I found Sunday’s editorial by John Costa “Convention Coverage Was Fair” to be laughable. I believe every publication has the right to espouse their beliefs, but why hide behind a smokescreen of impartiality when it is abundantly clear the Bulletin has been a GOP mouthpiece since the current owners took over? The Bulletin continually whines about its supposed impartiality and yet, every election year the Bulletin posts a list of ballot recommendations. I canceled my subscription to the Bulletin four years ago when it supported George Bush for President.
Honestly, I don’t understand how any publication that recommended Bush for President can hope to make future recommendations and be taken seriously. How can we, as readers, trust the Bulletin’s impartiality or judgement? I’ve voted for Republicans in the past and will do so again; however, I know the local GOP party has a lot of dead wood that needs clearing – Whisnant and Daly spring to mind. I don’t remember The Bulletin recommending one Democrat or Independent in the 2004 “recommendations.” How can a newspaper claim to be impartial and then support the large majority of Republican candidates in every single election? During a very weak moment, I was talked into a subscription to the Bulletin at this year’s fair, but if they post their “recommendations” again this election year… I’ll be canceling again.
D. Skelton
This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2008.
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John Costa must have a great file of incriminating photos of The “Bull”-etin’s ownership to keep his job…..the old guy needs to quietly slink away…….can we start a “cancel your subscription” drive??
Gene Whisnant is one of the best State Legislatures we have. Stay in you cocoon with no news.
D. Skelton: Did you forget that John Kerry was running against Bush? Anybody that had a neuron still firing was recommending Bush. By God, man, look at the alternative! You sure can’t call doodoo on the Bull for that reason. That’s called perspicacity. As for them being biased towards the right…yeah…so? This weekly is biased towards the left… only to a far greater degree from center. So? Has the Source recommended any Republicans for office? Does the Source proudly proclaim itself to be an organ of extreme left bias and propaganda? No? Then who is more dishonest? Toss up?
Obviously, at this point, it is silly to talk about Kerry vs. Bush but. . . there can’t be a single person left out there that doesn’t wish Kerry had gotten the job over the economy / foreign policy tanking idiot we have in there now, can there? And, yes, The Source endorses a Republican almost every election. They have to, have you seen the local Dems. Bush over Kerry – that’s so funny I actually started crying thinking about what our country squandered over the last four years.
Gadfly: I can see why you call yourself Gadfly… it fits your warped perception of reality… Kerry couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the directions were stamped on the heel…
The fact that Jed, no surprise there, and Blue Collar White, are still ready to defend George W. Bush undermines everything and anything else that they might have to say. I actually feel sorry for these people driving around with the Bush/Cheney stickers still pasted on their bumpers. It basically announces “town idiot” to the rest of us.
Streetwalker: I canceled my membership in the Democratic Party after 37 years because of Bill and Hillary Clinton. I do not rubber stamp any candidate but I am intelligent enough to know that those who support business are the good guys. Take a look at the voting records of the Democrats in Oregon. They vote against business all the time. Democrats have proved that they are bad for the economy.
Blue Collar – I have to believe you are joking about Kerry. There has never been a worse mistake this country has made than putting Dubya in the White House. None. He is the worst President ever by almost any standard. When you vote for a loser like that you lose the right to discuss what would or would not have been a good decision in that election because your guy turned out to be the WORST. That’s hard to achieve looking back at Presidential history. Did you hear the guy talking to today about the economy. Can’t he just shut up for the next five months. He should just give the podium to Kerry for the next five months and say he regrets taking a job he wasn’t qualified for.
Gadflipped: I’m not pushing Bush…I’m pointing out that Kerry was a zero you guys pushed in the past…No matter what Bush did or didn’t do doesn’t remove the fact that Kerry was/is a limp dip stick wuss…WHO LOST, who is over his head every time he flushes the toilet, and learning nothing from that fiasco of failure… you are now running another zero against a hero. The point here is Democrats seem to think a giant gang of Harvard elitists (all those currently in Obama’s inner ‘power circle’ are Harvard grads) are somehow going to connect with, or be for, or understand, or give a shit about, the average American worker. If you had a freaking inter-stellar rocket, you could not get further from the average American worker than the Obama crowd is. Does a man who never worked one freaking day in his entire life and made 4.5 million in the last 2 years alone and wrote his biography twice BEFORE he’s done a damn thing, who has spent 50 percent of the time he has been a Senator… running for President, have a freaking clue what the average American is all about? Sorry, they don’t teach that at Harvard, dude.
Blue Collar White,
I don’t see anything in your vitriolic spume that convinces me that John McCain is a more qualified leader…
I’d like to reply to a few of your comments about my letter to the editor.
Jed – Gene Whisnant one of the best legislators we have? This is the same idiot who was trying to convince me at the 2004 Deschutes County Fair that the Swift Boat Story about John Kerry was true. I’m afraid that after four years, I still haven’t been able to wash the slime away from that encounter with Whisnant. Whisnant is well known to toe the political line at every opportunity. I prefer my politicians to be living, breathing and thinking human beings… not robots.
Blue Collar White – I’m afraid that there were quite a few uneducated idiots that couldn’t see Bush for what he was back in 2004 and you are obviously one of them. I happen to believe in the constitution of the United States. President Bush believes that this document impedes his ability from doing “What his gut believes”. I don’t want to rehash the mistakes and disaster that this administration has inflicted on all of us working people for eight long torturous years, but I will say that people who actually read and educate themselves on what was going on in this country in 2004 knew that Bush would lead us down this path. Please read any of the books by economist Kevin Phillips for insight into how our economy works.
Your second point – You did not read my letter to the editor closely. I pointed out that the Bulletin makes a huge point of touting their impartiality to neither the left or the right; however, when they endorse candidates, they overwhelmingly pick from the right. My point was that they should come out and say they support the “Right”, instead of hiding behind their cloak of impartiality. The Source makes no bones about their support of liberal issues; therefore, I have no problem with the Sources’ support of candidates that which matches their position.
To the rest of you, I realize that most of the replies to my letter are just excuses to stand up on your soapbox and preach to your respective choirs. I guess this serves some sort of a purpose; however, I would advise all of you to do your own research and invest some time into making your choice come election day.
I am still researching and haven’t decided who I will be voting for come November. Good luck to all of you on your choice!