Robin Carnahan’s communications team, disguised as “objective” reporters Steve Kraske and David Goldstein (don’t laugh too hard) penned a piece yesterday titled, “Show-Me showdown: Outlines of Carnahan-Blunt race emerging.” WTF, “Outlines of Carnahan-Blunt race emerging???” Where the hell have they been? The outline’s been clear from the very beginning of the campaign. All Kraske and […]

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 ”Always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers…always be drastically independent.” – Taken from the STL Post Dispatch’s platform “A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.“ – Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer must be rolling over in his […]

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Not saying that it’s never done, but this is the first time we have ever seen a fundraising invite that lists the particular committees that a congressman sits on. It’s kind of similar to us like listing the options for a new car on the window. We guess just like new car shoppers, a lobbyist […]

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The Source posted a piece yesterday chronicling another example of the sheer dishonesty corruption and negligence of Missouri’s fourth estate: The Source: In 2006, the Kansas City Star ran with a story about Congressional offices leasing vehicles for official duties. In the first article (On the Hill Pricey Wheels, 3/12/06), they made a half-hearted attempt […]

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 “The Missouri Media” The Hill: “Twenty years ago we would laugh at the notion that a newspaper would ever embrace the idea that maybe the channel of the future is electronic and that you may have to change your business model,” Potter told a group of reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science […]

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The St. Louis Post Dispatch biased? No way, say it ain’t so!!!!! By Gary Rust Unbelievable! Under the headline (“Jetton: The rise and fall”) on a Page 1 article in Monday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch was a photograph of Rod Jetton — former speaker of the Missouri House from Marble Hill — next to an unidentified […]

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A lot of people believe that the attacks we wage daily against politicians and journalists is personal. It’s really not. (well, maybe in one specific case it is, but we didn’t start it!) We don’t know these people, never met these people, and quite frankly, don’t care to ever meet these people. The corruption in […]

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The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no causes bit its conclusions; will not support the Administration, but criticize it; will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are; will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship. […]

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Again we ask: why is the media so fiercely protecting “Liar” Jack Cardetti and Jeff Mazur? “Bagdad Tony” can’t even bring himself to mention their names in his article! It was he [Nixon] who insisted that the information about Lake of the Ozarks — forget the science — should have been released immediately. It was […]

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Linda Martinez loses her job, Jack Cardetti and Jeff Mazur keep theirs. Senior officials in the Nixon Administration admit to lying and covering up dangerous E. Coli test results last summer and what was the K.C. Star editorial board’s response last week? Blame the Republicans for trying to get to the bottom of it! Political […]

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