Saturday there's a debate between CA Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger (Republican) and challenger Phil Angelides (Democrat). The moderator, Stan Statham, according to the L.A. Times is "a former Republican assemblyman."
Holy crap! That's a benefit to Arnold!
Or is it? He "said he changed his registration" to Independent/Decline-to-state twelve years ago. Notice they write he "said" that, not that they checked or that it was a fact.
Public records of campaign donations he made (found at OpenSecrets.org and FollowtheMoney.org) show Jack O'Connell (Democrat), Gina Papan (Democrat) and Xavier Becerra (Democrat). I didn't find any Republican donations for him.
If you don't know that public information about the moderator you'd assume from the language used by the L.A. Times that Arnold might have a partisan advantage with this moderator. This should be fundamental journalism. Instead, bloggers have to check up on this to see if there's something the Free Press isn't telling. Who will see or hear what most of the bloggers do compared to the numbers of articles sourced from a major newspaper like the L.A. Times or newswire like the AP and Reuters and repeated in local papers, news broadcasts and news breaks?
The embattled L.A. Times seems to hate Arnold. They did the infamous groping story just before the recall election that brought him to power. Just last month they used information given to them by the Angelides campaign to try to embarrass Arnold for calling a Latina (Republican) legislator "hot-blooded" in a private meeting. Reacting, she claimed to call herself that too.
The obtaining of that recording is being investigated for criminal activity since it was on a password-protected server location. The L.A. Times did not admit it was sourced from the challenger's campaign until they had been caught.
Quotes above from this L.A. Times article.
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