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The Politico’s True Colors

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 20th, 2011 at 09:39 PM  | 

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The Politico has been losing more and more good writers of late and, correspondingly, has been more and more prone to run Democrat talking points in their articles.

It’s becoming more apparent why the Politico is showing its Democrat colors and becoming more Huffington Post like.

Let’s review:

John Harris is married to either the present or former head of NARAL in Virginia.

Jonathan Allen used to work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

And now Andy Barr is leaving to go work for the Democratic Party. So, in other words, he can’t even hide behind the excuse that he has a personal relationship with person X. Noooo . . . he’s going to shill for the party.

Let’s just keep this in perspective then. The Politico is no different from other newspapers, but its staff seems to bounce a whole lot more freely between the paper and the Democratic Party.

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  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    …was always a left wing machine, not much different than the rest of the media.

    Its bias is simply more apparent now.

  • jerry39

    Last 4-5 times I went on there nearly all of the titles showed obvious leftward bias.

    Maybe that just reflects the quality of lefties, as a good one would at least hide the bias until you had already committed to reading the article.

    Used to hit them about even with RCP, even though the bias was there on a lesser scale, but now its 10-1 in favor of RCP. I think they flirted with a good format for awhile – but not so much anymore. Seems like you really need a two headed monster to keep a site like that balanced – a leftie and a rightie with equal editorial power.

  • carolina

    They have really been hurtin’ since the GOP took control of the House. GOP staffers don’t share the info/gossip with them. The dem staffers only know 2nd hand gossip. No wonder Andy Barr is leaving.
    This has been pretty obvious to me since I started reading their site in Jan 2010.

  • carolina

    They have really been hurtin’ since the GOP took control of the House. GOP staffers don’t share the info/gossip with them. The dem staffers only know 2nd hand gossip. No wonder Andy Barr is leaving.
    This has been pretty obvious to me since I started reading their site in Jan 2010.

  • Getting_Back_to_Basics

    Putting the Dem slant aside, it seems the quality of Politico’s writing in the past 6 months has dropped like a rock, and it hasn’t hit the floor yet. I thought maybe my bias was reading into this too much, but I guess I’m not the only one. I used to read/check them several times a day and still do out of force of habit, but it’s rare to get through 3 or 4 paragraphs and not find out and out farce in the writing (not just slant but really poor writing).

  • gekster

    It’s just now that you are seeing it. LOL :)

  • popdaddy

    There was a time during the 2008 election cycle I misunderstood the Politico blog.
    I thought it was an independent journalist endeavor that presented a good forum for political discussion. My realization that it was just another state run socialist democrat hack site was evident by October 2008.

    I don?t bother to click on any links today to the Politico blog. It?s like the dead tree media trying to hold on to being reverent by their finger tips

  • zooboy

    Maybe staffers of Republicans could share late-breaking scoops/ inside information with some members of this site. It would improve traffic, and exposure of our ideas to a broader audience. Or maybe a sister site?

  • gekster

    Don’t you even read the articles and diaries.
    This site is ontop of everything.
    I guess you are driving with eyes closed.

  • Adjoran

    It was never anything but an online outlet for leftist Journ-O-List types who couldn’t find work in major media.

    They did seem to try to cover up their biases early on, but not lately. They’re leftist hacks, nothing more.

  • jerry39

    The appeal of politico was a more colorful multimedia experience than drudge with interaction if you wanted it, and a pretense of neutrality with enough counterweight to make it interesting. My observation was that their internal polls tended to show about 60-40 left of center if you drew a line in the middle. They have all but dropped the pretense of late and I agree that quality has taken a big hit too. I don’t think RS would benefit from being a Right of center site that pretended to be neutral. However, a sister-site or front end that resembled Huffpo in terms of multi-media – headline layouts – etc, is a void for conservatives, of course I really dont look around that much – so I could be wrong. I’m also not sure that having too many places to go wouldn’t dilute the quality of debate and commentary.

  • Finrod

    (Spoonerism intentional.)

    Personally, I’d prefer RedState to stay focused on politics like it is– the main site, anyways. Once upon a time there was a sports.redstate.com subsite where RedStaters could talk about sports, but it has fallen into ruin, alas. Something like that but focused on tech and pop culture would be an interesting side project, though.

  • jerry39

    For fear of cannibalizing what is here already – but I would like to see the response to a conservative equivalent maybe by some 3rd party – without the risk to RS.

  • Viator

    Please use the correct term.

  • wolfgang

    J-O-U-R-N-O-L-I-S-T
    It didn’t disband, it only went dormant.
    Its Baaacckk!!!

  • johnt

    less so the loons who by my read are there only to vomit their bile & take their savagery for a walk. It’s an education to see adults fanatically defend a man, and a party, doing their best to destroy the nation, hurt them, and all the while holding them in utter contempt.
    They’re the children of the media.