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Render: GOP vote will ensure honest press

The National Enquirer broke the story that former U.S. Sen. and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate John Edwards was having an extramarital affair in late 2007.

Rube Render

When a CBS journalist was asked about the allegations on a radio talk show he replied, “I believe that’s a story that we will be avoiding, because it appears to me that there’s absolutely nothing to it.”

Nothing to see here, move along.

In August 2008, Edwards admitted the story was true.

Conservative political activist James O’Keefe has produced a series of videos detailing how Clinton campaign employees of Scott Foval and Bob Creamer disrupted Republican events and how an organization might cover up in-person voter fraud.

The Clinton campaign immediately claimed the videos were “highly edited.”

Once again they used the tried and true, “We didn’t do that and we’re not going to do it again.”

Since the release of the videos, Foval and Creamer have left the campaign; one was fired and one resigned.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange leaks that the president knew of Hillary’s email server well before he claimed when he said he heard about it from news reports just like everyone else.

Debate questions were leaked to the DNC chairman.

Top political reporters have apologized to Clinton campaign workers for stories they wrote that embarrassed Hillary and further have received approval from the campaign prior to publishing news stories.

Any reporter who sends his story to a source for approval prior to publishing should be summarily fired.

Did the main-stream media break any of these stories?

This brings me to the primary reason why Americans should elect a Republican president. Whenever we have a Republican president, the news media suddenly realize they have a viable role in the affairs of government and begin to truly rediscover the discipline of investigative journalism.

Neither a sycophantic Democratic Party nor a partisan press will provide the requisite scrutiny of a Democrat president.

Bill Clinton never worried that his party or the press would call for his resignation. Hillary was never concerned she would be indicted.

If a Republican engineered a Mid-East policy that included Syria, Iraq and Yemen caught up in war, Turkey and Jordan inundated by refugees, Libya in chaos, Saudi Arabia and Iran in a struggle for the future of the region and Russia reinserting itself as a major player in the region, the conventional press would be calling for his scalp.

Voting Republican is the only way to ensure the press will perform its duty to question authority and speak truth to power.

Rube Render is the Curry County Republican chairman. Contact him at:

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