conservative media outlet called the daily caller right before the election in 2012 broke the news, what they said was a news story about a democratic senator, oh my god, paying for hookers. it was just days before the 2012 election senator bob menendez of new jersey was up for re-election and mr. carlson s own publication ran what they described as a scoop. complete with the two obscured face video interviews with women who they said had been paid for senator menendez to have sex with him. so much for not caring about hooker scandals, right? this one was a democrat. so much for that. mr. carlson s website ran with it big. they pushed the story hard enough that it was picked up as a tucker carlson scoop all over the fox news channel. multiple shows on that channel. and lots of fox news channel s radio shows, too. again, this was days before the 2012 election. it also got tons of online traffic from the conservative mega website the drudge report. as a result of the allegations, the
is because mr. carlson, who, again, i have to say is a very nice guy, went on to found a conservative media outlet called the daily caller right before the election in 2012 broke the news, what they said was a news story about a democratic senator, oh my god, paying for hookers. it was just days before the 2012 election senator bob menendez of new jersey was up for re-election and mr. carlson s own publication ran what they described as a scoop. complete with the two obscured face video interviews with women who they said had been paid for senator menendez to have sex with him. so much for not caring about hooker scandals, right? this one was a democrat. so much for that. mr. carlson s website ran with it big. they pushed the story hard enough that it was picked up as a tucker carlson scoop all over the fox news channel. multiple shows on that channel. and lots of fox news channel s radio shows, too. again, this was days before the 2012 election. it also got tons of online traffic fr
republican senator, confesses to a long history of patronizing prostitutes both in washington and louisiana and the republican party says, it s kind of okay with us, we forgive him, let s move on, let s put this behind us. he definitely should not resign. at the time that senator vitter s hooker scandal came to light, it should be noted that louisiana s governor was a democrat. kathleen blanco. so had republican senator david vitter resigned over the hooker scandal, the democratic governor of the state would have been able to pick his replacement in the senate so he probably would have been taken out of the senate and replaced with a democrat. so david vitter definitely shouldn t resign. this hooker thing, it s okay, it s just not that big a deal, everybody should get over it. this year, this spring in louisiana, another family values conservative republican, congressman from louisiana named vance mcallister, he was caught on tape making out with one of his own congressional staffers w
bobby jindal said he forgave senator vitter for the hooker thing. chairman of the state republican party in louisiana said, i think if nothing else comes out and this is all there is, then three weeks from now this will all be behind him. so this serving u.s. senator, family values conservative republican senator, confesses to a long history of patronizing prostitutes both in washington and louisiana and the republican party says, it s kind of okay with us, we forgive him, let s move on, let s put this behind us. he definitely should not resign. at the time that senator vitter s hooker scandal came to light, it should be noted that louisiana s governor was a democrat. kathleen blanco. so had republican senator david vitter resigned over the hooker scandal, the democratic governor of the state would have been able to pick his replacement in the senate so he probably would have been taken out of the senate and replaced with a democrat. so david vitter definitely shouldn t resign. this
the dominican republic, alleged site of the senator s alleged hookering to investigate those charges. but a funny thing happened on the way to that conservative media scoop. bob menendez did survive the last-minute onslaught of allegations before the election. s he re-elected in november. it emerged lots and lots of news networks had been shopped this story about menendez and hookers. politico looked into it, did not think it was credible to publish. the star ledger in new jersey had, shopped that story. looked into it, found it not credible enough to publish. the new york post which i m sorry is not known for its high standards of what it will or will not publish, the new york post was shopped that story about senator menendez. they found it not credible enough to publish. the ethics watchdog group crew