Kuhl to visit Iraq on fact-finding trip
The Corning Star-Gazette is reporting that Randy Kuhl is going on a fact-finding misison to Iraq. Here’s what Kuhl is saying about the trip:
Kuhl said in a press release that he wants to “get a better feel for what our troops are doing on a day-to-day basis, how our tax dollars are being spent and how the new Iraqi government is functioning.â€
It’s hard to know what to make of this. Is Kuhl simply going there to look for the “good news”, the bake sales being held at Baghdad Central Junior High, to push the Bush admministration’s beloved Tinkerbell strategy (clap louder and everything will be fine), or is he going there to take a serious look at the debacle that the Bush-Rumsfeld “stuff happens”, “stay the course” idiocy has produced? I’m betting on the latter but hoping for the former. We’ll see….
Well said.
The Star-Gazette is own by Gannett. Gannett’s CEO contributes heavily to the GOP. Also it’s newspapers, like USA today are not exactly famous for the quality of their journalism…
Yes, but I’m assuming that they didn’t make this up, that Kuhl is going on this trip.
Also, the Star-Gazette is the only newspaper covering this race so far, aside from the occassional B5 article in the (Gannet-owned) Democrat and Chronicle.
When God sends Gannett, made Gannett-aide.
I don’t think they made it up either but if they are pro-Republican, it explains why they ran it. It kinda makes Randy sound good. Or maybe they just thought it was topical. In either case, I think it is poor journalism that there is not enough detail for you to “know what to make of it.” I don’t read a lot of the D&C articles either…
I’ve read an article about the problems of newspapers in “Company Towns.” The Leader, whose CEO is a democrat, had problems a couple of years ago for running an article that said Corning, Inc. was having financial problems.
Corning, Inc. is Randy Kuhl’s largest financial contributer. Of course, none of this may matter…