Here's a roundup of professional reporters and bloggers on the Horace Cooper guilty plea:
ACR Blog
Horace Cooper: GUILTY
Paul Bedard - U.S. News & World Report
Justice Gives up Bungled Abramoff-Related Lobbying Case
Associated Press
Former Labor Dept. official linked to disgraced lobbyist Abramoff pleads guilty
Jeremy Pelofsky - Reuters
Ex-House aide, Bush official pleads guilty to misdemeanor in Abramoff case
Nathan Becker - Dow Jones Newswire
Former Labor Dept Executive Accepted Gifts From Abramoff
Justin Elliott - TPMMuckraker
Abramoff Scandal Figure Pleads Guilty To Hiding Gifts On Disclosure
UPI
Abramoff probe nets ex-Labor employee
Ben Conery - Washington Times
Abramoff case nets another guilty plea
A lot of people have a point of view. Professional journalists are trained to place their biases aside as they write their stories. The ACR Blog admits its bias in favor of the Justice Department, but our perspective is nevertheless in the mainstream. Not everyone fits that category. Of course sometimes it's not the journalist, but the editorial position of the publication as reflected in their headline writers. But in this case, gentle readers, read the original story and you decide whether the story itself is riddled with the same bias so clearly evident in the headline.
2 comments:
This case was a disaster for the government. There's an opportunity cost for pursuing these cases. And the only payoff is to not copping to sports tix? That's not exactly a rare occurrence in this town.
If the government is going to spend so much resources it has to do a better job than misdemeanors. I'd bet 75% of govt/hill staff could be found guilty of similar actions.
Gee - you think maybe that's why our govt is 75% non-responsive to its citizens??
If what anon above says is true, all the more reason to indict them all. Or 75% of them anyway.
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