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October 11, 2014 09:14 AM UTC

Gardner Trashes Journalism, Until He Benefits from It

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Cory Gardner.
Cory Gardner.

Colorado senatorial candidate Cory Gardner, like much of the political right, sees himself has a victim of liberal media bias. On a day when he was endorsed by The Denver Post, and Gardner was tweeting about how "honored and humbled" he was, I thought I'd point back to a few of the many times he's trashed the news media with sweeping, unsupported accusations of bias that serve only to accelerate the decline of professional journalism.

In 2011, Gardner told Grassroots Radio Colorado:

Gardner: "The press likes to blame the Tea Party for a lot of things, because there’s a bias in the media against people who believe in smaller government."

Worley: "You mean people like us."

Gardner: "People like us."

In January of last year, Gardner said:

Gardner: "Look, the media is going to criticize the Republicans every time we turn around, because we are not in lock-step with the President."

After Romney's self-inflicted election loss in 2012, Gardner blamed the media:

Gardner: “When the American people were watching the news with their family at the dinner table, they saw a media that is gung-ho for the President. So not only were we running an election against the President of the United States, we were running an election against TV stations around the country and inside people’s living rooms.”

Some progressives are so angry at The Post for its Gardner endorsement that they're threatening to cancel their subscriptions.

By doing this, and forsaking the last gasps of Denver's by-far best news source to survive, we'd reduce ourselves to Gardner's own level of extremism that, for some reason, The Denver Post failed to see in Gardner across the spectrum of issues from global warming and immigration to abortion and journalism itself–and beyond.

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  3. Jason Personhood, who has zero credibility as an objective journalist, thinks it is unfair that Gardner recognizes that people like Jason Personhood are biased.

    Udall has run the worst campaign of any of the 6 incumbent Dem senators running in a red or purple state and did not get the usual DP endorsement.  Perhaps the blame lies with Udall.

    1. Meet any nice ewes lately, sheep?

      Must be lonely to need an inflatable ewe for yourself…

      (Oh and btw, wrong candidate to blame… blame it on that bad batch of meth you're smoking)

  4. Journalism trashes Gardner, and the Denver Post, right back:

    Denver Post submits superb entry for most asinine endorsement of 2014 cycle

    The Denver Post threw its support behind Colorado GOP Senate nominee Cory Gardner on Friday, hailing the congressman – who boasts a more conservative voting record than Michele Bachmann and Steve King – as a compromiser who can bring “fresh leadership, energy and ideas” to the U.S. Senate.

    “Congress is hardly functioning these days,” the Post laments, right before it proceeds to endorse the government shutdown-supporting Tea Partier. The paper’s editorial board has decided that Gardner is somehow the answer to this dysfunction, because incumbent Sen. Mark Udall is an incumbent and “is not perceived as a leader,” they guess. So maybe “the time has come for change.”

    The paper bemoans Washington gridlock — and endorses a shutdown-supporting Tea Pahttp://www.salon.com/2014/10/10/denver_post_submits_superb_entry_for_most_asinine_endorsement_of_2014_cycle/?utm_source=huffpost_politics&utm_medrtier to solve it!

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