In a further example of bias at the AP (in the guise of journalism critical of a Democratic politician), “reporter” Kevin Freking covers how the two Republicans vying to replace Barbara Boxer in the United States Senate have been making much of her “reprimanding a general for calling her ‘ma’am’“. After detailing how Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore are using video of that encounter to raise money for their campaigns, Freking quotes some professor of communications who informs him that this is “not the kind of thing that plays well in California”.
Freking concludes by quoting the arrogant woman who “reprimanded” a general; she faults her opponents for focusing on trivialities while she is focused on the issues. The journalists so shows the three-term incumbent as the season legislator rising above the fray. Referencing Fiorina, Boxer, who has seen unemployment in her jurisdiction jump by nearly 33% since her election to the Senate, “If this is what she thinks is the most important issue as people are struggling to get jobs, and housing, and health care, it’s fine”.
Actually, Ma’am, she doesn’t. She’s also been talking about jobs, so, yes, Ma’am, fine, let’s talk about jobs. And why don’t you tell us just why it is that, after you voted to spend $787 billion dollars of taxpayer money (as well as that of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren), one in eight Californians are out of work?
Ma’am may give a pretty good talk about jobs (heck, that’s how she justified the “stimulus”), but has hasn’t backed any policies which have actually helped create job here in the Golden State.
When “stimulus” goes away, so does the job it “created”. And the debt remains – most likely to be repudiated by ongoing depreciation of the currency, i.e. by future inflation.
She won her seat by using the politics of personal destruction against Bruce Hirschenson. Using her own words against her is childs’ play.
Other than follow leftist guidelines, I haven’t seen a single thing she had done for this state.
Gee Dan, maybe you should get a paying gig helping out Carly.
Seems to me that she stumbled here by trying to make an issue out of a triviality, and Boxer did the obvious thing, which is to call her on it.
The AP just seems to be covering the action as it is taking place. They show Boxer rising above the fray because that is what she did. How can you falut them for confronting her with the charge that her opponents are making against her, and printing her reaction? Why bash them? Call out Carly’s team for giving her bad advice.
Barbara Boxer and the State of California. What has she accomplished??? She didnt follow through on the federal program that was supposed to clean up the forest where the Station fire started. She didnt have any Town Hall meetings about the Stimulus. However, she had time to sneak down to Riverside County Regional Medical Center for a photo op. She insults an African American that gets caught on video. She makes a big thing about how “hard she worked” to get the title of Senator. Unemployment is raging out of control in California without any person I know benefiting from the Stimulus. Pretty poor for someone above the fray. How noble.
Were you thinking fellate them (your paying job)?
She shows again how Boxer and reality aren’t speaking with each other anymore, and Tano tries to spin it.
But hey, since Tano can’t deny climate fraud anymore, pretend that Honduras was a coup, complain about Uganda, he’s just happy to have another subject that he can appear intelligent on until reality smacks him again.