My God, if Charlie Sykes thinks you're out of touch...

"Of course it’s going to be a problem. You know, and the more you try to explain it, the more you’re essentially explaining that you live in a completely different fiscal environment than most of the working people of Wisconsin.”
--Right Wing Squawker Charlie Sykes to GOP Senate hopeful Terrence Wall

Would it kill Sykes to credit Zach Wisniewski at Blogging Blue, who has been beating the Terrence Wall tax dodger drum for at least a couple of months? Probably. And then Steve Wexler would lose the only reason he still has a job. But I digress. The point is that Terrence Wall has apparently never met a tax he wouldn't attempt to avoid. I don' t care whose party's office you're running for, the public just doesn't like that. I mean even Jim Sensenbrenner pays taxes, and he's not even technically a human being.

Read the rest at Pundit Nation.

What Did He Teach Again?

What is it with the local right wing media and their bogus claims on their resumes?

The most recent bit of silliness comes from James T. Now Harris often mentions that he used to teach, but he never says what he taught. I would feel safe placing a hefty wager that he did not teach any of the sciences.

He definitely has his biochemistry quite confused. Perhaps he's been testing his bear spray on himself or something, but we got news for James:

Neither dinosaurs or SUVs have ever been on a moon of Saturn.

Pundit Nation and the Illusory One have more on Harris' apparent audition for Faux News.

Keep Your Freak Flag To Yourself

Bob Donovan is often a favorite of the local right wing media. He is always spouting off about something or other, looking nice and tough, and then usually doing nothing useful. His latest publicity stunt was to sacrifice life and limb to protect the city from drunken urinators.

Mike Mathias has a priceless take on the incident, and the report involved:

Now, here’s my question about this incident, which Journal Sentinel Reporter Jesse Garza either failed to find out or didn’t share with her readers:

Had the “apparently drunken” threat to aldermen everywhere, ahem, zipped back up before he and Donovan started “going to town”?

Sure, a lot of us might be willing to confront someone in a similar situation. You know, take back the streets. Whatever.

But, let’s face it: It takes, well, real fortitude, to go after someone whose freak flag is flying.

Cops keep surgical gloves in their trunk for just these types of occasions.

You can read the rest here.