Under-Reported Stories Of 2009

Most news outlets end the year with extensive reviews
of their top headlines and scoops. But the stories they

didn`t cover deserve much
greater attention. Journalistic sins of omission are
often far more damning and more telling than sins of
commission.

Let`s start with President Obama`s ongoing radical
czar problem. Until Bay Area Marxist
agitator-turned-green jobs czar Van Jones resigned in
September, most Americans hadn`t heard of him.
Mainstream newspaper readers and network news viewers
were left in the dark about his cop-killer-supporting

activism, his endorsement of

nutball 9/11 conspiracies, and his advocacy of using
capitalism-sabotaging environmental policies as

“the engine for
transforming the whole society.”

Fox News, talk radio, and conservative blogs pounded
Jones`s embarrassing public record for months until the
White House and its press corps enablers were forced to
acknowledge the firestorm. Only after Obama threw Jones
under the bus did
New York Times editor Jill Abramson

confess that the Fishwrap of Record suffered from

“insufficient
tuned- in -ness” She promised better coverage of
Obama scandals.

So, what`s she waiting for, pray tell?

Obama has appointed unaccountable czars by the mile
whose statements and policies have yet to hit national
media front pages. The
“Safe Schools Czar,” Kevin Jennings, is a far Left activist whose
organization

GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network)
is infamous among parents` groups for promoting
explicit, outrageously age-inappropriate sexual lessons
in the classroom. GLSEN`s recommended reading for teens
includes pamphlets promoting leather bars and

public sex in parks and lurid books describing
incest, rape, adult-child fantasies, and essay
collections in which one author

recounted playing
"sex therapist"
at the age of 6 with a 5-year-old friend, and exploring "our sexuality to its fullest."

GLSEN`s

corporate sponsors include Eastman Kodak, Ernst &
Young, PepsiCo, and Time Warner. Eastman Kodak

defended its sponsorship as an expression of its
commitment to “diversity.” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also said he stood
by Jennings earlier this year, before this material was
exposed in-depth on Fox News, talk radio, and
conservative blogs. Where are the vaunted watchdogs of
the Fourth Estate to follow up now?

Liberal journalists were also AWOL on the Obama White
House`s U.S. Attorney nomination debacle in Denver.
What, you hadn`t heard of it? You`re not alone. Nominee

Stephanie Villafuerte withdrew earlier this month
after Colorado Republicans, immigration enforcement
activists, Denver
Post investigative reporter Karen Crummy, and Denver
talk show

Peter Boyles raised bright red flags about the
culture of corruption in her office.

Villafuerte is entangled in the

railroading of Denver Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal
prosecutors tried to punish after he
blew
the whistle on

sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during
the

2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted
Voorhis of all federal charges. He`s trying to get his
job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted
lying. Villafuerte served on the-Democrat gubernatorial
candidate Bill Ritter`s campaign team while on leave
from the Denver D.A.`s office and from all
Denver Post
news accounts was deeply involved in the witchhunt
against agent Voorhis.

Villafuerte and the Justice Department evaded critics
as long as they could, but when U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions,
the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary
Committee, pressed DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano for
answers on Villafuerte`s meddling, the stonewall
crumbled. There`s still a raft of unanswered questions
about the cover-up and the feds` dangerously lax
policies toward criminal illegal aliens.

Speaking of the corrupted DOJ, where`s the heat on
crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder for his
continued obstructionism in the New Black Panther Party
Election Day voter intimidation case? In a highly
unprecedented move, Holder and his political appointees
dropped default judgments against the NBPP`s billy-club
wielding thugs who

threatened white poll workers and voters in
Philadelphia last November. The non-partisan U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights has demanded answers and
issued subpoenas to find out why the cases were
abandoned after the Bush administration had won them.
The DOJ has ordered its employees not to comply or
cooperate. And over the holidays, the DOJ veteran voting
rights section chief who originally handed the case was
unceremoniously evicted from the D.C. office and moved
to South Carolina.

One of the NBPP bullies was a local Democratic
official. Another of the defendants, NBPP head Malik
Shabazz, has

decried the probe as a racist
“political witch hunt” against Holder.

Grievance hustlers are counting on liberal
journalists to give them cover. A

nation of cowards, indeed.

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Michelle Malkin

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