Tag Archive for "Calkins Media"
October 20, 2009Patrick Murphy has been taking a bit of grief since the summer for dodging actual town hall meetings in favor of sham teleconferences with questions pre-screened and posed by his fans in the adoring local news media.
Grab your morning coffee and a nice, sticky bear claw and head to the computer to check the morning news from Calkins Media’s Bucks County Courier Times Online. “Your Internet Starts Here,” don’t you know?
Advertising dollars must be harder to come by than I thought. On the bright side for the BCCT, the red dots totally obscure anything untoward and are not suggestive of anything else in either shape or color.
Suggestive photo courtesy of your morning paper’s official site below.
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Patrick Murphy’s Public Relations firm, also known as Calkins Media, will see two of their Democrat-biased publications host debates among the three candidates vying for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional district seat.
The Murphy-Courier-Times will prop Murphy up during a debate on October 15 at 2PM at Bristol’s Riverside Theater, and the MurphyIntelligencer will toss Murphy softball questions at Central Bucks West High School on October 29.
In addition to accidentally elected Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy and Republican Tom Manion, Bucks County’s own Pat Paulsen candidate Tom Lingenfelter will participate in the events.
One of the questioners at the Murphy-Times event will be Gary Weckselblatt, who was last seen reporting on Patrick Murphy’s bumbling dry-mouthed Democrat Convention speech from a Patrick Murphy Watch Party and Phone Bank, trying to present the reaction of pro-Murphy partisans as if they were representative of the population at large in a report entitled “Murphy Delivers in Prime Time.”
Bucks Right was able to obtain Weckselblatt’s scratch pad that reveals a draft of the questions he plans to pose to the candidates.
To Pat: Tell us how you met your lovely wife Jennifer.
To Evil Manion: Inexperienced pretender Manion, please describe how Republicans ruined the economy.
To Pat: Would you like to come to dinner with my family?
To Pat: How did you get so dreamy?
To Scary Manion: Big pharma candidate Manion, why do Republicans want to poison our water and kill our children?
To Lingenfelter: Describe your greatest problem with the Manion candidacy.
How did the Manion campaign allow Weckselblatt to be a questioner, and why did they agree to appear with spoiler Lingenfelter?
If you were looking for a fair and unbiased reaction to Patrick Murphy’s speech at the Democrat Convention that genuinely reflected the pulse of the community at large, where would you go? Would you head to a local bar? Perhaps a community center? Would you talk to people in the street?
If you were a writer for Calkins Media’s Bucks County Courier-Times, you would head straight for a partisan “Patrick Murphy Watch Party and Phone Bank” organized through Barack Obama’s official web site at the home of a “Proud, Loud, and Excited Volunteer” for the Obama campaign. Then you’d obscure the fact that your quotes were gathered at a partisan event for volunteers. Of course, that doesn’t warrant a mention. Everyone assumes what they read in the Courier-Times is biased in favor of Murphy anyway, right?
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The Courier-Times division of the Patrick Murphy campaign runs a nice little bit of interference for the candidate in their Saturday edition. Writer Brian Scheid attempts to diffuse the swirling controversy surrounding Li’l Pat’s decision to judge a zucchini race rather than debate energy solutions with opponent Tom Manion while barely mentioning the controversy and ignoring the handful of protesters who squared off with Murphy at the zucchini event.
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Dave Sommers at BucksNewsOnline focuses on the level of coverage the Bucks County Courier-Times is devoting to third-party PA 8th Congressional District candidate Tom Lingenfelter and wonders if they aren’t intentionally propping Lingenfelter up to siphon votes from Republican challenger Tom Manion and help Democrat Patrick “Li’l Pat” Murphy.
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The Wikipedia page for Republican Tom Manion, challenger to Democrat Patrick “sMurphy” Murphy in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, has been deleted along with that of another Republican challenger for a Democrat-held seat.
In reporting the status of his ongoing Bristol Township corruption forensic audit, auditor Joseph Barbagallo revealed that the matter is also under FBI investigation.
In their usual “Guess the Party Affiliation” style, the Bucks County Courier-Times reports on the update Barbagallo gave during last night’s township meeting.
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Republican Congressional candidate Tom Manion has hit back against heartless comments by Calkins Media’s The Intelligencer and other related Democrats in a strong letter to the newspaper. Democrat hacks (and the Intelligencer a day later) questioned his personal motivation in honoring his fallen soldier son as part of his congressional campaign.
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The Calkins papers (Bucks County Courier Times, Burlington County Times, Intelligencer) are tools of the Democratic party. They have been for as long as I can remember. They carry water for the Democrats, and attack Republicans for doing things for which they’d previously praised Democrats. We don’t have conservative media in Bucks County.
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