'He never gets a break from the mean-spirited liberal media'
If newspapers don't endorse your campaign, toss them in the trash.
Rootin', tootin' Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix, Ariz., (see item below, not to mention previous blog items about his disdain for FOI and the media in February and last fall) is running for re-election and one of his ads urges the public to throw away their local newspapers. In the campaign ad, the announcer says "He never gets a break from the mean-spirited liberal media." While holding up a copy of the Arizona Republic and the East Valley Tribune, Arpaio says, "You know, It's true. You can never believe everything you read. So when these are delivered to your house, they belong in the trash." Then he tosses the papers in a garbage bin. Arpaio must not have been pleased that the Arizona Republic endorsed his opponent, a Democrat.
I guess Arpaio is building upon a long history of attack-the-messenger strategies, such as that expressed by Spiro Agnew: "Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."