The Star was once a respected publication.
Really?
By whom?
I've been a conservative with republican tendencies since 1973 and lived in the KC Star service area for over 5 years and have followed much of the KC Star's stupidity.
I know of no conservative with republican tendencies that could ever recall a time that the KC Star was "respected", other than by a nitwitted birkenstocked liberal.
If you follow them closely, it becomes evident that they are simply a parrot for the Democrat Party and they spend quite a large amount of time in the proximity of the buttocks of the New York Times.
Much of their editorial content borders on absolute hysterics and makes use of hyperbole, in a very transparent attempt to inflame the sensitivities of the mid-westerners that still read it.
The only political support that I can recall the Star giving to a republican figure was their adoring and simpering tributes to Eisenhower, albeit, after he was out of office.
I do recall an editorial (memory fails as to the editor) that excoriated Truman for his decision to drop the bomb on Japan, but that was also about the time that reparations for the Nisei were being tossed around.
They are journalistic whores, but I do admit to reading them on a regular basis, so, one might say that I do support them.
I also read the New York Times.
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