Monday, September 08, 2008

Looks Like Everything In Detroit is Going to Hell

Heh... even their newspaper.

A Detroit Free Press editor expressed regret Monday that the anti-war group CodePink was able to infiltrate a focus group of so-called independent voters the newspaper interviewed during the political conventions, but said he didn’t see the harm in having a “radical leftist or two” in the group.

Two members of the group — as well as two other liberal activists — were able to pass themselves off to the newspaper as independent voters so they could offer praise of Barack Obama after his Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech. A week later they turned the tables and ripped into Republican Sarah Palin’s vice presidential nomination acceptance speech. Their comments appeared online and were excerpted in the Free Press’ print edition.

“I wish that it weren’t the case that there were two people from an activist group and we didn’t know about it,” assistant managing editor Randy Essex told FOXNews.com.

Nonetheless, Essex defended the panel’s results.

“If there is a radical leftist or two in the group, I don’t care,” he said. “I want a robust conversation, a complete range of political viewpoints.”

The four activists were part of a group of seven self-described “independents.” Nine Republicans and 11 Democrats were also on the panel.

So in the end, the panel had 15 Democrats/liberals and 9 Republicans.  Gee, I wonder how they graded the speeches rolleyes

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2200 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. A Detroit Free Press editor expressed regret Monday that the anti-war group CodePink was able to infiltrate a focus group of so-called independent voters the newspaper interviewed during the political conventions

    “Infiltrate”?

    They were like master spies using their own names and simply claiming to be “independents.”

    A 5 minute google search exposed them. Can the DFP afford computers?

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