Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson gave an interview for the December issue of Texas Monthly in which she decried independent journalists and bloggers in response to the question, “What are the chances that the Republicans will keep the White House?”:
“It will be a close race, and the purple states are the states that will really be targeted. The mood of the country right now is pretty frustrated. I think we have a frustrated electorate. People don’t really like the partisanship. There’s a kind of toxic atmosphere about politics. I think the blogs feed on that. I think the intemperate nature of blogs and the lack of accountability have had an overall toxic influence on our elections. People are cynical, and these blogs are cynical and mean on all sides. So I don’t think that’s good, and I hope that at least even if you disagree with the mainstream media, there is a sense of integrity and honesty and standards. There are journalistic standards that blogs don’t have. We have a frustrated, toxic atmosphere right now.”
I think the “toxic atmosphere” of politics has more to do with the actions and policies of various politicians than with blogs. People know more what their elected officials are getting up to without having to rely on the “objective” media. Needless to say, I maintain the highest of journalistic standards on this blog at all times and take offense to Senator Hutchinson’s comments… Vote for Ron Paul!
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February 20th, 2008