there is a lengthy article from Matt Bai in the the Times sunday Magazine section about the senate race in Connecticut. I was interested to read it to see how accurate it was. To my surprise, it was a one-sided piece of garbage. Usually, the Times is much more subtle in slanting its articles. This time, it was just an all out attack on Linda McMahon in order to support Richard Blumenthal. There are a myriad of points that could be made, but perhaps the clearest indication of the slant of the article is this: Bai mentions that Chris Dodd chose not to run for re-election in the face of polls that showed him a sure loser. But Bai never once mentions that the public had learned that Dodd had taken a sweetheart deal on his mortgage from Countrywide that provided him with hundreds of thousands of dollars in reduced interest costs and had not considered that inappropriate. Bai also failed to mention that Dodd had obtained a property that Dodd called a cottage which turned out to be a sixteen acre oceanfront manorhouse in Ireland, but that dodd had failed to properly disclose his ownership as required by the Senate rules. If Bai had not discussed scandals like these at great length in the article, perhaps he could be excused. Bai, however, listed a whole number of politicians who had been caught up in graft scandals in the state.
The truth is that the day of teh NY Times has passed. My guess is that there are so few people in Connecticut who still read and believe the Times, that it will have essentially no impact on the senate race. that is a good thing. The last thing we need now is for the liberal media to use one-sided selective reporting as a tool to move the public's reaction to candidates who are running for election.
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