The Aggressive Progressive

Imagine my shock at a newspaper, The Delaware County Times, the same paper that compared Bernie Kerik to Mary Poppins ("perfect in every way") wrote in an editorial that the Neo-Cons lied about the ACLU trying to take Christmas away, lied about weapons of mass destruction and invented scandals during the Clinton years.

The full piece is here, but here's the best passage:

In the 24-hour world of cable TV "news," all too often the facts do not matter and spin is the king. It once again illustrates the old adage that if you say something often enough, people will believe it -- the same rationale that got us into Iraq to find the "weapons of mass destruction" and that flogged endless, and mostly groundless, "scandals" in the Clinton administration.

Editorial, The Delaware County Times, Dec. 30, 2004.

I don't know, but I think this newspaper just called George W. Bush and his thugs, a bunch of big, fat liars.

It's about freaking time.

While it would have been nice to see about three months ago, it's still kind of shocking to see in a county ruled by an old-time Republican machine. In all fairness, the Kerik editorial was actually a bit out of character, in a paper that has been showing signs of breaking out from behind GOP lines. Although it failed to endorse me, it did say I was qualified for office, which was something of a surprise.

As a comparision, The Times' sister paper (both are owned by Journal-Register) here in Chester County viciously attacked me for being against job outsourcing and being in favor of progressive taxes. Of course, since another paper in the chain libeled me and then the publisher lied to me about running a clarification and a letter from me, I guess I'm just lucky they didn't brand me a child molestor and call for my public stoning.

Maybe it is a sad commentary as to how bad things have gotten, that I have to get excited when I see a newspaper staff doing it's job.