Daily for the last month, the dreadfully worried New York Times has locked a bank of klieg lights on a phony claim that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is channeling not only heaps of money, but possibly foreign funds, into the Republican side of the present election campaign.
On the day it broke the charge — raised and never remotely substantiated by armies of left-wing research zealots — the story was the longest to appear in that edition of the Times.
Since last January, the largely looney left has been on fire over a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, which held that corporations are people, too, and may fully participate, fiscally, in helping to elect candidates. Thee left’s justified fear was that corporations would lean to the right because Democrats have been anti-business for decades.
The left was correct about where the national Chamber’s donations would be channeled, nearly all to Republicans.
Ain’t Nuthin’ There
Just as the police union in Culver City has been struggling for months to gain traction with a skeptical public while presenting no persuasive case, the bed bug-like horde of left wing research zealots has not unearthed one spade of evidence of foreign money or that a single voter has been affected by the tsunami of fictional writing.
But since the Times owns the shovel, they will continue to Mother Goose their unimpressed readers until next week, I presume.
I have certainly been associated with a speculative story or two. When it is obvious nothing was there, you retreat. Not the august New York Times, however.
Insinuation is one of their main instruments in their daily left-wing symphony of strawman sand-slinging.
Make It up as You Go Along
The 100 percent bogus claim was leveled by Think Progress, a recently formed branch of the left-wing Center for American Progress that was organized for the express purpose of smoking out wrongdoing in Republican fundraising, hoping to stem an anticipated side.
How is this for an analogy to the way the Times keeps whacking away at a phony claim?
Imagine walking into a restaurant. You decide to stop at the first table where you find a couple where the man wears brown shoes and she has brown hair. Merely because you want to start a fight, you tell him you have seen his wife three times in the last month in a compromising position with an old college chum. She is horrified. He is furious. Ah, just the explosive responses you wanted. Say that you return to the restaurant every time the couple dines there and you repeat the same charge without producing any evidence.
This is the precise path The New York Times’ daily accusations have taken even though the Times acknowledges — without shame — it has not been able to substantiate its gleefully presented claims.
This is responsible journalism? Of course not.
Every breath the national Chamber has drawn this election cycle evidently ethical and thoroughly legal or you would have heard about it every day.
Last Friday’s lead story in the hopelessly prejudiced New York Times was headlined “Large Donations Aid U.S. Chamber in Election Drive.
“Democrats Top Targets.
“Group Doesn’t Disclose Names of Companies Giving Millions.”
The implication was the Chamber was helping the Republican enemy by ethically stepping out-of-bounds.
Turns out, however, there is a pachyderm in this space that The Times and its left-wing brethren have suppressed.
Labor unions — from teachers to prostitutes — probably are the most corrupt enclaves in North America.
Eight days before Election Day, you will not read the following fairly startling news in the Los Angeles Titanic, The New York Times, the Washington Post or any other left-wing bugle:
By a large margin, the public employees union known clumsily and obsequiously as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is the biggest outside spender of the election cycle.
How do I know? This was the lead story in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, the same day that the left-wing boys at The New York Times were crafting their latest smear and guilt-by-association demonization of the Chamber of Commerce.
Using confiscated union dues, the single public employees group so far has blown a hefty $87.5, attacking Republican candidates and touting Democrats.
The erstwhile altar boys of AFSCME, ahem, have, cough, cough, neglected to identify any of their donors as they transferred $87.5 from their coffers into the slippery pockets of Dem candidates and incumbents. The Times accuses the Chamber of not identifying individual donors but neither does the union. In fact, law no longer requires it. Oh.
By contrast with the government workers’ union awash in muddy dough, the Chamber of Commerce, primarily supporting Republicans, donated $75 million.
Please don’t overlook our crooked friends in teachers unions. The National Education Assn. has drained a scant $44 million in confiscated dues from its overflowing treasury to help elect left-wing candidates.
Why would the NEA do something foolish like burning that much money in a classroom where students would be the only beneficiaries?
