CEO & Chief Editors Need to Address Issues at The Political

Bill Smith, ARRA Editor: Unlike The Politico, the ARRA News Service admits to being slightly bias because the parent organization the ARRA endorsed Fred Thompson. However, editorial content is not directed by the ARRA. Also, we seek to post a balanced conservative view on GOP candidates and issues without making up stories. Obviously, we do not do much favorable reporting on democrats.

One source we follow for political news is The Political. But with their partnering with CBS (a liberal media source), there seems to be slipping in their reporting. It appears that Politico has elected to play its own website game, "Politico's KingMaker," in its journalism. This is blatantly clear in its recent reporting related to the Fred Thompson campaign. The Political has repeatedly made incorrect, definitely misleading and possibly "fraudulent" comments about Fred Thompson and the Fred Thompson campaign.

As identified above, we understand bias but be intellectually honest and straight forward on your bias. Stop your reporters from making up things as they go. If The Political is being mislead by sources, then obviously they are not doing well. If they are not being misled by sources, shame on The Politicol for false reporting! It is time for Frederick Ryan, The Politcol CEO, to do some house cleaning. What is going on John Harris and Jim VandeHei? As The Politico's principle editors what are you doing to improve accurate reporting?

The Politico still has not corrected its "firehouse story," despite video evidence that the story was incorrect. Apparently, they’re taking the “pretend it never happened, see if the problem will go away” approach. Also what about the Politico advise that Thompson would be withdrawing. How’d that work out for Politicol? Again false.

We are not alone in our observations about The Politico's biased or false reporting? Below are only three of the numerous Internet stories addressing The Political incorrect political news reporting with respect to the Thompson campaign:

The Jawa Report: "The Politico: A Team of Journalists, or a Team of Hacks?: This is a video of Fred's post-result speech in Iowa: [link to video] Now, if you keep that video in mind while you read the Politico's account of the rally, you can get a feel for just how hard they've been slanting their news on Fred. The Politico account paints a picture of a room in despair. The video makes clear that the room was anything but. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson after getting busted wide open on the firehouse hackery. Guess not. "

Red State: "Yesterday, they ran a hit job on Thompson saying he was getting out of the race. Today, they say Resignation greets Thompson's third place. Unfortunately for them, there is again video that does not show much resignation. This is like Roger Simon's hit job, also in the Politico, in which he claimed Fred botched a meet and greet. Yet, when video came out, it showed very clearly that Simon had gotten it wrong."

Whitehouser : "Politico.com Hit job on Fred Thompson? This is one of the bigger problems that will arise out of the information era. The Media has long speculated on what candidates have the “best chance of winning” and they often are accused of making decisions for people. Well, it looks like politico.com (a political blog that now belongs to [sic affiliated with] to CBS) is shaking up the elections.

Today, the Politico published an article saying that Fred Thompson would end his campaign if he didn’t make the top three in Iowa. Here’s the story that is making the headlines: “Fred Thompson May Drop Out, Back McCain” CNN recently interviewed Fred Thompson to ask him about the Politico article and he basically brushed off the story. He said that someone at his campaign probably thought it was something good to say, but he said it wasn’t something he said and dismissed the idea as pure speculation."

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