Roddy Stinson at the San Antonio Express-News:
Last week, every major newspaper in Texas published a report of a study by “nonpartisan” Texans for Public Justice. It detailed the amounts of money that donors contributed to legislative and major statewide races during the 2006 election. One implied TPJ criticism echoed by the newspaper reports: Millionaire contributors have too much influence on Texas elections.
Most of the articles singled out Houston builder Bob Perry, who favored Republican candidates.
His 2006 total: $7.1 million.
What neither the authors of the TPJ study nor any of the journalists reporting the story mentioned was the fact — easily found on the TPJ Web site — that one source of TPJ funding is the “Open Society Institute, New York, NY.”
The institute — as easily determined by five minutes of Google research — was founded by billionaire George Soros, who remains its chairman.
During a 2006 interview, Soros told a New York Times writer that he gave “something like $27.5 million” to MoveOn.org and other anti-Republican groups during the 2004 election campaign.
I mention all of that simply to say …
It’s a good thing George Soros doesn’t reside in Texas. If he did, the “nonpartisans” at Texans for Public Justice would be pouncing on him like a duck on a June bug.
Don’t ya think?
Or…”Why you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the newspaper or see on the news.”
While there is plenty of corruption on both sides of the aisle — the MSM is almost always much quicker and much more eager to pounce when they think the big story is GOP corruption.
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- What Media Bias? Part I
- What Media Bias? Part II
- What Media Bias? Part III
- What Media Bias? Part IV
- What Media Bias? Part V
- What Media Bias? Part VI
- What Media Bias? Part VII
- What Media Bias? Part VIII
- What Media Bias? Part IX
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UPDATE:
I’d be totally remiss if I didn’t point out that the above referenced article by Mr. Stinson starts off with a great story about a woman on a flight from Phoenix to San Antonio who gave up her first class seat to a young uniformed soldier who was sitting back in the less-comfortable cattle herd section.
Good for her, and I’d love to see more of this.
My office is just a few miles from Camp Mabry here in Austin, which is the headquarters of the Texas Air National Guard and Texas State Guard. So I see a lot of uniformed Texas National Guard Soldiers around town, especially at lunch time. And almost all of them seem to have a combat patch on their right shoulder.
Whenever I see a uniformed Soldier or group of Soldiers out for lunch, I always try to pick up their tab if possible. And I always ask the waiter to not let them know who did it; I’d rather them look around the room and think that it could have been any single person there. Or even better, that it could have been every person there.
I’ve been hesitant to write about doing so, because I don’t want to draw attention to myself or want any “kudos” for simply doing the right thing. But I bring it up to suggest that the next time you are out in public and you see a uniformed Soldier, Airman, Marine, or Seaman at lunch — offer to buy their lunch. Or, at the very least, go shake their hand and thank them for their service.
Regardless of how you feel about the current war, there is no reason not to support and thank the men and women who are brave enough to fight it on your behalf and in your stead.
Glad to hear you get to do that for our troops.
I’m at DFW International quite a bit, and get to talk to a number of troops and thank them, and have had the opportunity to join in the Welcome Home A Hero program, several times.
As for media bias, you mean something like this?
Left by no2liberals on October 1st, 2007 at 11:13 am