Sacramento Bee revises headline to follow Dem talking points, implying the Whitman campaign admitted to wrong-doing

As the election gets closer, you can count on the media to do all in its power to keep the Democrats in power..

Check out what the Bee did Wednesday to the breaking news about Whitman's dealing with the illegal immigrant.

The first three words of the original headline - "Whitman unknowingly employed..." remain in the url.   (Click the image below to enlarge.)

Sometime after the piece was posted on the web, the headline was changed, deleting "unknowingly."

Below is a screen grab of the headline - "Whitman employed illegal immigrant, campaign says"- as it ran most of Wednesday:

 
The original headline follows the campaign's version that Whitman didn't know the housekeeper was illegal -- which is an understandable and reasonable position since the housekeeper was hired through an agency and the housekeeper had falsified documents. 
 
The revised headline puts an anti-Whitman spin on the issue, implying the Whitman campaign had just confessed to wrong-doing.  Which it hadn't.
 
Coincidentally, Gallup released a poll on Wednesday showing the public's distrust of media is at a record high.

I don't trust the Sacramento Bee to fairly report the news, and Wednesday's headline change one more reason.

Sacramento Bee's coverage of Jerry Brown's "Latino rally" is pathetic

I know the Bee has had a lot of layoffs and problems, but the Bee's coverage of yesterday's rally at Laney College was pitiful.  Below is the article on the rally that appeared in today's Sacramento Bee.

Not mentioned: the people on stage with Brown were career politicians. Even more newsworthy: the people on stage with Brown almost outnumbered everybody else.

The video below tells the real story. At about 15 seconds the video pans to the crowd and you can see just a handful of reporters and curious onlookers bothered to show up.



Congrats to reporter Carla Marinucci for getting the real story. Via SF Politics blog   Her colleague Joe Garofoli's piece on the rally noted there were "only a couple dozen people" there to see it.

Flashback: 28 years ago today, the LA Times noted Jerry Brown’s failed governorship

Via the California Republican Party:

The writer was William Endicott, who later wrote for the Sacramento Bee.

Finally!... a mainstream reporter notes Jerry Brown's "teabagger" slur

The San Francisco Chronicle's Joe Garofoli is apparently the first MSM reporter to note Jerry Brown's teabagger slur on Hardball.

... Brown also dropped a reference to "tea baggers" on "Hardball" in reference to Tea Partiers.

Uh-oh. TPers find that term offensive, and for those of you wondering why, look here to find out. It ain't about the Lipton.

"Team" Brown spokesperson Sterling Clifford told us: "No offense was intended."

I don't believe Clifford Sterling's claim that no offense was intended.  You can't view the comments section in most American newspapers - much less lefty sites like KOS and the Huffington Post -- without seeing the Teabagger slur over and over.  Lefties who use this slur know what they are doing.

I haven't found any report on Brown's slur in the Sacramento Bee, the LA Times, the San Diego Union, or any paper besides the SF Chronicle.

Just imagine if Whitman had used a vulgar sexual slur when referring to the California Nurses Association

If you are looking for evidence the media is running interference for its preferred candidate in the CA governors race, look no further than the media's treatment of Jerry Brown's "teabagger" slur.  Readers of this blog know on Friday's MSNBC Hardball show, Jerry Brown demeaned members of the Tea Party by using the sexual slur "teabaggers."  As of Sunday afternoon, no major newspaper has reported on the slur.

I did a Google News search for Jerry Brown teabagger Sunday afternoon and here is what I found:

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The only item listed is the report from Newsbusters.  Nothing from the Sacramento Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle, the LA Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Reuters, the AP, or any other mainstream news source.

If you want to get more information on Brown's slur you have to go to the blogs and alternative media.  Here are a few of the blogs reporting on the slur:

• NewsBusters: Governor 'Moonbeam' Employs 'Tea Bagger' Insult on MSNBC's Hardball
• BreitbartTV: California Attorney General Uses 'Tea Bagger' Insult
• Bluegrass Pundit: Jerry Brown Calls Tea Party Members "Teabaggers"
• Escape Tyranny: Dem candidate for CA Governor Jerry Brown uses “Tea Bagger” sexual insult
• Ben Barrack: VIDEO: JERRY BROWN'S TEABAGGER MOMENT
• No Governor Moonbeam!: Jerry Brown uses vulgar "teabagger" sexual slur
• Pat Dollard: Jerry Brown Dismisses Anti-Communists As Sexual Deviant “Tea Baggers”
• Weasel Zippers: Moonbat Jerry Brown Refers to Tea Party Members as “Teabaggers"
• Weekly Political Review: Jerry Brown and Chris Matthews Talk Down to Voters During Hardball Interview 
• The Fox Nation: Governor "Moonbeam" blasts "Teabaggers" 
• The Lonely Conservative: Video: Dem Candidate for CA Governor Uses the Term "Tea Bagger"

You can imagine the media hysteria if Whitman had used a vulgar sexual slur when referring to the California Nurses Association.  That story would be front page news across the state and a hot topic on cable TV shows.

And media elites wonder why newspaper circulation is in freefall?

Mainstream reporters covering CA governors race silent on "teabagger" slur by Jerry Brown

So far, the Sacramento Bee has not reported on the "teabagger" slur Jerry Brown used on his appearance on the Hardball show Friday night.

Search the Sacbee.com web site for "Jerry Brown" and this is what you find:

A Google News search only turns up the NewsBusters piece.

It is a serious character flaw on Brown's part to demean citizens with this vulgar slur.  If reporters covered the story it would damage Brown's candidacy. 

If Whitman used a slur to refer to the nurses union it would be a major story, and rightfully so.

So why aren't reporters covering it?  One reason: a great number of reporters want Brown to win and are acting as a propaganda arm of the Brown campaign.

I'll let you know what Jack Chang, Carla Marinucci, Joe Garafoli, and their colleagues have to say in their next reports.

Objectivity at the Sacramento Bee

Gotta love the objectivity and balance coming from Sacramento Bee "senior editor" Dan Morain. In today's Sac Bee, Morain previewed the 2010 race for California governor.

In his 32-paragraph story laying out the campaign, Morain interviewed just one expert: Art Pulaski.

Pulaski is an AFL-CIO organizer in California who is on record saying his organizion plans to spend money and mobilize union members to defeat Whitman.

Check out this paragraph:

"She is in a different class, a different class of people. People will begin to see that," Art Pulaski, head of the California Labor Federation-AFL-CIO, told me. "She breathes different air than the rest of us."

Morain didn't go to the trouble of finding somebody with an opposing view to quote.  Just union-boss Pulaski.

Which means Morain's piece today is nothing but DNC, pro-union talking points.

Dan Morain's background as a long-time lefty will be a subject for later posts on this site.

Related:

• CA labor leader: "We are going to do everything in our power to make sure Jerry Brown wins"
• AFL-CIO says it plans aggressive campaign to elect Moonbeam
• California Professional Firefighers endorse Moonbeam
• California Nurses Association endorse Moonbeam
• Report: SEIU gives $150,000 to Moonbeam campaign