Joe Doakes from Como Park emails in re the Wisconsin legislature voting to evict a liberal “watchdog journalism” group from the UW Madison offices they’ve been occupying rent-free.<\/p>\n
Doakes:<\/p>\n
Journalists are the next favored minority?\u00a0 So they must continue to receive\u00a0free rent<\/a>\u00a0at the public university?\u00a0 Or else it’s a huge Republican scandal?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The numbers are not working.\u00a0 They claim to be operating on a $400,000 budget.\u00a0 I don’t believe that for one second.\u00a0 Not with 4 paid “professional staff” and 4 interns, paid.\u00a0 Even with free rent, utilities, paper and donuts I don’t believe they would meet that budget.\u00a0 I just don’t believe they are paying themselves low enough salaries to make that number work.\u00a0\u00a0 So that tells me there is hidden money funding them in addition to other support, like the free rent, utilities, donuts and paper.That’s the real issue.\u00a0 The U at Madison, a bastion of liberal nonsense, is funneling taxpayer resources into a Liberal organization by the backdoor.\u00a0 So lock the door.\u00a0 Makes sense to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is what responsible adults do when cutting the budget – they throw out the freeloaders.\u00a0 This group has never heard of that notion because they live in Madison, a responsible-adult-free zone.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Joe links to a Milwaukee Journal\/Sentinel<\/em> piece in the Pioneer Press<\/em>, which sets up the story:<\/p>\n
An independent, nonpartisan investigative journalism organization facing expulsion from its offices at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is doing what one would expect from an investigative journalism organization.<\/p>\n
“We are mounting an aggressive response,” said Andy Hall, executive director of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Hall was granting interviews Wednesday with media and watchdog journalists and bloggers across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Whenever the media\u00a0strenuously claims another media organization is “independent and non-partisan”, you may be assured they are not.<\/p>\n
The “Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism” is sponsored by George Soros<\/a>, as well as the liberal Joyce Foundation<\/a>, which also funds the\u00a0MinnPost\u00a0<\/em> and lobbying\/propaganda shell group “Protect Minnesota”.<\/p>\n
And if knowing them by their sponsors doesn’t tell you everything you need to know, then know them by their work:<\/p>\n
In 2011, the center broke the story about state Supreme Court Justices David Prosser and Ann Walsh Bradley getting into a physical altercation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n