Ross Kaminsky has been doing yeoman work, debunking the local Big Blue Spin Machine (tm - SchafferVUdall) and it's opening salvo aimed at of the Bob Schaffer's greatest assets: his reputation for probity.
The Denver Post's Michael Riley published two articles on Bob's visit to the Northern Marianas while he was in the US House, and they're superb exemplars of the detail and homework that has made the MSM what it is today.
Today, Ross serves up the last of the April 10th article au brochette:
Schaffer can truthfully claim to have been instrumental in getting a sweatshop closed down. What can Akaka, or any other Democrat opponents of the CNMI say they've done other than wreck the islands' economy for their own political benefit? Unfortunately since the mainstream media has the same underhanded motivations as did the Democrats and their union puppet-masters, they are incapable of reporting the story of Schaffer in the CNMI as the good deed that it was.
I would suggest that the MSM's motivations are perhaps less underhanded and more blinkered. They're not capable of reporting the story correctly not because they're conspiring to push a storyline they know to be untrue, but because they're incapable of imagining it to be untrue.
Read the rest, and then go help out Bob.
