The right wing media has been beside themselves for the last couple of weeks. What got their dander up is Ian Murphy had been traveling the state a few weeks ago to help encourage and reinvigorate recall volunteers in the last few weeks of the signature gathering phase.
Media Trackkkers did a story about Murphy. Christian Schneider, paid propagandist,
did a story. (By the way, would some tell Schneider that Scott Walker
did indeed meet with the Koch brothers?) Sykes not only
posted Schneider's article, but has been ranting about this and little else to his remaining 4.3 listeners.
Their collective faux outrage stems from the fact that Murphy wrote a piece years ago railing against the worst parts of war, things like what happened in
Abu Graib.
But that is not what they are upset about.
What they are upset about is that Murphy is the guy who
imitated David Koch last year in a phone call to Walker and showed Walker's true corrupt nature.
I don't know. I could be quite wrong about this, but I wouldn't thing it's generally a good idea to keep drawing attention to the guy who naturally reminds everyone about that phone call and thus Walker's corruption.
But that stategy could explain why Walker's popularity numbers are so low and falling lower by the day. Maybe instead of criticizing these people, we should be thanking them for making our jobs that much easier.
A: Daniel Bice - Haven't seen it until now. Media Trackers has a spotty track record, so I would take what it is saying with a grain. The two guys there also toss around strong allegations and then try to temper them by saying something may or may not have occurred. That's not reporting. It's a rhetorical trick.
