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October 06, 2015 02:05 PM UTC

Morgan Carroll Tells It Like It Is, GOP Helps Spread The Word

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Senate Minority Leader Morgan Carroll.
Senate Minority Leader Morgan Carroll.

As one of the nation’s most competitive congressional races heading into 2016, national Republican political media operations are clamoring for the chance to catch Democratic CD-6 candidate Morgan Carroll in a gaffe they can use in a TV spot. America Rising PAC is one of the bigger “independent” message groups working on the GOP side, and they’ve detailed a tracker to keep tabs on Carroll at public events.

Unfortunately for America Rising, their first “scoop” on Carroll is likely to help her more than it hurts:

During a September 2015 “Listening Tour” in Douglas County, Colorado, Democratic candidate for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District Morgan Carroll attacked what she called the “mainstream media,” specifically calling out The Denver Post and two of its top journalists.

When discussing the need for strong grassroots support for her congressional bid, Carroll claimed that she and her supporters “can’t count on the mainstream media to do real reporting.” Carroll then launched a diatribe against The Denver Post Editorial Board and two of the paper’s top journalists – Politics Editor Chuck Plunkett and Editorial Page Editor Vincent Carroll…

Oh noes! You mean the same Denver Post that has seen its reputation on the left collapse in a heap after their perfidious endorsement of Cory Gardner? The same Chuck Plunkett who made an unfavorable story about Rep. Mike Coffman vanish completely after deciding he “hadn’t heard” something everybody else knew?

It seems there are some circumstances on the ground here in Colorado that America Rising would do well to bone up on–starting with the fact that Democrats in Colorado agree with Morgan Carroll. Here’s the heart of Carroll’s recorded remarks:

CARROLL: “See they get to reinvent themselves and when we don’t point it out, the problem is is that it’s almost being complicit in letting it stand as true. And we’re going to need help on social media so it’s not just ‘oh candidate said this and that,’ but part of what we’re going to have to do because TV is so expensive in buying is have folks that are willing to ‘friend,’ ‘like,’ ‘share,’ so when we need to do rapid response on fact check that we have a grassroots army of people that are willing to ‘like,’ ‘share,’ ‘forward,’ call it out. And eventually at this point the media, if anything might wag, and decide to pick it up. But we can’t count on the mainstream media to do real reporting.”

There’s no nice way to say it: the sum of our experience with the local Colorado political media, especially since the closure of the Rocky Mountain News in 2009 and the steady contraction of political reporting at the Denver Post and other local outlets, strongly agrees with Sen. Carroll’s assessment that the mainstream media can’t be counted on to reliably report the full story. In recent years, the traditional journalism dynamic has been turned on its head by blogs and social media, to the point where news routinely breaks first without any help from the mainstream media–which is often days late to the story now if they cover it at all.

Too often, the decision of what mainstream outlets cover is not made based on news value. But social media still can’t transcend social networks like a news story. In short, if this is what Carroll is telling her core supporters, she’s exactly right, and she needs to keep saying it. There’s not a single constituency this hurts her with, except for a couple of named Denver Post employees who most Democrats we know agree need shaming.

Besides, aren’t Republicans usually the ones harping on the “lamestream media?” Not in this town, we guess.

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19 thoughts on “Morgan Carroll Tells It Like It Is, GOP Helps Spread The Word”

  1. Go Carroll! While my heart sank just a little more every time Udall or Romanoff said something last cycle, every time Carroll opens her mouth or hits a keyboard I like her better and feel more hopeful that we aren't going to be asked to support another waste of time lousy campaign in 2016. She's just saying what we all know. Whatever happens, working for or writing checks to Carroll won't feel like just another exercise in futility. This gal's got game, smarts and backbone. I have a feeling she won't just be meekly obeying know nothing ops from out of state.

  2. Plunkett and Carrol (Vinny) are "journalists" in the very much the same sense that Moderatus is a nuclear aircraft carrier …

    … still, I guess they are among the "top" at that dried pulp thingy, whatever it is. 

    1. Moddy, since the glaring distinction is not apparent to you, let me spell it out:

      Numbnuts in your party bitch and moan when the mainstream media tells the truth.

      We (like Morgan) call BS on the media when they don't..

      1. Davie, you can't expect moddy to follow you when you use words like diss-sting-shun.

        That's three syllables and no good right-winger wastes three syllables without getting in God-guns-guys.

        Lord, you liberal elites will never learn.

        1. Which is why Trump supporters have the worst grammar according to a Facebook study. No doubt proud of it, too.

          http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/07/trump-supporters-have-the-worst-grammar-study-finds/

          Not a surprise since 90% of Trump's vocabulary consists of "greatest" and "fantastic" in reference to himself and his ideas (such as they are) and "losers",  "worst" and, Trumps run away fave, "disaster" in reference to all opponents and their ideas.

          Yes… "fantastic" and "disaster" have three syllables. Maybe that's why he repeats them so often….. to make sure his supporters learn to understand his more advanced rhetorical flights.

           

    2. She isn't bashing "the media". She's pointing out the specific failings or worse of particular "journalists" working for a particular publication with the facts on her side. Of course you wouldn't know the difference. 

      1. Potato Potahto. I could list dozens of media errors that favor Democrats. The fact remains that when Republicans complain about the media, you automatically don't pay it any mind because they're Republicans. It's a partisan double standard.

        2. Those are called facts.

          You know, like climate change is real and happening now; the earth is older than 6000 years; and Noah did not build a big boat but neglected to save the dinosaurs. 

          I see why you're confused.  This GOoPer guy is the head of the science committee. 

          Here is what happens when you ask your presidential candidates if they believe in evolution. 

  6. My wife just got a call on her cellphone from a pollster (she thinks the company begins with an "A") asking for favorable/unfavorable on Morgan Carroll and Mike Coffman, and which party she would vote for.

     

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