For as long as I’ve been reading the Strib, and certainly for longer than I’ve been writing this blog, Lori Sturdevant has been a relentlessly reliably-unquestioning voice for the DFL.
We’ll come back to that.
On Tuesday, I wrote about the Strib’s farewell hit piece against Tim Pawlenty – noting that he’d voted to pardon Jeremy Giefer. Short story short, Giefer had knocked up his girlfriend back when he was 19 and she was 14. He served a jail term, then married the girl and helped raise the baby and, a decade and a half after serving his time and – apparently – living clean, applied for and received a “pardon extraordinary” from a board including the Governor.
It turns out Giefer lied to the board; he’d been molesting another girl for quite some time even as he approached the board. Inconceivably, he lied about it.
Now, Ryan Lyk at MDE notes something I’d mentioned obliquely in my piece on Monday:
The attack by the left on Pawlenty’s choice to pardon is an attack on Attorney General Lori Swanson, period. Though this seems to be one of those “hindsight is always 20/20″ moments, facts today conclude neither [the Govenor nor the Attorney General, nor the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court – the members of the panel] had the evidence they have today back then in order to make the correct decision. The DFL has decided to spin this issue until it dies; here’s hoping it does soon considering one of their own leaders was part of the consensus to pardon.
I looked back at original Strib piece. I noticed two things.
First – nowhere in the piece is Attorney General Swanson mentioned.
Second – the piece is written by the Strib’s Pat Doyle, who seems to be taking over the “context-shaving, hit-writing” beat for the Strib. He wrote the hit piece last summer over Emmer’s private-sector business and legal dealings, which we showed was so deprived of context as to be actively deceptive.
Is Pat Doyle becoming the Strib’s designated DFL hit man?
And is he bucking for Lori Sturdevant’s seat, one day, as the in-house DFL shill?
Hopefully, we won’t have to put up with that idiot or any of the other shills for the MN Communist, I mean Demonrat, Party much longer, because the Red Star’s fiancial situation has not improved.
It would be beyond cool if some of their bigger advertisers, you know, the evil ones like Target, that they constantly snipe at, would drive the stake through the heart of that fish wrapper and pull theirs!
If I was one of those evil rich people, I would buy it, then turn it into Minnesota’s version of the Waterbury Republican-American, just so I could fire the lot of them!
I noticed that….T-Paw is about to leave office and will never hold elected office again (most likely)…but our current AG voted to pardon this man. Yet MSM does not care that she did this.
This reminds me of the MSM bias in pre-Rush/FNC/internet days. When it was so blatent, but they could get away with it as there was no other sources of news.