Ditch Mitch KY

Hawpe and Crowley win the “Judy Miller Rootie” of the week by serving as McConnell’s stenographers

Joe Sonka January 20th, 2008

Gather round! It's time to award another Bluegrass Rootie!

This week, two KY journalists have the honor of winning the "Judy Miller Rootie" for excellence in stenography.

Both of these fine reporters have won the honor for this week by following in the footsteps of CBS, Politico and the Enquirer's Malia Rulon by uncritically reporting Mitch McConnell's internal push poll showing him as "popular" and "safe" in KY. This "poll" was of course commissioned by the partisan hacks at "Voter/Consumer Research", an obvious attempt to con the media into believing its hype, despite the fact that other polls show that VCR's numbers have no relation to reality.

Our first winner is David Hawpe of the Courier-Journal. David jumped head first into McConnell's false hype and and showed us what lazy journalism is all about in his most recent column. Kudos David, who says columnists need to work hard anyway?!

Our second winner is Pat Crowley of the Enquirer. Pat also dutifully laps up Mitch's propaganda as fact on his blog, as he says Mitch would "trounce" all of his potential opponents. Judy Miller would be proud of such excellent stenography Pat, expect that call from the NYT any day now!

Additionally, Ryan Alessi came VERY close to having his previous "Judy" taken away from him. Alessi actually had the crazy idea of questioning the partisan nature of the poll and not taking it as fact. He even questioned someone from the other side of the aisle for their take on the poll, as Bergman dismissed the poll as partisan propaganda. (there's a joke there, not touching it). Wow, actual journalism!!! A reporter earning his paycheck! The only thing keeping Ryan from being stripped of his previous Rootie is that he failed to mention how Mitch's poll was 12+ points off of the LHL and SUSA polls from the same time period in the Fall and this last poll. Very close, Ryan, but kudos anyway.

Now let's see who has the nerve to ask Mitch about his dishonest smears of the Ryan family in order to get Heather fired and hold the pork for the city of Paducah for ransom. There's a Rootie out there for somebody, let's see who can get it first.

Mitch McConnell , Opinion Polls
Comments(2)

2 Responses to “Hawpe and Crowley win the “Judy Miller Rootie” of the week by serving as McConnell’s stenographers”

# bluegrassbambion 20 Jan 2008 at 7:59 pm

Hawpe’s a hack — and it’s refreshing to see him called out by you guys. He doesn’t do anyone any favors.
# Judyon 20 Jan 2008 at 10:51 pm

Thanks for calling out these “reporters,” who never questioned Voter Consumer Research and its bogus data about McConnell.