Senators Who Matter to the East Coast Media Elite

I have to go back to an issue that made me mad a few months ago, which was how long it took the New York Times to run an obit for Neil Goldschmidt, a major scandal-ridden politician who if we were on the east coast, would have had it ready to go and published five seconds after his death. Well, it finally did happen.

But we have had two senators die recently. I have nothing particularly to say about James Sasser, except I wish that a moderate Democrat could be elected in Tennessee today. He was a solid senator, at least average at the job, and then ambassador to China. Fine, he absolutely deserves his obituary.

However, the only reason I know that Idaho’s Steve Symms died is that I happened to run into a mention of it by a commenter here. Symms was an asshole, part of the sprint of Idaho to the right. He defeated the great Frank Church in 1980, partly over the U.S. returning the Panama Canal, one of the stupidest major issues to ever impact an American election. He also was the piece of shit who claimed Kitty Dukakis burned an American flag. For being a proto-Trumper and the person who launched the second most disgusting rumor of that horrible 1988 campaign (burn in hell Lee Atwater) and having two terms in the Senate, if he was from any state east of the Mississippi, the Times would have had that thing ready to go. In this case, Symms never got a single mention in the Paper of Record.

The West matters people! Pay attention to it!