Concord Monitor Wont Cover it, But They’ll help Cover It up.

by Steve MacDonald 

There is Free Press and then there is Free Speech.  And then there is The Concord Monitor.  The Concord Monitor would like you to believe that it is a defender of both Free Press and Free Speech.   But if that were true, they would not be deleting comments that include links to posts at GraniteGrok.  Articles that implicate State employees (known and unknown) in the abuse of their taxpayer funded privileges.  Abuses that occurred on the Concord Monitor’s own web site.

Now, to be fair, it is not technically the Concord Monitors job to police the misbehavior of others who otherwise abide by the rules of their electronic presence; though given most of their editorial positions one would think them obsessed with the idea of meddling, and you would be right to be curious about why it fails to apply here?  You’d also be right to wonder why the Monitor staff would both ignore stories about a potential theft of services by state employees themsleves and also delete comments linking to a New Media investigation of same?

You’d think they were hiding something.

It certainly would not be their bias.

So what’s the excuse for removing comments with links to legitimate reporting that brings more depth to their pages, that they didn’t even have to pay for?  We didn’t put a pay or subscription wall up at Granite Grok.   So what’s the problem?  Where are these so-called defenders of Free Speech and Free Press when it is inconvenient to their obvious bias?

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Progressive Veterans Group Goes after NH House Rep

The Union leader headline is..."Veterans group says Baldasaro should resign House seat."  The article that follows outlines the groups objection to Representative Baldasaor's remarks surrounding a Gay U.S. army soldier who asked a question during a presidential debate.  Al can defend himself just fine, and is quoted in the article to that end.

“The disgusting part was he was breaking the law and not one person was saying anything. He came forward on a social program in a partisan debate. It's illegal,” Baldasaro said. “It had nothing to do with him being homosexual. If you want to do that stuff, do it in civilian clothes."

If that is true why would VoteVets.org, the group calling for his resignation, be spinning this into an opportunity to call for the resignation of a popular and influential Republican?  Could it be that VoteVets is a liberal front group, funded by Democrat and Progressive organizations? How about that the guy claiming to represent the group  calling for his resignation, David Robinson, is a Democrat Party Town chairman from Conway?

That would be exactly what it is.

So why doesn't Tom Fahey and the Union Leader clarify the groups left wing ties, it's Democrat connections, and support for Democrat candidates?  And why does Fahey, the paper's State House Bureau Chief, only refer  to Robinson as a "spokesman for the Group" and a "Carroll County Resident," without ever letting his readers know that Robinson is also the Conway Town Democrat Party Chairman, and might have an axe to grind?

Cross Posted: Progressive Veterans Group Goes after NH House Rep

Powerline Nails ThinkProgress To The Wall

ThinkProgress makes stuff up.  They make stuff up and the denizens in the leftist ghettos spread it around like herpes until the entire lot of them is infected.  The goal, of course, is to make the lie real by duplicating it in the media and the minds of everyone who hears it.  It is the echo-chamber narrative, repeated until it is accepted as fact.

But thanks to new media, that dog just don't hunt anymore.  Case in point,  ThinkProgress making up stories about David Koch.

From Powerline:

Everyone makes mistakes, but ThinkProgress is unique. It doesn't just get things wrong; it consistently fabricates lies out of whole cloth. Anyone who relies on ThinkProgress for information is asking to be deceived.

So what did ThinkProgress do this time? They ran with a story in which they claimed that David Koch was appointed to a board by President Bush from which he would object to regulation of a cancer causing chemical made by a company he owned; that he had to leave the appointment after being pressured by Greenpeace and others. That after he left the NIH handed down a ruling on the cancer causing chemical.  Narrative Goal: support the David Koch is a greedy capitalis who was holding up the cancer classification so he could make more money.

The problem?

According to Powerline David Koch was never appointed to or even on that board.  He did not even own that company during the period in question.  The Greenpeace pressure line is a complete fabrication.

As a cancer survivor and someone who has donated over 200 million to cancer research, he did serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board.  No connection to the ThinkRegress story

But don't tell that the echo-chamber.  Just Google "David Koch, NIH" and follow the lie through the nutroots.  It works well, the echo-chamber.  It works well because the skulls of left-wingers are made for echo.   Stink Progress is just tapping that 'natural' resource.  But maybe next time they should try coming up with something that could at least pass for an honest mistake instead of just making it up as they go.

Or is that even possible?

H/T Powerline

 posted yesterday here

Nashua Telegraph Snubs GOP Committee Meeting

The Nashua Telegraph's progressive tendencies are frequently on display but never more so than in this mornings Sunday print edition.  There is not one mention of the Republican State Committee meeting that went on for five hours, nor the election of any officers including the new Chairman Jack Kimball.

News 9 was there.  CNN was interested.  The UK Telegraph and a host of nationals were watching, claiming that this could be a bellwether for the strength of TEA party influence in the whole of the United States.  You'd think that might be newsworthy?

But over at the Nashua Telegraph there is no print story, no news digest blurb, even Kevin Landrigan's weekly round up which consumes many column inches of valuable newsprint real-estate makes no hint that every major Republican office holder was in Derry yesterday or that an impressive 426 party electors showed up to make their preferences known.

So what, 2:50 pm in the afternoon is past the print deadline?

This is blatant, but hardly surprising.  The Nashua Telegraph is New Hampshire's progressive paper of record. And it drools its left leaning preferences over a half-dozen or more local town papers through the Cabinet press.  It regularly publishes policy screeds on democrat agenda items from left wing PAC and Policy leaders as 'editorials,' and it is more than entitled to do so.  They could print Marx and Engels if they wanted to.  But it would go a long way towards demonstrating some effort at impartial reporting if they could be bothered to mention the GOP Committee Meeting even happened.

Of course I am not completely convinced it is not in there somewhere. I confess that I did not check the classifieds.  But then, why should I have to?  And that's the point.

Note: It's not mentioned anywhere on the front page at nashuatelegraph.com either.

Cross Posted