shouldn't the Journal Sentinel apologize to the family too? After all, the Republican Party and the politicians DID NOT release the names of the couple or their son, either to the news media OR to the public. The newspaper did. Granted, the Party staged its news conference in front of the family's home, which vicariously identified them to the reporters there or anyone who recognized the home from a glimpse of it on TV. But the paper was under no obligation to print the couple's names, or the name of their son, which the paper learned on its own from city records. Yet the paper did so - both in the original story and again in the editorial, the latter of which accused the Party of besmirching the family's names. But who would have known the names if the paper hadn't outed them?Damn the newspaper for their reporting! Blast those editors and reporters who saw a trail of news and followed it! Curse those smart people who made a two-minute phone call that Republicans couldn't be bothered with!
When you consider that one of the family members actually told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter "It's a good thing I wasn't home. It's amazing how much nerve these people have," you have to wonder whether, in fact, the family wanted the information out there that the Republicans were lying scum. I sort of wish they hadn't snuck in when the family wasn't home, just for the sight of someone tearing out of the house with a rolling pin to beat Rick Graber with. (Note: I don't know if the family told reporter Greg Borowski that or not.)
In the end, I think it's important to remember that Jessica McBride lives with Paul Bucher, candidate for Attorney General, who insists that it is important to stop voter fraud, "real or imagined."
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