Couldn’t Help But Notice (051707)

This is REALLY weak — about ten days 2-1/2 weeks after the Food Stamp follies of Oregon’s governor were exposed — first by Mona Charen, then then by BizzyBlog (in more detail), a number of Congresspersons pulled the same bogus publicity stunt (HT Matt at NewsBusters in an e-mail). This time a writer from that supposed top-tier newspaper known as The Washington Post fell for it.

The claim that Food Stamp recipients have to get by on $21 per person per week is demonstrably false. The $21, which is supposed to be “the amount the average food stamp recipient receives in federal assistance,” comes AFTER taking into account available resources, some of which are assumed to be used for food. So the idea that recipients are only spending $21 per person per week on food is simply not correct.

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Mugged by reality by almost getting mugged.

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Following up on this money-saving tip from a couple of years ago, a federal survey tells us that “More than a quarter of young adults have only cell phones, making them the leading edge of a strengthening move away from traditional landline telephones….”

Telcos trying to peddle DSL face a problem not mentioned in the article. I believe that most of them still require a landline phone to put in their DSL service, something the cablecos don’t need to worry about.

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Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer must be one of the loneliest reporters on the face of the earth.

He breaks the story (”Planned Parenthood looked the other way, Mason rape victim says”) about a Mason, Ohio girl, who can’t have lived more than 5 miles from the BizzyBlog bunker. The girl is suing Planned Parenthood because the organization didn’t report her father’s abuse of her to the police when she was taken in to get an abortion even though she says she clearly reported it to them. Many have believed that this case provides smoking-gun proof that, despite denials, Planned Parenthood has a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when minors come in for an abortion.

Meanwhile, Bronson’s newspaper gives puff coverage to Planned Parenthood’s new local chapter executives under “Good Things Happening.”

Related: Planned Parenthood was caught on tape as all too willing to aid and abet statutory rape (link is to a PDF; HT Michelle Malkin, who also caught the Mason, OH situation in an update).

Planned Parenthood’s response, of course, was to legally threaten the student and attempt to suppress the tape. That attempt has been at least partially successful; a link I went to yesterday did not have a working vid. Later, I found it here –scroll down about 1/3 of the way for the link to the vid.

Update: Hot Air notes the lack of Old Media coverage of these stories.

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From the “I’m Not Really Reading This, Am I?” Dept. — The New London Day in Connecticut (link requires registration, and a paid subscription after 7 days) reported the following on May 12 (HT New London Calling) on the planned speed of progress in the area that was the subject of the infamous Kelo ruling and its contentious aftermath:

(New London Development Corporation CEO Michael) Joplin says it will probably be five years, or more, before visitors step foot in the museum. Real progress, he says, comes slowly.

While everyone is anxious for construction on the Fort Trumbull peninsula, Mr. Joplin says the master development plan for the site has always been a 30-year-project.

Someone needs to do a Lexis Nexis or other search and find evidence that Mr. Joplin or anyone else associated with the Fort Trumbull development said before last week that they were on 30-year plan; New London Calling doesn’t.

I’m assuming that would mean that there is little urgency to tear Susette Kelo’s house down if she doesn’t meet the June 15 deadline to move it.

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Demonstrating knowledge of their faith equal to or less than that of what they know of their Constitution:

Eighteen pro-abortion members of Congress lashed out on Monday in a letter opposing remarks Pope Benedict XVI made about pro-abortion Catholic politicians. The Catholic Church leader told reporters last week that any Catholic elected official who supports abortion has automatically excommunicated themselves.

I guess it’s not too big a leap, after spending years pretending to know more than the Founders about what the Constitution really says and means, to say that you know more than the Pope about Church doctrine.