The Discerning Texan

Kudos to the site Slings and Arrows for some blockbuster news: they have actual photographs of three senior campaign advisors in the Kerry campaign in meetings with associates of one of the largest Democrat 527 coordinators. In one photograph, we have Stephanie Cutter (Kerry's Communications Director) and Debra DeShong (senior advisor and campaign spokesman for Kerry) meeting with staffers from "Emily's List", itself a 527 with over $4 million in contributions to date, and headed by The Media Fund's Ellen Malcolm. In the other photograph we have the same group meeting with Kerry campaign director Mary Beth Cahill. Both photos taken at Kerry HQ! Now I don't want to seem dense here, but is the Media Fund not one of the most heavily funded 527's in the Kerry campaign ($28 MILLION)? Is this not one of the Kerry "web of connections"?

The stench of hypocrisy on the media's coverage of this campaign is overwhelming: on the one hand we have the New York Times, spending all of what integrity it had remaining from the Jayson Blair affair on rushing out to defend Kerry by alleging a "web of connections" between the Bush campaign and the Swift Vets, with contributions of some $200,000, paltry in comparison with either Emily's List or The Media Fund. But yet they are ignoring staffers of one of the biggest Democrat 527's meeting with senior Kerry advisers at Kerry HQ? Just what country do we live in? Mexico? The former Soviet Union? Are we now to the point where news media can no longer be relied upon to give us objective news and let us make the decisions?