Shocker - WPOST Misrepresents Prop 187!!!!

The Washington Post ^

[Peter Jennings]

Below is my email to the ombudsman and Washington Post editorial page - Sorry for the vanity

Dear Michael, Dana Milbank stated today in his article about California’s recall election that Proposition 187 limited services for immigrants. It didn’t. It limited services for illegal aliens.

Hopefully this is just a case of lazy journalism and not misrepresenting a position to fit Dana’s political agenda.

[Lunatic Fringe]

I am shocked and stunned.

[Blueflag]

Deeply saddened?

[Elliott Jackalope]

You mean a "major" newspaper got an important part of an important story wrong? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!

The only difference between a newspaper and toilet paper is that one has the crap on it before you use it, the other has the crap on it after you use it. But they are both nothing more than repositories for crap.

[independentgrrl]

They were merely *paraphrasing*.

[Weimdog]

California's Proposition 187, a voter-sponsored initiative, was passed in 1994 by 59 percent of the vote. Opponents challenged its constitutionality, and immediately got a favorable ruling from U.S. District Court judge Mariana Pfaelzer. The judge used tortured reasoning to block the law, and many observers felt her decision was unlikely to survive on appeal.
      

As the chief law enforcer of the state, Governor Davis was constitutionally bound to defend the law, even though he had been an outspoken opponent of 187 when it was an initiative. So, in a maneuver designed to avoid having Pfaelzer's ruling overturned by a higher court, Davis entered into a legal ''mediation'' with 187's opponents. Thus, both sides in this contrived ''mediation'' process were out to scuttle the law.  Not surprisingly, both ''sides'' in the rigged mediation procedure quickly agreed to kill it.
      

''In no democracy in the world,'' FAIR Executive Director Dan Stein charged, ''are the results of an election overturned without the voters having their day in court--that is, until today. The decision to drop the appeal of Prop. 187,'' he continued, ''has absolutely nothing to do with its constitutionality.  This is a capitulation by Governor Davis to pressure from an elite group of pro-illegal immigration politicians and organizations.  The implications of this are as frightening for the future of self government in our country as they are outrageous.''
      

A June 1999 poll by the Los Angeles Times found that 60 percent of California voters would still vote to bar illegal immigrants from receiving state-funded benefits.


http://www.chronwatch.com/editorial/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2302

[Maria S]

Not THE Peter Jennings?!?

[freekitty]

They will lie about anything. It's for the children, you know.

[talleyman]

Bump!