I had to laugh at this Patterico parody of this laughable (but not in the good way) Ben Smith Politico piece (of quibbling trash) criticizing McCain adviser Steve Schmidt’s Monday afternoon explosion against the New York Times.
An example. Attempt to identify what truly passes as news.
Author Stanley Kurtz explodes Barack Obama’s lies about his relationship with 60s radical and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers in a piece written for the Wall Street Journal. Kurtz, in examining the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in the Daley Library archive, exposes Obama’s close working relationship with Ayers.
Public Relations mogul Ethan Winner of Winner & Associates has responded to allegations that he was behind a YouTube video smearing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a former member of the Alaskan Independence Party, admitting to producing but denying that the Obama campaign or his firm was involved in any way.
The video, along with all traces of the astroturfing campaign to promote the smear, began to be deleted from the internet mere minutes after The Jawa Report first published their blockbuster exposé.
Fox29 has live streaming of the huge McCain / Palin rally in Delaware County.
He’d better learn their names before the debate Friday.
That’s what SHE said…
McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt has thrown down against the New York Times on a conference call with reporters. Text of Schmidt’s smackdown, unloaded in response to a question by CNN’s Dana Bash, below.
Despite a growing number of ethics charges against New York Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel, Democrat Patrick Murphy stubbornly refuses to sever ties with the Congressman and return the reported $15,000 he’s received from Rangel’s “leadership” political action committee.
Rangel, who heads the House Ways and Means Committee that creates tax law, is accused of being a tax cheat and power abuser. He is reported to have hidden $75,000 in income on his tax returns and used public funds to raise money for a “Center for Public Service” bearing his name. Rangel’s unregistered Mercedez-Benz was towed from the House of Representative parking garage for violation of congressional rules last week. Rangel recently lashed out against Governor Sarah Palin, calling her “disabled,” and against those trying to detangle his tax mess as conducting a “guerilla war,” even as he was paying the $10,800 in back State and Federal taxes.
None of this bothers paragon of electoral virtue Patrick Murphy, though. He’s got Rangel’s big, fat check in his election coffers, and he’s not letting it go without a fight.
In a well-documented blockbuster report, Dr. Rusty Shackleford follows some of the most vicious smears against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin back to their roots. Dr. Shackleford finds information that could wind up tying the Palin smears directly to the Obama campaign through famed purveyor of fake grassroots movements (astroturf) David Axelrod by way of left-leaning public relations firms, their principals, and their employees.
Via the always-aces PA Watercooler comes word that Governor Rendell is looking at raising Pennsylvania’s gas taxes, already among the highest in the nation, as a way to overcome a transportation budget shortfall.
Increasing the state gas tax might be the only way to generate money for roads, bridges and mass transit as legislative leaders on Friday resisted calls to vote on a $12.8 billion offer to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a governor’s spokesman said.
“To make up the shortfall, we’re looking at a gas tax increase,” said Rendell spokesman Chuck Ardo. “Where else are we going to find the money for the shortfall in transportation funding?”
I don’t know about you, but when I find out in my own life that less money than expected will be coming in, I cut expenses.
You know what, Ed? You’re so slick and persuasive, why not cut down on the time spent analyzing football games on Comcast Sportsnet and redirect your energy to negotiating some better deals on supplies and materials. Cut projects down to the bone or do them for less.
Times are tight all around, Ed. You, like the rest of us, can’t just go looking for someone to jack the money from when it gets hard to make ends meet.
Cut the budget. Alex suggests starting with a couple unproven pipe-dream energy schemes.
Someone check my meds, because I’m about to praise an LA Times headline. OK, admittedly it’s an LA Times blog headline, not a print headline, but it’s still a headline that I accessed at the LA Times web site.
