Posted on 08/31/2004 6:27:31 AM PDT by FlyLow
Once known as a conservative paper, the Chicago Tribune has become a liberal attack dog. It ran Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan out of the race after sniffing into his divorce records and publicizing the results. The allegations of a sexual nature had nothing to do with Ryan's qualifications for office, and he denied they were true. It might have remained a local or state story, were it not for the fact that the beneficiary of the charges, Senate Democratic candidate Barack Obama, is being supported in an unprecedented way by media from Chicago to Washington, D.C. to New York, who want him eventually to become the first black president of the United States.
That explains why the Jack Ryan mess became a "scandal" seized upon by the national press. In an open display of partisan bias, the same reporters who wanted Ryan out of the race have not shown any interest in John Kerry's divorce records. Kerry had two children by his first marriage to Julia Thorne, which ended in a messy divorce, and he has no children with Teresa Heinz Kerry, who insisted on a prenuptial agreement. Kerry received an annulment of his first marriage from the Catholic Church in Boston despite Thorne's strong objection. It is not clear why Kerry sought to annul that marriage of 18 years, Whatever the case with Kerry, the destruction of Ryan sets the stage for the election to the Senate of Barack Obama, a black liberal who spoke at the Democratic convention and is a media darling. But then came Republican Alan Keyes, a black conservative, to replace Ryan.
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Keyes' entrance into the race alarmed the Tribune, which ran an editorial calling Keyes a "rent-a-Senator" since he comes from Maryland. On the website Illinoisleader.com, Bruce Allardice noted that the Tribune "never said boo about Hillary Clinton's carpetbagging" in New York being repugnant. Another difference is that Keyes was invited to accept the Senate nomination in Illinois, and didn't set about trying to find a state in which he could run for office. Republicans in Illinois realized they needed someone with instant name I.D. But since the Tribune raised the subject, Allardice said, "who are these Tribune editorialists who are such gung ho Illinois nativists?"
He tracked down biographical material on nine of the 11 members of the Tribune editorial board. Of these, only one was born in Chicago. He said it was a case of "rent-a-writer" being the standard for selecting members of the Chicago Tribune editorial board. Jim Warren, the Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, is another example. He grew up in New York City, went to Amherst College in Massachusetts, studied in Europe, and took a job with the Newark New Jersey Star Ledger before eventually ending up at the Chicago Tribune.
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I suspected as much. Maybe he should try Viagra...
I heard Jim Warren being interviewed the other day on a talk radio show - could have been Laura Ingraham, not sure. Does he claim to lean right-wing? When Laura? asked him to comment on the fact of the political media being so pro-Kerry, as reported in the New York Times survey, he replied - that does not mean too much because most of the papers will endorse Bush as most of the publishers are Republican.
I had not heard that old dodge for ages. Does Jim Warren live in a dream world or what?
Conservatives should be aware of news bias in all Keyes articles....
There is a huge difference in the portions of those stories
where Keyes' exact words are 'quoted' vs the remainder
of the articles where a reporter is spinning what he said.
DOn't get sucked in by the parts that are un-quoted.
True. He says enough nonsense as it is. No need to let the media make it any worse.
Standing for pro-life, pro-gun, pro-family, pro-limited government issues may be "nonsense" to the media, but it should make sense to us on a conservative news forum.
Obama supports infanticide. He is against the right to defend your family with firearms in your own home. He's for socialist solutions to everything. He's against school choice. He's against the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Isn't that nonesense?
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There's an elephant in the room!
Great post.
Good to see some folks with some perspective on things.
The concept of reparations, even when based on tax rebates, is nonsense. His attempts to defend his proposal are greater nonsense.
I never said that he wasn't on the right side of many issues. I just don't trust a flip-flopper, not even one from my own party.
Oh, so it's that one itty-bitty issue that's hanging you up.
I suppose your opinion of Ronald Reagan is eternally damaged, right? He not only advocated the concept of reparations, but dished it out in $20,000 tax-dollar chunks.
:-)
There is a slight difference.
Reparations to loyal Japanese-Americans who had their property and their freedom stolen by the internment order was the right thing to do. It compensated people for crimes against themselves. Keyes advocates reparations to people for crimes against their *race* generations ago.
Can you not see the distinction?
In any case, his actual stand isn't the problem for me. It's that I no longer trust him. He's a flip-flopper, and I hate Republican flip-floppers no less than Democrat ones.
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