalism, however, its clear that a great deal of the blame falls on the shoulders of editors and reporters who prioritize stories like Lautens while ignoring the likes of William
http://www.headlinepolitics.com/former-dem-aide-pleads-guilty-rape-media-yawns/
Former Dem Aide Pleads Guilty to Rape; Media Yawns
Rape
By Bethany Mandel
How does a criticism of the First Daughters made on ones personal Facebook page compare to rape for the mainstream media? As we reported yesterday, GOP Congressional aide Elizabeth Lauten has been the subject of a media firestorm over a friends-only Facebook post made criticizing the outfits and attitudes of Malia and Sasha Obama at the White House annual turkey pardon.
Yesterday, the Washington Post made a passing reference to a far more serious situation involving a Congressional aide,
A former Democratic congressional aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting two women in 2010.
Donny Ray Williams Jr., 37, who served as a staff director for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse, two misdemeanor counts of sexual abuse and one count of misdemeanor threats.
Prosecutors say that on July 22, 2010, Williams invited a female congressional colleague to his Capitol Hill apartment and promised to introduce her to Senate employees. At the house, prosecutors said, Williams spiked a drink with Ambien. The woman, according to court documents, fell into a deep sleep, at which point Williams raped her.
A month later, prosecutors said, Williams invited another woman to his home and gave her alcoholic beverages. They said he had sexual contact with her when she was too intoxicated to give her consent.
Perhaps the news vans parked outside of Lautens parents house should relocate to Williams and ask some pointed questions. Williams worked in the Senate for over a decade. Was this the first time he used his office to sexually assault women? Was this tactic used when Williams worked for other prominent Democrats like Elijah Cummings and Jan Schakowsky? These are questions the media should be asking but as usual, are not, because the perpetrator is a Democrat.
Today on The Federalist Mollie Hemingway eviscerated the medias coverage of the Lauten story, to the exclusion of other, much more worthy stories. She wrote,
There are some tenacious and wonderful reporters. But the overall picture in many newsrooms is getting worse. Under no circumstances should scarce newsroom resources be diverted from real stories onto fake ones that have already been covered more than a Beatles hit.
There is a huge liberal bias problem in the media (fun recent graph related to the problem here). Pretending its not there is not going to make it go away. But pointing out the problems year after year isnt making things better. Some of the media behavior post-election seems more like a toddler temper tantrum than a dispassionate news judgment.
The whole post is worth a read, and for the media, Hemingway is absolutely correct that some serious introspection is in order. Many blame the Internet for the demise of traditional journalism, however, its clear that a great deal of the blame falls on the shoulders of editors and reporters who prioritize stories like Lautens while ignoring the likes of William
Dec 4, 2014 10:58:52 #
venturer9
Loc: Newton, Il.
Penny, I am really ashamed of you to even think that the omission might be on purpose... oh me... how could it be...
Mike
Mike
Dec 4, 2014 11:04:43 #
Penny MG wrote:
If he was a Republican, you'd know who Terry Bean ... (show quote)
Because democrats say so, Michelle Malkin is a "right wing nut, racist, homophobic, old white guy in a young hot Asian girl suit! That's why! Now, how long before one of them actually backs me up?
Dec 4, 2014 11:22:02 #
Penny MG wrote:
If he was a Republican, you'd know who Terry Bean ... (show quote)
CNN covered this story.
Dec 4, 2014 11:24:06 #
BigWahoo wrote:
CNN covered this story.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/23/politics/terry-bean-sex-abuse-charges/index.html
Dec 4, 2014 11:26:04 #
hondo812 wrote:
And it's not just Terry Bean... br br url http:/... (show quote)
Bethany Mandel is just Michelle Malkin in drag!
Dec 4, 2014 12:45:58 #
soba1 wrote:
Smdh...........
Its kind of like the Sandusky situation.
No excuse, depending on who you know,
ya gets a free pass.
Thats some sick shit
Its kind of like the Sandusky situation.
No excuse, depending on who you know,
ya gets a free pass.
Thats some sick shit
You are correct. I don't care who anyone is...if they put their hands on a child in a sexual manner, they should be castrated and put in jail. If they are female, castration may be out of the question, but there is still jail time.
Dec 4, 2014 12:48:16 #
venturer9 wrote:
Penny, I am really ashamed of you to even think that the omission might be on purpose... oh me... how could it be...
Mike
Mike
Sorry Mike...I guess PC took over for a moment. :wink:
Dec 4, 2014 12:49:38 #
idaholover wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/23/politics/terry-bean-sex-abuse-charges/index.html
But why just CNN. Many people I know don't watch CNN. Why not the Local news stations?
Dec 4, 2014 18:54:45 #
Penny,Not many people watch CNN anywhere and the ones who do are most likely just like the pevert Bean.
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