Saturday, August 28, 2010

Your Random Saturday

Hadn't spotted (but suspected) this batch of bias called out by Ann Coulter on those creepy crooks out in California:
There have been hundreds of news stories about Bell city officials' jaw-dropping salaries. In this poor city on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the per capita annual income is $24,800 a year, the city manager, Robert Rizzo, had a salary of $787,637...

Rizzo was the highest-paid government employee in the entire country...With benefits, his total annual compensation, according to the Los Angeles Times, came to $1.5 million a year...

Not only that, but Rizzo was entitled to 28 weeks off a year for vacation and sick leave...

The police chief, Randy Adams, was making $457,000 -- $770,046 including benefits. The assistant city manager, Angela Spaccia, had a $376,288 salary, with a total compensation package of $845,960...

According to Nexis, there have been more than 300 news stories reporting on the Bell scandal. Guess how many mentioned the party affiliation of the corrupt government bureaucrats?

One. Yes, just one. Now guess if the government officials were Democrats or Republicans? Yes, that is correct. Congratulations -- you've qualified for our bonus round!

The one newspaper to cough up party affiliations, The Orange County Register, admitted that the corrupt officials were all Democrats only in response to reader complaints about the peculiar omission.

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