Althouse: "Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday evening in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German..."

September 8, 2022

"Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday evening in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German..."

"... whose investigation of the politician contributed to his primary election loss in June.... The investigative reporter was pursuing a potential follow-up story about Telles in the weeks before he was killed.... The breakthrough in the case came after police released an image of a vehicle tied to the homicide suspect: a red or maroon GMC Yukon Denali."

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

40 comments:

traditionalguy said...: Party unmentioned so we know Telles was a Democrat.; 9/8/22, 1:12 AM
Kirk Parker said...: Let's play Name That Party.

The press so very rarely disappoints: we dont find out until paragraph 18, though in addition there's also 2 intervening callouts and one large photo/video slider to divert the reader.; 9/8/22, 1:23 AM
Ann Althouse said...: The party is mentioned at the link, pretty far down. Yes, a Democrat.; 9/8/22, 1:31 AM
Readering said...: The paper--the murdered reporter's paper--has companion article on the suspect, prominently stating his party. Reas all about him.; 9/8/22, 1:50 AM
Wilbur said...: Ann Althouse said...
The party is mentioned at the link, pretty far down. Yes, a Democrat.

Thanks, but if it's not emblazoned in the headline, we already know.; 9/8/22, 4:10 AM
Leland said...: Indeed, if the suspect was a Republican, then the headline would only mention that fact and you’d have to read through a few paragraphs to learn he was at the municipal level and more likely for a Republican, a small town. The news would also portray it as some sort of Trump violence against journalists, and that would be the story.; 9/8/22, 5:54 AM
Jaq said...: If it were a Republican, there would be phone notifications of major newspaper mass coverage with his party mentioned in the notifications themselves so as to be unavoidable.; 9/8/22, 5:59 AM
RMc said...: Wasn't the Review-Journal one of the few papers who endorsed Trump?; 9/8/22, 6:02 AM
Howard said...: I'm so happy it's a Democrat party problem. You people need as much good news as humanly possible.; 9/8/22, 6:05 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Thanks, but if it's not emblazoned in the headline, we already know."

Yes, but your critique works far better if you yourself are scrupulously accurate.

When I want to say something isn't in an article, I search the page for key words. Here, a search for "Democrat" would have found it easily. You could have said his party affiliation wasn't mentioned until the 25th paragraph (or whatever/I didn't count).

Yesterday, I blogged about a NYT article and wanted to comment on the failure to talk about race. Had I read it carefully enough to be able to say what's not there? I searched the page for all the key words I could think of, then made the assertion.; 9/8/22, 6:39 AM
Rusty said...: Democrats have self control issues. just sayin'.; 9/8/22, 7:00 AM
Lloyd W. Robertson said...: From a toxic work environment--no exaggeration this time--ignored by people who should have done something about it, to the vicious turkey being able to run for office as investigations finally get going, to murder.

When I was still working in a government office, they were beginning to gear up mechanisms to deal with workplace harassment--how employees treat each other and the public. Of course the long-standing "human rights" categories such as race were given a lot of attention, but there was also a focus on purely personal animosity and misbehavior. Physically intimidating someone who happens to be smaller, verbal abuse, a manager picking favorites and making the losers feel miserable. All of this may actually have nothing to do with race, religion or whatever. I know women say they have always come in for some of this. But there is a tendency for people to dislike each other, and to be dislikeable. The woke have used this kind of situation to open the doors for endless lectures about how if you're somehow indifferent to justice for certain races and trans people, this is the same as hating them, and they have every right to hate you back. Toxicity is already a problem, and surely this doesn't help.; 9/8/22, 7:07 AM
Iman said...: if it debases
democrats say well hell yes
a form of self-hate; 9/8/22, 7:20 AM
Big Mike said...: Much as it pains me to do so, I’d like to remind people that Telles is only a suspect at this stage, and even a Democrat is entitled to the presumption of innocence.; 9/8/22, 7:23 AM
hawkeyedjb said...: "Party unmentioned so we know Telles was a Democrat."

We know how it goes if the (supposed) wrongdoer is Republican: "Joe Schmoe, a Republican member of the Republican party, representing the heavily Republican district of Hooterville, shocked his fellow Republicans when, as a Republican, he..."; 9/8/22, 7:54 AM
Temujin said...: This is the danger of committing acts of Journalism! these days. I suppose the politician is still innocent until proven guilty. Man...that hurt me writing that.

Wait until someone commits an act of Journalism! on John Fetterman in Pennsylvania and actually shows the public what this guy is about, and how his stroke has rendered him unable to mentally or physically do any job right now, let alone being a US Senator. I don't think Fetterman would take it lightly. He seems the type to go off.

I'm just speculating here, of course.; 9/8/22, 8:00 AM
Derve Swanson said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 9/8/22, 8:04 AM
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hawkeyedjb said...: Temujin said...
"...unable to mentally or physically do any job right now, let alone being a US Senator."

Not really. The job of a junior senator is to vote the party line, and all you need is someone to tell him the party line when a vote comes up. It's not that hard.; 9/8/22, 8:15 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Anti-free speech Democrats do not like the party organs of media used against them. This is the natural result of Dark Brandon’s fascist hate mongering.; 9/8/22, 8:33 AM
lonejustice said...: Blogger traditionalguy said...

"Party unmentioned so we know Telles was a Democrat."

Blogger Ann Althouse said...

"The party is mentioned at the link, pretty far down. Yes, a Democrat."
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I see this happening more and more on this blog and other blogs. People leaving comments without reading the link/article. It's like they want to make a point whether it is true or not, or they are too lazy to check out the facts.; 9/8/22, 8:35 AM
Achilles said...: Another Democrat goes off on a violent spree.

He was set to serve a prison sentence of 3 years.

He was let out of prison after 11 months. Total mystery why he was let out of prison.

Then he started shooting people and live streaming it.

He talked about "Justice" on his live stream.; 9/8/22, 8:45 AM
CJ said...: There's an interesting story buried in there about the duties of the public guardian's office, which handles the estates of deceased persons who never appointed an executor. There are likely a lot of those in Las Vegas. It was created after abuses by private estate guardians, but has has incidents of corruption itself. This type of thing was the inspiration for the film I Care a Lot which starred Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage.; 9/8/22, 9:46 AM
Michael K said...: I see this happening more and more on this blog and other blogs. People leaving comments without reading the link/article. It's like they want to make a point whether it is true or not, or they are too lazy to check out the facts.

If the facts are always the same, is that a valid criticism? I always look to see if there is a photo of the perp. Very rarely am I surprised.; 9/8/22, 9:54 AM
mikee said...: Once again, a big old SUV involved in the death of an innocent person. When will they be outlawed?; 9/8/22, 10:16 AM
Christopher B said...: Jim Geraghty @ NRO .. THE MORNING JOLT ... Do the Democrats Have a . . . Murder Problem?

Do the cases of Telles, Caddle, and Buck reflect that America is awash in murders committed by Democratic officials, campaign staff, and donors? No, although they do illustrate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s point that “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.”

Still, if you’re a Democratic candidate this fall, you should probably avoid boasting that your party has convictions, and the GOP doesn’t. And for that matter, no matter how confident the DNC, DCCC, and DSCC are, no one in those organizations should boast that this year’s lineup of Democratic candidates is the greatest collection of talent since the 1927 New York Yankees.

You know, “Murderers’ Row.”; 9/8/22, 10:18 AM
Joe Smith said...: Journalists. Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em.

Oh, wait!; 9/8/22, 10:26 AM
mccullough said...: A lot of politicians are socio-paths. Most of them are smart enough not to kill someone.; 9/8/22, 10:33 AM
Big Mike said...: @Temujin (8:00), read Selena Zito or listen to Tucker.; 9/8/22, 11:16 AM
Achilles said...: mccullough said...

A lot of politicians are socio-paths. Most of them are smart enough not to kill someone.

Or in the case of Bill and Hillary to have enough supporters to get away with it.; 9/8/22, 11:21 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "I see this happening more and more on this blog and other blogs. People leaving comments without reading the link/article. It's like they want to make a point whether it is true or not, or they are too lazy to check out the facts."

You have a point, up to a point. However, the tell is actually that the party label wasn't in the first mention of the suspect's name, not that it isn't in the body of the story at all. Had Telles been a Republican, that fact would have been in the story's title itself.; 9/8/22, 11:24 AM
Aggie said...: You know what I thought was weird>? When the press caught up with Telles, after his vehicle had been hauled away as evidence, and shortly before he was arrested at home, the Film-at-11 TV crew confronted him as he was opening up and entering his garage. He was wearing a paper jump suit. Who on earth goes around the house in a paper jump suit? That's some kind of weird thing going on with this dude, and all of his pictures are posed, with his Las Vega thousand-watt smile, the kind you get with hours of mirror practice. Something off, there.; 9/8/22, 12:25 PM
Rabel said...: So the reporter went on a crusade to ruin the man's life based on reports of "office turmoil," possible "bullying" and a possible "inappropriate relationship" with a coworker.

It worked. The guy lost his election.

Then he killed the reporter.

There's a lesson here kids.; 9/8/22, 1:00 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'Who on earth goes around the house in a paper jump suit?'

People about to paint and people who just killed someone...; 9/8/22, 1:14 PM
Jim at said...: and even a Democrat is entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Only in a court of law. I don't have to presume he's innocent of anything.; 9/8/22, 2:33 PM
n.n said...: Scalpels, knives, and other bladed instruments are the primary carry of abortionists who exercise their rite to relieve burdens. His Choice. He didn't get away with it.; 9/8/22, 3:38 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'It worked. The guy lost his election.

Then he killed the reporter.

There's a lesson here kids.'

Kill the reporter before the election?; 9/8/22, 5:21 PM
Aggie said...: Geez it gets even weirder. When the guy was arrested, they hauled him out of his house on a stretcher, oxygen mask and all, straight into the ambulance. They guy is some kind of bug, I'm tellin' ya.

Nice mug shot though:
https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2022/09/08/sheriff-joe-lombardo-holds-press-conference-on-homicide-arrest-of-democat-county-official-robert-telles-n624588

Not a bad story there, worth reading. Lots going on in Vegas these days.; 9/8/22, 6:56 PM
takirks said...: Do a quick assessment of any politician you've encountered personally: Do they seem at all normal, to you? Were they behaving like other people you know?

American politics has this unfortunate tendency to throw up narcissistic sociopaths, and then put them in office. Why? Because they're the only people who can work their way through the system without saying "F*ck this, I'm not putting up with this crap just for a thankless job that pays shiite..."

Which results in said narcissistic sociopath getting elected, and then turning the job into a sinecure and jackpot. Honest men don't want to be politicians, in general. And, since most of their peers are creepy assholes, they get pushed out as quickly as possible, if only through disgust at what is going on around them.

Reforming American politics is going to require a total change in how we select the bastards going into office. Personally, I rather favor the whole "random selection" thing, like we do with jury duty; if you're a registered voter with no criminal record, then they ought to enter your name into a lottery. Lose it, and you're the goat for this term in Congress or the local election. You can only lose once, for each level of government local-state-federal.

I can't see how that would be any worse than a system that throws up a Nancy Pelosi or a Jay Inslee regularly as clockwork.; 9/8/22, 7:46 PM
Drago said...: Telles should immediately request a pardon so he can devote his life to fighting republicans and the NRA.; 9/8/22, 8:38 PM