Residual Forces

Some quick observations on this one. The Star Tribune’s Eric Black has yet another post up demanding Congresswoman Bachmann answer “his questions”, because, afterall, “he cares” about this story.

First, Black got the story from Eva Young a Bachmann derrangement syndrome afflicted political pest here in the Twin Cities who has assembled a cast of other fringe fanatics to stalk Bachmann for the last 3 plus years. They run a website aimed at smearing Michele Bachmann, her record, and anyone who dares to support her. You find me even lowly little me being taken in effigy on their blog.

Is it just me or is this another one of them instances where Eric Black thinks the story is about him or maybe should revolve around him? He just loves to needle Republicans who have the audacity, (the audacity I tell you) to not answer every single demanding question he can think of, and on his timeframe, not theirs.

She still hasn’t clarified how she came to make the amazing claims to know about an Iranian deal — not just a possible intention, but a deal already struck with unnamed other parties, with a name already chosen for the new nation – to turn northwest Iraq into a terrorist haven-state.

It really bears repeating that al Queda in Iraq has announced their plans to create the “Iraq State of Islam” and that Iran has been caught red handed taking part in the insurgency in Iraq. Are Black and the rest of the anti-Bachmann crowd trying to deny both of these facts?

I think this entire story, and the Black’s official Star Tribune Big Question blog in general expose something unintended, Black’s and the MSM’s bias. You get to see unedited content and the thought process of how Black does stories and his retaliation when he is denied answers. You get to see his snarky complaints that Bachmann’s “spokester” doesn’t bark on his every command. Black sure seems to think he has a right to get specific information, but he also overlooks a lot of other information maybe because it doesn’t fit into his agenda that could be found by looking at other avenues.

A troubling angle is that Black doesn’t call into question the journalistic skills of Larry Schumacher and the St. Cloud Times. Why is this important? Because if this was really such a ground breaking story as Black claims it is, Schumacher had the resposibility to bring Bachmann’s statements to light the moment HE concluded his interview where these statements were made. Schumacher and the St. Cloud Times sat on this story, and covered up for Bachmann is the conclusion to be drawn from Black’s complaints. Instead, these comments were dragged to light by Bachmann detractors with the aid of Black, because Black “wanted to”.

Despite his own belief, Black is not the judge, jury, and editor in chief of political reporting in Minnesota. Let’s not forget that this reporter refused to call Patty Wetterling’s baseless attacks against Bachmann what they were, lies. He has an agenda, and you can see it in so much as his own words.

It was news to me and to almost everyone else who learned about it through this blog and emanations on other blogs and talk radio.

But the other side of the story, from us people who think most of Bachmann’s statements are plausible and defensible are being ignored by Black, because HE demands that HE is the one who gets the answers and directly from Bachmann. The answers HE wants to have Bachmann provide to HIM and HIM alone.

I have provided easily attainable public information from the internet to defend Bachmann’s statements. And as I said in my post #6, Bachmann did swap around a few names and groups in the very broad scoped and fast paced interview. But what she said is fairly common knowledge and easily researchable on the internet.

But then again, Black wouldn’t get to harp about how Republican Michele Bachmann and her “spokester” don’t respond to his every demand. Unlike some bloggers, I see Black as an “ink stained wretch” (his words not mine) of a journalist with an ax to grind. But then again, I just don’t like the guy, and I do support the notion that we must win in Iraq or else (what Bachmann said) which I suppose is coloring my perception.

Huh, I have previous bad experiences with Black, he refused to take a story angle I sent him that would have exposed Amy Klobuchar’s false promises to the extreme left DFL base, and I am lashing out at him. This seems so incredibly familiar to me. It is almost like I am behaving just like someone…..

RF Flashback: #1; #2; #3; #4; #5; Blackification; #6; Connecting the Dots