MSM Missing The Story — As Usual
by digby
The national press still seems to be running from the “David Koch” phone call, confused as usual. I suspect it’s because they unable to tell the difference between an edited, misleading set-up like Brietbart’s ACORN hoax and a prank that reveals a politician telling the truth.
But the local Wisconsin press gets it. Big time. TPM reports:
Around the Capitol, the phone call is something people are talking about — a lot. From the protestors yelling about Walker’s “Koch habit,” to reporters who kept asking him about the call during Wednesday’s brief press conference. Indeed, it seems likely Walker will find it difficult to put the call behind him anytime soon — from his discussion of political gamesmanship, brief considerations about planting fake protesters to start trouble, or his passion for busting the public employee unions in the mold of Ronald Reagan’s firing of the air traffic controllers, this thing, as they say, has legs. Enter the AFL-CIO’s ad: “Gov. Walker is set on eliminating collective bargaining for nurses, teachers, people who live and work in our communities,” the announcer says. “He tells us it’s for the taxpayers of Wisconsin. But to wealthy GOP funders like David Koch, it’s a different story.”
There’s a lot of gold in that phone call. Hopefully this won’t be the only ad we see from that material. The guy revealed himself to be a slimy, ideological, corporatist, undemocratic, potentially corrupt, creepy sexist jerk. That’s a list of qualifications for Republicans, of course, but for Independents, it might not be quite as attractive.
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