Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Oh, That Darn Liberal Media

Two stories of corrupt elected officials came out in the news today.

The first story is about one big dirtball, Vincent Fumo, a former state senator from Pennsylvania, who was convicted of 137 charges related to his defrauding the state government and other people to afforded him a luxurious lifestyle.

It took the story three whole paragraphs just to mention that this idiot was a Democrat. (The really outrageous part of the story is that this guy is only facing ten years in jail.)

The other story is about Sheriff Bill Keating of Montague County in Texas. Keating was found to have turned the county jail into a madhouse, including guards (and the sheriff himself) having sex with inmates, inmates having ready access to weapons and drugs, and all sorts of other things that one would never expect to find happening in a jail.

They didn't mention that this party boy sheriff was a Republican until the tenth paragraph.

That's a mighty strong liberal leaning going on in the media. Or at least that's what the ring wing media would tell us.

4 comments:

  1. I don't think the political party of the sheriff should have been mentioned at all. Is party really relevent in local elections in your area? It is not like any of the party issues are going to be advanced by the Sheriff's dept.

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  2. That's actually a very good point. Unless the Sheriff is running for mayor or senator, I don't see the point of mentioning his voting patterns.

    The fact it's mentioned at all suggests a leftward bias of the media.

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  3. In point of fact, political affiliation is very important here in Texas for county races, like sheriff and county judge. In large swaths of the state, getting out of the primary and having that R by your name is tantamount to election.

    This is beginning to change, thank goodness, especially in the large urban counties. Dallas County, of all places, elected Democrats across the board, and Harris County (Houston) went majority Democrat in 2008.

    Montague County, which if memory serves, is up on the Oklahoma border, would likely be one of those counties where you need that R by your name.

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  4. Whether one thinks it pertinent or not, the fact is that they do put the R or the D in most Sheriff races. And since they do, it should be reported.

    On a side note, it does get a little crazy at times, such as here in Milwaukee County, where we have a sheriff who is Republican, but ran as a Democrat. Twice. I wonder why he is ashamed to be a Republican...

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