Today’s lead editorial, Posturing over taxes doesn’t help Arizona, is a sight to behold. Bonded as the editorialists are to supporting the sales tax hike, it is comical to read they find McCain’s “posturing” as a new convert to holding the line on taxes, reprehensible. So culpable is he, in fact, that wet hen editorialist Kathleen Ingley shook her sopping tail feathers not only at popular McCain challenger, J.D. Hayworth, but splattered the sainted Jon Kyl as well as the newly opinionated McCain. The senior senator recently admitted he “hadn‘t given much attention” to the issue and was “unsure how he would vote” on the tax increase.
In fact, the editorial takes the same position Seeing Red AZ took yesterday — but for different reasons. Referring to McCain’s joint anti-tax statement with Jon Kyl, Ingley impugns McCain’s coordination with Kyl as “posturing,” implying that Kyl was the puppeteer moving McCain’s strings after being cornered by Hayworth. She mockingly uses the word “circus,” concluding “there is much to hate about Arizona’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate, where cynicism fills the center ring.”
It’s clear for this ‘unbiased’ journalist, Democrat politics hold greater appeal.
Since the taste of intra-party politics is so bitter (even being viewed by an outsider), we expect the newspaper will finally forgo its increasingly ignored pre-election endorsements and stick to honing the skill of factual reporting.
Fat chance!
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