Posted on 06/07/2015 5:14:20 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
The medias liberal bias is compounded by its bias toward trivia
Sometimes, you really have to give the New York Times credit for the sheer amount of reportorial labor it undertakes.
This is not one of those times.
A couple of Times reporters spent Friday morning basking in praise for their nice scoop" - the less than remarkable public knowledge that Marco Rubio was written four traffic tickets over the course of two decades - but as Brent Scher of The Washington Free Beacon pointed out, neither of the reporters in the byline - Alan Rappeport or Steve Eder - nor the researcher also credited by the Times for the piece - Kitty Bennett - ever accessed the traffic records in question. But somebody did: American Bridge, a left-wing activist group had pulled the records just before the Times piece appeared, and the Times employed some cagey language, with the relevant sentence beginning: "According to a search of the Miami-Dade and Duval County court dockets ...: A search? Yes. Whose search? A piece of the news that apparently is not fit to print.
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We have firsthand experience with the nit picky FL police. We were once in a right turn only lane (neither of us saw any markings to that effect) and went straight instead of turning right. Got pulled over as did dozens of others. There were four cops writing tickets. It was a windfall for the Gainesville police dept.
So, unlike Hillary, Marco Rubio actually drives his own car, and can commit driving violations on his own, while Hillary has others do it for her.
Rubio should claim he was “singled out” because he is a “white-hispanic”.
That sort of abuse is what has eroded support for police. When things go bad the cops look at you with puppy eyes and ask “why do you hate us”?
Mention of Bill Clinton, The Lolita Express and someone named Sarah Kellen here apparently involved in the operation of the Lolita Express according to the information in the article.
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