Who better to come on local NBC affiliate’s Sunday political magazine, Politically Speaking, to discuss the DeMaio-Peters congressional race than established DeMaio-bashers Sara Libby of the VOSD and Carl Luna, community college guidance counselor?
Libby, of course, is the “journalist” who regardless of the fact that DeMaio has made his positions on social issues clear, feels that DeMaio should talk about them all the time and build his campaign around them.
Luna, however, is I guess what local media resorts to as credible objective opinion based on the fact that they seem to go to him all too frequently for political insights (side note: there must be a high school civics teacher somewhere in San Diego better prepared for this?).
Luna made the jaw-dropping suggestion that the GOP should employ an “ABC” strategy, “Anyone But Carl.” Huh?
Rarely does a challenger candidate jump into a race in which his polling numbers are as high as Carl’s are against the incumbent. His internal polling was reported to show him with a 10% lead over faux-moderate Scott Peters, confirmed weeks later as 9% by an independent polling source. National Republican leaders tout DeMaio as one of the top recruits in the nation and DeMaio enters the race with millions in name ID, a record of effectiveness in reforming San Diego (managed competition, pension reform, and stopping the sales tax increase), and a proven fundraising machine. Additionally, he won the 52nd District overlap by 12% in his race for Mayor, and that does not include GOP strongholds Coronado and Poway. And Luna-cy suggests he’s the wrong candidate?
One can only ask: WTF?
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Carl Luna indisputably has a strong left-wing bias, but to dismiss this professor with a PhD as simply a “community college guidance counselor” says more about the writer’s credibility than it does about Dr. Luna’s.
Hypocrisy q.
Your knee jerk reactionary genuflecting to anyone with a PhD after his name says more about your credibility than that of Scaramanga or even Dr. Luna PhD. The local NBC affiliate should employ an “ABL” strategy, “Anyone but Luna”. Change your moniker to a more appropriate, “Hypocrite speaks”.
What exactly does it take to have your accomplishments respected on this site? Obviously, earning a PhD doesn’t do it nor does being Mayor of the country’s 8th largest city. I know being President of the United States isn’t sufficient. I remember the post claiming that it was advantageous not going to college. I guess once you figure out that Irwin Jacobs is a Democrat, successful entrepreneur and businessman will probably no longer cut it either.
From one of the all-time great movies, “Drunk, fat and stupid is no way to go through life.” That’s not fair – I have no idea whether you need to mix in a salad.
Hypocrisy is mixing apples with kumquats, as usual — trying to avoid the central objection raised by Scaramanga. Hypo, raising the issue of the press picking a biased source for supposedly objective discussion has zippo to do with disrespect for political hacks who at least everyone KNOWS are biased.
It is a consistent weakness of the press to call on (inevitably uber-liberal) academics for objective commentary. EVERY time these operatives are on-air, it should be announced that they are presenting the progressive spin on an issue.
Speaking as a longtime (failed) political hack, I doubt that ANYONE who sees or hears me thinks that I’m imparting objective commentary. I never pretend otherwise. Luna ET AL DO pretend they are objective — all that is missing is the pipe smoking. The press tacitly allows this charade to continue.
NOTHING wrong with being biased. Lord knows I am. But the difference is that academics are sought out for their credibility, totally disregarding their inbred liberal mindset.