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The Strib can't win for losing. There's been a flap brewing in blogland for the last couple of days that's been a good lesson in how stories get inflamed, often by attempts to minimize them. MNPublius ran an entry that said Mark Kennedy had 'scrubbed' his congressional Web site of references to President Bush. The DFL issued a release. The GOP shot back with a release that it wasn't true. Charges went back and forth and finally the mere cacophony was too much for MSM to take and so the Strib ran the story.
It makes me chew on the old axiom about whether it really is a given that you always answer a negative in politics. (Was that a Carvilleism?)
Anyway, the two sides agree on one thing: the Strib is clearly in the pocket of the other.
First, from MNPublius:
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Instead of figuring out the facts, they seemed to have just opted for Ron Carey's talking points (which, as Jon-David has shown below, are severely flawed). In fact, the article uses the very same adjective that Carey does to characterize our claims: "exaggerated." And I have to admit, the claim that all the references to Bush have been erased would have been very exaggerated, but then again, we never made that claim. Let me make that clear: we never claimed that all references to President Bush were removed from Representative Kennedy's website. Funny thing is, the first person who said that we did was, you guessed it, Ron Carey.
Meanwhile, over at Kennedy vs. the Machine, there was an equal amount of distaste for the Strib.
Now most people know that the Star Tribune hasn
