It's an oft-found trick: Republicans accused of malfeasance find their party affiliation in the headline, story lede, and repeated ad nauseum. Democratic counterparts? Not so much.
The latest, a local conservative blogger and prominent Twitterer catches the Seattle Times being curiously sketchy about naming the known party affiliation of Scott Noble. Indeed, Friday's story on Noble's problems with alcohol never comes out and says that yes, Noble is a Democrat and was elected as such.
MSM folks sometimes wonder why conservatives have a skeptical view of them. These sort of repeated disparities in how this genre of stories are reported is a great example why.
Posted by Eric Earling at March 15, 2009 12:28 PM | Email ThisWhat a bunch of pathetic bloviators.
Posted by: ChasW on March 15, 2009 12:25 PMWhining about random minutiae makes you sound like, uh, a whiner.
Posted by: Bruce on March 15, 2009 01:00 PMYou miss the point here. If Noble had been a Republican stories would have begun with, "Republican Assessor Scott Noble".
You choose to pretend not to be aware of this double standard. Yet you clearly are or you wouldn't have bothered to comment about it.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 15, 2009 01:12 PMAttempting to "prove" that there is a double standard by citing a few specific stories is as ridiculous as attempting to "prove" that manmade climate change is a myth by citing a few snowstorms. Only a fool would do that.
And no, a story would be unlikely to begin "Republican Assessor...". Party affiliation just isn't such a big deal in this story. You are really grasping here; don't hurt yourself.
Posted by: Bruce on March 15, 2009 01:36 PMI can always tell when I've hit the mark with you people. When you use terms like "paranoid delusion" I know I've touched a nerve.
You know exactly what Eric and I are referring to. Or do you not recall the media hysteria over Sarah Palin's clothes?
You might try to be objective. I know, it's awfully difficult for leftists.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 15, 2009 02:33 PMAnd who better to know what "delusion" is then a leftist who refuses to admit to the evidence placed in front of him... because, well, he's a leftist.
Posted by: Hinton on March 15, 2009 02:34 PMI just googled a few stories about the late Jim West, former state legislator who was caught up in a sex scandal. They always mention the word "Republican" either in the headline or within a couple sentences from the start.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003145974_westobit23m.html
Those who deny a bias are just in a dream world.
Posted by: russell garrard on March 15, 2009 02:41 PMLeftists can say with a straight face that NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, PBS,CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, and on and on are "mainstream" media outlets. Not to mention our two local objective rags. On the other hand they scream that Fox News,(which most of them have never bothered to watch), is a right wing extremist outlet.
I talk about brainwashing all the time when describing the left. I literally think that it's true. You can throw logic and evidence at them until the cows come home. They lost their ability to be objective somewhere in the leftist indoctrination process. Or they are nasty controlling nanny state socialists who will lie because they believe that "by any means necessary" they must achieve their goals. But I wouldn't want to be called "paranoid".
It's creepy, really.
R.I.P. Liberal rags
Posted by: hellpig on March 15, 2009 03:38 PMMaybe it is this kind of thing that will finally wake up those rural traditional Democratic voters. It ain't their father's Democratic Party. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 15, 2009 04:02 PMI didn't know about the whole Scott Noble thing until just a day or two ago. It was kept so quiet. Just really amazing. And only now does the democrat party claim he should step down? Some in the KC democrat party HAD to know about this. Methinks they only want him to step down now because now the whole county knows about it and they want to keep the seat. Not because the taxpayers deserve better (which they do; we didn't know our tax dollars were paying a guy who blew off work to go on days-long binges). KC democrats seemed fine with this as long as he was winning the position. Now that they feel they could lose the seat, they call for his resignation. Just lettin' you guys know we read between the lines.
Posted by: Michele on March 15, 2009 07:19 PM