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In reply to the discussion: The Lexington Herald-Leader emasculates Mitch McConnell... [View all]bulloney
(4,113 posts)Where I live, we have a libertarian-owned newspaper that has a RW slant to most articles it publishes. They get their slant in the headlines if not in the report itself. For example, in Sunday's edition, front page, the headline states that the incumbent congressman's opponent is an "activist" which is a code word for anti-business liberal. And this paper's editorial pages will have tons of columns giving you the bullshit about the virtues of the hallowed "free market," getting government completely out of our lives, and so forth. The incumbent congressman that the paper supports is a teabagger on steroids who trots all over the place trying to drum up support for hearings on Benghazi, the IRS debacle, repealing the ACA and the other red herring issues he wants to waste our taxpayer dollars on. Then in the next breath he brags about how he's so conscientious about carefully spending our taxpayer dollars while never seeing an increase in military spending he doesn't support.