(FULL DISCLOSURE: I have not and likely will not be endorsing in this race. I freely admit that I am totally opposed to Marc Boldt's re-election since he's completely sold out to the left, forgotten/ignored GOP principles, supports the CRC scam in it's entirety and wants to hang tolls around our neck for the next several decades that will destroy a great deal of small business in Clark County as a result.
NO candidate or campaign or anyone involved or in any way concerned with any candidate or campaign was aware of or approved or had input into this post.
Further, Marc Boldt is my brother in law, and I worked for him as his legislative assistant for 6 years while he was in the state house.)
As you may know, the Seattle Times rather stupidly made the decision to formalize their bias for gay marriage and, God help me, RINO Rob McKenna.
That is, their efforts to implement their own social engineering agenda are receiving an actual, in their opinion, monetary value of $75,000 for each issue/candidate.
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NO candidate or campaign or anyone involved or in any way concerned with any candidate or campaign was aware of or approved or had input into this post.
Further, Marc Boldt is my brother in law, and I worked for him as his legislative assistant for 6 years while he was in the state house.)
As you may know, the Seattle Times rather stupidly made the decision to formalize their bias for gay marriage and, God help me, RINO Rob McKenna.
That is, their efforts to implement their own social engineering agenda are receiving an actual, in their opinion, monetary value of $75,000 for each issue/candidate.
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In doing so, they seem to have stirred up some journalistic vestige, frequently long forgotten, among the staff of that newspaper. They object to a formalized accounting of what they've been doing for decades.
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That is, if you're like our local cancer on the community, you just screw the people you oppose without keeping track of the monetary value of the screwing.
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In the commissioner races here locally and in the 17th District Senate race, the rag has been writing for those they support like they're receiving direct payment from their campaigns... all while they struggle... and obviously fail... to maintain some veneer of impartiality and fairness.
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The difference between the Seattle Times and the democratian?
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The Seattle Times, as wrong as their positions are, revel in those positions and at least are making an effort to account for their fringe-left positions in a way that makes their leftist bias known and to some extent, quantifiable.
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Our local rag, however, acts like Baghdad Bob with the tanks rumbling in the background while he claims "no Americans are here... we're destroying them everywhere," yaddah, yaddah.
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The value of a newspaper is to struggle to find as absolute a fairness and accuracy as possible. Not to lie about their biases, like Brancaccio has every time he's written about those biases.
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There's a huge article in the rag over a rather truthful pamphlet that no one had heard of or seen, and the local rag turned it into yet another campaign puff-piece for their boy Probst over tax increases he's supported.... and, contrary to the article, he DID support those increases, and DOES support those increases, because Probst voted for the leadership that caused them... just like he would if he ever makes it to the Senate.
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The rag deliberately did that as a campaign piece for Probst; when their guys lie, they don't give a damn, as they've remained silent in the case of their boy, democrat Marc Boldt's multiple lies on HIS literature, because, well, Boldt's their guy and if he knocked over a 7-11 as a fund raiser they'd knock it down to a parking ticket and like so much other information opposing their agenda (The Oregon State Supreme Court decision detailing the basis for the CRC scam, for example) they wouldn't mention it.
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The Times, by taking this step, at least has the guts to end any pretense of fairness and objectivity. The democratian, gutless as they are, insists on trying to get people to believe they are fair, accurate and benign in their coverage... when anyone reading them for more then 10 minutes doesn't know better.
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Baghdad Brancaccio and his pit yorkie, Laird, do everything they can to attack, damage and destroy those who oppose them. They mis-characterize, exaggerate, twist and lie on behalf of those who wear out kneepads in front of their agenda.
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This very rag has DEMANDED Marc Boldt's resignation from the legislature back when he was an actual Republican because he opposed much of their agenda generally, and their efforts to make the Columbia River Gorge Commission in the Supreme Soviet of the Columbia River.in particular: they treated Boldt like they now treat Benton, Mielke and Madore.
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Why? What's the difference? What's changed?
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The difference is that Boldt is bending us all over to the point that he's embracing the pro-abortion/pro-gay marriage/pro-tax and spend party that he used to oppose... showing that, well, integrity just isn't all that big with him. Counted among his supporters is radical fringe left-nutter democrat Rep. Jim "My middle name is Hussein" Moeller... although Boldt won't admit it and he's not listed as a supporter on Boldt's web site.
Why do you suppose that is?
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Why do you suppose that is?
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Boldt's lies on his literature are obvious. And what has the rag done about them?
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About what you'd expect: nothing.
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Gee.... just think: if the rag would just come out and SAY they were in the tank for those supporting their agenda, much like if Boldt would just come out and SAY he's abandoned principle in favor of getting re-elected, sell outs be damned, then I could at least respect them for telling the truth.
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For once.
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But when you've been lying like Baghdad Brancaccio and his Pravda Izvestia for several years, it's hard to get away from that program..Right, Bob?
More than 100 staff members of the Seattle Times have signed a letter to publisher Frank Blethen protesting the newspaper’s decision to launch a $75,750 advertising campaign, at its own expense, in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna.
They told Blethen that the “political advertising initiative” threatens their ability to credibly report the news.
“We strive to remain independent from the institutions we cover,” said the “Dear Frank” letter. “We shine a light on the process from the outside. We are not part of the process.
“This ad campaign threatens to compromise that integrity. By sponsoring an ad for one gubernatorial candidate, the Seattle Times — the entire company — has become one of the top contributors in support of that candidate’s campaign. We are now part of a campaign’s machinery, creating a perception that we are not an independent watchdog.”
A leading Puget Sound progressive group, FUSE Washington, delivered the same message to Blethen from the outside. It reported late Thursday that 1,200 people has protested the “political advertising initiative” to the Times publisher, often in their own words.
“This is not the reporters’ fault: The publisher is screwing over the reporters,” said Collin Jergens of FUSE.
A top official at the Sierra Club’s Northwest office, Dan Ritzman, put on his Facebook page: “I just cancelled out Seattle Times subscription and will donate it to Jay (Inslee).” It was a popular posting.
The Times ran a full-page ad for McKenna on Wednesday, the morning after “Fairview Fannie” cosponsored a televised debate between McKenna and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee.
“To the candidates and viewing public, we weren’t part of one campaign or the other,” protested the employees.
Over the years, the Seattle Times editorial page has sometimes been nearly as close to the Republican candidate for Governor as l’Osservatore Romano is to the Pope.
The paper has endorsed McKenna this year, just as it backed Dino Rossi in 2004 and 2008. Its opinion page has run articles defending McKenna against criticisms from the Inslee camp, particularly the Republican candidate’s comparative conservatism on social and women’s issues.
The Times also used to use its news columns, particularly in the 1960′s and early 1970′s, to discredit Democratic candidates for Governor.
Frank Blethen has campaigned in both Washingtons, in person and his newspaper, for repeal of the estate tax. Candidates coming to court Fairview Fannie’s editorial board sometimes blurt out an answer on the “death tax” before they even get asked the question.
But, argued Times staffers, the advertising campaign is beyond the pale — even if its stated purpose is to reestablish the value of political advertising in newspapers. (Campaigns prefer to send out glossy mailings, which can be directed at targeted voters, and which enrich the candidates’ consultants.)
“It threatens the two things we value the most, the traits that make The Seattle Times a strong brand: Our independence and credibility,” said the reporters, photographers, editors, column producers and artists who signed the letter.
The list of signers included a cross-section of Times talent. The very readable food critic Nancy Leson is there, along with Olympia reporter Andrew Garber. Columnists Danny Westneat and Nicole Brodeur are joined joined by veteran photographer Greg Gilbert and longtime investigative reporter Steve Miletich.
In response to the letter, Times spokeswoman Jill Mackie said of Blethen: “There is not a newspaper publisher in the United States who is more respectful or supportive of journalists. And there is not a publisher who is more personally committed to independent journalism.”
