-By Warner Todd Huston
Looks like long-time Chicago investigative reporter Carol Marin really laid her hate for everyone right of center bare with her lie-filled attack on WLS radio personality and political operative Dan Proft last week.
Marin, a reporter with quite a reputation for factual columns, lambasted a mail ad that Proft’s political action group sent out that featured a “homophobic” slam on House member Ron Sandack.
Only there was a problem with Marin’s attack on Proft. The ad she was criticizing wasn’t sent by his PAC. It was sent by Illinois Family Action.
Marin slammed Proft as a gay basher, called him a homophobe, and attacked him in several ways interpreting all his mailers are anti-gay.
She proved to be one of those haters of conservatives and Republicans that reads “hate” into everything people right of center do. She proved to be shrill, blind to reality, and more interested in promulgating her own brand of hate than in the truth.
It wasn’t long before Marin was forced to apologize for her slipshod brand of “journalism.”
Soon she went back to her Sun-Times piece and revised it to apologize for her lie that the ad she had criticized was Proft’s. She claimed she just made a catastrophic “mistake.”
Yet, even after her faux apology, Marin went on to slam Proft as homophobic anyway purposefully misinterpreting several of his other ads and reading homophobia into them.
Her apology is pretty hard to swallow, for sure. It appears obvious that she has some need to attack Proft and doesn’t care if any facts support her bigoted position. It also looks more like she just let her “reporter” mask slip just a bit for us to see the inner bigot that dwells within.
