Over the years, the Statesman Journal has showed it's bias in things large and small.

Sometimes it's through the headlines it choses on it's AP articles, which they like to put a negative spin on Democrats or liberals. Case in point, the article about former president Ford's memoirs, published after his death. The newspaper gets to put it's own headlines on, not the AP. They also, like it or not, can cut out paragraphs from the AP article they use, which can alter the balance -- which you can tell by comparing AP articles as run by the newspapers.

Then, it's the Hawaii trips -- which the Statesman sat on for three days while the Oregonian reported it, until a Democrat was identified as having taken advantage of the same as a whole slew of Republicans.

Then there was Pelosi's becoming the first woman Speaker of the House -- not a peep in the Statesman about this historic event!

Then there is the Walter Reed scandal, which, like the Hawaii trip, the Statesman sat on for a full three to four days before publishing anything about it.

Also, the Statesman has never met a state worker or a teacher they like, and like to run articles trashing the highest-paid of those two groups.

Mostly, though, who can forget the Statesman Journal's enormously bold and mile-high headline, "Bush Wows Portland !!" (something like that -- I forget the exact headline) -- the day after a record-busting crowd of over TEN THOUSAND OREGONIANS TURNED OUT FOR KERRY in Portland, while Bush met indoors with 200 docile, hand-picked attendees.

It was obvious that Bush was piggy-backing onto Kerry's visits to steal what publicity he could, and, boy, that Statesman Journal just did Bush's bidding -- _big_ time. That headline was an abomination -- and an unbelievable Orwellian sycophantic thing for a so-called free-world newspaper to do.

The Henry Hyde article in the Statesman doesn't approach that, but it does offer a window into the continuing slant at the Statesman Journal.

The Statesman ran an article by Jim Abrams of the Associated Press. It was a very good article, but never once mentions anything bad about Hyde, including that he had some morality issues, himself.

The Oregonian published a more balanced Associated Press article, by Mike Robinson. With about the same amount of "he was generally liked" and his anti-abortion stance, it also mentioned that Henry Hyde had an affair that came out during Hyde's push for impeachment of Clinton. The article also "brought it to Oregon," saying that Henry Hyde had sponsored a law that passed the national House that would have over-ridden Oregon's "Death with Dignity" law.

All in all, the Oregonian did a good job. The Statesman had a good article, but there was absolutely no balance to it. I am not surprised.

Pat

And now, they've allowed another Michelle Malkin editorial to be printed, today (Sunday) in the Statesman Journal.

This is the same piece of trash that equates liberals to terrorists, and the Statesman Journal even published an editorial by her, on the 14th of August this year, which pretty much said so -- and it was not the only article of this kind that she has published.

Pat