From the story on Kay Bailey Hutchison’s official announcement that she’s running for reelection to the Senate:
No prominent candidates have announced plans to challenge Hutchison.
How nice of the reporter to decide for us who is a “real” candidate and who isn’t. And how nice of the Chronicle, who outsourced this task to the Associated Press, to leave that bit of editorializing in place despite the fact that Hutchison’s announced opponent, who’s been on the campaign trail for a year now, lives right here in Houston. Hey, everyone’s gonna vote for that polite moderate KBH anyway, so what does it matter, right?
Houston Chronicle Joins KBH Reelection Committee
OK, it’s not that bad, but courtesy of Off the Kuff, I see that the Chronicle (via Associated Press) has reported that “no major candidate” is running against Kay Bailey Hutchison, fawningly noting that she “may be the most popular politican in Texas…
Free Ride for Kay
Does Kay Bailey Hutchison really have the media down in Texas duped this badly? (Click through the links.)…
WHy on earth did the Chronicle and Express-News run a wire story on this? At least the Chron editors had enough sense to delete the reference )included in the Express-News) to KBH as “unbeatable”
Fair and Balanced?
Right, er Right-wing, I mean.
I wait patiently for Kevin and Anne to weigh in with their usual Chronicle-bias-induced apoplectic indignation.
Verrrrry patiently.