RIGHT SPEAK: Media Knew About Swalwell for Over a Decade: They Sat On the Story for 13 Years Until It was Politically Convenient

Media Knew About Swalwell for Over a Decade

They sat on the story for 13 years until it was politically convenient.

More than half a dozen interviewees independently named one California congressman for pursuing female staffers.” CNN dropped that blind item into its story on sexual harassment in Congress in 2017 as part of its #MeToo coverage and then did nothing with it for 9 years.
Nearly a decade after CNN had the story and sat on it, explaining at the time that it would not name the congressman because “the stories are unverified”, CNN took credit for its “investigative journalism”. CNN’s Brian Stelter told CNN that the rumors had been “circulating for weeks” about Swalwell until CNN published them. He was only off by almost a decade.

In 2020, CNN had time to train its “investigative journalism” on President Trump’s ability to climb stairs and drink water from a glass. “During the same event, the awkward way Trump sipped water from a glass also raised questions. Trump appeared to have difficulty lifting his right arm to his mouth, so he used his left hand to push the bottom of the glass higher.”

That same year, Rep. Eric Swalwell, a politician CNN knew had been accused of sexual harassment, ran for president. CNN made no mention of the fact, instead issuing a virtual press release which quoted Swalwell’s appearance on Stephen Colbert’s friendly late show.

Had “more than half a dozen women” accused Donald Trump of anything, CNN would have had them on within 5 minutes and the story would have been national news for the next two years.

If the stories were “unverified”, CNN wouldn’t have cared. This is the same news network that ran not only “unverified”, but completely false stories that Trump had a secret channel into a Russian bank, that Russian prostitutes had been sent to his hotel room, that there was a tape of them urinating on a bed, that Russia has been blackmailing Trump, and, of course, that Trump had trouble drinking water out of a glass. CNN chose not to verify the story because then the news network would have had to run the story and take down Swalwell. And it didn’t want to.

“Eric Swalwell ending his bid for California governor is, among other things, a testament to the power of investigative reporting,” Stelter claimed. CNN didn’t activate its famed “investigate reporting” on any of Swalwell’s next three congressional races or the time he ran for president.

There’s an unintentional admission here. CNN chose to stop Swalwell when he ran for governor against more ‘progressive’ candidates. Had Swalwell stayed in his lane, running against Republicans, he could have sexually harassed and/or raped as many staffers as he liked.

The only time CNN will try to take down a sex predator from their party is when there’s a political reason for doing so. That’s not “investigative journalism”: it’s opposition research on behalf of progressive candidates and causes, and that is most of what the media does nowadays.

How far back did the media know about Swalwell? Steven Tavares of the East Bay Insider tweeted that, “I’ve covered Eric Swawell since he was a member of the Dublin City Council. Shortly after being elected to Congress in 2013, his behavior towards women was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party.”

And for 13 years, no one said a word.

“This Swalwell situation was… shall we say widely rumored,” Bloomberg columnist Matthew Yglesias tweeted. There was just no reason to turn those rumors into an actual news story.

Until now.
The media knew about Swalwell. Its ‘journalists’ can’t stop bragging about how they were in the know, while also explaining that they couldn’t run the story because their journalistic integrity prevented them from running an “unverified story” (and a story can’t possibly be verified unless you try to verify it), because “it wasn’t my beat”, because the “women wouldn’t talk” and other excuses none of which would have been an obstacle had Swalwell’s last name been Trump.

That may retroactively explain a strange gambit from Swalwell’s original congressional race in 2012 to unseat former Rep. Pete Stark. Stark took to repeatedly accusing Swalwell of being a ‘secret Tea Party Republican’. The absurd accusation made no sense, but Stark may have gone with it anyway because he knew there was no other way the media would report on Swalwell.

It didn’t work.

The media sat on the story for 13 years. If you believe its reporting about Swalwell now, then it knew that women were being sexually harassed and possibly assaulted and did nothing until Swalwell finally ran against a candidate more liberal than him. But then again why be surprised? --->READ MORE HERE