L.A. Times Mangles History: Democrats 'Led the Passage of Civil Rights

Tim Graham
August 29th, 2013 11:07 PM
Memo to the Corrections Department at the Los Angeles Times: The following sentence is utterly unhistorical. “Since Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963, Republicans have struggled to recover with black voters”. Civil rights legislation of the 1960s was favored more by Republicans than by Democrats, so how did Democrats “lead the passage”?…
 

LA Times Notes Liberal Democrat's Fight Against Alternative Energy

Ken Shepherd
March 25th, 2009 5:19 PM
Quick quiz for you. The number one enemy of solar and wind energy projects in the Mojave desert is a) Big Business b) Dick Cheney c) a Republican "cabal" d) environmentalists, with the political backing of  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).Of course, the answer is d).But here's, perhaps, the surprising part. The Los Angeles Times has the story (emphasis mine) in its March 25 paper: