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Michelle Malkin: Underreported Stories of 2009
Most news outlets end the year with extensive reviews of their top headlines and scoops. But the stories they didn’t cover deserve much greater attention. Journalistic sins of omission are often far more damning and more telling than sins of commission.
Let’s start with President Barack Obama’s ongoing radical czar problem. Until Bay Area Marxist agitator-turned-green-jobs-czar Van Jones resigned in September, most Americans hadn’t heard of him. Mainstream newspaper readers and network news viewers were left in the dark about his cop-killer-supporting activism, his endorsement of nutball Sept. 11 conspiracies and his advocacy of using capitalism-sabotaging environmental policies as “the engine for transforming the whole society.”
Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs pounded Jones’ embarrassing public record for months until the White House and its media enablers were forced to acknowledge the firestorm. Only after Obama threw Jones under the bus did New York Times editor Jill Abramson confess that the Fishwrap of Record suffered from “insufficient in-tuned-ness.” She promised better coverage of Obama scandals.
So, what’s she waiting for, pray tell?
Obama has appointed unaccountable czars by the mile whose statements and policies have yet to hit national media front pages. The “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings, is a far-left activist whose organization, GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network), is infamous among parent groups for promoting explicit, outrageously age-inappropriate sexual lessons in the classroom. GLSEN’s recommended reading for teens includes pamphlets promoting leather bars and public sex in parks, and lurid books describing incest, rape, adult-child fantasies and essay collections in which one author recounted playing “sex therapist” at age 6 with a 5-year-old friend, and exploring “our sexuality to its fullest.”
GLSEN’s corporate sponsors include Eastman Kodak, Ernst & Young, PepsiCo and Time Warner. Eastman Kodak defended its sponsorship as an expression of its commitment to “diversity.” Education Secretary Arne Duncan also said he stood by Jennings, before this material was exposed in-depth on Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs. Where are the vaunted watchdogs of the Fourth Estate to follow up now?
Liberal journalists were also AWOL on the Obama White House’s U.S. attorney nomination debacle in Denver. What, you hadn’t heard of it? You’re not alone. Nominee Stephanie Villafuerte withdrew earlier this month after Colorado Republicans, immigration enforcement activists, Denver Post investigative reporter Karen Crummy and Denver talk-show host Peter Boyles raised bright red flags about the culture of corruption in her office.
Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal charges. He’s trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying.
Villafuerte served on then-Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter’s campaign team while on leave from the Denver District Attorney’s Office, and from all Denver Post news accounts was deeply involved in the witch hunt against Voorhis.
Villafuerte and the Justice Department evaded critics as long as they could, but when Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for answers on Villafuerte’s meddling, the stonewall crumbled. There’s still a raft of unanswered questions about the cover-up and the feds’ dangerously lax policies toward criminal illegal aliens.
Speaking of the corrupted DOJ, where’s the heat on crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder for his continued obstructionism in the New Black Panther Party Election Day voter intimidation case? In a highly unprecedented move, Holder and his political appointees dropped default judgments against the NBPP’s billy-club-wielding thugs who threatened white poll workers and voters in Philadelphia on Election Day in 2008.
The nonpartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has demanded answers and issued subpoenas to find out why the cases were abandoned after the George W. Bush administration had won them. The DOJ has ordered its employees not to comply or cooperate. And over the holidays, the DOJ veteran voting rights section chief who originally handled the case was unceremoniously evicted from the Washington, D.C., office and moved to South Carolina.
One of the NBPP bullies was a local Democratic official. Another of the defendants, NBPP head Malik Shabazz, has decried the probe as a racist “political witch hunt” against Holder.
Grievance hustlers are counting on liberal journalists to give them cover. A nation of cowards, indeed.
— Michelle Malkin is author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild. Click here for more information. She can be contacted at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
» wrote on 01.04.10 @ 09:35 AM
Come on Michelle, did you really expect the so called “main stream” media to take a break from Bush bashing or their latest fad, Sarah Palin bashing to report real news? Not a chance. Since most liberals can’t tell fake news (Colbert, Stewart) from real news they don’t have a clue what you are referring to.
» wrote on 01.04.10 @ 09:37 AM
Earth to Malkin: BUSH-McSAME LOST THE ELECTION
» wrote on 01.04.10 @ 11:04 AM
Nutball 9/11 conspiracies? The official story IS a conspiracy!!!
» wrote on 01.04.10 @ 11:47 AM
Michelle:
You’ve got to broaden your demographics. It is absolutely impossible for you to be this bias - you’re too intelligent, you write really well, you even speak clearly and coherently.
Perhaps you aren’t really an opinionated conservative but rather a well paid conservative mercenary.
» wrote on 01.04.10 @ 01:02 PM
Nice article.
Another “untold story” of the last decade was Malkin’s “firm promise” that the “real
story” of Iraq’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction” would “eventually come out.”
Well, Michele, now that we’re at 4,000+ casualties in Iraq, and getting ready to phase out, why don’t YOU break that story which you’ve been touting for eight years now?
If you can come up with the WMDs which the President’s own 9/11 Commission didn’t, you’d have your Pulitzer locked up, no?
So, as the chubby actress used to say in the old Wendy’s commercials, “Where’s the
Beef? Where’s the Beef?”
Put up some facts on some of those “conspiracies” you always insinuate about so
darkly, or put a lid on some of your hot, negative rhetoric, huh?
» wrote on 01.08.10 @ 12:20 PM
LTR, the real story did come out. Most of the WMD story was a bluff by Saddam. He fooled us, the UN and just about everyone else including Iran (which was his intent). What we don’t know is what if any WMD programs were shuttled off to Syria during the 14 months Saddam had to cover himself before his ultimatum ran out and we went in. So I don’t know what you are inferring here, LTR, care to help a confused fellow debater?
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