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Journalism has gotten a bad reputation.  But a veteran journalist and her family have dedicated themselves to fixing that problem with their new, online, publication KyFoward.com.

Judy Clabes is the editor and publisher of KyForward.com.  Judy grew up in Henderson, graduated from the University of Kentucky with majors in English, journalism and education, got her MPA from Indiana State University, and has four honorary doctorates, the latest from the University of Kentucky in 2010.

She had a distinguished career in journalism and philanthropy.

During 37 years with the E.W. Scripps Company she served as Scripps’ first woman editor, beginning with the Sunday Courier & Press in Evansville and then with The Kentucky Post. She was named president and CEO of Scripps Howard Foundation in 1996.

On retirement from Scripps, she and her family moved to the Bluegrass region where they have a family horse-farming operation and she founded the Kentucky Philanthropy Initiative and her own consulting business.

She has won numerous national, regional and state awards in journalism, philanthropy and community service. She is a member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, the UK Hall of Distinguished Alumni, and the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame.

Judy states her goals pretty succinctly:

My family and I have created [the KyFoward.com] news site,  in an attempt to build a real model for community journalism on line, in the face of the dreadful state of what passes for journalism today in America.

I am honored and humbled to have been asked to become a regular contributor.  Look for my articles written exclusively for KyForward.com in the days to come.

Enough About Fellatio

It really wasn't that Clinton received oral sex, it was that he did it in the Oval Office, lied about it under oath, and took advantage of a 20 something intern.  But ever since the story broke the press has treated every private sexscapade of a republican as if it deserves the same level of exposure and criticism.

It was morally wrong for JFK to have fooled around with Marilyn Monroe, but it's treated like romance by historians.  It was morally wrong for Ike and any number of our founders to have had mistresses, but nobody that I've heard about lately wants to bulldoze marble monuments to the ground because the men in whose name they were built had an affair.

But in this era TV shows that glorify sex and show full frontal nudity are at the top of the ratings.  No wonder the future as depicted in the spoof movie "Idiocracy" was pre-occupied with porn.  We just can't seem to get enough sexual stimulation.

But quite frankly I've had about all the news regarding fellatio I think I'll ever need.  The press ran Herman Cain out of the race with the relentless pursuit of his alleged affairs and now they have dragged up out of the shadows some woman who claims to have given Newt a BJ back in 1977.

You've got to be kidding me!  What a guy or gal did in their private sex life 34 years ago is relevant to how well they can execute the oath of president?  Why should we even have to know about that stuff?

Why is this anybody's business but that of those involved? 

The answer is that it has become our business because we have allowed ourselves to be mesmerized by the titillation of hearing about sexual escapades, the media has caught on to our weakness for such things and uses stories like this to manipulate us.

Grow up folks and react strongly against the press and other campaigns who use this tactic.  Otherwise the future for our kids could end up like this:

 

And They Want THIS Guy Back In Office?

He has apologized around the world for our success as a nation.  He has rarely expressed his faith while in office, a break from long standing traditions.  He has bowed before Kings, hustled the Israeli Prime Minister out through the servant's door, held his hand in front of peoples faces during photos and now this.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly told US President Barack Obama that he could not "stand" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that he thinks the Israeli premier "is a liar."

According to a Monday report in the French website "Arret sur Images," after facing reporters for a G20 press conference on Thursday, the two presidents retired to a private room, to further discuss the matters of the day.

The conversation then drifted to Netanyahu, at which time Sarkozy declared: "I cannot stand him. He is a liar." According to the report, Obama replied: "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!"

The remark was naturally meant to be said in confidence, but the two leaders' microphones were accidently left on, making the would-be private comment embarrassingly public. [ynetnews.com]

And these guys

Want this guy

To be re-elected.  Go figure.

Andrew Napolitano Gives Ron Paul Credit Where Due

Obama On Record Denies Reality

A TEA party activist met President Obama face to face in a rope line in Iowa and asked him why Joe Biden called the TEA party "terrorists".  How did Obama respond?  He denied that Biden said it.

Many reports confirm that Biden did in fact say that the TEA party was acting like terrorists, though Biden and his camp have repeatedly denied it.

Misogynism In Our Midst

I agree, "Oh Good Grief"

The Bible tells wives to be submissive to their husbands. If she were president, would that apply to Michele Bachmann?

In Thursday's Republican debate in Iowa, the Minnesota congresswoman was asked if she would be submissive to her husband.

Bachmann, the only woman in the Republican presidential field, says she interprets "submission" to mean "respect."

She said she respects her husband, calling him a "wonderful, godly man and a great father." And she says he respects and loves her, too.

The question by conservative columnist Byron York drew boos from the audience. [AP]

Reminds me of the days when they questioned Kennedy's Catholicism.

The Press: Altering Reality Rather Than Reporting It

Time and time again we see evidence of how the mainstream media uses its power to distort facts in order to advance its agenda.  I'm okay with an editorial page commenting on a candidate, disagreeing with his/her agenda or even labeling the candidate in unflattering terms.  But intentionally distorting photos? 

If for satirical purposes okay, photoshop is a tool for the amateur political cartoonists.  But when a magazine, like Newsweek, publishes cover photos clearly chosen to cast the subject in a negative light, that might be crossing the line.

Sigh. Seriously, Tina Brown?

Yes, I’m talking about you, Oxford University-educated Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown.

You’ve resorted to recycling bottom-of-the-barrel moonbat photo cliches about conservative female public figures and their enraged “crazy eyes?” Really?

Who’s in charge of Newsweek cover graphics now — a Media Matters Soros Monkey? A random Daily Kos commenter? Keith Olbermann’s intern’s intern?

The once-mighty Newsweek magazine-turned-Beast is apparently so proud of its Democratic Underground-pandering Michele Bachmann cover and title that its editors are promoting the photo and pushing the hashtag #QueenofRage on Twitter.

And the left-wing press is eating it up. [Michelle Malkin]

For a stunning number of examples see Michelle's site linked above.  These photos of conservatives were not published to lampoon or satirize, they were published to sway public opinion under the guise of news reporting.

WHAT? He's Not Indicted Yet?

Headlines this morning continue to point out problems for Steve Beshear after it was revealed that some of his political appointees had shaken down state workers for campaign contributions in violation of state law.  But so far as I can tell Attorney General Jack "Puss In Boots" Conway hasn't moved to indict the governor yet.

Could it be that the two of them are in cahoots?  Might it be that Conway is so thunderstruck by having lost to Rand Paul that he is afraid to come out of hiding?  Do the allegations regarding Conway's role in the alleged cover-up of a drug investigation into his brother in Louisville have him looking for cover instead of votes?

Or is it just the way things are done in Kentucky, you know, when a good man can be savagely attacked by the press if he's a republican while the democrat governor could even get by with extortion and the cone of silence would protect him.

Okay, I admit, there have been a few scant headlines about the matter,  but nothing like the wall to wall 24-7-365 incendiary rants that we saw four years ago.

Bias?  You betcha.

Kentucky Press In Panic Over Beshear Scandal

Despite having made it clear on day one that he expects his administration to be accountable, starting at the top with him, and with his top appointees having extensive training in laws and ethics, Steve Beshear is  now about to crash and burn and take Attorney General Jack Conway with him.  The press is in a panic.

Here's what Beshear said at his innauguration:

But now, after his appointee, Charles Geveden, has been exposed by a whistle-blower for allegedly extorting campaign contributions for Beshear from state employees, in violation of the law, things have exploded.

First, this is exactly the kind of scandal a democratic attorney general would have pounced upon had the governor been a republican.  But Jack Conway, who has now avoided any response to his own scandal for three months, is sitting back and letting the press go on the offensive against David Williams.

In a series of articles designed to push the Beshear story off the front pages, both of Kentucky's major newspapers have instead launched a number of articles attacking David Williams.  Their motives are so sickeningly apparent that every decent person in the Commonwealth should call today and cancel their subscription.

Steve Beshear could perhaps be indicted, and convicted, if his involvement in this criminal activity were aggressively pursued by the attorney general's office.  But given the entirely consistent criminal conspiracy which is being alleged, there is little chance that Jack Conway will do his job.

But that's okay.  Quite frankly, all we need is one or two other pieces to the puzzle and the entire matter may become a RICO violation, and that means the feds step in.

You talk about a panic in the press at that point.  Even their phone records could become evidence.

White House Press Corps Gets Testy With Carney

The so-called fawning press smelled blood in the water, or so it would seem, during a recent press briefing with White House Spokesman Jay Carney.  Watch and listen to this video.  On more than one occassion they bristle at his demeaning remarks and reject his excuse for why Obama has no budget plan in writing.