I really like the way that Ben DeGrow approached writing about the U-Turns that Mark Udall has taken. It is just as easy to make the point that Ben was making without putting the word in front of Udall's name.
We claim to be uniformly neutral on primary races and we try to be. One race that we are watching involves a fellow blogger, Joshua Sharf. Joshua was the first Colorado blogger we knew of. Several years ago, Powerline featured his blog. He had links to several blogs which we followed. That was our introduction to Colorado blogging.
When the Colorado Index first began, we would have followed his blog but it was on "vacation." He restarted it, but published most of his political stuff on the Gang of Four. We followed him there. Now that he is no longer writing for Gang of Four, we will be picking up his political blogging entries only.
If we are to be true to our own standards, we cannot endorse Joshua. We can strongly suggest that readers study up on that race and decide for themselves who they should support. Here are some places to start: Rocky Mountain News; Ben DeGrow; Gang of Four.
I'm laughing at Ed Quillen who spent good ink in yesterday's Denver Post knocking some of my work from a previous life. I left him a love note:
As the "rightist" who discovered that Udall quote and have used it over and over again, I'd like to point out that there are conservative true believers who clearly don't think I am conservative enough to have my blog included on their blogroll.
You have resorted to that sleazy crutch of lazy journalism that is name calling and call me a "rightist" you old left wing windbag (lol). I guess you are modeling your writing after Taylor West who conveniently claims that Bob Schaffer is name calling when he is not but her boss is.
Sloppy, sloppy.
I think it is unethical Ed, for you to not acknowledge that it is the liberal blogs and the msm that have tagged Mark Udall as a "liberal,"reliably left wing," and "extremist." You surely saw that on the same blog. Upper right hand corner.
Later, I added:
On rethinking and revisiting your Mark Udall comments, the event that Mark Udall was attending when he called Boulder his touchstone was a Boulder County Democratic Party Truman dinner. The original Times-Call article is linked:
http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?id=3864
Those dinners are dominated by 1) Democrats, and 2) Boulder City residents. There won't have been many independents or Republicans in that audience.
You knew that when you wrote this piece. You damage your reputation when you imply that he had and was speaking to a broader audience. I routinely refer to this kind of deception, and it is deception, as feeding the big blue lie machine.
For that, the Denver Post gets this stuffed into our "The Denver Post Embarrasses Itself" box.
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