{"id":3695,"date":"2007-10-28T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/10\/the-la-times-has-got-to-be-kid.html"},"modified":"2007-10-28T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T15:19:00","slug":"the-la-times-has-got-to-be-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/10\/the-la-times-has-got-to-be-kid.html","title":{"rendered":"The LA Times has got to be kidding"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is what passes for journalism today? I read the first couple paragraphs and then stopped because I didn’t want to waste any more of my valuable time than that on it. So, when does the paper do an indepth story on Hillary’s time as a lawyer in Arkansas?
\nFor those of you who aren’t interested in following the link long enough to see what it’s about here’s a snippet:<\/p>\n

The case appeared to be open and shut.
\nThe county sheriff had been caught selling an illegal whiskey still from the back of the county jail. The buyers were a federal informant and an undercover federal investigator. The sheriff, to elude honest police, had even escorted the illegal still out of town.
\nBut for Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Thompson, few cases would prove easy.
\nToday, as a Republican candidate for president, Thompson is cultivating an image as a tough prosecutor who, like the character he played on TV’s “Law & Order,” battled powerful criminals during his three-year stint as a prosecutor.
\nHe was “attacking crime and public corruption,” boasts a video played at his campaign events. During a candidate debate this month, Thompson said he spent those years “prosecuting most of the major federal crimes in middle Tennessee — most of the major ones.”
\nBut a review of the 88criminal cases Thompson handled at the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, from 1969 to 1972, reveals a different and more human portrait — that of a young lawyer learning the ropes on routine cases involving gambling, mail theft and, in one instance, talking dirty on CB radio.
\nThere were a few bank robbers and counterfeiters. But more than anything, Thompson took on the state’s moonshiners and a local culture, rooted in Tennessee’s hills and hollows, that celebrated the independent whiskey maker’s battle against the government’s revenue agents.
\nTwenty-seven of his cases involved moonshining — more than any other crime.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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