{"id":197,"date":"2008-09-05T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/justice-kilpatrick-resigns-but-what-about-those-chinese-gymnasts\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:29:01","slug":"justice-kilpatrick-resigns-but-what-about-those-chinese-gymnasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Justice: Kilpatrick Resigns! But What About Those Chinese Gymnasts?…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, August 25, 2008<\/p>\n

So yesterday, after an ugly, ugly reign of lies and race-baiting and unwarranted chutzpah and nepotism and sheer stupidity, the Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, resigned. Off to jail he goes leaving a trail of destruction. You can check this excellent article<\/a> in today’s Salon by Edward McClelland for persepective, but for those unfamiliar with the story I can summarize by saying this: After having Republican politicians go on an absolute tear these past few years with sex scandals and ham-fisted cover-ups, Kwame put the Democratic Party right back into contention with his superlative efforts. Kwame Kilpatrick is the clear leader for MVP — Most Vile Politician.<\/p>\n

And now, a big shout out to traditional journalism: the Detroit Free Press<\/em><\/a> — you da newspaper! It was the Freep that did the investigative groundwork that eventually brought Kilpatrick down. It was the old-school media doing the hard work and taking the chances. The TV reported and added nothing; the bloggers fumed and added nothing; the Internet aggregated and added nothing. Twas newsprint that saved the day. So go out and shake a reporter’s hand, thank an editor for showing some courage, and above all read a dang newspaper! Because the fact that there ain’t no Beijing Free Press<\/em> has a lot to do with why those Chinese gymnasts will never have to give their gold medals back….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, August 25, 2008 So yesterday, after an ugly, ugly reign of lies and race-baiting and unwarranted chutzpah and nepotism and sheer stupidity, the Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, resigned. Off to jail he goes leaving a trail of destruction. You can check this excellent article in today’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}