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(The UL goes into full Juan Williams mode. - promoted by Dean Barker)
The following statement appeared on the WMUR website (after the fold): http://www.wmur.com/r/25480077...
Joe McQuaid is wrong - New Hampshire has never been a referendum state and he should know better than to claim this law should be subject to a referendum.
What Governor Lynch said before he signed the bill into law is irrelevant to whether the UL should publish gay wedding announcements. Act like a mature adult, Joe.
Joe, you are anti-gay. There are years of editorials proving this.
I have been told that the UL may be violating Human Rights statutes, from someone who works in that office.
The UL publishes articles about many topics they disagree with already, such as articles about Democrats and liberals. This arguement is meaningless.
This statement will be adding fuel to the outrage over this policy.
One might expect from the appearance of Pres. Obama in the second sentence of today's Union-Leader op-ed by Amity Shlae that her piece would discuss federal policy in some significant way. However, after the president is used as a symbol of tax policy generally, he and his administration disappear until the final paragraph. I could (and yet may) write something about how terribly wrong Ms. Shlae's purported analysis of Obama's economic policies has been proven by everyone from the CBO to McCain campaign economist Mark Zandi, but today Ms. Shlae today turns her attention to entirely mischaracterizing (or just not understanding) the impact of state taxation policy - walk-on appearance by Pres. Obama notwithstanding.
The Manchester Union Leader's Joe McQuaid made a major factual error in his Monday, August 31 editorial. He is lucky he is an editorial writer, not a news reporter.
He wrote a folksy editorial with an anecdote related to the wall to wall coverage of Ted Kennedy's passing. He equated the liberal media to a dog (or maybe to the owner of the dog) which he found in his living room one evening when he got home from a hard day's work misconstruing the news at the Union Leader. Apparently the dog's owner had remembered its leash but not the dog. The specific evening in question happened to be the same evening Ted Kennedy died.
The story rings false, but that's not the factual error.
Joseph W. McQuaid: Don't blame Shea-Porter; It's a sign of the times
U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is receiving considerable grief for her Manchester office's reaction to an envelope containing tea, sent as part of a national protest over federal spending. Critics say her office should have known about the protest and should not have called out Manchester police and firefighters, even at the suggestion of Capitol Police. After all, the envelope was marked "tea protest'' and had the sender's name and address.
But the sender, a Pelham dentist, didn't mail a tea bag or a tea tag. He poured loose green tea leaves into an envelope. What a clever way for someone to do harm to someone under the guise of a national protest. Have we all forgotten the fatal anthrax powder attacks of a few years ago?
...How ironic, too, if the people protesting the spending of taxpayer money end up causing more of it to be spent by not thinking twice about how to protest.
Kinda hard to do when you've lost Joe McQuaid, the only man on earth who can spin gold out of elephant dung better than Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly:
McQuaid says it's healthy for the state Republican Party to have an open seat, an opportunity for regeneration.
McQuaid said he did not think the Union Leader would have supported Gregg for a fourth term.
Let's leave aside for a minute how full of baloney that statement is. The Union Leader is, after all, famous for showing support for Charlie Bass no less than three ostentatious times prior to the election in 2006, and then telling him never to run again practically the morning after the race. If Gregg had run, the Union Leader would continue to be what it has been since I've been looking at it - the state's premiere right-wing wurlitzer. It would have been All Gregg All The Time.
The jaw dropping paradign shift here is that Joe McQuaid just gave cover to conservatives in New Hampshire to disown Judd Gregg.
Jennifer Donahue can try and try to prop up her benefactor with a reverso-world account of what happened. Good luck with that!
But what just occurred at the bottom of a Boston Globe article, of all places, is a genuine political earthquake.
