What isn't reported should be headlines

Members of the media - primarily the national press - are guilty of reporting the news but not taking the time to see if that news is truthful. Call it laziness or prejudice or whatever you like. The fact of the matter is many news outlets accurately report the news but rarely do any homework to determine if what is said is actually the truth.

So in my humble attempt to correct this lack of detail, let me report the following event and then provide some homework to address its truthfulness.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, speaking at a civil rights march in Atlanta Saturday said, "Some changes have to be made so we don't have a repeat of 2000 and 2004 where there was intimidation and discrepancies at the polls. In the state of Ohio, where they had fewer voting booths and long lines in minority neighborhoods and no lines and many voting booths in white neighborhoods, that the balance is not what it should have been."

A report this week by the American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund found that "paid Democrat operatives were far more involved in voter intimidation and suppression activities than were their Republican counterparts during the 2004 presidential election."

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) told the civil rights gathering, "The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy."

The Voting Rights report this week said, "Paid Democrat operatives were charged with slashing tires on Republican get-out-the-vote vans in Milwaukee and an Ohio court order stopped Democrat operatives from calling voters and telling them the incorrect date for election and polling place information."

Jesse Jackson addressed the civil rights gathering and said, "the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities."

The Voting Rights report found, "clear evidence of fraud in the Nov. 2 election in Milwaukee that included hundreds of felons, voters that voted twice and even thousands more ballots that were cast than actually voters recorded as having voted in the city."

And that is the point. If you listen to the racist rhetoric of the civil rights leaders you would think that there is a national conspiracy to disallow Democratic voters from casting their ballots. But when you dig beneath the rhetoric you find that the truth is sometimes vastly different. The voting fraud report was clear. But you wouldn't know that by listening to the left.

It's curious why the national media would report on the Atlanta gathering but make not one mention that some of the facts just don't square with the accusations. Come to think of it, it's not that curious after all.