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Pawlenty attack on public sector unions rated ‘Pants on Fire’ wrong

By Andy Birkey | 12.16.10 | 1:25 pm

Gov. Tim Pawlenty got it wrong in his weekend Wall Street Journal piece that decried a perceived growth in public sector jobs and high pay for government employees, according to the St. Petersburg Times’ Politifact: “Not only did he apparently mangle the time frame, contradict his own definition of federal workers and fail to acknowledge the huge caveat of Census worker hiring, he also repeated a statistic that had been criticized as inaccurate as long as six months ago.”

Pawlenty demonizes public employee unions in Wall St. Journal op-ed

By Patrick Caldwell | 12.13.10 | 4:36 pm

Outgoing Gov. Tim Pawlenty has a new-found love of the written word. His first book, “Courage to Stand” is scheduled to be released in a little under a month, and he has taken to a string of editorial pages as he angles to open his campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Bringing you Bachmann’s Tea Party Nation speech: rightwing media only

By Chris Steller | 01.14.10 | 2:32 pm

tea party pressPress covering Michele Bachmann’s remarks at next month’s Tea Party Nation convention will apparently be limited to five news outlets running the gamut from right-leaning to far-right-falling-over. By contrast, Sarah Palin has opened her address to all media

Expert: Calling Senate race ‘stolen’ robs the word ‘stolen’ of its meaning

By Chris Steller | 07.01.09 | 6:01 pm

foley_edward“Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election,” pronounced the Wall Street Journal’s editorialists today. Election-law expert Edward Foley was quick to respond: “[T]his election was about as far from ‘stolen’

Wall Street Journal notes spat over deal that created The Current

By Chris Steller | 04.23.09 | 9:23 pm

Norm Coleman wasn’t the only one whose Minnesota court appeal this week got noticed in the national press. Thursday’s Wall Street Journal highlighted SaveWCAL’s legal effort to up-end the 2004 radio-station sale by St. Olaf College that created…

Bemidji Pioneer warns Coleman on ‘incessant appeals,’ Wall Street Journal says ‘keep fighting’

By Chris Steller | 04.20.09 | 12:12 pm

pioneer-wsj-logo-collageYou’ve heard of carbon offsets; newspapers seem to be doing something similar with offsetting editorials for and against Norm Coleman’s legal appeals to reclaim his old U.S. Senate seat. Over the weekend it was the Wall Street

Recount madness: Al Franken killed my puppy!

By Paul Demko | 01.09.09 | 9:09 am

The State Canvassing Board’s determination earlier this week that Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race by 225 votes has caused some rather unseemly frothing among right-wing pundits. The talking points were initially established by the Wall Street Journal…

WSJ runs Cleary letter — without PiPress’ leeriness of making edits

By Chris Steller | 01.08.09 | 12:00 pm

The Wall Street Journal today ran Ramsey County District Judge Edward Cleary’s letter, which took the paper to task for its Jan. 5 editorial on the Senate recount, “Funny Business in Minnesota.” A few words and phrases…

Pioneer Press reprints discredited Wall Street Journal editorial on Senate race

By Chris Steller | 01.07.09 | 1:33 am

The St. Paul Pioneer Press sees fit today to run a Jan. 5 Wall Street Journal editorial on the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount that nearly everyone but Rush Limbaugh has laughed off for its woolly inaccuracies

WSJ: Franken campaign trying to ‘steal’ election

By Paul Demko | 11.21.08 | 9:40 am

When the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal last weighed in on Minnesota’s still-undecided Senate race, it was frothing about supposedly nefarious behavior by local election officials that was threatening the integrity of the process. Yesterday the…