They Already Know Who They Want To Win

"If this surprises you, you are not paying attention."
Amy Miller, Red State

In California 36th Congressional District, the local press decides to sit the election out. Apparently they only need to cover one candidate.

From The Other McCain:

A reporter for the Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze sent an e-mail to a political consultant saying the newspaper is “not interested” in covering Republican candidate Mattie Fein, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Jane Harman in California’s 36th District.

In the e-mail sent Wednesday (see text below), Daily Breeze reporter Nick Green told consultant John S. Thomas of Thomas Partners Strategies, “Don’t call or e-mail us – we’ll call you if we’re interested. And if you haven’t got it yet, we’re not interested.”

Green also told Thomas not to send Fein campaign communications to his Daily Breeze colleague, Art Marroquin.

TEXT OF NICK GREEN E-MAIL
TO JOHN S. THOMAS
Sent: Aug 11, 2010 12:58 PM
John:
Don’t call or e-mail us – we’ll call you if we’re interested. And if you haven’t got it yet, we’re not interested. And stop sending the same messages to my co-worker Art as well
Thank you.
Nick

According to sources with the Fein campaign, Thomas had contacted the Daily Breeze staffers seeking coverage of the Republican challenger’s response to a recently passed bill that the newspaper reported would “save 215 jobs in Rep. Jane Harman’s district.” A subsequent Daily Breeze story Thursday featured Harman’s statement that a jobs program was the ”best thing out there to keep and create jobs in Los Angeles County,” included no reponse from Fein or any other Republican.

That would be the same Representative Harman whose husband just bought Newsweak Newsweek, although he was only able to do so because he had sufficiently liberal credentials.

Isn't it interesting how the press is only interested in holding certain people to account? It's almost as though they've chosen sides...

Cue Epic Guitar Solo

I probably shouldn't write these posts after playing Rock Band.



I apologize for nothing.

Solutions Looking For Problems, and Finding Them

Finding them after making them up.

As referred to by the DC Trawler (at The Daily Caller), the Department of Justice is going after the state of South Carolina because of its HIV/AIDS prevention policies in the state's prison system. From J. Christian Adams in the Washington Examiner:

Two unpleasant topics of conversation most of us avoid are the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among prison inmates and a variety of sometimes violent events resulting in transmission of the disease. Some states long ago implemented policies to protect the uninfected part of the prison population while providing exceptional medical treatment and counseling to the infected population.

In South Carolina, it has worked so well since 1998 that there has only been a single transmission of HIV/AIDS to a noninfected prisoner. All that may change, however, thanks to a threat from Eric Holder's Justice Department.

South Carolina received a letter from the now-infamous Civil Rights Division that the policy of keeping infected inmates at a designated facility, instead of scattered across the state in the general prison population, may unfairly stigmatize infected prisoners. To the Obama political appointees in the Civil Rights Division, this constitutes discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The Justice Department objects to separate living facilities and specialized medical treatment for the HIV/AIDS prison population. Naturally, DOJ has threatened a lawsuit.

Read the whole piece.

Ain't Much Left of Lovin' You

Heard this a couple of weeks ago, and still playing it in near-constant rotation on my iPod. Randy Montana, "Ain't Much Left of Lovin' You."