Bush Admin Guilty of Politically Profiling Democrats?

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Yes according to Donald Shields, Ph.D. and John Cragan, both Professors of Communications at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and Illinois State University:

http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20070212_political_profiling.html

Brief excerpt:

"Data* indicate that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops.


Our paper explores the role of the fourth estate and others in detecting such profiling and concludes that what is really needed is transparency, the highlights of which are noted below.


The current Bush Republican Administration appears to be the first to have engaged in political profiling. Our paper calls for new federal laws that would create a national registry of federal investigations of elected officials by party affiliation. This new, political profiling registry could well be a hybrid of the current requirement for state and local reports of racial profiling in traffic stops and the Commerce Department's Office of Labor Management Standards' annual report on Union corruption."
 
Or you could interepret that seven times as many Democrats are involved in criminal activities than Republicans. The beauty of statistics is that you can skew them anyway you want.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']
The current Bush Republican Administration appears to be the first to have gotten caught engaged in political profiling. [/QUOTE]

Fix'd.
 
[quote name='dopa345']Or you could interepret that seven times as many Democrats are involved in criminal activities than Republicans. The beauty of statistics is that you can skew them anyway you want.[/QUOTE]

I just love the undying devotion people have to their chosen political party. They always make it seem as if the other party is evil and that their's is completely infallible. It kind of reminds me of organized religion...
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']I just love the undying devotion people have to their chosen political party. They always make it seem as if the other party is evil and that their's is completely infallible. It kind of reminds me of organized religion...[/quote]

The previous post was written without irony, which makes it even more frightening.
 
And yours was written with irony? Even more frightening. Mind you this is the guy who post the NY Times is a right wing newspaper hahaha. So far from it they are buddy. Get your facts straight before you post garbage.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']I just love the undying devotion people have to their chosen political party. They always make it seem as if the other party is evil and that their's is completely infallible. It kind of reminds me of organized religion...[/quote]

So true. It's probably a human thing, though. That episode of south park made me think about this issue. If politics and religion weren't available, people would just find some other idea they thought was infallible. Human nature I guess.
 
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