The Mainstream Media Finally Notices Those Jackbooted WVWV Feminists

YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY

I don't typically get my undies in a knot when the mainstream media turns up its nose at or otherwise ignores stories that I think are important.

After all, the blogosphere has scolds like Glenn Greenwald, who has turned liberal-leftie finger wagging into an art form, to carry my water. If only his MSM targets like ABC News's Brian Williams cared. (Memo to Glenn: They don't.)

For another thing, the MSM is up to its antlers in really big stories this contentious campaign season. Real biggies like Hillary Clinton proposing that residents of Guam, which not coincidentally had a caucus yesterday, be paid reparations and given the right to vote. Or how many cups of punch Barack Obama drank at that infamous fundraiser at Bill Ayers' house.

But there is one story that has been percolating through the blogosphere that deserves the full attention of the MSM -- the concerted and ham-handed campaign by Women's Voices Women's Vote to suppress black voter turnout in North Carolina, which not coincidentally is having a primary tomorrow, through robocalls and misleading mailings designed to sew confusion, and well as pulling similar stunts in a bunch of other states.

Now there is no hard evidence that the gals at WVWV is turning dirty tricks at the behest of the Hillary Clinton campaign although the advocacy group is chockablock with Clintonistas. (There also are some Obama supporters.)

But why in the world of the never ending news cycle did it take several days before National Public Radio and then The Washington Post became the first MSM outlets to finally catch up to a story that the Facing South blog broke and a small handful of other blogs, including Kiko's House, have been aggressively pursuing given that is such a transparently outrageous -- and in North Carolina illegal -- effort to give Clinton a bump?

The answer is that the story has been largely ignored because there is a lot of gray and little black and white (no pun intended) to it, and apparently the ravings of a certain black minister take precedence over other stories, including the ravings of a certain white minister.

In a statement released on WVWV's Web site, the group explained that the North Carolina imbroglio was a result of a general-election outreach effort in 24 states and coincided with mailings that conveyed a similar "hurry up and register" message, although in each instance the calls and accompanying mailings were placed after primary registration deadlines had passed.

"The calls were scheduled to coincide with the arrival of the voter registration applications," the group said. "We regret any confusion that has arised [sic] as a consequence of this timing."

John Podesta, a WVWV board member and former Clinton White House chief of staff, described what happened in North Carolina as "a mistake of judgment and execution, and not an attempt to disenfranchise voters."

Podesta's claim and the tepid apology of WVWV president Page Gardner, who worked for the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign and had claimed to North Carolina election officials that the mailings would go out before the primary registration deadline, are simply unbelievable.

What is clear is that there is a blood lust among these jackbooted feminists -- the hardest of the hardcore -- to do whatever it takes to nominate and elect one of their own. This includes trying to master the manly art of dirty politics. WVWV has been caught red handed this time, but with a little more practice who knows?