Wednesday, September 20, 2006
"How Republican Is It?"
We're still stunned that NECN gave Kerry Healey all that airtime last night.
Having "won" an election over no one, Healey staged a "victory celebration", which NECN was gullible enough to cover, and gave, where a victorious candidate would normally give a victory speech, a long, pre-prepared attack on Deval Patrick.
That Healey would try this trick is understandable; that NECN would go for it is not. It was wildly appropriate on election night -- an actual election night, for some people -- to broadcast 10 minutes of the same old tired GOP litany of talking points. Please.
All the Republicans have at this point is name-calling and revisionist history. Patrick is a guy who talks sense -- passionately -- and wants to put back in local aid the money that the cities and towns desperately need.
Makes sense to us.
The last thing we need is yet another hack gadlfly GOP governor spending millions of corporate dollars burying voters with the same old litany of tired talking points and meaningless pot-shots, biding their time for better jobs, while the Democrats in the legislature do all the Commonwealth's work.
It's time for a change.
Having "won" an election over no one, Healey staged a "victory celebration", which NECN was gullible enough to cover, and gave, where a victorious candidate would normally give a victory speech, a long, pre-prepared attack on Deval Patrick.
That Healey would try this trick is understandable; that NECN would go for it is not. It was wildly appropriate on election night -- an actual election night, for some people -- to broadcast 10 minutes of the same old tired GOP litany of talking points. Please.
All the Republicans have at this point is name-calling and revisionist history. Patrick is a guy who talks sense -- passionately -- and wants to put back in local aid the money that the cities and towns desperately need.
Makes sense to us.
The last thing we need is yet another hack gadlfly GOP governor spending millions of corporate dollars burying voters with the same old litany of tired talking points and meaningless pot-shots, biding their time for better jobs, while the Democrats in the legislature do all the Commonwealth's work.
It's time for a change.
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Isn't there some sort of equal airtime rule governing this situation? Whether or not a given race is contested on either side should not determine that now one or the other party's candidate is given disproportioned airtime over the other. If Patrick gets to give a speech, then so does Healey, whether or not you enjoy the content of the speech.
There's no law that says the media has to cover something that isn't newsworthy just to make wingnuts happy.
This was election night. She had no opponent. She staged a fake victory celebration to give a prepared anti-Patrick speech. That's not "election coverage", it's "a political stunt", and NECN was wrong to cover it.
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This was election night. She had no opponent. She staged a fake victory celebration to give a prepared anti-Patrick speech. That's not "election coverage", it's "a political stunt", and NECN was wrong to cover it.
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