Virginian Pilot Celebrates "Gotcha" Moments and Negative Campaigning

The Virginian ^ | 6/14/2008 | Moneyrunner

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Pravda was a beacon of journalistic truth and technical prowess compared to the Virginian Pilot.

Isn’t it the Drive-by-media that is always opining that we should “stick to the issues?”

That “negative campaigning” (defined as telling the truth about Democrats) is taking the low road?

Why, yes it is!

So what’s the headline news in today’s Virginian Pilot?

Senate candidates' staffers look for that 'macaca' moment.

And why is that, boys and girls? The writer, Austin Wright, explains:

Two years ago, former U.S. Sen. George Allen looked into a video camera and doomed his re-election bid. This year, the campaigns for Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner are tracking each other, ready for any slip-ups.

Actually, Austin Wright is being – as they say – disingenuous. That’s the term polite use when they don’t want to say that someone is lying. You see, it wasn’t Allen’s use of a term that no one had ever heard of and that no one with any sense believed was a racial slur that doomed Allen’s campaign. It was the fact that the Virginian Pilot, the Washington Post and the rest of the Drive-by-media used the term to brand Allen as a racist. Dozens of stories followed to cement that image in the public’s mind.

[moneyrunner]

So negative campaigning is a bad thing, dragging up the past, what your handlers do and who financed your rise in the political world is not to be discussed, except when it’s aided and abetted by the Drive-by-media. Then it’s a free press at work.

[fightinJAG]

Not only is the Virginian Pilot a rag, it often has unbelievably bad writing and poor grammar.