“Pull over, I’m about to throw up.” My wife was driving our SUV as I occupied our daughter Cyra while cruising in the back. I had just given away the biggest story of the year, and the biggest story of my career, to BuzzFeed. I couldn’t relax and couldn’t sleep, because a story of this magnitude is a career making even at the highest levels of journalism. Well…Why did I do it?
Plan A was simple. I’d run the story about Conyers myself. The Democrat-Media establishment hacks at CNN would attack me. They would call me a fake news conspiracy theorist. This would be saturation coverage, making me the biggest story of the week.
I would slowly release my sourcing on the story, until, at the height of the attacks, I would show all of my cards. The media and Democrat establishment would be humiliated. It’d have been Breitbart v. Weiner 2.0, and I’d be a superstar.
Plan B would be to tip off someone in the mainstream media to this story. If a mainstream outlet breaks this story, Democrats are required to answer the story. They can’t use their usual smear tactics. They can’t say, “We don’t respond to conspiracy theorists like Mike Cernovich!”
By going to the media, my reasoning went, the information gets out. This is how to hold Congress accountable, and demand they unseal their hidden record of sexual abuse.
I couldn’t give a big story CNN, because CNN lies about me, they defame me, and they never give me the opportunity to defend myself. They are the worst of cowards, taking shows from behind the TV while refusing to give me the right to reply. Vice is fake news, and The Daily Beast is helping a stalker lead a harassment campaign against wife and daughter. WaPo and the NY Times aren’t that bad, actually, and they’ve stopped lying (for the most part) about me. But Maggie Haberman once refused to give me credit for a scoop, so that disqualified the NY Times.
BuzzFeed seemed like a great outlet for this story because they’d be likely to work the entire weekend to get it out. BuzzFeed worked tirelessly on it (I assume), and no we did not coordinate. I tipped them off and they did the rest. What they did is none of my business and I take zero credit for their work.
Conyers’ behavior is part of a larger pattern of cover-ups led by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senators like John McCain and Jeff Flake.
I had to stand up for what’s right, and that’s why I tipped off BuzzFeed to this story.
Congressmen can literally rape women, and these women have no civil recourse. They are sent to hostile star chambers where due process is limited, and thereafter the victims of Congressmen are sworn to secrecy.
How Congress covers up sexual misconduct by its members.
According to data released to Reid Wilson of The Hill, Congress has paid out as much as $4 million per fiscal year to women abused by Congressmen. Although these settlements are paid with taxpayer funds, the settlements are kept secret from the public.
We are demanding that Paul Ryan release EVERY one of these settlements.
I could have taken the glory, gaining tremendous fame for myself while humiliating my enemies in the fake news media. But if I took this path, the story would have been about me, rather than these secret settlements totaling tens-of-millions of dollars.
Or I could set my ego aside for the greater good. The story will now be: WTF? Why are these settlements kept from public view?
Rather than let the Democrat-Media establishment continue to cover up these horrific sex crimes by powerful members of Congress by attacking me, they must address the charges against Conyers and others.
Plus, I still got credit for handing off the story. Everyone in Congress who didn’t know my name knows it now.
Remember me, Congress, I did this to you.
Remember me, Congress, I am coming for you.
It’s now time to call Paul Ryan’s office. Call your Congressman or Congresswoman. Demand that they #UnsealTheRecords
https://medium.com/@Cernovich/congressman-john-conyers-jr-sexual-harassment-buzzfeed-mike-cernovich-a699b8294212
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Gothamgirl ago
Thank you for keeping us informed, it is truly appreciated. I tell CNN off almost everyday, they're the absolute gutter .