Proof, if any were needed, that there is still a need for the Fourth Estate, despite the rise of the bloggers. Yesterday I made reference to a blog post at a site called Joe Courtney Watch that attacked Joe Courtney for being a “Friend of Potheads”. The gravamen (that’s a legal term, you can look it up) of the complaint against Joe was that he was given money by a group that supports the rationalization of laws against marijuana.
I confined myself to a bit of snark, but Ted Mann of the Day committed journalism and did a little digging. (I am not implying that he did so as a result of my post by the way, it was clearly coincidental) The result? The post in question has been updated as follows:
Addendum:
Thanks to the work of The Day’s Ted Mann it has been shown that former Congressman Rob Simmons (R) accepted $5,000 from the group during his 2004 campaign against Jim Sullivan. In the interest of fairness and openness it is worth pointing that fact out.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this lonely Connecticut Republican blog is not going far. Real Republicans don’t do fairness, never mind openness. I do give them credit for falling back on the passive voice, though. That’s in the rich Republican tradition, as in “mistakes were made”.
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