Blog Item of the Morning

Josh Marshall is running an item about a Kentucky Republican Party scheme to intimidate minority voters. One of the most underreported aspects of the 2000 Florida recount crisis was the extent to which the Republican party in that state had worked to exclude minorities from the voting rolls. Continuing efforts at this sort of thing remain underreported today. The glossing over of these issues by the mainstream press is irresponsible to say the least. I believe it stems from the journalist's neurotic fear of honest coverage of controversial issues being seen as evidence of some kind of bias. This lazy journalism perpetuates a notion that perfect social justice was achieved sometime in the mid twentieth century and is no longer a point of contention in today's enlightened society. The result is a chronically apathetic public perfectly permissive of the worst sort of behavior.