Beware a Newspaper that Deceives

With breathtaking dishonesty the Democrat and Chronicle deployed this morning an editorial ostensibly warning about political candidates who seek to deceive, but whose obvious purpose is to protect one of the deceivers.

Democrat-masquerading-as-Republican Mary Wilmot was found by all the Democrats and all the Republicans on the Fair Election Practices Committee to have lied on a campaign mailing.

Wilmot claimed Senator Jim Alesi owned a company engaged in questionable practices.

New York State corporation records proved that someone else owns the company.  Not Alesi.   Alesi has no ties to it.

You don't need a "Fair Elections Committee" or any other committee to know that Wilmot's mailing was untruthful. She said Alesi owns the company and State records proved that he doesn't.   Mary Wilmot lied.

Yet under the guise of warning about "deceit," this morning's editorial seeks to protect deceitful Mary Wilmot.

Clearly anticipating the Alesi campaign publicizing the verdict of Wilmot's dishonesty, the D&C repeats political transvestite Joe Morelle's lie about the impartiality of the Fair Election Practices Committee.   It does so even though the paper's own story, by reporter Jill Terrieri, recounted that the guilty verdict for Wilmot was unanimous -- like all other decisions of the Fair Campaign Committee this year.   Meaning that all Democrats as well as all Republicans on the panel found Wilmot guilty of lying in her campaign ad!

The D&C editorialists know this full well.   They ignore it, however, in this shabby editorial intended to cause readers to question the fairness of the Fair Campaign Committee's finding about Wilmot.

Expect the D&C to deploy more dirty tricks in the last five days of the campaign.   Deceitful politicians, even as dishonest as Mary Wilmot, are pikers compared to the masters of deceit at the Democrat and Chronicle.

Power corrupts.   That includes the power of the press.

Republican headquarters should have had a press conference by now, pointing out that the unanimous decisions of the Fair Campaign Committee prove the Morelle/D&C claims questioning its impartiality are completely false.   Why haven't they?