Re: "children and incidents that got covered up" flap, before you start "analyzing" anything about this Administration....maybe you could look and see some of the things that happened last one....I grant you, one really had to look to find much in the main stream press, and NO WHERE NEAR as much as about the current issue....but the info is out there, if one wants to look. Remember what they say about Rocks and Glass Houses...........
Story last updated at 11:21 p.m. on Saturday, August 19, 2000
Gore's son arrested for reckless driving
Associated Press
CURRITUCK, N.C. -- Vice President Al Gore's son has a court date in North Carolina to face charges of speeding and reckless driving.
Albert Gore III, 17, was arrested and charged Aug. 12 with driving 97 mph in a 55 mph zone and reckless driving, said 1st Sgt. A.C. Joyner of the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
Camille Johnston, a spokeswoman for Tipper Gore, said Saturday that the teen-ager was alone at the time and was heading home to Washington after a family vacation.
A court hearing was for scheduled Sept. 13.
Joyner said Gore was cooperative during the arrest.
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Gore's Son Arrested for Driving 100mph
(AgapePress) - The weekend before his dad would accept the Democratic Party's nomination for President, Al Gore III was charged with careless and reckless driving in connection with an incident in North Carolina. News of the incident did not become public until after the Democratic Convention.
Police stopped Al Gore's 17-year-old son on Saturday, August 12, after he was clocked doing almost 100 mph in a 55-mph speed zone. He has a court appearance scheduled for September 13. According to The Drudge Report, a number of reporters in Washington knew about the incident shortly after it happened, but elected to hold the story until after the convention. As Drudge says: "A-list reporters in Washington knew of Gore's arrest, but all decided to adhere to the family's request for privacy. The arrest was kept out of news cycles through the convention."
Biased Convention Coverage? Meanwhile, a media watchdog group says the networks covered the Republican and Democratic conventions as they do every other event: with a liberal bias.
Tim Graham of the Media Research Center sums the situation up using a sports metaphor. He says the liberal journalists always treat the Republicans as the "away team" and the Democrats as the "home team."
Graham says the one exception to this is Fox News, which tends to be more conservative in its analysis. Critics say that is because the head of Fox News, Roger Ailes, is a former Republican campaign strategist. But Graham notes the political connections between the Democrats and CNN executives Rick Kaplan and Tom Johnson are even stronger.
Graham tells Reuters News that Kaplan is a longtime friend and informal advisor to President Clinton. Johnson is a former Democratic White House staffer. That is one of the reasons why many conservatives say "CNN" really stands for the "Clinton News Network."
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posted Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Gore's son pleads guilty
The Associated Press
CURRITICK, N.C. -- The 18-year-old son of Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore was fined $125 and ordered to pay court costs after pleading guilty Wednesday to speeding.
Albert Gore III, a high school senior, was arrested Aug. 12 while driving home to Washington after a family vacation on Figure Eight Island. He was charged for driving 97 mph in a 55 mph zone.
Gore pleaded guilty under an agreement with prosecutors. A reckless driving charge was dropped.
The judge in the case also temporarily revoked Gore's driving privileges in North Carolina for a time to be determined by the state Division of Motor Vehicles.
The younger Gore did not speak during the court proceeding. He was accompanied by his uncle, Frank Hunger, the vice president's brother-in-law.
Camille Johnston, spokeswoman for Mrs. Gore, said there would be no further comment on the issue.
"The Gores are handling this as a family matter," Johnston said.
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America's Elite Close Ranks over Gore Son's Suspension
By Stephen Robinson in Washington
London Telegraph, March 22, 1996
The crusading American media and Washington's political elite have closed ranks to protect Vice-President Al Gore from embarrassment over his teenage son's indiscretion.
Albert Gore, 13, was last month suspended from St Albans, the capital's most exclusive private school, after teachers discovered him, another boy and two girls drinking alcohol at a school dance.
The White House and the school refuse to provide any details of the incident but young Albert was also found to be smoking a herbal substance, described by sources as either marijuana or oregano seeds. The other boy was expelled from the £10,000-a-year school, while Albert was let off with a suspension and severe reprimand.
In normal times, the incident might have been considered newsworthy in a city obsessed with political tittle-tattle but both of Washington's daily newspapers decided not to publish the news. The Washington Post had researched the story and was preparing to publish when a high-level decision was taken to protect the privacy of the Gores, who have a clean-cut image in the American media. The Standard partially adhered to the code of silence This sudden self-restraint provoked The Weekly Standard, a conservative periodical, into rebuking the press under the headline: "The Sudden Delicacy of the Washington Press Corps".
However, even as it published the first account of the incident, The Standard partially adhered to the code of silence, referring only to a "senior Clinton administration official" who was seeking to silence the media.
The Standard reported that editors agreed to withdraw the report after the official personally telephoned them demanding privacy.
One Washington investigative reporter expressed astonishment that the media were prepared to spare Mr and Mrs Gore embarrassment on the grounds of a child's right to privacy.
"Al Gore used to be a journalist; he is a friend of all these editors," said the journalist, who did not want to be named. "This is a classic example of the political establishment closing ranks to protect one of its own."
He said he was sure the media would have reported the case if the son of Jesse Jackson, the black activist, had been caught smoking cannabis.
The Gores might have cause to be particularly embarrassed by the incident with an election in the offing and at a time when all politicians speak of zero tolerance towards drugs.
Last autumn, their daughter Sarah, then 16, was cautioned by police for drinking beer under age at a party and the media reported that transgression.
London Telegraph article
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