For a decidedly revisionist version of Bill Warren’s disastrous 2003 mayoral campaign, in which the movie theater mogul self-destructed over various loose-cannon comments, check out the fawning profile in this month’s local shopper mag Splurge! The article about “Citizen Bill” waxes conspiratorial about the “slimy politics” that supposedly brought down a “naive” Warren: “Unfortunately, some politicians and a less-than-impartial media outlet believed Warren’s promised reform of city hall would threaten their private interests. So a smear campaign was launched and an unsuspecting public fell for it hook, line and sinker. Almost before it had begun, Warren’s race for office was over.”
Wow — this story line has Hollywood potential. Move over, “Da Vinci Code”!
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Frustrating when somebody pops off in print with a complete distortion of the facts, huh, Randy? Pot meet kettle.
I knew people who worked for Bill Warren. Let’s just say that the “smear campaign” was in the best interest of the city.
From the stories I heard. The dude is a complete as@$#*%(^. You get the picture.
As I am recalling, the big story with the campaign was not so much that he was smeared, as was the fact that somebody in the media found out about his charges of domestic violence against his significant other.
Warren should have taken a cue from Bush and Cheney: have your criminal records sealed if you don’t want the pesky media looking into your dirty laundry.
To say that the Eagle’s coverage of this story was a distortion is itself a distortion of mind-boogling proportions.
It doesn’t really matter who is running or what his/her politics are. If the eagle can find personal mud they will happily sling it. That sells papers.
Also, remember that Warren’s mayorial campaign cost considerably more than the annual salary for the job. Did anyone else wonder if he was really that much of a philanthropist?
Joe was right, Warren has some issues and the campaign brought those into pretty tight focus. I am hard pressed to see how that was anyone else’s fault.
I dont know anything about this guy or the race he was in… but…
“a less-than-impartial media outlet”
Gosh, you dont think the “values voters” with their personal columnist to advance their holy wars, qualifies as part of the “less than impartial” do ya?
Is anyone in the world more thin skinned than the MSM? They can dish it out but can they take it? heheh.
Truthout. Truthhurts. Let’s hear what “values boy” has to say about this in his oh so impartial manner. We are waiting with baited breath, and our very moral core is at stake until we get the word from values boy.
I mean, how can we know what to think until we hear from him? The very foundation of civilzation depends on the gospel according to values boy.
I think “less than impartial” is the kindest thing that could be said about this editorial page. Republican Religious Rag might be more accurate.
Fair and balanced. heheh.
Bill’s comment a few months later about how he spent $200,000 of his own money and came in third in a two-person race sums it up. In all my years in Wichita, I’ve never seen anyone publically self-destruct to badly in so short a time. It wasn’t the Eagle’s fault; he did it all to himself, not that those around him helped him any at all. Naive, my foot. You don’t survive in business the way he has by being naive.And BTW, Splurge is an advertising rag, pure and simple. Wonder how much of Bill’s business this piece of fawning trash will net them?
This from an Americans for Prosperity website:
“The left-wing Wichita Eagle took a shot at Americans for Prosperity and state Rep. Brenda Landwehr with a misleading editorial cartoon (attached above) in this morning’s paper.”
Entire article here:http://www.americansforprosperity.org/index.php?id=293
I don’t see the WE as clarion of liberalism, and clearly from where you perceptually start determines how you see many things in life – including media resources.
Maybe as much business as the WE’s religious republican advertisers?
Oh my gosh. Headlines.
TABOR leaders support brenda “tabor” landwehr!
Now THERE is a BIG surprise for all of us. heheheheh.
“Americansforprosperity”?
I am a recovered conservative. Far right wing.
I am now a liberal. Far left wing.
So I have seen both sides.
Gives me a better perspective.
The Wichita Eagle is in no way shape, form, anything APPROACHING leftist.
Oh that’s right. I forgot. (Been a long journey from my old wrongheaded youth and political ignorance) Anything that is not 102% Adam Smith/Ronald Reagan is by definition leftist.
Warren? I don’t know.
He attended a “save our jobs” rally that I was at once. I think it was just a way for him to get seen though.
I’m not in Bill Warren’s camp, by any means. We don’t know each other. His business sends money out of our economy, because he has to pay outsiders a share of his proceeds, so there is a net-dollar drain of locally-circulating dollars.
But this is true for the vast majority of locally-owned Wichita businesses. I’ve been to a lot of theaters around the country. His new theaters give patrons spacious, comfortable seating that you can’t find in most theaters. In what he specializes in, Mr. Warren does it RIGHT.
I think Mr. Warren should be given a contract to do a Cyberdome-IMAX conversion. If it loses money, taxpayers should subsidize it. IMAX films are highly educational. We need to pay more for education. If a profit is made, split it.
Once again, would have to agree with heartlander on the points in this post.
Ya know, with a.g. gonzales about to investigate and prosecute journalists, and with the NSA listening in on the conversations of reporters, and with this administration’s trashing of ALL constitutional protections for privacy and freedom of speech…
…who do the media think is gonna stand up for them when the jackboots come? Values boy and HIS crowd? heheh. Or all us mean ol’ liberal bloggers?
We are the ones the MSM can count on to protect their stupid speech, and yet VALUES boy gets his own column and the WE panders to the republican right?
Heheh. “They came for me and there was no one left to speak…”