Pete McCloskey Gets a Pass from the LA Times
The first two paragraphs of the LA Times' almost hagiographical coverage of former Congressman Pete McCloskey's ("R" - Palo Alto) decision to challenge Richard Pombo (R - Lodi) pretty much sums it all up:

"SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey, a maverick Republican who opposed the Vietnam war and helped write the Endangered Species Act, said Friday that he will run against Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., a leading critic of how the government has applied environmental protection laws.

"Nearly a quarter century after he last sought public office, the tough-talking, 78-year-old ex-Marine said in a telephone interview that he decided to challenge Pombo in the June 6th GOP primary because of the congressman's efforts to weaken environmental laws and because of Pombo's connections to figures in a Washington corruption scandal."

They really like liberal Republicans like McCloskey and really hate conservative Republicans like Richard Pombo.

The detailed background info on Mr. McCloskey, however, omits one thing: "the tough-talking, 78-year-old ex-Marine" seems to have a problem with Jews.

At least that is the impression one gets from the blurb for his audio CD "Machinations of the Anti-Defamation League", which can be purchased from the Institute for Historical Review. It's the speech he gave to the Holocaust-denial organization's May 2000 conference. Which the Times doesn't mention.

In all fairness, the former Congressman and raging treehugger DID concede that the Holocaust DID take place in a letter he wrote to the IHR's fueh, er, leader, where Mr. McCloskey suggested the IHR ixnay the olocaustHay enialday and concentrate its efforts instead on just bashing the ADL (which for some insane reason has called the liberal icon an anti-Semite) and Israel.

While the Times' article carefully pointed out that the incumbent Pombo, who is on record for trying to protect private property rights against over-reaching environmental regulations, took $40,000 from Jack Abramoff (all at once? over a number of years?) it just as carefully ignored the fact that a liberal former Congressman made a point out of giving a speech to a bunch of neo-Nazis on why the ADL and Israel suck.