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Posted at 11:15am on Nov. 19, 2007 Radio News Director starts tossing the ad-hominems... but only at conservatives?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

WKZO News Director John McNeill thinks anyone questioning Jon Stryker's connection with medicare fraud is "dumb."  Libs questioning conservatives over flimsier claims?  Well, apparently they're libs, no big deal.  But the MSM isn't biased.

And they wonder why we accuse them of having a liberal bias?  I've been itching to share this one with everyone for a few days now but I decided to have patience.  Sadly, it's starting to look like no amount of waiting will make a difference.

Last week Right Michigan detailed the United States Justice Department's settlement with the Stryker Corporation, the family business and cash cow of radical-lib money man and gay-special-rights vigilante Jon Stryker.  Turned out his company had stolen tens of millions of dollars from American seniors at the same time Styker's profits were shooting through the roof and the man was personally purchasing the Michigan House of Representatives with unprecedented amounts of campaign cash.

Lets review the facts, shall we?  For instance:

  • Jon L. Stryker has sold off more than $100 million worth of company stock over the last year.  This is the same time the Stryker Corp. was bilking the taxpayers with its fraudulent claims and its stock price was on the rise, increasing in value by nearly 60 percent since January 2006.
  • Stryker owns more than 28 million shares in the company, worth an estimated $2 billion.
  • He owns more than 10 percent of the company, which requires him to file special disclosure documents with the Federal Election Commission that monitor the trading activities of company insiders.
  • Jon Stryker is the man and money behind the Coalition for Progress, which pumped in more than $5 million in Michigan state legislative races in 2006 and was a critical component in Democrats capturing control of the state House of Representatives.
  • Jon Stryker is widely believed to be the man behind the Governor's super-secret Partners for Progress slush fund and bankrolls the Michigan regressisphere.
  • Jon Stryker and his family have been active in influencing political outcomes in other states. The Stryker family personally funded a Democrat takeover of the Colorado Legislature in 2004.

    Stryker's cash is dirty.  Filthy.  Saul at MRP has called on House Democrats, Jennifer Granholm and others to return the illegal cash and to separate themselves from the criminal actions that led to it's donation.  But they're not going to.  And that's not a surprise.  The Dems talk a good game on ethics and accountability but when push comes to shove they've got Norman Hsu's, Chinese bus boys without citizenship and Jon Stryker's hiding in their closets.  Especially here in Michigan.  

    Nothing new for Granholm, Stabenow, Levin and Dillon.  They're used to taking tainted money.  They just brush off complaints about it and hope their Dem constituency is still wearing their blue sunglasses.  But our friends in the MSM?  Well, one of them didn't very much like me going after his BFF Jon Stryker.

    What follows is an email exchange between myself and John McNeill, the news director at Kalamazoo's AM radio leader, WKZO.  

    I love KZO.  I seriously do.  For the longest time you couldn't hear a Tigers game on the radio in Grand Rapids.  If the Tigers weren't going to the playoffs the local sports radio station couldn't be bothered with their broadcasts.  KZO never waivered in their support for the Tigers.  And I will always love and appreciate them for it.

    Even today when I listen to a game (and I listen to a lot of them) I put my "money" where my mouth is... or my ear at least... and put up with a bit of a fainter signal, always tuning into 590 instead of 1340.  

    But their News Director?  He could probably take a cue from the class that's been illustrated by the sports department.

    From: John McNeill john@wkzo.com,

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