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The Tacoma News Tribune has a one-sided article about the Bush Administration’s decision to give a $1.5 million grant to Federal Way based World Vision to help fund it’s anti-gang program.

The article makes no effort to provide any type of balance. It would have been very simple to provide a link to the actual decision on the Justice Department Web site, but they didn’t even do that. They simply quoted a heavily biased article from the leftist New York Times News Service

Maybe a quote of the constitution would help understand the issue:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

So, a) this does not ‘respect an establishment of religion’ since World Vision itself is not a religion but rather hires people of faith from numerous churches, denominations and groups; and b) withholding money from or requiring them to change their hiring practices would infringe upon their freedom to individually practice their religion.

This money goes to kids, not the establishment of a religion.
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I guess Joe Turner wants to keep me busy. In a post today he shows his ignorance of conservatism and family values in his post entitled “Family values group handing out 500,000 voter guides.”

The Family Policy Institute of Washington says it’s going to hand out its voter guides at churches and other places to let people know “where the candidates stand on issues like abortion on demand, gay marriage, the estate tax, off-shore drilling and embryonic stem cell research.”

Off-shore drilling? The estate tax?

I can see how the other issues would fall under the broad category of “the values that honor families and promote life,” but drilling for oil doesn’t seem to fit in. The estate tax also seems to be a bit of an outlier.

It’s sad that I have to explain this to someone who is supposed to be informing the public.

Off-shore drilling will lower the cost of gasoline and home heating fuels which are sucking families’ budgets dry.

The estate tax rips money from families as parents try to pass their wealth to their children when they pass away.

So, yes, Joe, those are family values.
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Follow these links and compare the wording:

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith has a new flack: Michael Amato
Washington Republicans get a new spokesman: Matthew Lundh

In the announcement about the new communications director for a Democrat Joe Turner stoops to calling him a ‘flack’. Not even close to the screed about communications directors for the Republicans.

Then he describes the Democrat who the new communications director is working for in glowing terms as “our go-to guy on terrorism issues.” Did you catch how he described the Republican who the other new communications director is working for? Inarticulate. Hey I’m no fan of Luke Esser, but the point is that Turner can’t seem to resist slamming Republicans and fawning over Democrats.
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The title of the blog is ‘Republican Governors knock Gregoire for homeless offenders; but Rossi voted to lower supervision of ex-convicts‘ which is misleading. What about it is misleading? It’s talking about two completely different groups.

Parents are concerned about homeless sex offenders, and that’s what the Rossi ad is about. But the ‘ex-convicts’ that Rossi showed less concern about ’supervising’ weren’t sex offenders.

Joe Turner, in using the word ‘but’ puts these two issues on the same level as if they were contradictory, but they’re not. If you asked the average person who is complaining about the sex offenders registering as homeless if they were as worried about the average ex-con being supervised, they would likely say ‘no’.
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In this post on TNT’s Political Buzz, Oregonian editorial tells Washington: Don’t go there on assisted suicide, death with dignity ballot measure, the blogger, Joe Turner, says this:

I’m posting this just to add to mix of debate. Oregon has had an assisted suicide law for a decade.

This was forwarded by a consultant from the opposition camp to Initiative 1000, which is on Washington’s Nov. 4 ballot:

Then he posts the text of an editorial in the Oregonian.

The claim is that the author of the editorial is against the measure in WA, and was against the measure in OR, but then states that they defended the OR measure from [the arch nemesis of all liberals,] the Bush Administration. But the editorial itself is either a complete fabrication or one of the worst opinion pieces ever written.
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I’m getting sick and tired of the Tacoma News Tribune and what passes for journalism in that rag.

I’ve been relatively quiet about the garbage they print, but I’m to the point where I can’t keep quiet about it.

What pushed me to reconsider giving them a pass was their puff-piece reporting in their blogs, such as the one that failed to expose the group behind the ‘tribute’ on the waterfront as a left-wing anti-war group. It also ended up in a prominent position in the Labor Day print edition. Then there was the puff-piece about a member of the same group (with some cronies) trying to start an anti-war coffee shop near the entrance to Fort Lewis.

So I thought I’d start with this diatribe in their Political Buzz blog, which I think I’ll be referring to as the ‘Political Bias’ blog. It introduces a new spokesman for the Washington State Republican Party (WSRP).

Earlier today, Patrick Bell, current communications director and chief propagandist for the Washington State Republican Party, brought his replacement on a tour of the press houses in Olympia.

Matt Lundh is the new guy. His job is to issue periodic diatribes against anything Democratic and, of course, to make state GOP party chairman Luke Esser sound articulate. (OK! OK! Luke the Truth is a former journalist, of sorts, but let me have a little fun here at their expense.) [emphasis theirs]

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