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I read a blog this morning.

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I have friends and family that that post their thoughts, speculations, ruminations, and occasionally a political belief or two on their blogs.

I love it. It is after all one of the purist forms of free speech still left on the planet, for now anyway.
A recent post I viewed quoted the New York Times with some ridiculous remarks supposedly made by Congressman Ted Poe of Texas. To be fair, Congressman Poe is my Congressman. I may be a little biased. I admit that. But Poe is without a doubt one of the few honest and plain spoken Congressmen left in D.C.
His record as a Federal Judge and his unique and effective sentencing practices speak volumes as to this mans character.
Back to the quote. 

In the aforementioned blog, the New York Times, in reporting on congress’s involvement in potential regulation of professional football due to anti trust issues and injuries (?),  and sports in general, quoted Poe as saying, “Republican Ted Poe of Texas said that football as we know it could be destroyed if we move toward greater protectiveness”.
Here is the problem and the danger, The times, like the Huffington Post and others continually take “quotes” either out of context or they don’t bother to print the full text. They massage the news to fit their own left leaning agenda. [Lets make the dufus rep. from down south look like a moron.]
The actual quote in its entirety from the Congressional Record is as follows,

“Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the panel, said that while Congress can highlight the consequences of playing football, “the NFL does not need Congress to referee this issue.”

“Football, like soccer, rugby and even basketball and baseball, involves contact that can produce injuries,” Smith said. “We cannot legislate the elimination of injuries from the games without eliminating the games themselves.”

Several other Republicans questioned the point of the hearing. Rep. Ted Poe of Texas said that Congress’ involvement in football would mean the end of the sport.
“We’d all be playing touch football,” he said.”

The jest of this was the  potential regulation of professional sports by the government, like congress has nothing better to do.
Back to the quote. I had no problem finding the actual quote. I am no journalist, yet the actual quote and the quote attributed to Poe by the Times are not the same.I went to the Times web site and the blog post was correct. What gives?
The moral to this lesson, yes there is a moral, be careful where you get your information. What you may think are unbiased, fair and balanced news gathering BUSINESS’S are in fact (in some cases ) advancing a propaganda that they hope will influence the reader to lean more to their agenda. I’m not blaming the Blog’s author on this error. Like most folks we tend to get our news from sources that tell us what we want to hear, where we are comfortable, its not necessarily the whole truth. This is a problem for everyone. Lets be diligent. Lets do the fact checking, we can’t count on the media to do it. 
 This is the responsibility of all Americans in so much it is the only way to truly keep tabs on our government and our World. We can no longer allow someone else or something else to tell us what is right or wrong, truth or lies without a little do-dilagence on our part
dh
As a mater of record, I found the actual quote on the HouseCongressional web site via a link from the Fox News Web site.         Why couldn’t the Times have done that?  Journalism….well kiss my ass.
dh

Ooops, I almost forgot.  
GEAUX  SANITS!!!!!      WHO DAT !!!!!

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