They Mayor With No Political Affiliation

The Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama Larry Langford has been brought up on federal charges including conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns.

Now I have read at least 6 news stories on this and not one mentions his political affiliation. Now why do you suppose that is?

Since the first line of the story does not read “Republican Mayor Larry Langford…” I will assume he is a democrat. If anyone knows otherwise let me know, but I will bet the remaining of my stock portfolio he is a Democrat.

Of course, they could always just identify him as a Republican like they did Democrat Gov. Elliot Spitzer in the New York.

New Poll says 51 percent of Americans believe the media is trying to hurt Sarah Palin.

Hollywood actor John Voight says MSNBC is “just a platform for…the left of the Democrat Party.” He also claims there are more conservatives in Hollywood than one might think.

They’re Trying to Write Her Off the Ticket, It’s disrespectful to women and down right sexist!

The leftist media and liberals are running scared over Sarah Palin. They are attacking her on anything they can find! The New York Times actually ran a story questioning whether a mother of five should be working at all! Wow…is that fair? Did anyone ever question a man on whether he could be a father and hold a job?

Then we have this so-called “troopergate” thing, which is going nowhere. Palin called the investigation of her own actions and the officers who lost their jobs are even saying she had no role.

These attacks are disgraceful. They are disrespectful to women and completely sexist.

Now we have the media asking if John McCain properly vetted their VP pick. Come on folks. Is this the best they can do?

It is truly amazing; it took three days for the media to unleash a non-stop attack on this woman and her family. This same media won’t even ask Barack Obama why he was associated with an unrepentant terrorist named William Ayers, or why he sat in a pew of a church that preached hate and discontent toward America for more than 20 years.

The problem with Sarah Palin is she is not a member of the DC political establishment. She is a member of the middle-America crowd. She has a family that probably reminds you of your family or the one that lives next door.

This lady scares the media. They know she is a winner, and they’re going to do anything they can to try and write her off the ticket. They want John McCain to drop her from the ticket.

Everyone Loves a Sex Scandal: NY Dem. Gov. Elliot Spitzer and his hooker.

Unless you are living a life of isolation you no doubt have heard about NY Gov. Elliot Spitzer and his hooker, but can we please get a grip! This thing has taken up 90% of the news coverage.

So the governor paid a hooker for sex and got caught. Like he is the only man in America to ever do such a thing…It can’t be the oldest profession in the world without customers.

Spitzer has admitted to the allegations, resigned and has been replaced. This story should be over, but oh no. Everyone loves a good sex scandal. So the story goes on.

Now we are being told about all the inside information into the world of call girls, and learning all the details about this young woman. In the end this story is going to make this young woman very rich.

The real annoying thing about this story is not the hypocrisy of the governor, who conducted his whole career denouncing and prosecuting such behaviors under the law, but how the main stream media has handled the story.

Spitzer is a Democrat, but you won’t find it in any of their news reports. In fact some of the broadcast news networks have refused to identify Spitzer as a Democrat at all. Would a Republican receive the same courtesy? I think not.

Newsbusters has a great example of this from ABC news. It’s an ABC's "Political Sex Scandals Redux" popup slideshow from recent years and you can see for yourself they are very quick to identify Republicans in scandals, but not Democrats.

One news outlet has actually identified Spitzer as a Republican! Amazing!

You got to be kidding me! The mainstream media is so bias they can’t label NY Gov. Elliot Spitzer as a Democrat. How about they just put a (R) by his name instead. Actual headline: “Eliot Spitzer (R) holds a news conference in New York City with his wife Silda by his side.”

New York Times' "Hit Job" on John McCain

Looks like the media infatuation with the “Maverick” has come to an end. This is what happens when you become the republican front-runner.

The front-page story of today’s New York Times contains a story about an alleged affair John McCain had with a lobbyist about eight years ago. Now this story has very little details or evidence other than reports from several unnamed former aids claiming to have kept the lobbyist Vicki Iseman, away from McCain. It is a real "hit job" by the New York Times and a despicable attack.

Leave it to the New York Times to bring up an alleged affair and scandal that happened eight years ago, has already been investigated and cleared McCain of any wrongdoing.

If you are a frequent reader here, then you know I am no fan of John McCain. However, I feel attacks like this are always unwarranted and unjustified, but if the Times is going to run such front page stories then where is the story on Huma Abedin?

If you google Huma Abedin you will find numerous stories suggesting Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin have been engaged in a long-term lesbian relationship. These stories are just as well sourced as the McCain lobbyist story. So, where is the front-page story at the Times on Huma and Hillary?

Personally I could care less about either one of these stories. Who John McCain did or didn’t have an affair with eight years ago is not going to effect the way he leads this country, the same for Hillary. How about we get back to the issues that matter.

Perhaps the Times should investigate voting records instead of life in the bedrooms of republican candidates…just a thought.

Talk show host without ideology?

A report from San Francisco’s KGO-TV reads:

The ABC7 I-Team has the inside story of what lead up to the arrest of popular talk-radio host, Bernie Ward, on federal child pornography charges. . . .

Bernie Ward got indicted in December and got fired from his job at KGO Radio, effective at the end of last year. Now, police reports just obtained by the I-Team tell us who blew the whistle on Ward, and how he came to send the woman child porn, by his own admission.

The story goes into graphic detail about Ward’s sexually explicit online chats. I am not going to quote them here. You can click on the link and read through it if that sort of thing pulls your trigger.

I was just wondering why the media decided not to inform us about Ward’s leaning liberal political ideology out of the story.

When Rush Limbaugh found himself in controversy and trouble with the law a few years ago the media routinely reminded us he was a conservative talk show host. Many time the reference appeared more than once in a story.

Not so with Bernie Ward. In fact, if I didn’t know who Bernie Ward was; I wouldn’t be able to tell from this story that he was a liberal. They never mention it.

Could this be because most people associate talk radio with conservatives? Shouldn’t a professional reporter realize the importance to inform the reader that Ward is not a conservative talk show host?

If any conservative talk show host were arrested for any reason, I would find it shocking if the media failed to identify him as a conservative.

Out of all of the presidential candidates, Bill Clinton got the third most coverage from the media ... what? He isn't even running. Guess who got the top two spots? Here is a clue they are not Republicans. Media bias??? Surely not.