Before Sen. John McCain could begin speaking at a town-hall meeting here Wednesday, he first had to quiet a crowd gone wild for Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal -- a politician who not long ago would have been inconceivable in Louisiana. Full Story »
Posted by Beth Wellington
This is not a balanced piece. Instead of an informative news article with context and not only strengths of the subject (Jindal) but also weaknesses, we have a laudatory and uncritical "news" piece with plenty of "spin." Worse, the writer tries to co-opt Obama's positive characteristics in favor of Jindal although if you read the whole thing, you realize Jindal's philosophy is not at all like Obama's. This is simply one of the least balanced articles I've read about anybody in the campaign, a stretch even for the WSJ. If the WSJ keeps this up, we're all going to gag before the election is over.
