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The Spectacle Blog
Here they come.
The Left is issuing secret marching orders for Wisconsin.
And the same Politico “reporter” who “covered” the recent judge race won by a conservative turns out to be the author of Politico’s bogus talk radio pay to play stories on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck.
First, the leaked marching orders for Wisconsin.
Democracy for America’s Jim Dean, brother of Howard, says the Left’s push to recall six Wisconsin Republican Senators “is almost ready to go and it’s the biggest campaign we’ve ever run.”
In an e-mail obtained by The American Spectator, Dean is vowing he will have “thousands of volunteers from across the country to make calls to voters in Wisconsin” in what he calls “the biggest campaign we’ve ever run.” The calls will be made in conjunction with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC). In addition to flooding Wisconsin with calls from out-of-state activists, the campaign will consists of “hard-hitting television, radio and web ads” targeting the six Republican state senators for “their votes to destroy unions and middle-class families.”
There will also be a “massive canvassing operation that will knock on 137,523 doors in 40 days.”
Similar campaigns, Dean reveals, are being geared up in “New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and all across the country.” But Wisconsin is first.
And…oh yes…he’s asking if recipients will send ten bucks.
What continues to be striking here is that effort to bring Wisconsin’s middle-class tax payers to their knees and politically club them into submission. Forcing them to pay for outrageous health care and benefit packages for public employees they can’t even afford for themselves is the focus not simply of the Wisconsin Left but the American Left. Every last resource from all across the country is being poured into this effort to recall six Wisconsin state senators who have valiantly tried to protect their very middle class constituents from the equivalent of highway robbery.
Now part two: Wisconsin, talk radio and understanding how the game works with the Left and their liberal media allies.
Remember this from the Daily Caller’s Jeff Poor? Poor was writing about Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel and his so-called talk radio pay-to-play stories. Said Poor:
Writing a piece highly critical of conservative talk radio hosts like Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, then taking that message to the debut of Keith Olbermann’s reincarnation on former Vice President Al Gore’s Current TV doesn’t give yourself away as a lefty — but it certainly doesn’t help with one’s perception of objectivity.
Exactly. So after going through the substance of the leaked e-mail rallying the Left to Wisconsin, a thought occurred, and Mr. Google went to work.
When a conservative judge was initially thought to have lost a campaign for re-election earlier this year in Wisconsin, amid all the upset with Governor Scott Walker and public employee unions, this gloating headline (“Conservative judge behind in Wisconsin”) appeared in Politico. When the story turned out not to be true, and a recount confirmed the conservative judge had in fact won, this story appeared in Politico. The headline: “David Prosser confirmed winner in Wis. Judge race.” In other words, Politico headlined a prospective Prosser loss as that of a “conservative judge.” When the results were finally in, the victory was headlined not as that of a “conservative judge.” Suddenly the headline is about a personal win for “David Prosser.”
And the plot thickens.
Who is it that wrote the first story in Politico with the gloating “conservative judge behind” headline?
You got it.
That would be one “Kenneth P. Vogel.”
That’s right. The same Kenneth P. Vogel whose “lefty” tendencies the Daily Caller’s Jeff Poor was musing about. Tendencies on display over in Politico — and on the very first Keith Olbermann show on Al Gore’s Current TV network. (See link below to Daily Caller Olbermann video.) Where Vogel was pumping up the fake “pay to play” talk radio scandal story he had written for — Politico.
Now, let’s be clear. We could not possibly care less what politics Ken Vogel has. The problem — and it’s always a problem — is that so-called “mainstream media” journalists are in fact not there to report facts, they are writing liberal commentary subtly (at this point in time, not so subtly) disguised as “news.” The talk radio “pay to play” story, as noted previously here and here (with a link to the Daily Caller’s Olbermann video) was a fake. From start to finish.
Yet Vogel was out there hawking this story in both Politico and the decidedly leftist Current show as if he had made some earth-shaking, scandalous discovery about Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck. And the story was fake news. Bogus. Phony.
And a quick look to see, just as a hunch, where Vogel and Politico were on the reporting in Wisconsin turns up the “Conservative judge behind” business.
So here’s the thread.
Whether the story is headlined “Conservative judge behind in Wisconsin” or, as here, “Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck sell endorsements to conservative groups,” the latter story also targeting Mark Levin (who has answered here), all you will have to do to understand what’s really going on with Wisconsin stories in Politico slanted against conservatives, or phony talk radio stories in Politico slanted against conservatives, is to look in Politico for this byline: “Kenneth P. Vogel.”
Liberal media bias example 2 zillion and 1 explained.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.24.11 @ 12:43PM
New Headline:
Politico Exposed As Front For Left Wing Hate Groups!
solidground| 6.24.11 @ 12:59PM
Here's the real kernel of the problem: Any American able to brush his or her teeth each morning and eat soup without it ending up in his or her lap, who at this point does not understand that the mainstream media is bought and paid for by progressive/liberal/left politicians and their camp followers, will NEVER understand that fact. And sadly, millions of American citizens do fall into that category, and will continue consuming with gusto the swill served up by the left without a questioning thought in their heads.
matthew s harrison| 6.24.11 @ 1:26PM
The people of Wisconsin spoke when they elected the conservatives reps, and again with the Judge-they are not dumb enough to be pawns in obiden's push to communism. If the left succeeds in this ruse, there will be a mass exodus from Wisco, that will mirror the exodus of businesses from there over the last 2 decades.
Racine, once a manufacturing mecca is a ghost town-as is Kenosha. There is nothing left, thanks to Dumbocrat leadership. Between the egress of businesses in WI, IL, and MI, the left have destroyed the heart of the midwest, with no end in sight. The populous of Chicago is down to that of 1928-and sinking further. Crime is up in Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, and will continue that way, as more businesses egress the anti-business climate for safer locales and right-to-work laws.
The NLRB and the DNC cannot, and will not win out in this war. The American public are tired of starving, tired of lead-tainted products from China, and tired of being used by malicious dipshits who hate America. Values, Morals, and a desire for self-sufficiency are not only on the rise, but are the only answer to the Marxists' actions. Look out lefties-you have awakened a sleeping tiger-and I can hear him growling. That isn't purring !
Oldefarte| 6.24.11 @ 1:31PM
Of course the MSM is propagandizing the Democratic Party's messages and bullexcrement, and has been doing so for my entire lifetime. What else is new? Cancel your newspaper subscriptions and turn off ABC, NBC,CBS etc and then see how quickly they re-invent themselves [when these liberal morons are all looking for jobs at Mickey D's]!!!!!!!
megapotamus| 6.24.11 @ 2:00PM
It makes plenty of difference what anyone's politics are. If they are Commies, and all these fuqqs are, they are lying. It is as simple as that. Best give up on this faux congeniality with your mortal enemies, bruvver. Vogel is a Commie, as such he is waging war on this nation more or less openly. That is what they do, whether it is Kerry or Sanders or Obama or Kennedy or Frank or Friedman or Soros or your sainted mum. Anyone who can brush their teeth and slurp up soup who doesn't know this doesn't know much.
carol| 6.24.11 @ 3:08PM
here we are:
silent no more
know who your liberal neighbors are and get loud. can't change them but can make them aware they are surrounded and surround them it is our civic duty never to go back
Elizabeth Craine| 6.24.11 @ 4:29PM
I hope the people of Wisconsin are not fooled by these liberals. If the liberals are sucessful in recalling these senators, the people of Wisconsin will be paying higher taxes so they can support the unions. The unions make more than the private sector. The poor taxpayers make less than these thugs in the unions. Wake up Wisconsin!
Liberal Reader| 6.24.11 @ 10:32PM
Elizabeth,
Aside from some stupidly offensive language ("thugs"), your post is really deficient in logic. "The people of Wisconsin" include a huge number of people who are Democrats; they include a decent number of Republicans who are against Walker's anti-union law. And to claim that "the unions make more than the private sector" doesn't even make sense. But I think you mean that union workers make more than private sector workers. This, of course, is false. Factor in education and work experience and public sector union workers make far, far less than people with comparable skills in the private sector. Now, of course, the economy produces huge numbers of private sector jobs that don't pay well; but that hardly is the fault of unionized teachers or policemen.
KennesawJack| 6.24.11 @ 4:52PM
Methinks the lefties are in for a surprise with this recall vote. What was lost in the hoopla over the initial announcement that the lefty had won the race for Judge was how substantially Prosser had, in fact, defeated her. Joe Six-Pack, or whatever the elite leftists choose to call him, isn't buying the class warfare nonsense any longer nor is he inclined to continue subourning his individual liberty to the state. By the way, lefties, best look out for Michele Bachman, Mm, Mm,Mm!
Liberal Reader| 6.24.11 @ 8:10PM
Mr Lord,
The benefits packages *earned* by Wisconsin public employees (generally in place of pay increases) are actually not outrageous by any standards. Wisconsin public employees tend to be highly educated and they perform important services on behalf of tax payers. Wisconsin's public school teachers, for example, work very hard and make the public schools in that state some of the best in the country.
Now while I think there may have been room for some modifications of benefits (and indeed, the unions made every concession asked of them), the anti-union rhetoric you produce here -- tiresomely like what we hear on talk radio -- is just not all that informed by reality in Wisconsin.
J.C.Eaton| 6.24.11 @ 8:37PM
Libby, extract head from butt. I've lived in Wisconsin all of 63 years....public employee benefits ARE better than the public has been told. If they fully knew they'd be out with the lanterns and pitchforks. I wager a Wisconsin HS diploma is no more valuable than one from anywhere else...and it IS more expensive. I teach law at one of the better voc schools and competent English composition is rare as hell....give it up.
Liberal Reader| 6.24.11 @ 10:24PM
Mr Eaton,
Any member of the public is entitled to know what public sector workers' benefits are: it's hardly secret information. Public employees in WI earn decent wages and receive decent benefits, but they're hardly out of the range of other states and they're hardly outrageous.
The fact is that we are a modern, industrialized society, and like all such we have government employees: we want government employees who are talented and well-educated. Since we cannot pay people exorbitant salaries, we give them generous benefits and pensions; it's a trade-off that makes sense. Is it always perfect? No. Might benefits have to be trimmed or altered to suit developing economic conditions? Yes. But to simply gesture at public employees and discount their contribution to society is not very persuasive to me.
What would you pay them? Minimum wage? Consider the people who check the water supply where you live. Do you want them to be paid as little as possible? Do you not want them to have health insurance? Why waste tax dollars paying them anything at all if you're not going to pay them well enough that you can demand the best possible people are hired to do the job with integrity?
Kevin Compton| 6.25.11 @ 12:30AM
PCCC, really?! Like CCCP? Hmmm.
Fed Up Conservative| 6.25.11 @ 12:23PM
Some leftist left a rant on another site regarding the Soros news article that we should expect them to fight back against Republican voter fraud like the Prosser run off in Wisconsin. They cited history of the woman who submitted the data INCORRECTLY to the MEDIA, correctly to the election board but said it incorrectly, implying voter fraud which did not happen. Clearly the responder was associated with Politico. They cannot handle the truth. We expose these cockroaches by shining the light of truth upon them for all to read. I did call them out in the comment response for the facts proved 100% correct in election recount in favor of Prosser. They will never give up, but now, never will we.
Scary Union Thug| 6.25.11 @ 7:21PM
So democrats are going to have "thousands of volunteers from across the country to make calls to voters in Wisconsin" in what he calls "the biggest campaign we've ever run." And somehow this is some deep dark conspiracy? Are you freaking kidding me? Umm yeah, there are elections scheduled...and we actually are making an effort to win them. As I am sure republicans are coordinating efforts for their side to win as well. How does this prove anything. The delusions of persecution that conservatives have gets to be absurd at times!
Eva Sorock | 6.26.11 @ 8:51AM
These tactics are a perfect example of the Left's continued use of the Colorado Model, with invented accusations against conservatives posted on obscure media and then picked up and publicized by the Lamestream Media. Let's hope it does not succeed.
weddingdresses | 6.29.11 @ 5:31AM
Here's the real kernel of the problem: Any American able to brush his or her teeth each morning and eat soup without it ending up in his or her lap, who at this point does not understand that the mainstream media is bought and paid for by progressive/liberal/left politicians and their camp followers, will NEVER understand that fact. And sadly, millions of American citizens do fall into that category, and will continue consuming with gusto the swill served up by the left without a questioning thought in their heads.
SGT Tony| 7.2.11 @ 11:17AM
Evidence that Wisconsin conservatives did the right thing:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/.....l-district
Yet, we all know the liberals will try their best to sweep this under the rug. I had not heard a single peep about it until I was surfing the web and came across it. No mainstream coverage at all. (I don't know if Fox covered it)
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