The Star Tribune and Keith Ellison

This is just stunning to me. The local major paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, ran a pretty negative “news” (not editorial) piece about Republican Alan Fine, who is running for Congress against Democrat Keith Ellison (my small comments on the race [here](http://www.kpmartin.com/2006/06/13/keith-ellison-dfl-candidate-for-minnesotas-5th-district/) and [here](http://www.kpmartin.com/2006/07/03/alan-fine-for-congress-i-take-it-back/)).

The paper dug up an expunged court record of charges that were dropped alleging he’d slapped his wife ten years ago. A mini October Surprise, I guess. Well, the [gents at Powerline have done something amazing](http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015484.php). Basically, they completely took the Strib to the woodshed.

Keith Ellison appears to have done something pretty seamy, too. Last year. He was the subject of 911 call. And will be in court for it *this month*! Days before the election.

But the intrepid staff at the Star Tribune only found it fitting to report on Alan Fine (10 years ago, dropped charges) but not on Keith Ellison (1 year ago, still active). They ran the Fine article on the front page. They have apparently failed to make any note of the Ellison 911 call (as of this writing, Saturday evening).

Can anyone say “thick, steaming, sickening, deceptive bias?”

It was actually “[Minnesota Democrats Exposed](http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/index.php?s=ellison+911+call)” that found the 911 call. Powerline just connected it to the Strib’s front page political advertisement… err… I mean story.

Ugh. Shame!

One thought on “The Star Tribune and Keith Ellison”

  1. Reminds me a little of channel 5 ‘news’. That noon hour edition is chock full of this kind of thing. It’s was pretty much murder, murder, Republican scandal, then some short commentary complete with glowing remarks about a Democrat canditate, and then a few more criminal stories, (just to make us ‘feel’ so utterly shook up at what the city has become, that we need a change in Government) in between, of course, right along with the stories (coincedence?) Governor Pawlenty has cut spending in law inforcement, blah, blah, blah. “Oh, why don’t we dig up a story on public schools low test scores, and then immediately follow it with a commercial that says Pawlenty cut school funding?” I have to go take my meds….

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