{"id":4523,"date":"2007-05-08T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2007-06-05T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T17:05:41","slug":"kansas-city-star-white-washers-of-landmark-gop-voter-fraud-expose-represented-by-mo-law-firm-at-heart-of-voter-fraud-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4523","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Paper, Whitewashers of Landmark GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Expos\u00e9, Represented by MO Law Firm At Heart of ‘Voter Fraud’ Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>If you’ve yet to notice, the latest daily must-read covering the very heart and soul of the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal is Fired Up ! Missouri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They have been reporting on the nub of the issue — the resounding corruption and\/or cover-ups emanating out of Thor Hearne’s MO law firm Lathrop & Gage — in a way that even the good folks at TPMMuckracker<\/a> have yet to fully comprehend and\/or adequately cover.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Howard Beale at FU!MO (an interesting acronym, now that we write it) has a notable follow-up today<\/a> to his Friday story<\/a> on the KC Star<\/i> having re-written the excellent McClatchy story<\/a> on Missouri as “Ground Zero” for the GOP “Voter Fraud” fraud.<\/p>\n

The KC Star<\/i>, ironically enough, owned by McClatchy’s parent company, had rewritten the piece to make it far more GOP\/Missouri Politico-friendly as we subsequently covered here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beale today, has a suggestion as to why the Star<\/i> may have gone out of their way to whitewash a previously brilliant piece of investigative reporting by McClatchy’s Greg Gordon when they reran it (a day after McClatchy’s other papers had done so): KC Star’s<\/i> corporate attorney is none other than Hearne’s Lathrop & Gage, the very firm that is at the absolutely epi-center<\/i> of this entire matter in many more ways than one, including representing a number of the subjects of Gordon’s story, such as Hearne, Gov. Matt Blunt, etc.<\/p>\n

All of which begs another important question which Beale forgot to ask in his coverage: Why did the Star<\/i> fail to make that disclosure for readers when they reran even the whitewashed version of the McClatchy piece?<\/p>\n

After bullet-pointing several of the L&G connections to all of these coming out of the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal, Beale concludes:<\/p>\n

It has, in some ways, always been puzzling that the Star has been so far behind other news outlets in reporting on the DOJ\/U.S. Attorney scheme despite its connection to the Kansas City area and the region’s own U.S. Attorney. Makes you wonder about just what sort of counsel the paper’s been keeping.<\/div>\n

Indeed. But readers shouldn’t have to “wonder”. The paper ought to be disclosing it in every article — if they still have any journalistic ethics left at the joint, in any case.<\/p>\n

Go figure…<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/i> What is<\/i> disclosed by the Star at the end of their re-written McClatchy hatchett job<\/a>, btw, is this: “McClatchy Newspapers correspondent Margaret Talev, and The Star’s Steve Kraske and Mark Morris contributed to this report.” McClatchy’s Talev was listed as a contributor on the original version<\/a> of the piece. As to the others, we don’t yet know much about Morris personally, but Kraske’s GOP leanings and Fox “News”-style tactics of “journalism” are well-dissected in this Sunday piece<\/a> from Beale, covering Kraske’s own whitewashing of the duplicitous, anti-democratic, politicization of the DoJ under the guise of the GOP’s “Voter Fraud” canard as run at the Star<\/i> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Why even one<\/i> reporter would be needed to rewrite such a story is already worth questioning. Putting two on the case, especially in light of the grotesque rewrites, is certainly notable. Especially<\/i> when one of them is Kraske.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve yet to notice, the latest daily must-read covering the very heart and soul of the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal is Fired Up ! Missouri. They have been reporting on the nub of the issue — the resounding corruption and\/or cover-ups emanating out of Thor Hearne’s MO law firm Lathrop & Gage — in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,223,265,188,253,120],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acvr","category-dept-of-justice","category-kansas-city-star","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-matt-blunt","category-missouri"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}