Newspaper's Loophole Endorsement A Phony

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How many newspaper editorial endorsements have you seen for a candidate which offer the reader reasons to choose the "other" candidate? The Janesville Gazette editorial staff's phony endorsement for Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler does just that.

JG Editorial Excerpt:
If you still think Butler has tilted the supposedly nonpartisan court too far left, to the detriment of our business climate, vote for Gableman.

This coming in a editorial endorsement for Butler!! I can't imagine a newspaper endorsement ending with, "we like Clinton, but if you don't, you can vote for McCain."

But that alone wasn't the clincher. This endorsement, written by a corporate majority WMC-led (for balance?) editorial staff was loaded with innuendoes and was sure to remind everyone that Butler is a Doyle appointment and a black man, while offering no such historical equivalent on Gableman.

This "loophole" endorsement was just the opposite of their "disendorsement editorial of candidates for Supreme Court last time. Here, the newspaper painted the unethical Ziegler as a possible victim of dirty politics and the clean-record Clifford as too liberal, yet warning the voter of the ill consequences for Wisconsin if they choose Clifford - so the Gazette without mention, defaults to Ziegler while recommending......no one.