Seattle Paper Goes After 'Osama Mama' Murray's Opponent

NewsMax ^ | 10/29/03 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer supported blame-America-first Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray after her praise of mass-murdering terrorist Osama bin Laden, who, in her sick fantasy world, built "day-care centers" for those liberated career gals of Afghanistan, which "we haven't done."

Now her challenger, Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., has taken out ads noting the paper "deliberately distorted" and "massacred" a comment he made about American efforts in Iraq.

At a forum at the University of Washington on Oct. 13, the GOP Senate candidate said the reconstruction of Iraq was "a bigger and better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day which, which heaven forbid is awful," according to a transcript from his speech.

The Post-Intelligencer quoted him the next day as merely saying: "The story of what we've done in the post-war period is remarkable. ... It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."

The story went on to say that Nethercutt "added that he did not want any more soldiers to be killed."

Nethercutt took out three-quarter-page ads Tuesday in the P-I, the Seattle Times, the Spokane Spokesman-Review and the congressional newspaper Roll Call. He pointed out that by not using his full quote, the P-I deliberately made him sound indifferent to the deaths of American soldiers.

"I grieve for the loss of every American service member, and to imply otherwise is shameful," Nethercutt wrote. "That's the lowest form of so-called journalism."

The P-I (P-U?), following standard operating procedure for newspapers, refused to apologize for its bias and said it stood by its story.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Of course they stand by their story. The question is, how's their circulation doing ?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Looks like this rag is giving the Los Angeles Times a run for desperation hysterics bias.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Who'd reading the PI ?

[anniegetyourgun]

The PI has to play to its liberal audience.

[Steve_Seattle]

The P.I. then piled-on by running a Dave Horsey cartoon depicting an out-of-control Nethercutt creating a disturbance at a soldier's funeral by demanding to hear some good news about Iraq.

As for the P.I.'s circulation, it has been struggling for years, and has only survived by being propped-up by a joint-operating-agreement with The Seattle Times, an agreement which The Times is trying to terminate because of recent financial losses of its own. It's locked up in the courts right now.