Courant Dismisses War as "Single Issue", Endorses Lieberman

The Courant (4.00 / 4)

..has endorsed George W. Bush twice. The Hartford Courant editorial board hates you.

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by: Scarce @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 16:03:16 PM CDT

The Courant... (0.00 / 0)

has just endorsed Malloy. So, what does that mean?

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by: Vet @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 18:00:39 PM CDT

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Probably not good things for Malloy (0.00 / 0)

Since they favor Republicans, or Democrats in Name Only, one has to ask what was their chief motivation? That "Mr. Malloy would make the more business-friendly leader" or Malloy's DLC ties?

I don't have a preference either way in Malloy versus DeStefano but a Courant endorsement has the opposite desired affect on me.

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by: Scarce @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 18:14:38 PM CDT

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Counteracted by NYT endorsement of Dan Malloy (0.00 / 0)

The NYT endorsed Dan Malloy last week, so I say that good endorsement cancels out the bad mojo of the Bush-loving Courant's endorsement.

BTW, the Stamford Advocate endorsed Dan Malloy today.  I'm praying that there is even a tiny chance that they'll endorse Ned Lamont. 

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by: Maura @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 20:14:37 PM CDT

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at the editorial level (0.00 / 0)

the Courant really isn't all that interested in "local" races or issues. The editorial board's main interests are mostly in what their friends in Avon and Simsbury are doing for the summer.

The members of editorial board probably didn't know there was a Democratic Primary for Governor until about four hours before deadline, and then had one of the Chauffeurs flip a coin on the drive back from Essex.

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by: notcho @ Mon Jul 31, 2006 at 07:10:53 AM CDT

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Who didn't see this coming from the Lieberman Courant? (4.00 / 5)

"but admire his sticking to his beliefs in the face of withering criticisms." That's all we need to know.

You can be wrong-headed and still be consistent. Just ask the Bush administration for a fine example of "sticking to beliefs." Iraq and now the Middle East looks so glamorous.

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by: huskiedog @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 16:03:41 PM CDT

consistency is not a value (4.00 / 4)

Consistency in the face of evidence proving you are wrong is not an endearing character trait, but a disqualifying one. Any political commentator that fails to recognize that isn't worth listening to.

http://holdfastblog.com

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by: Matt Browner Hamlin @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 16:06:41 PM CDT

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Well, nationwide, Ned will (0.00 / 0)

be on the Colbert Report -

http://www.comedycen...

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by: Sue @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 16:11:49 PM CDT

Of COURSE, the Tribune owned Courant backed Lieberman (4.00 / 3)

I never had a doubt whom the Courant would support.

The Right Wing extremists of the Tribune company would naturally support Joe Lieberman because to do otherwise is to shine a light on how wrong this Illegal invasion into Iraq is, and that Bush, Cheney, and the Rest of the Neo Con War Hawks were wrong!

The blood of US troops and Iraqi civilians is also on the Tribune and the Hartford Courant for not having the guts to say NO, when told they had to support Lieberman! 

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by: PamB @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 16:39:56 PM CDT

The Hartford Courant..... (4.00 / 1)

loves to play against the person that they will eventually endorse. Happened with Bush twice and I saw this endorsement coming. I have not taken the Courant serious in years. I predict though that the Journal Inquirer will go with Lamont. They have been on quite a roll is year and I must admit that my opinion of them has changed. Chris Powell seems to have soften his previous far right opinions in recent years.

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by: Missy's Brother @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 17:11:10 PM CDT

The Courant Reporters are Decent People (4.00 / 2)

who actually have a stake in this state.The Courant Editorial board are corperate Hacks who have a huge stake in continued War, continued incompetent Government and continued Republican control of all three branches of Government.

Until we rest control of our Newspapers and the rest of our Meda from the 4 or 5 Corperations that control it our Democracy is in Peril.We need Reregulation in many parts of our Government and hopefully if we can get the right Democrats elected the breaking up of the ownership of media will be a Template for other things.

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by: ctkeith @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 21:09:04 PM CDT

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Not all Courant reporters are responsible... (0.00 / 0)

David Lightman, the paper's Washington "bureau chief" is a right-wing Fox News-style hack.  He's constantly shilling for the conservatives and taking gratuitious swipes at Democrats.  If you look back through some of his reporting the past few years, you will be nauseated.

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by: thomashooker @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 10:11:16 AM CDT

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Write the Courant. (4.00 / 2)

write to the Courant, direct it to be given to the Owner who made the decision to support Lieberman.

Tell him the State of CT is not the bunch of ignorant, uninformed sheep he seems to think they are and his scheme is so transparent ! 

Lieberman hurts the party. He has repeatedly given the Bush administration cover for some of its most egregious initiatives from privatizing social security to the invasion of Iraq. Tell him a good many Republicans don't like Bush and it seems pretty silly to you that Democrats in CT should reelect someone who does.
Instead of speaking the truth to power, Lieberman has literally rubbed noses with it and kissed up. CT is a blue state. It should speak and act blue in the
halls of congress.  And the Courant is not representative of the State's wishes! 

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by: PamB @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 17:55:24 PM CDT

The Courant: "The Lieberman Daily" (4.00 / 2)

Remember, the Courant is owned and operated by the same people that own and operate Joe Lieberman.  Why would they endorse Lamont?

Do not get too discouraged about this, people.  The NYT endorsement is a near miracle, and probably a much bigger deal.

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by: OscarTheGrouch @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 18:25:05 PM CDT

We should be worried,,,,,,,,,,, (4.00 / 1)

Have you all noticed that the Hartford Courant was bought out by Tribune.  That our Hartford TV Station is owned by Fox.  That WTIC is owned by Fox and has Hate Radio going almost all day long, with first Ray & Diane, then Vicevich, then Limbaugh, Hannity and Drudge at night.  I do not know who owns WDRC (Buckley Radio?) , but they have Ingraham and O'Reilly shows on there.

Notice how UCONN now has an organized College Republican group.

How did this  Blue State start getting so permeated with Right Wing media, etc?  The brain washing has been going on, and we have to put a stop to it.  This last election showed how weak minded so many Americans are!!

Pam

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by: PamB @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 18:37:03 PM CDT

UCONN has a College Republican group? (0.00 / 0)

Oh my God, what next?  Will Yale deny a free education to members of the Taliban?  What has our state become?

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by: wamer @ Sat Jul 29, 2006 at 22:13:11 PM CDT

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Media Ownership (0.00 / 0)

Yeah, it's one of our most serious threats. Here's some others I know of- Danbury News Times (Wall Street Journal), Connecticut Post (Church of Moon).

Here are some informative links, folks:

http://www.outfoxed....

http://mediamatters....

http://www.youtube.c...

http://www.goarmy.co...

http://tyrannyalert....

"If those in charge of our society...can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." ~~Howard Zinn

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by: lakezoarian @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 07:41:18 AM CDT

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Two factual errors in Courant endorsement (2.50 / 2)

The Hartford Courant's endosement of Lieberman included two factually incorrect statements.  First, it stated that Lieberman "brought home a lot more bacon than Connecticut had any reason to expect from the 2005 federal transportation bill."  How is it that Connecticut's being awarded the smallest percentage increase in federal transportation funding of any state in the nation (+19%) is "bringing home the bacon"?  Our ratio of transportation revenues to federal gasoline taxes paid out will continue to fall over this coming six year period of the bill.  Just how in the world is that an "achievement," and how is it that the paper can assert that such a meager allotment related to Lieberman's seniority? 

Second, Courant stated of Lieberman, "with Republican Sen. John McCain and the 9/11 families, he forced President Bush to accept a bipartisan commission to investigate the intelligence failures leading to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks."  That is blatantly false.  In fact, it was Tim Roemer's amendment to the security funding bill calling for a 9/11 commission, which some two dozen Republicans joined with all of the Democrats to pass, that forced Bush to agree to the 9/11 commission.  Once it was approved by the House, and with a number of Republican senators waivering, including John McCain, Lincoln Chafee and Olympia Snow, it was clear that the administration was in a box since it was clear that there was not a majority of Senate Republicans who would vote it down.  The administration had no choice but to go along with a commission in some form.  Lieberman had absolutely nothing to do with forcing Bush to accept the 9/11 commission.

This is the second time that Courant has printed a falsehood regarding how the 9/11 Commission came into being.  In 2004 it parroted Chris Shays' false contention that Shays had played a critical role in the commission's establishment, when, in fact, Shays voted against its establishment by opposing the Roemer Amendment.

It's not just that the Hartford Courant takes conservative positions on its editorial page that are far out of the mainstream for this state that rankles, its that they print inaccuracies and downright falsehoods in their editorials to justify their positions.  The former is irritating, the latter is inexcusable.

The Hartford Courant has become the journalistic skunk at Connecticut's political garden party.

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by: thomashooker @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 10:07:33 AM CDT

It will be interesting to see whoThe New London Day endorses (0.00 / 0)

They haven't endorsed yet, unless I missed them.

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by: Larkspur @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 10:38:25 AM CDT

btw, (0.00 / 0)

UCONN has a College Republican group?  Oh my God, what next?  What has our state become?

by: wamer @ 

I have no problem with the formation, in fact I LMAO when they invited Ann Coulter who got heckled !  The point is, in this Blue State, we now have an insidious growth of
right wing groups, particularly in our media.  Hate radio makes me ill, I will no listen.  Is it too much to expect "Blue" media coverage via radio and newspapers to reflect the majority of citizen's viewpoints?

I am proud of the fact that the people in this State are open minded and liberal. 

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by: PamB @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 12:35:23 PM CDT

Courant vs. the NYT (4.00 / 1)

In 2004, the New York Times endorsed John Kerry. Now, they are endorsing Ned Lamont.

In 2004, the Courant endorsed George Bush. Now, they are endorsing Joe Lieberman.

This just reinforces my belief that, generally, Bush supporters = Joe supporters.

Fortunately, most primary voters will not be Bush supporters!


"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."--James Madison

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by: sufi @ Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 21:41:34 PM CDT