These signs have been popping up all over northern Virginia.
I thought the press was not supposed to be biased nor actively campaigning for a particular candidate?
Posted on 06/09/2009 10:21:43 AM PDT by WaterBoard
These signs have been popping up all over northern Virginia.
I thought the press was not supposed to be biased nor actively campaigning for a particular candidate?
In fairness, if I’m reading the sign correctly, it just says that the paper endorses him, and newspapers do that all the time. It’s not clear who paid for the sign.
*chuckle*
Good one.
Never was the case. Never will be.
I’m shocked I tell you — simply SHOCKED!!
(I fully realize that all sensible, thinking Americans — that’d be conservatives —fully understand this information. I post it only for the brain-dead Obama voters and statists — that’d be liberals — who might have slipped out of their rubber rooms over at DU and are lurking, hacking or generally causing trouble here at FR.)
Recently, I read what probably amounts to the obituary for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. (My wife insists on buying the Sunday edition for the TV guide.) It joins the growing list of print newspapers in deep, deep financial trouble. The LA Times, NY Times, Boston Globe, Cleveland Plain Dealer, etc.
Here’s my horseback analysis of why they’re heading for extinction.
As generally liberal statist propaganda outlets, they have for decades supported a government “education” system (and I used the term very loosely) dominated by the NEA and the idiot bureaucrats running the DOE in Washington. The unions and the NEA have largely hurled the traditional three “Rs” and critical thinking skills under the bus in favor of touchy-feely diversity training, self-esteem building, political correctness, African studies, teaching Hispanic kids in SPANISH instead of teaching them English on day one, social promotions, basket weaving, navel gazing, etc., etc.
I won’t dwell on it here but would, instead, refer you to my personal experience with the government schools here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U
What I cannot grasp is precisely why, after effectively dumbing down the members of the American populace who have traversed the conveyor belt of mediocrity called government schools, the overeducated owners and operators of these newspapers are surprised that this population has lost its interest in READING NEWSPAPERS: Many of them CAN’T read!!
Those folks – especially conservatives who resent the increasingly liberal drivel found in the major papers — who can and DO read things are now getting their information from the Internet or, for those too busy to actually read, from largely conservative talk radio (which helps explain why Algore, Pelosi, Reid, et al feel the need to control both these formats).
Their statist dumbing down has produced huge numbers of voters who lacked the critical thinking skills necessary to determine that their present-voting, slick-talking liar of a candidate had virtually NO management or legislative experience. And the economic illiterates they have elevated to high office in Washington for years have produced a growing economic crisis which has even those with any money left spending it on “luxuries” like food, clothing and shelter. Newspapers and advertising therein are far down the list.
And did I mention that the economic collapse Obama “inherited” has its genesis in Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act? It was then expanded by Clinton and stridently defended by Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters and Barney Frank (who was sleeping with Herb Moses while he held a top spot at – appropriately – Fannie). Only government could turn the dream of home ownership for poor folks into a NIGHTMARE for the rest of us.
Now that they have control of the White House and both houses of Congress, the liberals who run most of the newspapers here SHOULD be on a beach somewhere throwing a huge party. Instead, they are dusting off their resumes. The Editor of the AJC informed us that she was actively seeking to get more conservative/traditional values writers in the pages down there. I’d submit that it’s too little, too late!
Perhaps she’ll write and let us know if that “Hope” and “Change We Can Believe In” thing helps with the job search.
If you just have to have one of those 1,000 new jobs dunning folks for Tim Geithner’s IRS, it couldn’t hurt.
As soon as the Washington Post figures out who's the most Jewish among the candidates, they'll start doing negative campaigning against him.
The campaigns in Virginia have gotten progressively dirtier and nastier every year, and particularly so during this period where we have two Democrat senators.
I thought the press was not supposed to be biased nor actively campaigning for a particular candidate?
I take it you didn’t watch much TV last fall??
In fairness, I don’t know who paid for the signs or if the Washington Post did it as there is no indication available. I just noticed a large number of them this week.
They would still have to do it with the permission of the paper.
I think the signs should have some fine print on them, "Paid for by Committee to Elect Deeds," or some such thing.
The signs were produced by the Deeds campaign and Deeds volunteers are putting them up.
Candidates run ads and send direct mail highlighting newspaper endorsements ALL THE TIME.
If you ask me, this is just a smart campaign tactic by a downstate moderate trying to build support among northern virginia liberals who respect the Washington Post.
I think newspaper endorsements are pointless and I always ignore them, but hey I’m not a democrat primary voter.
Nothing to see here.
Why? The signs are simply making a statement of fact -- the Washington Post endorsed this candidate in the Democratic primary. At most, the Post might object to the use of their distinctive logo, but even that is almost certainly fair use in this context.
They singlehandedly destroyed George Allen. Nothing new here.
I think the days of newpapers are so bad that if a candidate will pay for advertising they will do it. I would think they would advertise for a Republican if paid.
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA. So when did you first come to America?
Remind the last time the Washington Post endorsed a Republican in the Republican primary?
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