Kathleen Parker’s May 28 column featuring Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s remarks about President Barack Obama’s criticism of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s job-creation skills was well-written and factually correct, but lacked journalistic truth.
The column was about Booker’s criticism of Bain Capital, the company Romney often mentions. His stump speeches cite his business experience creating jobs with Bain Capital as experience transferable to the White House.
Obama’s response to Romney’s claims is not an attack on Bain Capital per se. Obama simply asserts that the skills Romney used at Bain Capital are different from the skills needed as president.
Parker conjectures what Obama really meant by quoting Democratic aides in a way that suggests she doesn’t believe it.
Parker is a good writer and generally complements her conservatism with balanced reason, but in this column she lapsed into name-calling and insinuation.
If she wants to find some journalistic truth, then she should try defending Romney’s job-creation claim with a reasoned, factual argument instead of resorting to smoke and mirrors.
Peter Konieczko
Augusta
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