Illusory Tenant expresses concern that PaddyMac might be running out of topics, since he is always kept being proven wrong.
And of course, it is the Brew City Brawler that is putting PaddyMac in his place.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
They Is It And It Am Them
We noted a few days ago that Jessica McBride is now doing some work* for the Republican front group WPRI.
Unfortunately, she is still working without an editor or proofreader. This is exemplified in the title of her latest post for them:
*Divorce attorneys don't come cheap. Don't believe me? Just ask Charlie Sykes.
Unfortunately, she is still working without an editor or proofreader. This is exemplified in the title of her latest post for them:
Does the State Know What Kind of Criminals They Are Sending Back Into Our Neighborhoods?Singular, plural. Aw, what's the difference, right?
*Divorce attorneys don't come cheap. Don't believe me? Just ask Charlie Sykes.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Charlie Sykes: Economic Bubbleboy
Sykes and company just loves to put the blame for inner city poverty on the people that live there, claiming it's all their fault. Well, theirs and the uberliberal Madison folks.
Jakes's Economic TA Funhouse breaks down the numbers about poverty around the state and in doing so, breaks down Sykes' false allegations and race-baiting arguments:
Jakes's Economic TA Funhouse breaks down the numbers about poverty around the state and in doing so, breaks down Sykes' false allegations and race-baiting arguments:
Fortunately, lots of people like me that grew up in the burbs got older, went to college, learned from others, perhaps worked with and taught others less fortunate than us, and realized that we were pretty fortunate to have had the supportive and relatively affluent upbringing we had. Who I feel bad for (well, sorta) are the people who spend their whole lives thinking Wauzaukington County is the normal, and that others are the ones who don't get it. No wonder these people hold such absurd political views, because they've never stepped outside of their comfortable little bubble where everything's taken care of for them. It's up to us to puncture that bubble, because we've seen how suburban "ownership society" works in the real world, and it's a disaster.I can't wait until Jake starts working PaddyMac over too.
So Madtown, hold your head up high, and keep telling Sykes-World about reality's liberal bias. Because it's likely that a Madisonian like you lives your life more in line with the average Wisconsinite than the suburb boys that get all the air time representing "the Silent Majority".
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
What A Tangled Web They Weave
Ed Garvey has a column in The Cap Times which highlights an unholy alliance between UW and WPRI:
As Garvey and others points out, it throws doubt on anything that this group produces. Garvey et alia have also raised questions about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel publishing WPRI's reports like they are gospel truth. That is easily explained, since I've already shown the incestuous relationships with the Bradley Foundation's Michael Grebe, Journal Communication's Steve Smith and wannabe governor Scott "It's my turn, dammit" Walker.
And to deepen the ties to Charlie Sykes, who already has been shown to be in the midst of this mess, is the fact that old Chuckles is a member of WPRI's brigade of propagandists.
In summary, WPRI is a front for the Bradley Foundation. The Bradley Foundation and WPRI, lacking credibility on their own, are using UW as their beard. And as for Sykes and Walker, they each of an arm of the Bradley Foundation so far up their posteriors, their resembles to Mortimer Snerd is more than coincidental.
In other words, you can't believe a word from the lot of them.
ADDENDUM: As Xoff points out in the comments, OWN was the first one to break the story of their skullduggery.
Cross posted at Cog Dis.
In Wisconsin, St. Norbert’s College polling is used by public radio and public TV. And now we also have the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute/University of Wisconsin-Madison poll -- a “partnership” between right-wing WPRI and our great state university’s political science department. Whoa, Nelly! The institute apparently needed credibility to persuade people to pay attention to the Bradley Foundation poll, so it is easy to figure out its goal in creating this “partnership”: instant credibility. (No one has ever accused WPRI of neutrality on issues of importance to the Bradley Foundation.) In essence the institute rents the good name of the UW.Garvey details how they did an open records requests and found that, basically, all of the WPRI - UW polls are tainted and only go to push the neoconservative agenda of the Bradley Foundation.
As Garvey and others points out, it throws doubt on anything that this group produces. Garvey et alia have also raised questions about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel publishing WPRI's reports like they are gospel truth. That is easily explained, since I've already shown the incestuous relationships with the Bradley Foundation's Michael Grebe, Journal Communication's Steve Smith and wannabe governor Scott "It's my turn, dammit" Walker.
And to deepen the ties to Charlie Sykes, who already has been shown to be in the midst of this mess, is the fact that old Chuckles is a member of WPRI's brigade of propagandists.
In summary, WPRI is a front for the Bradley Foundation. The Bradley Foundation and WPRI, lacking credibility on their own, are using UW as their beard. And as for Sykes and Walker, they each of an arm of the Bradley Foundation so far up their posteriors, their resembles to Mortimer Snerd is more than coincidental.
In other words, you can't believe a word from the lot of them.
ADDENDUM: As Xoff points out in the comments, OWN was the first one to break the story of their skullduggery.
Cross posted at Cog Dis.
Monday, January 25, 2010
My God, if Charlie Sykes thinks you're out of touch...
Read the rest at Pundit Nation."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.”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.
--Right Wing Squawker Charlie Sykes to GOP Senate hopeful Terrence Wall
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Who's The Richest Person In Southeastern Wisconsin?
Charlie Sykes is totally devoid of insight. If he wasn't, he wouldn't be pulling such stupid stunts.
A faithful reader pointed out that on Friday, Sykes spent some time criticizing one of his favorite targets, MPS, and their selection of a new superintendent.
The new superintendent, Gregory Thorton, has a "checkered past," according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
One of the points that Sykes kept hammering at was what Thorton said about his wife:
If so, we have two words for Sykes: Liz Woodhouse*.
So what does this have to do with the richest person in southeastern Wisconsin? Well, obviously the richest person is whoever landed the job of replacing all the broken windows in Sykes' house that he keeps throwing stones through.
*Interesting discovery: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has apparently deleted all of Tim Cuprisin's pieces on Sykes and Liz Woodhouse (aka Janet Riordan). I wonder why that would be?
A faithful reader pointed out that on Friday, Sykes spent some time criticizing one of his favorite targets, MPS, and their selection of a new superintendent.
The new superintendent, Gregory Thorton, has a "checkered past," according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
One of the points that Sykes kept hammering at was what Thorton said about his wife:
The Hartford Courant editorial also said that Thornton confirmed a report to the district that he had falsely identified his wife to local residents as a Hartford hospital administrator.Is this something that Sykes thinks is a good talking point?
If so, we have two words for Sykes: Liz Woodhouse*.
So what does this have to do with the richest person in southeastern Wisconsin? Well, obviously the richest person is whoever landed the job of replacing all the broken windows in Sykes' house that he keeps throwing stones through.
*Interesting discovery: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has apparently deleted all of Tim Cuprisin's pieces on Sykes and Liz Woodhouse (aka Janet Riordan). I wonder why that would be?
Friday, January 22, 2010
Sykes (R-WTMJ) for Senate?
A mutual admiration society? Mark Belling touts Charlie Sykes for US Senate.
It would be very entertaining to see Charlie get into the arena, as they say, and get a taste of what politics is like at ground level.
But he demurs, doesn't plan to run "at this point in time." (Maybe he has to wait until Tommy the T makes up his mind, which should be around the July deadline for nomination papers.)
Sykes said he having too much fun as a talk show host to give it up.
He's right about that. Pontificating from the studio is certainly a lot more fun that working your butt off day and night for the next nine or ten months, trying to persuade independents -- not just that wingnut base he has captivated -- to vote for him. Everything you've ever said and done, in your public or private life, is open to scrutiny (some fun, huh?) Your finances, too. And in a campaign, the other guy gets to have a microphone, too; you can't just hang up on him or talk over him.
Or can you?
Why should Sykes have to give up his job to run? His show is little more than a free platform for Republican candidates much of the time anyway. The Supreme Court has set the corporations free. There is no Fairness Doctrine or equal time requirement.
So what's to stop WTMJ radio from giving three and a half hours a day, on the "biggest stick in the state," to a Republican candidate -- and paying him on top of it?
It would be more outrageous than what WMCS radio is doing, using Sheriff David Clarke, who's already run for mayor and sheriff and will no dooubt run for mayor, county executive, and/or sheriff in the future, a spot as a regular guest host on its afternoon drive talk show. They probably don't pay him. But the principle's pretty much the same,even though Clarke isn't officially running for anything at the moment.
And if Sykes won (!) the station could have naming rights. He could be Sen. Charlie Sykes (R-WTMJ).
Maybe I shouldn't joke about it. Sykes and TMJ might like the idea. Lately, crazier things are happening on a daily basis.
It would be very entertaining to see Charlie get into the arena, as they say, and get a taste of what politics is like at ground level.
But he demurs, doesn't plan to run "at this point in time." (Maybe he has to wait until Tommy the T makes up his mind, which should be around the July deadline for nomination papers.)
Sykes said he having too much fun as a talk show host to give it up.
He's right about that. Pontificating from the studio is certainly a lot more fun that working your butt off day and night for the next nine or ten months, trying to persuade independents -- not just that wingnut base he has captivated -- to vote for him. Everything you've ever said and done, in your public or private life, is open to scrutiny (some fun, huh?) Your finances, too. And in a campaign, the other guy gets to have a microphone, too; you can't just hang up on him or talk over him.
Or can you?
Why should Sykes have to give up his job to run? His show is little more than a free platform for Republican candidates much of the time anyway. The Supreme Court has set the corporations free. There is no Fairness Doctrine or equal time requirement.
So what's to stop WTMJ radio from giving three and a half hours a day, on the "biggest stick in the state," to a Republican candidate -- and paying him on top of it?
It would be more outrageous than what WMCS radio is doing, using Sheriff David Clarke, who's already run for mayor and sheriff and will no dooubt run for mayor, county executive, and/or sheriff in the future, a spot as a regular guest host on its afternoon drive talk show. They probably don't pay him. But the principle's pretty much the same,even though Clarke isn't officially running for anything at the moment.
And if Sykes won (!) the station could have naming rights. He could be Sen. Charlie Sykes (R-WTMJ).
Maybe I shouldn't joke about it. Sykes and TMJ might like the idea. Lately, crazier things are happening on a daily basis.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
No Honor Among Squawkers
Wow, talk about harsh.
Charlie Sykes, full time squawker and bloody poor editor of WPRI invites Jessica McBride to do a piece at their site. Then he links to it on his WTMJ site with this:
Kind of nervy for Sykes, of all people, to allude to McBride's affair. And just who is he calling loose?
Charlie Sykes, full time squawker and bloody poor editor of WPRI invites Jessica McBride to do a piece at their site. Then he links to it on his WTMJ site with this:
Kind of nervy for Sykes, of all people, to allude to McBride's affair. And just who is he calling loose?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Oh, Please, Please, Please!!!
Mary of Freedom Eden takes time from her usual TV talk and to give us this interesting premise:
Belling noted that the Republicans need to find a truly viable candidate to challenge Feingold. He said that he can't run because he just signed a contract. Sure. However, he did toss out the idea that WTMJ's Charlie Sykes should run.That would be like shooting fish in a barrel, but it would also be a heckuva lotta fun.
Belling said Sykes has great name recognition. He has intellectual weight, thanks to the books he's written. Belling wasn't being flip about Sykes running. He was being completely serious. I think.
It's not going to happen, but I'd vote for Sykes.
Monday, January 18, 2010
PaddyMac Admits Walker Doesn't Know What He's Doing?
Simply amazing. Even though Paddy more or less admits that even though Walker has been in office for eight years, has a staff of twenty cronies and corporation counsel at his beck and call, he still cannot figure out his job, much less perform it with an iota of competence, Paddy still plays the apologist.
Meanwhile, Walker had sought furloughs in the county budget, exempting the public safety staff. The county board objected. It amended the budget, lowering the number of furlough days, and its amendment omitted any exemption for law enforcement. Walker vetoed that, raising the number of furlough days.
Got that? Because the county board’s amendment didn’t mention the exemption, the exemption’s gone. That isn’t, Walker points out, how vetoes and amendments work in Madison, where he’d been a state legislator. There, if the amendment doesn’t change things, things aren’t changed. The county, it seems, is different, which is why the county’s legal counsel eventually said that, yes, deputies will have to have furloughs.
Walker, with over a million dollars in his war chest, an army of tweeters and blogs under anonymous names, and a newspaper, and he still can't manage not to look bad. Of course, when his supporters include Paddy and Chuckles, it is harder to look good.
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