I mentioned this to Glenn the other day. I think it's time to call a moratorium on "Name That Party," at least when local papers are concerned. Do you really think there's a single person in greater Detroit who *doesn't* know Kilpatrick's affiliation? It's totally unnecessary to include that information.

Now, if the story ran in an out-of-town paper, yes, you'd want that up-front. Indeed, my local Lansing State Journal covers the story today, and identifies Kilpatrick as a Democrat at the start of paragraph 3.

But in Detroit, everybody knows: grass is green, the sky is blue, and local politicians are all Democrats. Goes without saying, so why say it?

Gene Dillenburg
Lansing, Michigan
(Go, Spartans!)

Given that Andrew Sullivan is all over the "Christianists", I'm sure that he'll cover this!

(well...)

I mentioned this to Glenn the other day. I think it's time to call a moratorium on "Name That Party," at least when local papers are concerned. Do you really think there's a single person in greater Detroit who *doesn't* know Kilpatrick's affiliation? It's totally unnecessary to include that information.

Now, if the story ran in an out-of-town paper, yes, you'd want that up-front. Indeed, my local Lansing State Journal covers the story today, and identifies Kilpatrick as a Democrat at the start of paragraph 3.

But in Detroit, everybody knows: grass is green, the sky is blue, and local politicians are all Democrats. Goes without saying, so why say it?

Gene Dillenburg
Lansing, Michigan
(Go, Spartans!)

Gene. That would be fine if the same applied to republicans, which it does not.
Got the point, now?

I really love the little cat face on the bottom of Coco's bowl!

Eric,
Your "belief" in the need to read a local daily newspaper is the most "Christianist" statement of faith in a higher power in this whole post.

As a former newspaper journalist, I can tell you for certain that there is very little "news" in a newspaper, and there is no need to feel compelled to read one every day, let alone subscribe to one.

Please don't tell me you also watch the local six o'clock news programs out of some belief in a need to watch one. I worked for six months at an NBC affiliate's news outfit and quickly concluded I never needed to watch local television news ever again, and I haven't. That was 1990.

Over from Instapundit. This morning's Boston Globe had the resignation on page one, below the fold, and then took it to page A2. The rather longish article didn't mentioned his membership in the Democratic Party until the last sentence. It never mentioned that his mother is a US Congresswoman from Michigan. But, I live in Baja New Hampshire and maybe the later editions had the news up higher.

Regards -- Cliff Krieger

Heh. Lied under oath? What's the big deal? Clinton did that and skated. Now that's racism: Clinton can do it, but Kwame can't. Where are the dem defenders?

NPR had reports on Kilpatrick yesterday and this morning. I listened closely and never hear the word "Democrat".

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94312312
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94271285

There should be a moratorium on "Name that Party". It's too darn easy to play.

As an Ann Arbor native (albeit now a Texan), may I suggest that the Ann Arbor News is at least as good a newspaper as the Detroit Free Press. It was back in the 1970s when I last lived there.

Also, of the two Detroit papers, the Detroit News always seemed to have better news coverage than the Freep. (Although the Freep had better funnies -- which was more important as a child.) In fact, that is the website I go to when I want to find out what is happening in my native land.

Those messy details don't really come up when you're writing about your friends.

Do you really think there's a single person in greater Detroit who *doesn't* know Kilpatrick's affiliation?

Do you think there's something called the "Detroit Wide Web"?

I'm not from Detroit, and I've only spent 4 days in Michigan (mostly in Ann Arbor). But really - a black politician from one of the worst-run cities in America doesn't need to be identified by party, because it's obvious he's a Democrat. And with a name like "Kwame", I don't even need to see a picture to know he's black.

If the story was about the Mayor of Ann Arbor, then it would be important to include the party affiliation.

"And aren't "Christianists" supposed to be Republicans?"

Minorities, especially African-Americans, get a pass on religion (among other things). They're oppressed and need the opiate of the masses, dont'cha know!

My only question is does anyone who is not on the Left or Democrat ever object to playing "Name that Party"? Can you give me an example of one? If not, why not?

I find it more than amusing that Democrats (and Dem supporters) really, really don't think it's important to identify Democratic malfeasors as Democrats.

Anyway, I moved to Michigan from Illinois about a decade ago, and there isn't that much difference politically.

However, a friend from Iowa said that while she was in Iowa she felt like she was the farthest Left person in Iowa, but now that she lives in Ann Arbor she's pretty sure she's the farthest Right person in Ann Arbor. I'll have to tell her about you, Eric.

;->=

Welcome to what we fondly refer to as "The People's Republic of Ann Arbor."

Another Ann Arbor native, and I have to say the best local newspaper in the area is... the Observer.

The Freep and the Snews are both paradigms for lazy reporting and bad overall writing. I'd read them anyway, just to get the local news, however for anything else, you're in trouble.

I am sure he was set up by Karl Rove to go down in an election year so that he could scare America into not electing a black man as President. I am sure the Republicans will point to Kilpatrick and say "See what happens if you elect the black man?"

Perhaps instead of caring who a black man might have slept with, we should care more about how Bush's economic policies have destroyed Detriot and the rest of Michigan.

Forget the lipstick, that dog looks like some kinda hell hound with the glowing eyes and all. I'd check the want ads for an exorcist.

As a lifelong resident of SEMI, I'd say that the Free Press may have better writers, but liberal ideological bias permeates everything in the Freep. There's not a single right of center columnist. The Detroit News, I think, has better sports coverage and a better comics section (well, it has Zippy, all the difference in the world), not to mention an editorial page that won't make you spit out your morning coffee.

Before he went to Washington, the late Tony Snow ran the DetNews editorial page.

Moose,

The only problem with your scenario is that the party that originally sparked the scandal because the Detroit PD had to do an internal investigation of possible abuse of overtime and other actions of the mayor's executive protection unit, i.e. his DPD bodyguards, took place years ago in 2003 if I'm not mistaken.

Karl Rove may be smart but he would have had to have been a fortune teller to figure out that five years later Obama would be the Dem's nominee.

Play the race card all you want, but virtually all the players in this scandal, Kwame, Carlita (she's rumored to have beaten a stripper she discovered in a compromising position with her husband), Prosecutor Worthy, the two whistleblowing cops, the Wayne County sheriff, etc. are black.

I think it's time to call a moratorium on "Name That Party," at least when local papers are concerned. Do you really think there's a single person in greater Detroit who *doesn't* know Kilpatrick's affiliation? It's totally unnecessary to include that information.

Now, if the story ran in an out-of-town paper, yes, you'd want that up-front. Indeed, my local Lansing State Journal covers the news today, and identifies Kilpatrick as a Democrat at the start of paragraph 3.

But in Detroit, everybody knows: the grass is green, the sky is blue, and local politicians are all Democrats. Goes without saying, so why say it?

Lansing, Michigan
(Go, Spartans!)

To answer the question, I object to "Name that Party" and I'm a Republican.

OK.

Well, actually I don't. We're still looking for the One Kind Republican to object on the behalf of Democratic crooks everywhere but since we're all heartless it may take a while.

Name That Party is supposed to get harder very soon in Seattle. The local establishment wants to make the county elections "nonpartisan." This will make them ever so much more fair and objective -- they actually manage to say this with straight faces. They already have that system in municipal elections, the result being that almost nobody knows that the city council is jammed with Green Party stalwarts.
Ugh.

Ann Arbor? Good God, man. What did you do wrong.

Go to Zingermans. Is Loy's Double D Pizza still in business? I remember it fondly.

Ah, but Bozoer @4:07pm, how do you know he CAN'T? Underestimate the dark powers of Sith Lord Rove at your peril, youngling.

Somewhere, Rove is smirking under his hood and cackling, "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it..."

(Yeah, I'm still trying to find the "sarcasm" tag in HTML.)

I often neglect to put in the sarcasm tag.