[img]1|right|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]How do you say “ain’t no horse there” without overtly confessing, ain’t no horse?
This is the Lyin’ Brian Williams-type of sin the Los Angeles Times committed this morning.
They were not candid. They skirted the truth.
For a change, though, we agree with these typically unreflective leftists.
The Times’s sin not only is acceptable but commendable – but not because they made the correct endorsement in the Los Angeles City Council race to succeed termed-out Bernard Parks.
They did not.
We laud them only for attempting to be sensitive toward candidates’ tender psyches.
The Times’s underlying message about the District 8 field was:
Ain’t no horse there.
They don’t like anybody in the March 3 election.
[img]2807|right|Marqueece Harris-Dawson||no_popup[/img]By endorsing the troubling Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a Karen Bass protégé, over returning contender Forescee Hogan-Rowles, the Times is confessing, sotto voce, that it erred four years ago when endorsing Ms. Hogan-Rowles. A shrewd, efficient businesswoman in a gritty field – doling micro loans to small businesses — she would have made an excellent successor to Mr. Parks in ’11 and she will next month.
I don’t know exactly why the Times snubbed her this morning except for believing she cannot win.
They are wrong. There is a horse in this race, the immensely capable Ms. Hogan Rowles.
I do know why the Times held its nose with both hands and endorsed Mr. Harris-Dawson, who runs the Community Coalition that U.S. Rep. Bass started. He feels like a winner. He has captured more endorsements in the last four months than anyone else in town.
The best of a weak field that includes activist Bobbie Anderson, by the Times’s reasoning.
Curiously, the Times endorsed him even though they disagree with the core of his political philosophy – that regardless of the question, Big Brother government is the answer.
The Times admitted that the Harris-Dawson backing is counterintuitive because the gentleman scorns private investment for his down community. A big believer in victimhood, he favors government handouts, which means you and me, Murgatroyd.
This is what makes Ms. Bass, or Ms. Zero, a door knob rather than a useful politician who would aid her community.
