The Bob Roberts Scam

The Bob Roberts Scam

by digby

You’ve have heard about this foolish GOP prosecutor who put in an email to Governor Walker the kind of thing that Karl Rove would only utter after patting someone down to see if he was wired:

“If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions’ cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could to discredit the unions,” said the e-mail from Carlos Lam, which was discovered by Wisconsin Watch, a project of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Lam, contacted by Wisconsin Watchdog on Thursday, initially denied sending the e-mail, claiming that his e-mail account had been hacked — but admitted later in the day that he did send it, and resigned his job.

I think he felt he was being very clever and thought of this all by himself. After all, in the era of Breitbart and O’Keefe, how far out is that anyway? But I’m afraid he’s just showing his youth. A famous fictional conservative named Bob Roberts was way ahead of him:

Of course it’s always possible that this fellow saw the movie and didn’t realize it was a satire. He is a Republican after all.

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