August 01, 2005

AVWatch: Los Angeles Times still covering up Villaraigosa's past

The previous post ("L.A. Times newsflash: the citizens are angry about illegal immigration") discussed the LAT article "Anger Boils at Illegal Immigrants", which contains this near the end:

Vilified too was Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — not for his heritage, speakers said, but because of his membership in MEChA, a Chicano rights organization, when he was a student at UCLA.

Memo to the Times: Villaraigosa has renounced that "Chicano rights organization". You don't usually renounce things that are good. Calling something a "rights organization" implies that it's good. Please, revise your spin guide.

I guess old habits of covering up for Villaraigosa's past are hard to break.

Note also the backhanded smear from Times reporter Lisa Richardson: "speakers said".

And, the "so-called" liberal media just can't get their story straight on this issue. As pointed out here, the SacBee said that AV "quickly" renounced MEChA. "Quickly" as in a few decades and about a week before the run-off election.

Posted to Immigration2005b at August 1, 2005 01:43 PM

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