Saturday, July 26, 2014
From the Very Beginning…
At yesterday’s meeting of the Conservative Agenda, Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane said he is never surprised when Political Insiders ask about The Blower’s latest exclusive report, but Kane was surprised, however, when one of our more recent Political Insiders in attendance asked about the first time our Beloved Whistleblower Publisher “Blew the Whistle” on a really deserving public official.
Hurley the Historian was ready with a full report, because every day since November 4, 1992, The Whistleblower Newswire has been turning over rocks and shining the light of truth underneath so you could see the vermin squirming.
Unlike today, Kane used to get a lot of well-deservedcoverage in the local press for his Marvelous Muckraking. Our Beloved Whistleblower Publisher was even asked to present the Annual Whistleblower Professional Journalism Awards to members of the Queen City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at that group’s August 15, 1991 meeting.
But that actually wasn’t the beginning. A decade before that, when Ronald Reagan was running for president, Kane did media advance work for The Gipper during the early primaries. Later on that year, Kane exposed then-GOP Hamilton County Commissioner Norman Murdock for operating an illegal Republican group out of the courthouse.
Nearly thirty-four years ago, a picture of the check from Stormin’ Norman’s “Committee to Elect Republicans” bearing the Hamilton County Courthouse address of “1000 Main Street” on the front-page of the Sunday paper on August 10, 1980, and legendary political reporter Bob Weston’s award-winning expose (“Republican Group Alleged to Work from County Office”) was just the beginning.
Later that year as the Murdock scandal fomented, Jim Borgman piled on by publishing some Pulitzer-Prize-winning editorial cartoons lampooning Murdock, like that classic one showing the disgraced Commissioner as a sleazy used car salesman with the caption asking, “Hey, have I ever given you a reason to doubt me?”
Kane followed with weekly satirical op-ed pieces for several years in the very Conservative, then very much respected Mt. Washington Press, detailing the goings-on in the mythical “Patronage County,” where Commissioners Pilfer, Filch, and Swindle held sway. You’ll never guess how many people thought “Stormin’ Norman” was Commissioner Swindle.
No wonder Murdock’s wet dreams of being Ohio’s governor evaporated.
Finally, another one of the Political Insiders asked Kane why he enjoyed “Muckraking” and ruining the careers of courthouse crooks and cronies for all those years, and the Chairman of our Quote for Today Committee said that reminded him of the story about the prison warden who was retiring, and a reporter asked how he felt about holding the record for executions, and the warden said, “I guess I just like working with people.”
It looks like The Muckraker might even be returning to turn over more rocks of apathy and corruption to expose what’s wrong hereabouts. We says a couple of reports this week in Wednesday’s and Thursday’s E-ditions.
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“Clueless Conferences” By James Jay Schifrin
This week our Patronage County Commissioners were talking about those political speeches when all those Dark-Skinned DemocRATS descended upon Cincinnati for the National Urban League Conference this week.
“I see Obama’s Doofus Vice President made his usual stupid remark,” said Commissioner Filch.
“Right,” interrupted Commissioner Swindle. “He told all those Obama-loving DemocRATS who were there to talk about finding jobs for Black people during the Age of Obama when Black Unemployment was twice as high as it is for whites, he was looking to the future and retirement and wishing he had a Republican son – to help pay for his retirement home.”
“And what about Rand Paul?” asked Commissioner Pilfer. “Isn’t he supposed to be a ‘Conservative Republican?”
“He was pandering for Black votes for his 2016 Presidential Campaign attempting to gin up support for criminal justice reform, school choice, and economic freedom zones during his address to the Urban League convention,” explained Commissioner Swindle. “A lot of good that will do him! The chance of any of those Dumbed-Down DemocRATS ever voting for a Republican is nil.
“But it would be interesting to hear if Rand Paul changed his tune when he spoke to the white people at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Covington later in the day,” Commissioner Pilfer said.
“PMSNBC Commentator Al Sharpton provided his usual race-baiting at the National Urban League Conference,” Commissioner Swindle said. “He’s doing his best to get black folks out standing in line for early voting in 2014. There are only about 100 more days,” Swindle said.
“Did anybody we know from Patronage County attend the National Urban League Conference in Cincinnati this week? Jobs are important to people,” Commissioner Filch said.
“Maybe we try to get the National Suburban League to hold their conference in Patronage County,” suggested Commissioner Swindle. “Jobs are important to white people and there are a lot more of them who vote.”
This op-ed column never appeared at any time in the feisty Mt. Washington Press personally edited by eminently renowned publisher Dennis Nichols.
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