What do you do if you're a right-wing paper and one of your local Republican bigwigs is accused of pedophilia, then arrested for the crime?
Cover it up, of course!
Seems the Orange County Register has some 'splainin to do.
Jeffrey Ray Nielsen—the well-connected Orange County conservative activist who claimed the so-called liberal media, specifically the Weekly, was out to get him by publishing a series of exposés on his pedophile activities—is expected to finally admit tomorrow that he used two boys for sex since 1994, according to law-enforcement sources.
A legal representative for Nielsen, who has extensive personal ties to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Orange County Republican Party boss Scott Baugh, told prosecutors early last week that Nielsen would plead guilty to two felony counts: committing lewd acts on a child under 15 years old and committing lewd acts on a child under 14 years old.
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When police arrested Nielsen, a prominent GOP activist at the time, TheOrange County Register failed to tell its readers. In fact, the paper—some of whose staffers enjoy cozy relationships with local GOP leaders, including Rohrabacher and Baugh—waited more than three years to mention Nielsen’s arrest. Worse, while Nielsen awaited trial for molesting the Westminster boy, the Register’s Richard Chang helped to bolster the accused pedophile’s reputation in the community. In an article, Chang didn’t mention the charges, but rather praised Nielsen for volunteering to help homeless puppies from the Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
At this point I think it's fair to ask the question: Are ALL Republicans sexual deviants?
Source: Atrios
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Right Wing Journalism
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Now, see, what I wanna know is how many of those homeless puppies he "helped" were "helped" the same way those two boys were.
- one of the three people who actually read this yet (guess which one!)
A good question. Given the obsession by people like Rick Santorum about bestiality, I'd say there's a fair chance he helped himself to some puppy-love, if you know what I mean.
As for the guessing, I'd say it's the roommate, since we were just discussing readership this morning. Sucka.
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