Candidates and media suffer from congenital hypocrisy
Just a few excerpts on Cybercast News Service you might not see in mainstream media.
According to recent reports, the cost of Massachusetts’ health insurance mandate will rise 85 percent, or $400 million, in 2009. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), meanwhile, has been on the presidential campaign trail praising the program he put into place.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) if he thought former President Clinton was telling the truth about some of Sen. Barack Obama’s statements, Kerry said: “I think that there have been some unfortunate distortions of Barack Obama’s positions that are not appropriate on any campaign in any campaign circumstances by anybody.” When Bill Clinton lies, Dems obfuscate; Kerry certainly wasn’t so polite over swiftboat ads.
A photograph of a smiling Bill and Hillary Clinton standing beside Tony Rezko surfaced on the Internet as well as on network and cable television Friday… In a Democratic debate last week, Sen. Clinton blasted Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for doing legal work for Rezko – “your contributor … in his slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago.”
A group that lobbies for needle exchanges, for allowing more immigrants with HIV/AIDS to legally enter the country, and for condom distribution in prisons received a $303,000 federal earmark pushed by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). That was one of the 261 earmarks Clinton personally helped usher through Congress. I guess Hillary didn’t get the memo against earmarks that Pelosi was distributing in Congress when she vowed that the new Democratic Congress would end the practices enjoyed by Republicans. Then again, the other Dems didn’t read it either.
The New York Times – admitting its has “strong disagreements with all the Republicans running for president,” has nevertheless endorsed Sen. John McCain for the Republican presidential nominee, bypassing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom the newspaper endorsed for re-election in 1997.
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the [Times] editorial called him “a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man who saw no need to limit police power. Racial polarization was as much a legacy of his tenure as the rebirth of Times Square … [his] arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking.” But they liked him when New York became safe enough to walk to work.
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