Post ought to try reading itself: Part 2
In its confusing endorsement of Tom Tancredo, The Denver Post wrote:
Tancredo has worked hard to advance an important issue that others would like to ignore.
Who, exactly, is ignoring the illegal immigration debate? Every single candidate on both sides of the aisle has made it a central issue. Every debate and ad has revolved around it. It's gotten to the point where anti-immigration zealot Dick Lamm admitted he regrets overwhelming other, more important issues.
Tancredo is associated with the illegal immigration debate not because others ignore it, but because it is the only issue he cares about.
In essence, the Post is following the same tortured logic it used in it's 2004 endorsement of George W. Bush: He broke America, so he deserves the chance to fix it.
So what gives? The Post is playing politics. It couldn't get away with opposing clear-cut winners like Ed Perlmutter and Jay Fawcett. To avoid charges of liberalism, it searched for a race where it could endorse the Republican nominee.
It is the worst sort of pandering, because it masquerades as responsible journalism.
Tancredo has worked hard to advance an important issue that others would like to ignore.
Who, exactly, is ignoring the illegal immigration debate? Every single candidate on both sides of the aisle has made it a central issue. Every debate and ad has revolved around it. It's gotten to the point where anti-immigration zealot Dick Lamm admitted he regrets overwhelming other, more important issues.
Tancredo is associated with the illegal immigration debate not because others ignore it, but because it is the only issue he cares about.
In essence, the Post is following the same tortured logic it used in it's 2004 endorsement of George W. Bush: He broke America, so he deserves the chance to fix it.
So what gives? The Post is playing politics. It couldn't get away with opposing clear-cut winners like Ed Perlmutter and Jay Fawcett. To avoid charges of liberalism, it searched for a race where it could endorse the Republican nominee.
It is the worst sort of pandering, because it masquerades as responsible journalism.
1 Comments:
This endorsement of Tancredo with "trepidation" and on the basis a of a supposed hope that Tancredo will, against all odds, be transformed into a reasonable person able to play well with others and compromise, sounds eerily similar to the non-endorsement endorsement of Bush in 2004.
Endorsing a bigot who has called for the bombing of Mecca and happily joined members of an organization of neo-confederate, white supremacist secessionists in a chorus of "Dixie" while giving a talk from a confederate flag draped podium is, if anything, even farther beyond the pale. We ought to let the editors at the Post know exactly what we think of the stench eminating from their editorial page. Go Winter!
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