Friday, August 13, 2010

Ann Coulter - 'Bell California Officials (D) Story is One of The Greatest Party-Affiliation Cover-Ups'

Anyone that has at all been paying attention knows that almost without fail if a party affiliation is not mentioned and the story is about a scandal that means the candidate is a Democrat. It is a rather insidious form of bias targeted at those who are not paying attention, trying to get them to believe that the only scandals in politics stem from Republicans. Fairness requires that a party neutral standard where they either mention the affiliation of everyone or no one. The odds of that happening in the near term are not good.

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/ann-coulter/2010/08/12/lets-play-spot-the-democrat

"In the greatest party-affiliation cover-up since the media tried to portray Gary Condit as a Republican, the media are refusing to mention the party affiliation of the thieving government officials in Bell, Calif.
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The police chief, Randy Adams, was making $457,000 -- $770,046 including benefits. The assistant city manager, Angela Spaccia, had a $376,288 salary, with a total compensation package of $845,960. Being just an assistant city manager, Angela had to pay for her own yacht.

After the Los Angeles Times reported the stratospheric government salaries in little Bell, and the people of the town revolted, the millionaire government employees all resigned.

That'll show 'em! Oops, except upon their resignations, they qualified for lifetime pensions worth, by some estimates, more than $50 million.
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According to Nexis, there have been more than 300 news stories reporting on the Bell scandal. Guess how many mentioned the party affiliation of the corrupt government bureaucrats?

One. Yes, just one. Now guess if the government officials were Democrats or Republicans? Yes, that is correct.
Congratulations -- you've qualified for our bonus round!

The one newspaper to cough up party affiliations, The Orange County Register, admitted that the corrupt officials were all Democrats only in response to reader complaints about the peculiar omission.

Lots of news stories on the scandal in Bell used the word "Democrat" or "Democratic." But that was only to say that the DEMOCRATIC attorney general of California, Jerry Brown, who is running on the DEMOCRATIC ticket for governor, is investigating the Bell officials' salaries.

So we know the media are aware of party affiliations. They just chose not to mention it when it would require them to identify shockingly corrupt government officials as Democrats.
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