Another Reason Why I Love the Herald

It's good to see that the Herald is giving the NY Post a run for its money in the Enquirer-style front page department. The Herald is utterly disingenuous, hypocritical, and masterful at manipulating language. Really, it's a thing of beauty. Here's the formula. Put "speaker's conference" in quotes and it becomes sinister. For the people at State Street, it's a business trip. For Finneran (or any other elected official), call it a junket and now you've taint it with the whiff of corruption without any effort. Let's open the Herald's books and see what's in there. I'm sure there isn't even a penny spent unnecessarily.

And paging Willard M. Romney. Let's talk about the $6.1 million of his own dough he spent in 2002 to buy himself a governorship (Utah? Massachusetts? What's the difference? For someone who isn't interested in a Senate or Presidential run, he sure spends a lot of time getting his op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and cultivating coverage on MSNBC and CNN.) No doubt he has the interests of you and your $35K a year job at heart. Isn't it nice that he balanced the budget without cutting core services by eliminating what he called almost $2 billion in "waste, fraud and mismanagment" (Globe, "A Look at the Facts Behind the Exchanges," Rick Klein, October 2, 2002) -- you know, denying 15,000 kids health care, kicking 36,000 unemployed people off health insurance, too, cutting funding for AIDS treatment, cutting pharmacy assistance for seniors, cutting $100 million from cities and towns (btw, how did your Representative and Senator vote on the roll call to pass the buck to romney? how much did your community lose out on?) and eliminated the school health program that put nurses into schools in 106 communities.