... and the beat goes on

Even though it's almost of a full year until the next presidential election, the leftwing media is already in full frenzy. You might think they'd run out of "issues" to spin and lie about long before the conventions next summer. but not to worry their bag of dirty tricks is bottomless.

Click above for the front page of today's local liberal rag. There's nothing special about it and that's why I'm writing this post. Every morning we check the front page to see what atrocity the president may have committed while we slept. If it wasn't egregious enough for the front page, we check the next level. No new scandal at the governor’s office or the state legislature, then local stuff will have to do.

Facts, don't be silly.

The county hired a whole bunch of people during the short housing bubble a couple of years ago and when it "slumped," staff needed to be reduced to normal levels. Were the right people let go, I have no idea. Were the firings handled well? Obviously not. Local realtors, builders, mortgage companies and related outfits hired new people and opened new offices to handle the increased volume and then also had to close offices and fire the new hires. Hardly front page stuff.

When our local county government (total county pop. 80,000) floated a bond issue for $33,000,000 to pay for the two new buildings below (the rotunda houses county office and the imposing neo-something-or-other building is the new court house), the newspaper didn't think that ripping off the taxpayers was front page news ... but I digress.

Here's a real poser that appeared on the front page yesterday. A realtor who wasn’t hurting financially, missed the action and excitement of the bubble! Poor old guy.

That'll teach him to talk to the media. I bet he's pretty embarrassed about being made a fool of on the front page of the paper. Racial issues – always at the ready / young soldiers leaving loved-ones behind – another top seller / unfortunate children in distress – always a winner.

Is it all fodder for endless articles? Are the publishers of the News-Journal outraged by all this? You bet.

Is it front page news? No way.

We often talk about dropping our subscription to the paper, but then we realize that without the paper, we'll never know what day it is so, as long as they get the date and day of the week right, we'll probably keep getting the paper and keep having conniption fits.