Readers Accuse Gazette Of Liberal Bias

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There really has been a lot going on all over the political spectrum that at times I can’t keep up and remain focused on just the local stuff. But every now and then our local newspaper, the Janesville Gazette gets accused of being a liberal left-wing publication which of course, is just too good to pass up.

JG Sound Off Excerpt:
On Scooter Libby case: Anyone who criticized Bill Clinton’s 140 pardons of his brother, Marc Rich, drug dealers, etc. has the right to criticize Bush. -- anonymous

Clinton pardoned lots of people who were convicted of wrongdoing on their own dime and by their own accord. I don’t know how many people Clinton pardoned were convicted of crimes he ordered them to carry out while he was in office. Possibly none. But apparently there was something wrong with the callers statement because the next week the same caller we assume, complained about the Gazette’s editing.

JG Sound Off Excerpt:
On Sound Off Editing:Your triage or cannibalism approach to my Scooter Libby comments is disturbing. My documented facts regarding Clinton’s pardons versus Bush’s was perfectly in line. The Gazette’s true liberal colors are showing, aren’t they? -- anonymous

HAH! For one thing, phone-calling in what now may have been a running list of names and reasons for being pardoned is truly comical. But calling the Gazette liberal because they cut your thesis short to fit in their rant column is just knock-down hysterical.

Look, here’s the deal. You are free to send your documented Bush/Clinton pardon facts and figures essay here where it will appear on the internet unedited forever. Sending it to the Gazette won’t do you much good, they agree with you. It’s us stupid liberals and lefties that need enlightenment. This is not a challenge, it’s an invitation. Just too funny, I can’t help myself.

Today, another Gazette reader sent a letter claiming that the Gazette’s description of illegal immigrants as “hard working and fearful” in a recent article places them in the same category as the New York Times or the ACLU. The illegal immigrant dilemma is one of very few issues that actually transcends partisan and idealogical lines. Most Neo-Cons including Bush have called illegals “hardworking people who just want to work,” while some democrats feel illegals would not be so easily taken advantaged by the corporate neo-cons if they were just made legal. Partisans from both sides of the aisle would like to send illegals back to where they came from as a matter of national security. As far as I'm concerned, this issue is dead because there is no consensus. Playing nice to take further advantage of exploited people does not qualify a person or a newspaper as standing up for civil rights. Accusing the Gazette of standing up for human dignity under these circumstances is just preposterous.