Why The Mainstream Media Sucks

We’ve never met “reporter” James Rosen before, but we’re eternally grateful to him.

How come?

Well, the next time somebody accuses us of being biased or inaccurate in our reporting (like the whole “unfair, imbalanced” thing doesn’t give it away), we’re just going to point them in the direction of Rosen – the McClatchy newspaper correspondent in Washington, D.C.

Along with the rest of Washington’s liberal establishment, Rosen gave U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO – S.C.) a nice, fat kiss on the lips for “overcoming widespread GOP opposition and withstanding relentless attacks by Big Oil and allied energy interests.”

What did Graham do, exactly?

That’s easy, he jumped on board a “Cap & Tax” energy proposal that would raise the average American family’s power bill by as much as $4,000 a year, according to President Barack Obama’s own Treasury Department estimates.  Oh, and the bill that Graham is now supporting (co-authoring, in fact) will do absolutely nothing to reduce global emissions … but then again that’s not the point of the legislation.  It’s a tax increase, pure and simple – which even Graham’s longtime ally (and resident S.C. political numbskull) Henry McMaster has managed to figure out.

But not Rosen.

He planted one right on Lindsey’s lips, including a curious (and borderline unethical) description of the heated back-and-forth currently going on here in South Carolina over Graham’s latest treachery.

Here’s the reference we’re referring to …

First of all, the only thing Graham “endured” at his recent town hall meeting was a bit of backlash from the fight he’s been picking with the fiscal conservative wing of the Republican party for the better part of a year.

Now, as for those “business, military and business” leaders … well, let’s just say that FITS readers know who’s really behind the barrage of pro-Graham ads (click here, here and here if you want to see for yourself).

We can understand reporters making a mistake every once in awhile (hell, we make mistakes all the time), but for Rosen to refer to the leftist assemblage of environmental activists funding Graham’s defense as “business, military and business” leaders is a flat out lie.

Of course anybody familiar with the left-leaning bent of McClatchy’s papers here in the Palmetto State shouldn’t be surprised that the company is seeking to pander to establishment politicians like Graham.

South Carolinians know better, of course, one reason why it’s been an awful few months for McClatchy here – and elsewhere.

Guess that’s what happens when you stop speaking “truth to power” (the company’s motto) and start sucking …

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