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The See-No-Evil Fosters Editorial Board

by: Dean Barker

Mon Oct 25, 2010 at 05:55:27 AM EDT
No sane newspaper could conceivably endorse a candidate who, after months of calls from Republicans, Democrats, and the media, refuses to produce a bank statement showing that he did not commit a crime on the order of several hundred thousand dollars.

So what does the wannbe-UL Fosters editorial board do about this dilemma? Pretend it doesn't exist:

Guinta is who [sic] N.H. needs in U.S. House

...The strongest criticisms leveled at Guinta in this campaign come from his time as mayor of Manchester.

If New Hampshire undergoes the shame of a congressman resigning under the cloud of a House ethics investigation, you'll have the see-no-evil Fosters editorial board to thank.

Adding: Just to underscore how shamelessly right-wing partisan Fosters is, remember that back pre-primary, when the GOP establishment decided Guinta was too flawed a candidate, Fosters gave their space and ink to the former chairman of the NHGOP's devastating critique of Guinta's mystery money.  Now, there's nothing inherently wrong about being shamelessly right-wing partisan.  It's a free country. But a newspaper claiming to serve everyone in a community ought to be more upfront about disclosing their fealty to the GOP.
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The See-No-Evil Fosters Editorial Board | 10 comments
More up front? Really? You think that's possible? (0.00 / 0)
Clearly, Foster's Daily Democrat is only democratic during the day.  On weekends and overnight it's a conservathief rag.  
I am embarrassed to admit the spouse subscribes, but it's only because our ancient houseguest likes the comics.  They're the only part of the paper he trusts.  That's the wisdom of a 91 year old. :)

It doesn't really matter what they write, if customers only look at the funnies, the sports scores and the wanted ads.

So, why do I bother to send in lte's?  One hedges one's bet.  

Strongest criticisms are of his time as Mayor? (0.00 / 0)
Well since that's the only elective office he's ever held, you'd think that would be legit.  But even if it weren't, here are the other strongest criticisms:

1. Believes crazy things
2. Where did all that money come from?
3. He isn't Carol Shea-Porter

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@DougLindner

A Very Odd Name (0.00 / 0)
Foster's Daily Democrat. Consistently a branch of the UL mindset.

In 2000, they endorsed my opponent, not once, not twice but in three separate columns. And I did win that year.

They are always on the hard right. The editors know it is the Fosters themselves who trump the editors' better-informed analysis and opinion.

Their reporting is good, but their editorials...

No'm Sayn?

They Always Endorsed My Senate Opponents, Too... (0.00 / 0)
...then I went on to win in November.  But they served great coffee and muffins for their candidate interview sessions in those days!  
[ Parent ]
Fox-sters (4.00 / 1)

The least they could do is re-name that paper.

A Little Foster's History (4.00 / 1)
Foster's Daily Democrat has been around since 1873, and the founder, Joshua Kane Foster, was an old-time pro-slavery, anti-abolition "states' rights" Democrat who probably considered John C. Calhoun of South Carolina the model Democrat. During the Civil War, he was a Copperhead, a northern Peace Democrat who opposed Lincoln and the war and wanted to let the Confederate States "go in peace."

On April 10, 1865, as the Civil War was ending, Foster's Portsmouth newspaper, the States and Union, was sacked by a mob of Union men, and Joshua Foster barely escaped with his life. (I guess an angry Letter to the Editor wasn't adequate!) You can read all the details in a Portsmouth Herald article by Dennis Robinson.

 

I Had No Idea! (0.00 / 0)
Thanks for the history.

This is certainly not politically correct, but I too would have been a Copperhead. Think how much more progressive we in the north would be today if we had just let the Confederacy "go in peace." Lincoln kicked off the massive centralization and concentration of political power and wealth.
The South is not us! I'd still like to see them go.  


No'm Sayn?

[ Parent ]
Burt (0.00 / 0)
You've read a not so dark corner of my mind--lol.
We wouldn't have been held hostage by the southern strategy etc.
Is it really to late???

( only half in jest)

[ Parent ]
You guys don't get it - the war never ended for the South. n/t (0.00 / 0)


"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein
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Guinta's Endorsement (4.00 / 1)
Please get on Foster's website and comment on the editorial. Voters need to read the truth, not Foster's whitewash.
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