In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
Editors love it when they get complaints from both parties. They say it proves they aren’t biased one way or the other. But it just as easily could prove they’re doing such a lousy job that everyone is appalled.
Now it appears the self-anointed tribunals of truth can’t even recognize political bias when they are immersed in it. We don’t know who discovered water, but we can be pretty sure it wasn’t a fish.
http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-13809-truth-o-meter-crash.html
(Honestly, he's not making the case with the strongest example, and these quotations from him are gold— but certainly for the newspaper he is criticizing to make a distinction between spending via budget bills and spending via tax cuts to brand anyone a liar is stretching.
Via Steve Hansson via uppitywis.org.