David Kranz, the dean of South Dakota political reporters, has a report today headlined "USD student and GOP activist regrets calling Herseth a witch."
It's interesting to know that David Kranz and the editors at the Argus Leader think it's acceptable to hold a college kid accountable for what he writes, going so far as to try to drag federal candidates into the mix. Last year, when Kranz was under scrutiny for his connections to Senator Daschle, it came to light that Kranz and Daschle were friends while they attended South Dakota State University, and that Kranz wrote at least one report for the SDSU Collegian that lauded Tom Daschle. That began a 30-year trend in which Kranz has continuously been writing laudatory reports about Tom Daschle.
Here's how Argus Leader executive editor Randell Beck responded to this scrutiny of Kranz:
So the decision was made when that didn’t happen that they were going to get a Democrat to come be a participant in that convention, and I believe off the top of my head it was Dick Kneip at the time. He came. Was a part of the mock convention. And Dave, who was a member of the staff of The Collegian wrote about it. Well, I’ve got news for folks. You know, that’s the way things happen at colleges all over this country. And I’m sure that Dave at that time did not perceive that he was going to be the preeminent political reporter for the Argus Leader. If he had, I’m sure he would have avoided carefully those conflicts. That’s a facetious comment. The point is, that, you know, you do those things in colleges, and I – it doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t mean anything.
Since the Argus Leader has now taken the stance that a college kid should be accountable for what he says, perhaps they will report some of the controversial things Tom Daschle said in college, too. Here's a jpeg of a story that appeared in the May 1, 1968 SDSU Collegian in which Daschle advocated, among other things "encourag[ing] the passage of federal regulation of the sale and possession of firearms." Note too that Daschle states no platform at all is better than a conservative platform (click on the image to blow up):
Here's a jpeg of one of the first in a long line of pro-Daschle articles Kranz has written:
Ah, there's nothing like the Argus Leader double standard. Republican college kids get skewered while what Kranz and Daschle did in their college days "doesn't mean anything."
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