Just a song before I go

The Free Press has jumped on its high horse over a scam by some Dems to run false tea party candidates in order to take away votes from republicans in closely contested elections. Wonk has even suggested that--gasp!--we should "throw the book at" them. Let me preface the rest of this post by stating that these are not the type of tactics (though I thoroughly appreciate where such tactics came from--utter frustration with a political system and media that do not have ordinary Americans best interests at heart) I support. And I certainly hope it turns out to be only a couple of low level renegades--I would be sorely disappointed if the leaders of the Democratic Party in Michigan resorted to such republican tactics. That being said... ...methinks I might swallow the Free Press' indignation a bit easier if they had been just as indignant over republican voter suppression in the ACORN "scandal." I'm not even sure they bothered to report on it. Maybe, too, I could buy their anger if they had the prescience to publish pieces such as this or this--you know, pieces that actually look out for the working men and women that populate Michigan; you know, pieces that aren't about their usual Kumbaya bullshit that will get nothing for those same working men and women here in the great state of Michigan. Of late, it's dawned on me that there may be a reason more and more newspapers are paying lip service to republicans and tea party supporters: more subscriptions. Think about it: the tea party tacks old, conservatives tack old--who's more likely to eschew newfangled contraptions like the web? With younger voters tacking to the left, with very few Progressives and Liberals who buy the "liberal media" bullshit (after ten years of living here, the only Progressive issues the Free Press stands with Liberals on are the death penalty, abortion, and, as far as civil benefits and anti-discrimation go, gay rights), who's most likely to abandon the corporately influenced newspaper industry? It's all about the Benjamins, folks. Just a thought. Peace, emaycee