In its stinging coverage of this equally stinging reprimand, the Washington Post reported that in a formal assessment of Burris’ honesty, the Ethics Committee stated:

“Your shifting explanations about your sworn statements appear less than candid.”

Gee, news must become accuratized with distance. The write-up in Chicago was not as benign as the almost congratulatory WaPo Daily. Perhaps, like Congress, WaPo should read what they take action on? At the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman writes:

Roland Burris is a lying snake

The Senate Select Committee on Ethics has completed its investigation of Sen. Roland Burris, and his office is trumpeting its finding that he committed no “actionable violations of the law.” What his press release didn’t mention is that the committee also found he had provided “incorrect, inconsistent, misleading or incomplete information” about his appointment to the Senate. Which is senatorese for, “Pants on fire!”

….The result is that he gets to call himself a senator and can boast that he’s never been indicted. But to most Illinoisans, Burris will always be remembered as a lying snake.

Poor snakes, been downhill since Adam. Now they’re being compared to politicians. Whur be PETA when you need’m?

Some of my junk mail packets include a pre-paid envelope addressed back to the sender, to be used for making a donation or ordering their product.  Normally, after stripping my name and address from the unwanted missives, I toss the entire package into the paper recycling box.  But sometimes I use those postage-paid envelopes.

Now I am a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, and that means frugal (some have said cheap or stingy).  There is no way I would spend so little as one postage stamp to express my political opinion, even for the luxury of taking a shot across the liberal bow of some of these solicitations.  But given the opportunity of doing it for free…  Today I had a bit of fun, twice.

The first item was a purported survey from the Republican Senatorial Committee, asking my opinion via a ”numbered, registered” questionaire about political issues.  They don’t really want my opinion.  They want a donation.  So I made a note on the blank side of it with a black marker pen and sent it back unused in the postage-paid envelope which they so kindly provided:

Please remove my name and address from your junk mail list. I have voted Republican for fifty years, but for a long time now you have failed to represent my conservative values, especially regarding illegal immigration. From now on I will only donate to and support individual candidates that meet my standards.

I really enjoyed writing the second one. It was an invitation to subscribe to the Washington Post newspaper. Now I have been turning them down at this address for over thirty years, but they still keep trying. So this is what I sent to them, at their expense:

Please remove my name and address from your junk mail list. There is no way in Hades that I will ever in my lifetime subscribe to your liberally biased newspaper, not even to use for

• a dead fish wrapper
• a wood fire starter
• a bird cage liner

The devil made me do it!

The mainstream media made no mention of the controversy surrounding Van Jones until AFTER he resigned. The usual suspects, who have shaped the news for years, — CBS, NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times — carried no news at all until the Jones affair was over.

Then they reported, briefly (trying to minimize the damage to Obama), that Jones had resigned as the result of a vicious right-wing smear campaign. That is a very biased way to characterize an exposé consisting entirely of video clips of the man’s own speeches. How do you smear someone by quoting his very words?

The bloggers, the radio and cable television talk shows, and the social networks were the only sources of information. Yet it was sufficient to inform the public, who raised an outcry that brought results.

It would seem that the mainstream media is no longer necessary. More than that, it is pretty obvious that they are not doing their jobs. So we will not feel sorry for them when they whine about declining subscription numbers.

At the Washington Examiner, Byron York asks — Why did the press ignore the Van Jones scandal?:

Certainly there’s bias involved. Given what we know from the formal and informal polling of journalists at mainstream organizations, most of the people involved in political reporting are liberals, and likely Democrats. They want the Obama administration to succeed….

There was a day, not too long ago, when … influential news organizations could kill a story … simply by ignoring it. Sometimes they still try. But it just won’t work anymore.

The erstwhile media moguls are not taking their downfall gracefully. At Townhall, David Limbaugh notes The Mainstream Media’s Temper Tantrum:

With the resignation of green czar Van Jones despite their efforts to protect him, the mainstream media have finally been reduced to sputtering incoherence, as they’ve observed the un-deification of their anointed messiah and experienced firsthand their own diminishing relevance.

The MSM are engaging in a colossal temper tantrum over their lost news monopoly — a monopoly they forfeited through their bias, arrogance and self-imposed insulation….

This is an especially hard pill for them to swallow considering that during the past year, they’ve been stewing in the intoxicating delusion that they were again supreme, as they appeared to be getting away with their conspiratorial enthroning of King Barack Obama. And they’re not handling rejection well.

If you have time, read the rest of Limbaugh’s piece. He details the arrogant and self-serving remarks made by the media dinosaurs in the aftermath — a sorry lot they are and it is so heartwarming to see them squirm. It puts one in mind of that famous remark:

“You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [in the mainstream media] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.”

It is a stark contrast indeed. Just not the way that he meant it.

The 90% Democrat Media is as great a threat to the US as Muslim Terrorists.

Two Op-Eds that ran over the Memorial Day weekend in the Washington Post illustrate the danger to America of the now largely monolithic US MEDIA & its unconscious willingness to present a Joe Goebbels style spin to every issue. The Founders concept that “freedom of speech, or of the press” would generate educated voters & citizens is now subverted for the non internet connected by the all Democrat mainstream Media.’

On Sunday, the WaPo Ombudsman, Deborah Howell, wrote a column about the need for the paper to have more “Diverse Voices.” The gist of this article was about how well balanced the paper’s staff was but that it needed more non old White guy voices. The idea of having competent contributors wasn’t raised and any recognition that the paper that elected Senator Democrat Jim Webb might hire a few Republicans to balance out the Staff was also not even mentioned. In fact, Howell even idiotically claimed that the paper was running more conservative columns based on a breakdown of Op-Ed contributors. Howell obviously ignored the total lack of balance in the writing of Democrat propaganda columnists like Dionne, Robinson, Cohen & Myerson as opposed to the more principled approach of columnists like Krauthammer or Will.

On Monday, the WaPo ran an Op-Ed by Peter Funt glorying in the connections between Democrat Politicians & Democrat Media personnel in the Obama Campaign & the Democrat propaganda show the “West Wing.” Funt wrote about the personal connections & described how various persons collaborated back & forth. Funt noted how the successful Democrat candidate in the last season of West Wing, Matt Santos, was partially based on Obama. Funt described how the mythical Presidential Campaign on the West Wing was written & how the Republican Candidate character, Arnold Vinick, was somewhat similar to McCain although NOT based on a real-life model. Funt glibly noted that the Republican episodes were written by Democrat Lawrence O’Donnell.

Howell & Funt demonstrate how totally biased the 90% Democrat Media really is. Their articles include not one acknowledgement of the Democrat-only bias in either Howell’s analysis of the WaPo’s staff or Funt’s Democrats-are-us recitation of the West Wing’s creative staff. The ratings failure of the West Wing is particularly telling in that no effort was made to broaden the story lines to include Republican characters that might bring in Republican viewers or, in the WaPo’s case, Republican Readers. This Marxist approach reflects the triumph of the Democrat Marxist New Deal in penetrating & taking over the Media, Academia & the Democrat Party. Worse for America is the demonstration of the useful idiocy of these people & their consequent willingness to accept a Soviet Amerika.

The ever-reliable Wall Street Journal has surfaced yet another attempt by Democrats to subvert the democratic process through deceptively titled campaign “reform.” Read this post, here. As I have said many times before, whenever a Washington politician talks about “reform,” watch either your wallet, your back, or both.

You can worry even more any time “reform” is proposed by a Massachusetts Democrat, as it has in this case. Marty Meehan, a leftist (what Massachusetts congressman or Senator isn’t?) member of the thoroughly corrupt Massachusetts contingent, has proposed legislation that would force grassroots campaigns to register as lobbyists. Now why would a corrupt politician, who depends on the labyrinthian campaign finance system to carry out his plans, want to pass legislation that that makes life even tougher for some of us? Hint: it certainly isn’t for “reform” purposes.

As I’m sure most of you recognize, this will merely hamstring groups that rely on the grassroots support of little guys like you and me, groups who usually have a real beef, like for instance trying to stem the flow of illegal immigration. Instead of “reforming” the process, this is just another backdoor attempt at stifling free speech, so the wonderful Congressmen and Senators can conduct business as usual without the bothersome anklebiting we grassroots activists occasionally trouble them with, and move more deliberately forward to the socialist nation they are preparing for us.

This legislation is backed by Democracy 21, a deceptive name for a very anti-democratic group. And as with virtually all of the campaign “reform” we have already suffered, the real player in the shadows is George Soros, about the most corrupt, evil, anti-reform minded person on the face of the planet.

Regarding this and other issues, I refer you to a blogger I just stumbled upon, Centerman. I have not checked out a lot of his posts, but those I have provide a lot of good , factual background on George Soros’s demonic, anti-Democratic, anti-Republican campaign finance “reform” movement.

Businessman and freelance writer Jim Simpson is a former White House staff economist and budget analyst (1987-1993). His writings have been published in the Washington Times, FrontPage Magazine, DefenseWatch, Soldier of Fortune and others. You can read more of his articles on his blog, Truth and Consequences.

[Editor's note: We're delighted that our contributor, Jim Simpson, has discovered one of our favorite bloggers. Back in July 2005, when Centerman wrote his very first blog post, we had the privilege of leaving the very first comment. A few days later Centerman wrote a post titled I Love American Daughter and we have deemed him a gentleman and a scholar ever since!]

Yesterday, the Washington Post published this disingenuous article:

The Myth Of Voter Fraud
By Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt
Thursday, March 29, 2007

As Congress probes the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, attention is centering on who knew what, and when. It’s just as important to focus on “why,” such as the reason given for the firing of at least one of the U.S. attorneys, John McKay of Washington state: failure to prosecute the phantom of individual voter fraud.

Allegations of voter fraud — someone sneaking into the polls to cast an illicit vote — have been pushed in recent years by partisans seeking to justify proof-of-citizenship and other restrictive ID requirements as a condition of voting. Scare stories abound on the Internet and on editorial pages, and they quickly become accepted wisdom.

But the notion of widespread voter fraud, as these prosecutors found out, is itself a fraud. Firing a prosecutor for failing to find wide voter fraud is like firing a park ranger for failing to find Sasquatch….

Note the use of these words, “the phantom of individual voter fraud”.

The subject article by Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt is itself a fraud. It begins by mentioning the firing of US Attorney John McKay of Washington State for a failure to prosecute the “phantom” of individual voter fraud without presenting the facts of that situation. In the Governor’s race in Washington State, the Republican candidate won the regular voting, the 1st recount, the 2nd recount & then lost on the 3rd recount to the Democrat candidate who happened to be the State Attorney General. Recounts favoring the Democrat were all in a Democrat area. The Republicans initially went into State Court but were told that they had no jurisdiction. Then, McKay refused to even investigate much less prosecute. McKay should not only have been fired for dereliction of duty, but investigated for a potential conspiracy with the Democrat Campaign. This article shows the typical Democrat Bias of 90% of the Media as well as a Joe Goebbels devotion to truth. If the Washington Post is ever going to rise above being a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party, a follow-up article should be written to reveal the real facts. How about it “Independent Newspaper?”

This is classic & deceptive Democrat Bias by the 90% Democrat Media. The article obviously assumes that no one will look into the “facts” in Washington State.