[img]1|right|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]How do you say “ain’t no horse there” without overtly confessing, ain’t no horse?

This is the Lyin’ Brian Williams-type of sin the Los Angeles Times committed this morning.

They were not candid. They skirted the truth.

For a change, though, we agree with these typically unreflective leftists.

The Times’s sin not only is acceptable but commendable – but not because they made the correct endorsement in the Los Angeles City Council race to succeed termed-out Bernard Parks.

They did not.

We laud them only for attempting to be sensitive toward candidates’ tender psyches.

The Times’s underlying message about the District 8 field was:

Ain’t no horse there.

They don’t like anybody in the March 3 election.

[img]2807|right|Marqueece Harris-Dawson||no_popup[/img]By endorsing the troubling Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a Karen Bass protégé, over returning contender Forescee Hogan-Rowles, the Times is confessing, sotto voce, that it erred four years ago when endorsing Ms. Hogan-Rowles.  A shrewd, efficient businesswoman in a gritty field – doling micro loans to small businesses — she would have made an excellent successor to Mr. Parks in ’11 and she will next month.

I don’t know exactly why the Times snubbed her this morning except for believing she cannot win.

They are wrong. There is a horse in this race, the immensely capable Ms. Hogan Rowles.

I do know why the Times held its nose with both hands and endorsed Mr. Harris-Dawson, who runs the Community Coalition that U.S. Rep. Bass started. He feels like a winner. He has captured more endorsements in the last four months than anyone else in  town.

The best of a weak field that includes activist Bobbie Anderson, by the Times’s reasoning.

Curiously, the Times endorsed him even though they disagree with the core of his political philosophy – that regardless of the question, Big Brother government is the answer.

The Times admitted that the Harris-Dawson backing is counterintuitive because the gentleman scorns private investment for his down community. A big believer in victimhood, he favors government handouts, which means you and me, Murgatroyd.

This is what makes Ms. Bass, or Ms. Zero, a door knob rather than a useful politician who would aid her community.