I've said it before: I hate hypocrites. Today's on-line "staff reports" on Linda Ketner's most recent anti-Henry Brown television ad just riled me again. [See ADWATCH: Ketner Ad Focuses on Brown's 2004 Fire.] In case you haven't seen Ketner's ad or heard of it, the P & C is happy to post it for your enjoyment.Democrat Linda Ketner is running in the heavily Republican First Congressional District against incumbent Republican Henry Brown. She won the Democratic Primary because, seeing its chance to run a candidate who could finance her own campaign, the local Democratic party with the full approval of the Charleston NAACP ensured that no other attractive Democratic candidate ran against her. Since then, Ketner's campaign has bombarded local voters daily with God-Dad-and-apple-pie commercials. They make you wonder why she didn't run in the Republican primary!
It is a fact not disputed that, since arriving locally "about 20 years ago" as Ketner says, she has made a concerted and highly visible effort to finance the gay rights agenda. Nor is it disputed that Ketner herself is a divorced and out-of-the-closet lesbian in a relationship with a local interior designer /real estate broker with whom she purchased a $3 million property West of the Ashley last year.
So why do her campaign commericals show her sitting with Dad, the Food Lion founder? Shouldn't she be proudly stating her social agenda on her campaign website and providing us with a picture of her and her partner?
The answer to those questions is quite clear: she's a hypocrite. She wants to amass kudos for being out of the closet but still get the votes of the poor, socially conservative schmucks who can't figure out what she really stands for.
She's not going to tell them; Henry Brown is too much of a gentleman to do so; and Brown's defeat suits the agenda of the editors of the P & C.
Go ahead. Check out my facts. While you're at it, try the P & C website to see if the paper has ever mentioned any of them. Oh, yes, one tiny phrase--"and her partner"--when Ketner announced that she was going to run.
Newsless, indeed.
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I think Henry Brown has refused the gambit of publicizing Frau Ketner's unabashed claim that she will be the first openly homosexual member of Congress from the South. You have to go to the gay press to find that claim. The P&C and Sun News selectively won't go near it, and I think you're right about the reason.
Coupled with a four year old case about waste burning getting out of hand being the "dry powder" Ketner has had available to fire, which comes across as being trite and old news (though the cited papers' logos are evident, selectively no date or page number is offered) Ketner's positives are limited.
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