Have you Looked in the Mirror Lately? - Granite Grok

Have you Looked in the Mirror Lately?

telegraph tread markYesterday afternoon a NH House Rep. sent me a “heads up” that the Nashua Telegraph’s political doodler Kevin Landrigan had made note (on Facebook) of the frequency of articles at GraniteGrok regarding the DuckGate case of Nashua NH House Democrat David Campbell–a case with a number of unanswered questions that suggest a police commissioner helped hide the fact that David Campbell was drunk when he hit some ducks and ran away from police.

Mr. Landrigan remarked “Very Conservative GraniteGrok stays obsessed with Duck Gate scandal.  7th item in two weeks.”  Then there is a link to a tweet of the same construction.

A rather brisk discussion ensued on his Facebook wall, to which I contributed, but I failed to make an important point that should have seemed obvious at the time.

Does it not, in fact, appear obsessive to have taken the time to keep track of the number of these articles over two weeks and then report them to your Twitter and Facebook followers?  All while the relevant and unanswered questions I am apparently “obsessing over” remain a) unanswered and b) unasked by the paid professional political reporter who has ample time to count and remark about the frequency of content on a “very conservative” political blog, but lacks the time to pursue the gaping holes in the DuckGate story?

(I’m sorry, but I don’t read the very more often than not “very liberal” Telegraph so if you have asked these question were they asked rhetorically of your readers or did you direct them to the parties involved in the cover-up?)

Would you or your paper be pursuing this with more vigor if Republican Bill O’Brien ran over some ducks, was accused of being drunk by the manager, ran away from the scene to avoid the police, and was then swept away to an undisclosed location for 18 hours by State Senator Andy Sanborn?

If that were the case your inbox would be filled daily with suggested content written by someone in the offices of the New Hampshire State Democrat party and no one would be accused of being obsessed over the daily reporting, in every form of media,  of the same unanswered questions we have after a Democrat has done it.

Perhaps it would be easier to just admit that a bunch of new-media ‘hobbyists’ are doing for free the job you are supposed to be getting paid to do.   Or that the editorial forces that command your attention are disinterested in the pursuit of “truth” if it further sullies a prominent member of the Democrat House leadership or his pal the Police Commissioner, a favor they would never do for a New Hampshire Republican?

I don’t expect an answer, not an honest one, and I think I’ve made my point, so I guess I’ll close with this.

First, thanks for the attention and all the additional link traffic to our story, which keeps “THE” story alive in the minds of people who are not hoping to hide it or make it go away.  (If that was secretly your intention, good job.)

I’ve no issue with being called “very conservative” becasue I am a conservative new-media editorialist, and make no effort to pretend otherwise.

And finally, will this post count as item 8 in the past two weeks?

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