Reporters’ political preferences obvious

For years there has been a double-standard for politics in America, especially by the media. Democrats are allowed to do and say whatever helps them politically. President Bush, a Republican, is called a liar for repeating what former President Clinton, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, England’s Tony Blair, and the U.N. agreed upon: that there were WMD in Iraq. The bipartisan 9-11 Commission report agreed.

Following are other examples of this double-standard:

1. Democrats, with the help of the ACLU, are charging that some evangelical churches should lose their tax-exempt status because they are favoring a political candidate. The Rev. Jerry Falwell did say publicly he was voting for President Bush, so he is being threatened. Meanwhile, Sen. John Kerry speaks from the pulpits of black churches and is endorsed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson; the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke at the Democratic convention. Have you read anything about this double-standard in our newspaper?

2. Kerry claims that President Bush has blocked the importation of prescription drugs. Not true. The president has allowed the importation of prescription drugs if they are approved by the FDA. Recently Kerry told of a woman who had to continue working during chemotherapy because she feared losing her health insurance. Now a union official (for her group of workers) has said “not so,” explaining the woman had 26 weeks of accrued sick leave through her health insurance. Kerry says that President Bush misled us. Who is misleading us? The media never mentions that in his 19 years in the Senate, Kerry never introduced a health insurance bill.

Pay attention. Listen to the news, read your local paper and you’ll find there truly is a double-standard in the media. The New York Times recently took a poll of reporters. Seven percent claimed to be conservative, 13 percent independent, and 80 percent liberal. Who is surprised by this?

HELEN LOWERY

Everett

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