Posted on 04/11/2008 6:34:23 PM PDT by shield
It's not widely recognized that the Wall Street Journal is a left-wing rag, a propaganda organ for the Democrat Party no less than the New York Times.
That's because people compare the editorials, not the news coverage. The WSJ is a schizophrenic, split-personality paper with a pro-America editorial page (yes, except for their open-borders nonsense), while that of the NYT's is so anti-American it is often outright treasonous.
But if you focus on the front section news coverage, you'll see little difference between the two. A perfect example is this "news" story of April 7 in the WSJ:Democrats' Hopes for Seat Rise.
The opening line of the story is:
"A conservative firebrand with a connection to a former Ku Klux Klan leader will run for a Louisiana seat in the (U.S.) House of Representatives, raising Democrats' hopes they can pick up what has been a reliably conservative district for more than three decades."
The "conservative firebrand" in question is Woody Jenkins, the Republican candidate. That description of him is accurate - he's a passionate pro-life, pro-Christian, pro-capitalist, pro-America, pro-Western Civilization guy. He's stand-up honest, integrity personified, born and raised in the Louisiana district (Baton Rouge) he represented in the state legislature for 28 years.
I should know, for he's been a good friend of mine for a quarter-century. And that's how I know the WSJ's smear alleging he has "a connection to a former Ku Klux Klan leader" is a complete willful fabrication. The author of the WSJ article, Susan Davis, is not a journalist, she's a professional left-wing smear artist.
The "connection" is that when Woody was running for the US Senate in 1996 (a race he lost because of Democrat midnight ballot-box stuffing in New Orleans' 9th Ward - thus Mary Landrieu "won" by 5,788 votes out of 1.7 million cast), he hired a company, Impact Mail, to make automated "robo-calls" to voters.
When he discovered the company was also calling for his Republican competitor in the Senate primary race, David Duke - the "former Ku Klux Klan leader" the WSJ associates him with - he canceled the contract. Woody had been denouncing Duke and the Klan for his entire political lifetime.
Anyone who knows Woody, anyone who has done the slightest real research into his career, knows how much he despises racism of any kind, how much he detests KKK lowlifes. There is no legitimate uncontrived connection between him and the Klan whatever.
Yet that totally contrived allegation of such a connection was the lead and basis for the WSJ story. It is not an exception. The WSJ is full of such radical left-wing Democrat propaganda.
What is true about the WSJ story is that the Democrats are going after Woody big time. With smears like this, they think their guy, Democrat candidate Don Cazayoux, a trial lawyer bought and paid for by the labor unions, can win the special election on May 3 to replace retired Republican Richard Baker.
So much so that the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the race. The Republican Party committee hasn't got the money to match the Dem onslaught.
So I'm going to ask you to help out.
Woody Jenkins will indeed be a firebrand in the United States Congress for the values and principles you and I most deeply believe in. If you contribute to just one single campaign in the election season, I don't think you could make a better political investment than in Woody Jenkins.
Take a look at his website, WoodyJenkinsforCongress. Then, please consider clicking on the Contribute to Woody link. The election is three weeks away. Donating by credit card will allow Woody to get the media buys he needs right now.
I know Woody, I know the US Congress, and I know how much of an impact he'll have on Capitol Hill. The left knows it too and that's why they are so scared of him, why they'll stoop to any level of vicious dishonesty to smear him.
In the five years of To The Point, I've never done this before and may never again. This once, please excuse my plea, please consider helping this marvelous American help America.
Apparently we have forgotten what the founders warned us about. We have rapidly lost intelligence the last 60 or so years.
The school system is pathetic and the agenda is clear.
Stupid voters needed.
I canceled my WSJ subscription long ago.
Liberal activists in the corporate media have we conservatives by the b/lls, too often. It’ll be the death of our republic, some day, the fact that nasty, agenda-driven, dishonest, “news” muckraking is a profession that attracts and invites liberals as much as it repels conservatives.
Good on Dr. Jack Wheeler.
Peggy Noonan, who has long been a columnist for the WSJ, has said basically the same thing using more moderate language.
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LOL!
Good post potlatch!
Ping’O!
Louisiana FReepers take note:
“the WSJ’s smear alleging he has “a connection to a former Ku Klux Klan leader” is a complete willful fabrication. The author of the WSJ article, Susan Davis, is not a journalist, she’s a professional left-wing smear artist.”
Thanks, got that in email today so it may be a relatively new graphic. Who knows, it coulda been around the world already, lol.
Among his political liabilities, however, is a connection to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, from whom he purchased a phone list during his 1996 Senate run. He was fined $3,000 in 2002 by the Federal Election Commission for illegally concealing the purchase. Democrats see the Duke issues as factors in their favor, according to a party memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Wheeler is the best at going after those dam donkeys, IMPO. I love it when he’s smashing any and all of them. We are truly blessed to have this man on our side. He is brilliant...with some what of a temper. LOL...
Is there any Republican that the Left hasn’t tagged as being a racist, or a bigot?
It seems like that is the only reason to not vote for Republicans to them, especially if it has nothing to do with politics but with character(however let’s vote for Bill Clinton on actual politics). A lot of it also has to do with a far past, yet they let Robert Byrd stay on as a high ranking leader in the beltway moment.
On the other hand, since they are politicians, we are all paranoid to put a campaign issue against Liberals if they have ties to Radical Islam, Communism or George Soros.
OMG!
That is absolutely PERFECT!
Great job! :^D
[snip] The “conservative firebrand” in question is Woody Jenkins, the Republican candidate. That description of him is accurate - he’s a passionate pro-life, pro-Christian, pro-capitalist, pro-America, pro-Western Civilization guy. He’s stand-up honest, integrity personified, born and raised in the Louisiana district (Baton Rouge) he represented in the state legislature for 28 years. I should know, for he’s been a good friend of mine for a quarter-century. And that’s how I know the WSJ’s smear alleging he has “a connection to a former Ku Klux Klan leader” is a complete willful fabrication. The author of the WSJ article, Susan Davis, is not a journalist, she’s a professional left-wing smear artist. [end]
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PING - vicious smear hit-job on Woody Jenkins alert!
I think you have to be a democRAT to belong to the KKK.
The MSM “scandal” alphabet...
A, R, B, R, C, R, E, R, F, R, G, R, H, R... etc...
Mark
Peggy Noonan is a perfect example of skitzorella... one day pro-conservative... next pro-left... sometimes it's covert but the undertone is always in her editorials.
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