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Today’s round of the MSM’s “Guess That Party”

Today’s edition of the game that’s sweeping across MSM-land is brought to you from New Fallujah (aka Detroit):

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and as Detroit’s youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

Former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick shared a romantic relationship in 2002 and was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.

In all, Worthy authorized a 12-count criminal information.

“This case was about as far from being a private matter as one can get. Honesty and integrity in the justice system is everything. That is what this case is about,” Worthy said at a news conference.

“Just when did honesty and integrity, truth and honor become traits to be mocked, downplayed, ignored, laughed at or excuses made for them? When did telling the truth become a supporting player to everything else?”

A perjury conviction could bring up to 15 years’ imprisonment and force Kilpatrick to relinquish the mayor’s office.

Worthy has said she and her staff have pored over more than 40,000 pages of documents since January, when the Detroit Free Press published excerpts of sexually explicit text messages sent to Beatty’s city-issued pager in 2002 and 2003.

The messages contradict statements Kilpatrick and Beatty gave under oath during a whistleblowers’ trial last summer when each denied a romantic relationship.

Conspicuous by its absence is the word “Democrat”…but nope, no liberal media bias!

Exit question: Why is this dude being charged with perjury?  Didn’t the left tell us during the late 1990′s that lying under oath about sex isn’t really perjury?

March 24, 2008 - Posted by | media bias

8 Comments »

  1. Give they guy a break he was only screwing his chief of staff. Its not like he was screwing the people who elected him. Oh wait my bad, its Detroit, of course he was screwing the people who elected him. Why else would someone want to be mayor of Detroit?

    Comment by WMD_Maker | March 24, 2008

  2. Kwame still has a 65% approval rating in Detroit, btw.

    I’m about 100 miles out of Detroit. Our state is so rich that schools are left begging for donations of basics like toilet paper. Prisons have closed down. A recent local news article left me stunned explaining that now that we’re all in the poor house, the silver lining on the cloud was that more of us would qualify for tax credits from the federal government this tax season. Hey, who needs a job opportunity when you can get an occasional check earned off the backs of others?

    People in these parts love getting screwed by their elected officials. This will cost millions by the time it’s over, and even there’s a conviction to justify it, we’ll have another mouth to feed, house and clothe on the state rolls in prison.

    Comment by Jenn | March 25, 2008

  3. Great sound bite last night. Kwame in all his glory stating that he has faith in the system that we have – that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. ‘Course I don’t remember saying he IS innocent…
    Glad I moved from there when I joined the Navy so many years ago.

    Michigan, owned and operated by UAW.

    Comment by Submariner | March 25, 2008

  4. Jenn, I’m not surprised that Kwame has such a high approval rating. Detroit is like my home town of Memphis in that the mayor can do no wrong, even when he has done wrong. He’s always a victim of Whitey, which is odd considering that Whitey is in the minority in Memphis & Detroit.

    Ever think about moving out of MI?

    Comment by crushliberalism | March 25, 2008

  5. The really sad thing is that Kwy-me A River is probably far better for Detroit than his rival would have been.

    Comment by WMD_Maker | March 25, 2008

  6. Here is a link to a NYT story that clearly shows the Detroit mayor’s political affiliation.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/25detroit.html

    I was listening to Bill O’Reilly last night (the television show is broadcast on Sirius) and not once in his story/commentary did he refer to the Detroit mayor’s political party. Maybe it was on a crawler, but I was listening, not watching, the performance.

    Not what you’d expect, huh?

    The Associated Press did NOT mention the political affiliation in its story. Every major stylebook used by the press would include political party when reporting a Congressman or Senator… “Sen Larry Craig (R-Idaho)” for example. For mayors, I don’t think there are hard and fast stylistic rules, though reporting party when it is relevant is important. For example, the piece in the Times above reports the party in the context of the Detroit mayor being a rising star in the Democratic party, i.e. as relevant background to his career. Another example of party being relevant is if there is hypocrisy involved between the position of the party and the man’s position vs the man’s behavior.

    Don’t let the facts get in the way of your analysis, however…

    Comment by Eric | March 25, 2008

  7. Eric:

    http://crushliberalism.com/2008/02/26/another-round-of-the-msms-guess-that-party/

    http://crushliberalism.com/2008/01/04/another-round-of-the-msms/

    http://crushliberalism.com/2007/12/17/msm-plays-another-round-of-guess-that-party/

    That first one mentions a Republican Hillary supporter who stabbed an Obama supporter. Unless the Hillary supporter was, by your feeble attempt at defending the MSM, a Congressman or Senator, I’m afraid you’re going to have to do better than that. Hell, there were even a bunch of news stories about Congressman Gary Condit (right around the time he boinked then killed his intern) that failed to mention his party. Part of the “stylebook”, was it?

    But hey…”don’t let facts get in the way of your analysis, however.” BTW, that was just precious…a liberal lecturing ANYONE on “facts”! :lol:

    Comment by crushliberalism | March 25, 2008

  8. There’s a little bit of that going on, crush. It’s Detroit, a city you can tour by pointing out things that happened during the riots of the 70s.

    “Perjury” barely even sounds like a crime in a city riddled with violence and poverty.

    Comment by Jenn | March 26, 2008


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