05 feb 2012 by BD Pisani
Just how many soft-shelled, naive-packed bombs can a local liberal media scribbler sling in one article? Plenty, especially if the target is Florida Tea Party member and conservative Congressman Allen West.
Naiveté • na·ive·té • n. 1. The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical. 2. An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act.
I hadn't planned on writing about about Florida District-22 (FL-22) Congressman Allen West and his decision to seek his second term in the state's newly-created FL-18. After all, the Florida Legislature completed its redistricting map some time ago and Representative West's announcement is now old news. It was a done deal, nothing to see, move along. Ahem.
That all changed after nearly choking on this morning's corn flakes whilst casually perusing an unflattering article about Lt. Colonel West in our little county's fish wrap of record. The article in question was featured in today's Stuart News (also online at TCPalm) and written by local news reporter cum opinionator Eve Samples. To describe what was written by Ms. Samples as merely unflattering is stretching journalistic license in its own right.
If Ms. Samples' article was billed as an opinion piece or an editorial, and located within the publication's editorial section as such, I would not have bothered to respond. However, her grotesquely-biased hit piece was prominently treated as "news," appearing above the fold on the front pages of both print and electronic editions.
After regaining normal respiration, cleaning up the corn flakes, and re-reading the piece, two significant considerations (other than the obvious lack of journalistic objectivity) were ...
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