WSJ's Levitz Omits Dem Party Connection in Story on 'Whitey' Bulger Obtaining Public Defender
Yesterday mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- captured last month with $800,000 in his possession -- was granted the right to retain taxpayer-funded counsel by a U.S. Magistrate judge Marianne Bowler, who "appointed high-profile Boston criminal-defense lawyer J.W. Carney Jr. as Bulger's public defender," Wall Street Journal's Jennifer Levitz reported in today's paper.
Bulger, you may recall, is the older brother of former Massachusetts State Senate President William "Billy" Bulger. The younger Bulger was once one of the most powerful Democratic Party bosses in the Bay State, having served 18 years as Senate president.
Yet when it came to noting the family dynamic in the Bulger family, Levitz wrote one short paragraph and in it left out any reference to the Democratic Party:
Bulger, one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives, arrived at the courthouse by helicopter. He smiled slightly at his two brothers, John and William, who were sitting in the front row. The three brothers grew up nearby, in working-class, Irish-Catholic South Boston, but their paths diverged; William Bulger was once one of the most powerful politicians in Massachusetts.
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Submitted by agingcynic on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:36pm.
The WSJ is the least biased paper in America. They keep the editorial page and news hole separate, unlike sleazy rags like the NYT, Boston Globe and WAPO.
Are we saying that the fact that his brother was a Democratic hack drove Whitey to a life of crime as well? (His criminality began when William was in elementary school). Billy's influence may have had a symbiotic relationship with that of his serial killer brother but how is party affiliation relevant? I have plenty of reasons to hate the Democrat Party and everything they have inflicted on this country. I don't need a gratuitous connection to an irrelevant party connection in a criminal case. That's something that Ed Schultz or Rachel Maddow would do. (Besides, saying the players are Democrats and saying we're in MA is redundant. Those of us in the Bay State are painfully aware of who has been responsible for our undoing.)
Well maybe the rest of us non
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:06am.
Well maybe the rest of us non MA residents need to be informed that democrats in MA are scumbags and think the WSJ should be drilling that fact into our brains. Because, for some unknown reason, democrats seem to slip by the friggin MSM (sometimes including the WSJ) unnoticed.