Republican House members, aided by friendly radio and television talk show hosts, created a political tempest this week, claiming Pelosi was pressuring the Pentagon for the use of an "Air Force Three" and a "flying Lincoln Bedroom." Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, however, the administration has required the speaker -- then Republican Dennis Hastert of Illinois -- to travel home and on official business using military planes for security reasons.
House Sergeant at Arms Bill Livingood said he had asked the Pentagon to provide a plane large enough to fly Pelosi nonstop to San Francisco, citing the security concerns.
Even the White House defended the Democratic speaker. The president's spokesman, Tony Snow, on Thursday called the criticism "unfair" and the flap "a silly story."
Pelosi flew nonstop from the nation's capital to San Francisco to attend the funeral services of the late Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy aboard a C-37A, the military's version of a Gulfstream V that can travel 6,300 miles. It is one of the planes used regularly by Hastert, Pelosi's office and the Pentagon said.
Is this headline right? Republicans did not have a problem with Pelosi using one of the planes used by Hastert!
From what I understand, Herr Pelosi was asking for a 43-seat jet akin to a luxury airliner. That was denied, and rightly so.
Here are the relevant details in the story:
flew home nonstop Thursday night aboard a 12-seat military aircraft set aside for use by lawmakers...[The plane used by Pelosi] is one of the planes used regularly by Hastert [according to the Pentagon].
Nowhere in the article does the "journalist" cite an instance where anyone objected to Pelosi using such a plane.
Notice I use the word journalist in quotes. I do so because most print, broadcast and cyber employees of news organizations work as true journalists. Instead, these kids (some are of the 60s and 70s era, but you'd be surprised how many are really youngsters) are merely churning out the facts toward a cultural point of view that eschews balanced, fair, accurate and objective reporting. Instead they tilt toward the leftwing viewpoints they've been surrounded in; I wonder at time if they are not unlike a fish in water they oftimes are not even able to acknowledge it. Other times, they catch a glimpse of objectivity and decide to ignore it.
I do so because most print, broadcast and cyber employees of news organizations work as true journalists.
SHOULD HAVE READ:
i do so because most print, broadcast and cyber employees of news organizations do not work as true journalists.