The Lexington Herald Leader is running a story today under the headline "Stumbo Amends Disclosure Report". Here is the first line:
House Speaker Greg Stumbo failed to disclose on his mandatory ethics report that he owned a Thoroughbred racehorse, even as he pushed legislation that would legalize slot machines at Kentucky racetracks and fatten the purses for horse owners.
Now I know that for many of you seeing media bias is a little difficult. You were raised to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, you hate all the name calling in politics and for the most part you just don't care that much about this kind of stuff because you are busy making a living and raising a family.
Well let me make this easy for you. Just replace the name "Greg Stumbo" in the above story with "Ernie Fletcher" and drawing upon recent history, you tell me, would the headline be so tame?
I mean, street tough mountain democrat like Stumbo is invested in a thoroughbred race horse while he was pushing legislation that would fatten the purses of horse owners. Not only that, here is who is partner was:
Stumbo owned the horse with former Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner Greg Ginter, who was fined and reprimanded in 1998 by the Executive Branch Ethics Commission for obtaining free bottles of bourbon from a Frankfort distillery he regulated.
If this had been a republican, the headlines would have blasted cries of corruption, deceit and started the call for investigations, indictments and impeachment.
Why, you ask, would the press go so lightly on a democrat and be so much harder on a republican? Might it be that they wanted one to fail and the other to succeed? And wouldn't this be a bias?
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