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The mendacity of Katherine Kersten

Filed under: Media

In today's column, the Strib's token right-wing columnist attempts to rehabilitate the tarnished image of ousted U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose.

Anybody who has been following the story in Kersten's paper should know already why Paulose wasn't right for the job. Her management style has been described as "dictatorial and at times vindictive." She was under investigation for mishandling classified documents and referring to an employee as "fat" "black" and "lazy." She then went on the National Review Online and made wild claims about being the victim of "McCarthyite hysteria" because of her religion, conservativism, gender, and race.

Of course, none of this gets mentioned in Kersten's column. Instead, Katherine claims that Paulose was the victim of a "professional crucifixion" because she was doing such a great job of prosecuting child pornographers and sex slave traffickers.

Offering a contrarian opinion is one thing, but this is outright disinformation, and everyone at the Strib--including Kersten--knows it. Perhaps the headline writer was offering the reader a subtle warning when he labeled the column: "A rumor riot buries the truth about Rachel Paulose."

Posted by Kevin Hoffman at January 7, 2008 7:45 PM

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I don't understand these modern conservatives. Can you imagine Barry Goldwater defending an unqualified, incompetent political employee just because he or she shared the same political party as he?

Posted by: ndt at January 8, 2008 4:14 AM

"I don't understand these modern conservatives. Can you imagine Barry Goldwater defending an unqualified, incompetent political employee just because he or she shared the same political party as he?"

The problem exists with most people, not just republicans. It's human nature. People like to put things like personal ideology into neat little boxes with labels such as democrat, republican, conservative, liberal, left, right...yadda, yadda, yadda. Doesn't matter if the peg is oval instead of round, if round = republican, most people think oval must = republican too. How can educated people be so stupid? Stop with the labels, people, and just be yourself. So what if you are a liberal but happen to hate abortion? Who gives a rats patootie if you're a republican but practice witchcraft? So what? Be real.

Posted by: Priest at April 15, 2008 10:27 AM

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