Many times on Right Angles I’ve highlighted mainstream media stories about public corruption and criminality that fail to identify the party affiliation of the perpetrator. It is not coincidence that in virtually all cases the party affiliation is Democrat. Here’s the latest spectacular example involving the vastly overpaid bureaucrats in the city of Bell, Calif.:
According to Nexis, there have been more than 300 news stories reporting on the Bell scandal. Guess how many mentioned the party affiliation of the corrupt government bureaucrats?
One. Yes, just one. Now guess if the government officials were Democrats or Republicans? Yes, that is correct.
Congratulations — you’ve qualified for our bonus round!The one newspaper to cough up party affiliations, The Orange County Register, admitted that the corrupt officials were all Democrats only in response to reader complaints about the peculiar omission.
Let’s play the what-if-it-were-Republicans game. Do you think party affiliation would have been ignored in the 299 stories? It’s OK. You can say it. We know the answer.
