The election of Ohio Congressman John Boehner to House majority leader was important enough for both the New York Times and Washington Post to give top-of-Page-1 headlines, leading to entire pages inside.
But the Post reporting waited until third-from-last paragraph to mention the following undeniable news about the new House majority leader, as follows: "He filed a high-profile invasion-of-privacy lawsuit after a Florida couple secretly taped a cell-phone conversation in which he discussed GOP strategy."
The Times did not even mention this.
Why did the Times censor this? And why did the Post refuse to mention who it was that Boehner sued?
Why did the Post refuse to mention that these two wire-tapping Floridians were Democratic Party activists?
And why did the Post refuse to mention the fact that Congressman Boehner sued Congressman James McDermott, a Democrat from Seattle, when excerpts from the Floridian's wire-tapping were given to McDermott and were printed in the New York Times (which explains the Times' censorship) and to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution?
And why did neither of these two leading dailies report the fact that just after the 2004 election, a federal judge found McDermott guilty of violating the federal wiretapping law, and ordered that he pay $60,000 in damages and $500,000 in attorney's fees? McDermott filed an appeal which has delayed this sentence for nearly two years.
The Almanac of American Politics has a number of notable reports about extremist McDermott, who is the House's only psychiatrist.
He has been among a handful of Democrats supporting normal trade relations with Communist China. He denounced President Bush for ordering military strikes in Afghanistan. In 2002, McDermott traveled to Baghdad where he announced that President Bush was willing to "mislead the American people" – and that he found Saddam Hussein more credible than Bush!
About McDermott, Texas Democrat Chet Edwards told the New York Times: "He combined the judgment of Neville Chamberlain before World War II and Jane Fonda in Hanoi."
McDermott, was one of 11 Democrats who voted against the resolution supporting our troops and the president at the start of the war in March 2003. He also told a Seattle talk-radio show that U.S. military forces could have captured Saddam Hussein "a long time ago, if they wanted."
How long will Seattle voters keep electing this congressional far-left wing hoo doo? And when will the Washington Post and the New York Times begin to realize that one way they might renew their presently sinking circulation would be to begin telling the truth – meaning the whole truth – and the rest of the story.