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September 11, 2010 07:13 PM UTC

Whitewashing Ken Buck

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  • by: JeffcoBlue

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

The Denver newspaper published an editorial today that raises serious questions about their bias and objectivity in the U.S. Senate race. Making false statements about the record of Republican Ken Buck, and facilitating Buck’s attempts to back away from previous radical views, the Denver newspaper is actively assisting in rewriting Buck’s history for the general election.

We’ve all complained about the Denver paper at one time or another, but this is worse. They are helping Buck run away from his past, and committing lies of omission at the very least.

In today’s editorial, the Denver newspaper attempts to disprove an ad from Buck’s Democratic opponent by offering “context” for the statements shown on video by Buck. On Social Security, I am meant to believe that Buck does not think Social Security as a whole is a “horrible policy,” but the government bonds the Social Security Trust Fund consists of (because that’s what they’re talking about). This distinction is made ignorant of, or in an attempt to distract from, the fact that these interest-bearing and guaranteed bonds are as reliable an instrument as any other government bond. If they are worthless, than so are all government bonds, and the world economy is screwed. The Denver paper’s defense of Buck’s response as “nuanced” ignores the fact that the entire discussion is idiotic.

Buck has said repeatedly that he favors privatization of Social Security, and the Denver paper’s editorial completely avoids mention of this unpopular fact: a fact that proves the Bennet campaign’s original claim.

About that “substantive discussion” of Social Security the Denver paper claims followed? Politico reported a long time ago what Buck said after those words:

http://www.politico.com/news/s…

“The idea that the federal government should be running health care or retirement or any of those programs is fundamentally against what I believe. And that is that the private sector runs programs like that far better.”

The Denver newspaper then says that Buck “officially” opposes shutting down the federal Department of Education, and claims that Bennet’s clip of Buck saying “we don’t need a Department of Education” is misleading. But they don’t tell you that Buck repeatedly and unequivocally stated his support for abolishing the Department of Education during the primary! In fact, Buck said that we could “immediately flip the switch” and shut down the Department of Education. (link) Maybe he has since “Buckpedaled” from his position, but to gloss over what it originally and stridently was is what is fundamentally misleading: NOT Bennet describing accurately what Buck has said.

Finally, the Denver paper’s mounts a similar defense of Buck in regards to student loans. Buck has said repeatedly that the federal government should not “be in the student loan business.” The federal government has recently reformed the student loan system after many years of well-documented abuses. But Buck has said that the federal government should not even be in the business of guaranteeing student loans, undermining the Denver paper’s defense. From the same June Politico story I linked to above:

During an appearance in May on a local radio program, Buck suggested that the government should not be in the business of providing student loans.

“Over time, we have to wean the American public off those,” he said.

The Denver newspaper has committed a serious breach of trust with its readers with this editorial. They have compromised more than their integrity; this is a breakdown of their mandate for simple accuracy. And they have misrepresented the truth of each of these issues to the point of absurdity.

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29 thoughts on “Whitewashing Ken Buck”

  1. Notice how once they win the gop primary they alter their campaign web pages. They try to prove that they aren’t right wing radicals, which helped them get teabagger support to begin with.

    Angle,Paul and now buck, lying right wing radicals. Colorado deserves better.

    1. Everything Buck says/does is a disengenous load of crap. He cannot run from his past and his record. No matter how muche he tries to pretend he is a moderate, the truth will follow. He is a tea party candidate.

      1. Buck isn’t a moderate.  What the hell do moderates do?  What do they think?  How do they vote?

        Likewise, no matter how much Bennet tries to pretend he is a conservative, the truth will follow.  He is a socialist progressive.

  2. If Bennet would stop running these blatantly dishonest attacks, the Denver Post wouldn’t have to come to Buck’s defense. (If Buck ran the same types of ads against Bennet, I’m sure the Post would call him out on it too.) Michael Bennet is one of the dirtiest, lying, flip-flopping politicians I’ve seen in a long while.

    1. He DOES want to get rid of student loans. He’s said it a number of times.


      Mr. Buck said he is so serious that he sticks to his mantra of spending cuts even when it is unpopular. “I’ve never heard one person say ‘Take my kid’s student loans away,’ ” he said, referring to his stance that the government should get out of the college-loan business. “But it’s the reality.”

      http://online.wsj.com/article/…

      Disappointing. They got played.

      1. Nobody wants to do away with student loans, as your quote proves. He thinks that “the government should get out of the college-loan business.” That doesn’t mean he thinks private entities shouldn’t be able to make loans to students.

        1. But in that quote he is VERY explicitly arguing that there should be no government role in this, as you yourself said.

          However, that’s not what he’s saying now – or what the post is crediting him with. He’s saying he just meant the reform passed this spring. And that is a lie. He meant the entire federal student loan program.

          Now if we get rid of that, people could still lend to students, but there wouldn’t be any of the terms enforced under the student loan program that exists, which basically means there wouldn’t be a program. As I understand it, it would just be the private loans that currently exist, which are basically like running up debt on a credit card.  

          1. Buck believes the state government level is where education should be handled.  If you read his statements, and don’t rely on third party interpretations,he has been clear on that.  

            1. He has never said he thinks state government should be in the student loan business.

              And if he said that, just where would the money come from?

              You are so full of shit. You’re not helping your candidate at all.

            2. When the fed took over student loans, they raised the interest rate 0.5% to help pay for Obamacare.  They put thousands of bank employees out of work.  That, my good friends, must be reversed.

        2. Does that mean Pell, Stafford, and PLUS assistance? I go to Metro State and the vast majority of our students rely on Federal aid to complete school.

          I am one of them..

          My interpretation of Buck’s quote is that he doesn’t want the Federal government awarding grants or loans to students.

          So, does that include the types of assistance I mentioned?

              3. the Denver schools to help his buddies at Citibank, JP Morgan and Bank of America.  That earned him hefty campaign contributions and left the taxpayers of Denver in deep sh**.

  4. The post has is right.  All the TV stations have concluded your appointed Senator is being dishonest, ‘misleading’ is the word they use.  So instead of honestly looking at Buck’s statements in context now the Polsters claim that the media is biased because they call out Mikey on his lies.

    Read Bennets statements, read the quoted language from Buck and then read the paragraph it is contained in, and you too will conclude Mikey is a liar.

    Candidates that are behind go negative and make stuff up.  Get used to it.  Buck is not going negative and he will win.

    1. Unless you’d like people to start referring to your candidate by the name of the character that gets killed off in every South Park episode, maybe you’d better stick to “Senator Bennet.”

  5. Dishonest ads.

    Telling the Washington Post he was releasing a poll, he did not release. Kind of makes them look silly for taking his word fot it.

    The media does not like being lied to and they have lots of ink and a long memory.

  6. should know that they pretty much want to do away with the federal government.  That includes Social Security, Medicare, the Department of Education, student loans, and pretty much everything else except the military.  This isn’t anything new.  

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